Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC REPORT Mixed obsessional thoughts and acts

Mrs. Anubha Srivastava

Abstract :

 

The patient was apparently well 1 ½ yrs. back. As per the informant, the patient got married at the age of 17 yrs. Her husband was a heavy drinker. He was consuming alcohol excessively. Infact, her in–laws also took it regularly. Her husband and in–laws were very greedy, they always demanded for dowry. Sometimes, after drinking, her husband beat her and abused her. The patient got frustrated. Finally, to get rid of her frustration, she started to take alcohol excessively. She was consuming alcohol since 4 years. After sometime, the patient decided to give divorce to her husband. She gave divorce to her husband 8 yrs. back. The patient had two children. Elder one is the girl who is living with her father, and younger one is the boy who is living with the patient only.  She used to live with her child in a rental house. Her expenditure were bored by her parents. After sometimes, she got attached with her neighbor. The patient made physical relation with that boy. She was enjoying with that boy. After sometime, her all expenditures were bored by her boyfriend. As per the patient, once her boyfriend told her to ing her friends with her for outing. All of a sudden, from that moment she started having fear of rejection by her boyfriend. She started thinking that she is not beautiful, that is why her boyfriend is not showing interest in her. To become more beautiful, she started bathing daily half an hour. She started ushing half an hour. She used to spend most of the time in washroom. In due course of time, prior leaving the house, she started the checking rituals. As per the patient, prior leaving the house, she thinks, is everything turned off and locked, and it will be my fault, if something bad happens. Her sleep was disturbed by frequent awakenings. After awakenings, she had problem in falling a sleep. The patient was being treated by the psychiatrist in Bilaspur, since one year, but when she did not get relief, so she was taken to Raipur. No history suggestive of head injury, epilepsy, psychoactive substance use and Schneider’s first rank symptoms in relation to symptomatology. No history suggestive of any psychiatric illness in family.

 

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Mrs. Anubha Srivastava, PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC REPORT Mixed obsessional thoughts and acts, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-2 | February-2018

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