A Case of Cachexia Secondary to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Gosnell, Hailey L.; Kablinger, Anita S.

A Case of Cachexia Secondary to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

dc.contributor.author	Gosnell, Hailey L.	en
dc.contributor.author	Kablinger, Anita S.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-01T11:42:49Z	en
dc.date.available	2020-06-01T11:42:49Z	en
dc.date.issued	2020-05-27	en
dc.date.updated	2020-05-31T08:00:10Z	en
dc.description.abstract	Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a relatively common psychiatric illness, is diagnosed using DSM-V criteria. Its severity is assessed using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). Symptoms are broken down into five categories of obsessive-compulsive (O-C) manifestations: contamination/cleaning, symmetry/ordering, taboo thoughts, doubt about harm/checking, and worry about throwing away items that could prove useful or valuable/hoarding. CBT in the form of exposure response therapy (ERP) and/or SSRI/clomipramine administration is the mainstay of treatment. We present a unique OCD case in the nature of obsessions and compulsions, cachexia presentation without anorexia, and history of multiple inpatient psychiatric admissions. Our patient’s obsessions focus on eating at specific times, prompting compulsive eating patterns that often result in starvation due to missing timeframes that the patient deems acceptable for eating. His resulting cachexia and eventual worsening of depression to the point of suicidality necessitated multiple inpatient stays and placement at a long-term mental health care facility.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Hailey L. Gosnell and Anita S. Kablinger, “A Case of Cachexia Secondary to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,” Case Reports in Psychiatry, vol. 2020, Article ID 5783191, 4 pages, 2020. doi:10.1155/2020/5783191	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5783191	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98629	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Hindawi	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright © 2020 Hailey L. Gosnell and Anita S. Kablinger. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.title	A Case of Cachexia Secondary to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	en
dc.title.serial	Case Reports in Psychiatry	en
dc.type	Article - Refereed	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en