COVID-19 pandemic and obsessive compulsive disorder

ABSTRACT

After the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, cleanliness, mask and social distance rules have also become warnings constantly reminded by both the centers for disease prevention and protection and the media. Common symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder include cleaning/washing compulsions and germ transmission obsessions became confusing with the COVID-19 prevention behaviors. Such measures have made COVID-19 transmission obsessions especially exacerbated by the symptoms of patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, as well as other disease transmission obsessions. While many studies have insisted symptoms of depression, anxiety disorders, Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms have flared up and the frequency of new obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis by clinicians has increased. COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many children-adolescents, patients diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and ongoing treatment, as well as many people at risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder. As a result of this study, the media highlighted the need to be careful about the explanations made by the centers for disease prevention and to be more careful in the diagnosis and psychotherapy processes of clinicians who have to deal with obsessive compulsive disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Turkish) Coronavirus hastaligi-2019 (Covid-19) pandemisi Dunya Saglik Orgutu tarafindan bir pandemi olarak ilan edilmesinin ardindan temizlik, maske ve sosyal mesafe kurallari da hem hastalik onleme ve koruma merkezleri hem de medya tarafindan surekli hatirlatilan uyarilar haline gelmistir. Maske, temizlik ve sosyal mesafe hayatlarimizin yeni normalleri haline gelmistir. Obsesif kompulsif bozuklugunun yaygin belirtiler arasinda bulunan temizlik/temizleme kompulsiyonlari ve mikrop bulasma obsesyonlari ve Covid-19'dan korunma davranislari ile alevlenmis ve bu onlemler obsessif kompulsif bozuklugun semptomlarinin nerede basladigini ve hangi davranislarin obsesif kompulsif bozukluk olarak degerlendirilebilecegi konusunda da kafa karisikliklarina neden olmustur. Bu gibi onlemler ozellikle obsesif kompulsif bozuklugu olan olgularin semptomlarinin siddetlenmesinin yani sira diger hastalik bulasma obsesyonlarini da Covid-19 bulasma obsesyonu haline getirmistir. Yapilan bircok calisma depresyon, anksiyete bozukluklari belirtilerinin artmis oldugunu gosterirken obsesif kompulsif bozuklugu semptomlarinin alevlendigini, klinisyenler tarafindan yeni obsesif kompulsif bozukluk tani konulma sikliginin arttigini tespit edilmistir. Covid-19 pandemisi cocuk-ergen, obsesif kompulsif bozukluk tanisi almis ve tedavisi devam eden olgularin yani sira obsesif kompulsif bozukluk gelistirme riski olan bircok bireyi de olumsuz yonde etkilemistir. Yapilan bu calisma sonucunda medya, hastalik onleme merkezleri tarafindan yapilan aciklamamalar konusunda dikkatli olunmasi ve klinisyenlerin de obsesif kompulsif bozukluk ile bas etmek durumunda olan olgularin tani ve psikoterapi sureclerinde daha dikkatli olunmasi gerekliligini on plana cikarmistir. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)