True about obsessive compulsive disorders are all except:: (A) Obsessions are ego alien, (B) Patient tries to resist against obsessions and compulsions, (C) Obsessions are egosyntonic, (D) Insight is present
Answer is C. Obsessions are ego dystonic and not ego syntonic. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Obsessions are Recurrent, intrusive thoughts images or impulses, which cause anxiety Patient considers them as a product of their own mind (D/d thought inseion) Patient finds them excessive, irrational and senseless, at some time during the illness (D/d delusions) Patient tries to resist or neutralize them Ego dystonic (not acceptable to self) With good insight/poor insight/absent insight (delusional belief)