Open AccessDepression and risk of suicide in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A hospital-based study
Author(s) -
Rupesh Chaudhary,
Pankaj Kumar,
Bhogendra Mishra
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_63_16
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , suicidal ideation , psychiatry , anxiety , rating scale , hamilton anxiety rating scale , checklist , clinical psychology , psychology , generalized anxiety disorder , suicide attempt , medicine , poison control , suicide prevention , medical emergency , developmental psychology , economics , cognitive psychology , macroeconomics
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic, distressing, anxiety disorder associated with significant functional impairment. Patient with OCD often suffer from one or more co-morbid disorders. Major depression has been the most common co-morbid syndrome. Comorbid Axis I disorders along with increased severity of comorbid depressive and anxiety symptoms, increased severity of obsessions, feelings of hopelessness and past history of suicide attempts have been associated with worsening levels of suicidality in OCD (Angelakis I, Gooding P., 2015). As per data Thirty-six percent of the patients of OCD report lifetime suicidal thoughts and 11% have a history of attempted suicide(Torres AR, Ramos-Cerqueira AT, et al , 2011). There is a reasonable probability that the patient of OCD have suicidal thoughts, plans or actually attempt suicide.