Researchers compare diagnostic profiles across three patient groups in a community mental health center. Group A shows persistent low mood, anhedonia, and sleep changes for several weeks. Group B shows alternating periods of elevated, expansive mood with decreased need for sleep and depressive episodes. Group C reports intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors performed to reduce distress.
Group C's symptom pattern is most consistent with which disorder?
- A
Generalized anxiety disorder
- Bcheck_circle
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- C
Dissociative identity disorder
- D
Schizophrenia
Explanation
OCD involves obsessions (intrusive thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviors performed to reduce distress), now classified separately from anxiety disorders in DSM-5.