1987/02/01 by Helen Matthews, Lynne M. Drummond · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Action (physics) #Anesthesia #Benzodiazepine #Complication #Content (measure theory) #Internal medicine #Medicine #Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders #Psychology #Surgery #Withdrawal syndrome
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However, her obsessive-compulsive symptoms remained until April 1986 when a treatment programme of graded exposure in real life with self-imposed response-prevention (Marks et a!, 1975) was instituted.In July she was dis charged from active behavioural treatment with marked improvement in her obsessive-compulsive symptoms.She has continued to improve with homework practice and at follow-up in September 1986 was able to perform home management tasks with little fear, although remaining anxious when walking along outside her home.As well as suggesting a previously unreported psy chiatric complication of benzodiazepine withdrawal, this case demonstrates that when depression coexists with obsessive-compulsive disorder, treatment of the depressive symptoms may not lead to resolution of the obsessional symptoms (Marks et al, 1980).