Question

The billionaire aviator Howard Hughes insisted that his assistants carry out elaborate hand-washing rituals and wear white gloves when handling any document he would later touch. His behavior best illustrated the symptoms of

Answer 1

The billionaire aviator Howard Hughes insisted that his assistants carry out elaborate hand-washing rituals and wear white gloves when handling any document he would later touch. His behavior best illustrated the symptoms of

A) generalized anxiety disorder.

B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.

C) social phobia.

D) antisocial disorder.

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition in which individual have repeated, undesirable thoughts or behavior, that he/she feels the urge to do again and again. Cause for this disease(chronic) is unknown. Some of the common behavior that is seen is the patient are frequent hand wash, repeatedly checking things, excessive cleaning.

Main solution to this problem is by counseling and also some antidepressants. Individual with the OCD may also have tics disorder. Tics disorder is the unwanted and repetitive movement that might occur in muscles of any body parts like involuntary recurring sound throat clearing.