Mobile Stealing: A Rare Presentation of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Volume 6 - Issue 4

Monirul Islam¹*, Mohammad SI Mullick², Tumpa Indrani Ghose³

• ¹Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• ²Professor, Department of Psychiatry Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• ³Medical Officer, Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Received:July 19, 2021   Published: July 27, 2021

Corresponding author:Monirul Islam, Department of Psychiatry, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI: 10.32474/RRHOAJ.2021.06.000243

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic and diversely presented psychiatric condition. Patients of this disorder, sometimes, present such an unusual way that diagnosis becomes very difficult. These patients, later, may face multiple consultations in different specialties or social and legal difficulties. This is the case of an adolescent boy who presented with stealing or pick-up mobile phone and facing social harassment. He was diagnosed as OCD after meticulous psychiatric assessment and treated with fluoxetine along with exposure and response prevention. Significant remission of symptoms of this adolescent was found with the intervention. Unusual presentations of OCD is not unexpected and early identification and treatment can reduce the huge burden of this troublesome psychiatric disorder.

Abstract| Introduction| Mental Status and Other Relevant Examinations on The First Visit| Differential Diagnoses| Discussion| Conclusions| Acknowledgment| Reference|