Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pure obsessional OCD


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-01-02 08:31Z 

Pure obsessional OCD

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Is this really a widely-recognized distinct medical condition? This looks to me like just another name for for rumination. In particular, a Medline search for "Pure obsessional OCD" finds no hits at all, and a search for "pure obsessional" finds only two hits in Medline's index, neither of which seem to refer to the subject of the article in any way.

From what I can see, nearly all Google hits for this are mirrors of this Wikipedia article, and I cannot find any references to this being defined in either the DSM or ICD classifications. A Google search for "Pure obsessional OCD" -"it is distinct from traditional" seems to weed out most of the Wikipedia article mirrors, and leaves only 160 Google hits, of which many are blogs, chat forums, or yet other mirrors of, or indices generated from, Wikipedia. Only one of these hits is from a .edu domain, and that's from a wiki.

I propose that this article be deleted unless it can be shown from peer-reviewed medical literature that this is a widely-used medical diagnosis, rather than a neologism. -- The Anome 19:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC) thethirdperson 8:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Given that some US psychiatrists appear to delight in defining new conditions, this condition is wholly unknown at least on my side of pond (UK), and I can find no reference in the literature here.--Anthony.bradbury 19:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - and suggest WP:REDIRECT. Tonytypoon 20:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Anthony.bradbury. Danny Lilithborne 22:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, maybe merge to main OCD article. For what it's worth, Edgar Allen Poe had another name for this: "the imp of the perverse".  --Dennisthe2 03:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - a quick search of several psych sites doesn't bring up anything on this. My assumption is that this is a localized neologism.  SkierRMH 03:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - As a person who has obsessive compulsive disorder, I can tell you that many in the blogosphere and web forums have coined this term. I would normally want to maintain the article even if it hadn't been recognized as a disorder formally yet, but it fits as other symptoms and disorders.  If a person ruminates but does not perform compulsive behaviors to directly or indirectly relieve the anxiety, the person is simply ruminating and probably has generalized anxiety disorder or a form of anxiety disorder involving a phobia or several phobias.  If a person ruminates and does perform compulsive behaviors to directly or indirectly relieve the anxiety, the person has obsessive compulsive disorder.


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