Morphing Fears within OCD

17 October 2017

Morphing fears are where the sufferer has a fear of changing to become like someone else by being contaminated by that person’s unwanted traits and characteristics. This has often gone misdiagnosed as psychosis so this study is investigating this relationship.

Keywords

• Nottingham Trent University
• mental health
• Morphing Fears
• OCD
• mental illness
• Psychosis
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• mental contamination
• misdiagnosis
• psychology
• Research
• World Wide
• investigation
• Clinical psychology
• online survey

Ethical approval

This research study has been given Ethical approval.

About the researcher

I am a Research Assistant at Nottingham Trent University. My research interests include Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, Public Speaking Anxiety and recreational drug use. I am currently working on multiple studies within NTU's Psychology department, including investigations into Morphing Fears within OCD and various interventions (such as Virtual Reality and Psychoeducation) in reducing public speaking anxiety and social anxiety.

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