Childhood Sexual Abuse and Homicidal Obsessions

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

As the psychiatric sequel of childhood sexual abuse, it has been associated with various psychiatric disorders such as eating disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and borderline personality disorder. In recent years, the link between obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and childhood trauma has been studied more intensely. It is known that traumatic events experienced in childhood, which is a vulnerable and unprotected period, will lead to neurobiological changes and lay the groundwork for psychiatric disorders in adulthood. In the case of a 37-year-old female who required hospitalization due to homicidal obsessions; the course, severity of obsessions and its relationship with the sexual trauma experienced in childhood will be discussed. It has been shown that childhood trauma can progress with higher impulsivity in individuals with OCD. In the case we shared the main problem that made us think of emergency hospitalization was the homicidal obsessions of our patient.