Starvation in obsessive-compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity.
This report describes an unusual presentation of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with predominant religious obsessions and compulsions (scrupulosity) in which the patient starved himself by keeping fast excessively to the extent of emaciation and extreme weakness even in walking and became bedridden.
Sharma
Dinesh Dutt
DD
Ex-Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Kumar
Ramesh
R
Sharma
Ravi Chand
RC