From back in 2001, PubMed published this study ( 20-years ago) on 'Obsessive-phobic disorders with the phenomena of mysophobia in slowly progressing schizophrenia' - perhaps a few more check boxes might be ticked off all these years later in covid-times (it is behind a paywall so can only offer the abstract, and oh, it is a Russian study):
Perhaps the last decade's societal acceleration of the NPC-mindset is a factor (although not just an NPC disposition, there is a common disposition to fear), furthermore triggered by the usual spellbinder suspects adding a specific programmed form, a covid-Mysophobia type obsession, coupled with authoritarian prescribed coping "rituals" of OCD sanitization, masks, distancing, plexiglass et cetera, with the grand finale vaccine controls (and then who knows what). It makes one wonder, this societal fracturing along psychological boundaries that seem to match varying degrees of Mysophobia - not sure if this is strictly the way to look at it?
Was also not sure of the exact word use around "verschroben" - PubMed again adds something here (Russian also):
I've had a chance to listen to many, more or less, strangers over the last few months; some are adapt at working through everyday complex problems, and then suddenly seem to revert to a number of what is bolded in red when suddenly faced with what looks like Mysophobia of the covid-kind. Other than the NPC types, it is hard to get ones bearing around them, and very sad.
"Possible reversibility" is at least something.[Article in Russian]
M D Efremova
- PMID: 11243027
Abstract
54 patients, 24 men and 30 women, (mean age 27 years) were examined. Two types of obsessive-phobic disorders with the phenomena of mysophobia were distinguished: obsession of the external (extracorporal) threat and obsession of contamination. Disorders of the first type (25 cases) were observed in psychopathic-like schizophrenia. They were characterized by a fear of possible contacts with different pathogenic agents--toxic substances, sharp small subjects, bacteria. Obsessions presented with a system of actions preventing phobic situations (rituals). With progression of the disease there was a decrease of both the degree and affective saturation of phobic disorders together with preserving rituals. Negative disorders presented with rough psychopathic-like changes with features of the "verschroben" defect. The disorders of the second type (29 patients) were observed in neurosis-like schizophrenia. Mysophobia manifested with both the repeated control and the fear of contamination accomplished. Ritual behavior presented with repeated actions and repeated control of the "sterility" of the own body and the surrounding subjects. Dynamics of these disorders was characterized by a tendency to more severe rituals of the control and persisting anxiety. Deficit disorders manifested with mental infantilism with psychopathic-like disorders of schizo-anancastic sphere. The above types of the obsessive-phobic disorders have a differential-diagnostic significance in respect of clinical variations of schizophrenia and determination of the state acuity with possible reversibility of the disorders (in neurosis-like schizophrenia).
Perhaps the last decade's societal acceleration of the NPC-mindset is a factor (although not just an NPC disposition, there is a common disposition to fear), furthermore triggered by the usual spellbinder suspects adding a specific programmed form, a covid-Mysophobia type obsession, coupled with authoritarian prescribed coping "rituals" of OCD sanitization, masks, distancing, plexiglass et cetera, with the grand finale vaccine controls (and then who knows what). It makes one wonder, this societal fracturing along psychological boundaries that seem to match varying degrees of Mysophobia - not sure if this is strictly the way to look at it?
Was also not sure of the exact word use around "verschroben" - PubMed again adds something here (Russian also):
[Article in Russian]
V Iu Vorob'ev, O P Nefed'ev
- PMID: 3425082
Abstract
The authors have studied 30 patients with torpid schizophrenia associated with unfavourable changes of the 'verschroben' type. Only those cases are considered in which manifestations of this defect almost completely determined the clinical picture of the disease. A detailed psychopathological analysis has demonstrated that in patients presenting unfavourable changes of the 'verschroben' type all features characteristic of a mild typical schizophrenic defect or a defect of schizoid structure (autism, emotional changes, bizarre behaviour, paradoxic features in thinking and behaviour, motor peculiarities, disturbances in the sphere of instincts and inclinations) become most expressed. It has also been established that a 'verschroben' type defect forms at later stages of the disease taking a form of evolutional schizophrenia.
I've had a chance to listen to many, more or less, strangers over the last few months; some are adapt at working through everyday complex problems, and then suddenly seem to revert to a number of what is bolded in red when suddenly faced with what looks like Mysophobia of the covid-kind. Other than the NPC types, it is hard to get ones bearing around them, and very sad.