what is the best cure for.OCD?

Question

i suffer from obsesive thinking

Answer 1

Your Doctor should refer you to a psychiatrist for a proper assessment. Your psychiatrist can give you medications to help you while also offering psychotherapy.

You learn to write your diary, so you can later on see what events lead you to become obsessed with your thoughts. This helps you regain control in the sense that you learn to identify what causes the obsessive thinking, enabling you to work on it. Part of the therapy should include stress management and relaxation techniques, as well as talk therapy and counselling.

There are different types of counselling adapted to your case and my favourite has to be cognitive therapy because it is softer than other forms while also giving you more control.

Writing about your thoughts, illustrating them with either drawings, pictures helps you as well. I often find that patients who go for an album (Illustrations) sort of diary feel more relax. They can express themselves better than they might in words.

Best wishes

Ros

Answer 2

Talk to your doctor.

I don't know if I would be considerd an obsesive thinker. At night I used to have thoughts raceing through my head of differnt things that happend during the day and sometimes the past week. I would think of "she said said and did she mean this or that or what? I may make a statement and ponder how many ways it could be taken wrong. It took me awhile not to have all those thoughts of what happened, what will happen and so on.

What I did was start day dreaming of good thoughts because most of my obsesive thinking was so negitive. Any time I had a negitive thought pop in, I would tell myself I am being silly.

I think that I like to think. I just needed something else to be obsesive over. I started going to college. I have gotten so invovled with school that I am not obsesive in life, just school.

Yeah not really a cure or treatment, I just put my obsesive thinking to good use.

But if it's realy bad and you feel you need treatment you will need to see a psychologist. Your thearpy will probably be cognitive (the way you think) or behavioral thearpy. Cognitive will teach you how to think differntly. Behavioral will teach you new behaviors or rid behaviors. Sometimes they will do a blend of thearpys. You will need to work at it. It will take time. There is no magic pill that will make it go away over night. Good Luck!

Answer 3

It's pretty hard work for psychologists but it's one of their regulars. The correct treatment for OCD is raw, full frontal, cold turkey. Everyone around you has to help by immediately stopping any behaviours they may have that accommodate (and so make space for) your OCD, if any (though if it's compulsive thoughts rather than actions, there may not be so many of those). And you need the full frontal treatment as well. No more doing things three times, touching every post on the garden fence, any of that stuff.

But in practice most OCD people find that extremely hard so psychologists approach it more gradually.

It IS a therapy issue, though, not one you can get off the shelf!

Answer 4

Medication form a doctor doesn;t make sense. It is a pschological issue that need addressing, and often there is a cause for this earlier in life. Any kind of drug cannot help dealing with that!

I suggest you go and see a registered Hypnotherapist with NLP accreditation. I know of dozens of successfully treated cases personally.

Good luck

Answer 5

There is no cure only treatment . I have that too I am a perfectionist and It drives me nuts when things aren't in a certain place in the house or the house isn't perfectly clean.

Answer 6

I would tell you but I would have to repeat the answer an odd number of times because it is Sunday morning. If you asked this evening I would answer an even number of times.

Answer 7

Great info at:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/anxiety.cfm#anx9

Answer 8

don't get so obsessed with curing it:o)

Answer 9

go to YAHOO and put your brain to use