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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
SYMPTOMS
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by either obsessions or compulsions:
Obsessions as defined by:
1.Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress
2.The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems
3.The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
4.The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion)
Compulsions as defined by:
1.Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
2.The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive
--- AND: ---
At some point during the course of the disorder, the adult has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable (not applicable to children).
The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
If another disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsions is not restricted to it. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.




Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Screening Quiz
Use this brief screening measure to help you determine
if you might need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis
and treatment of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).

Instructions: This is a screening measure to help you determine whether you might have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that needs professional attention. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a disorder or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation. For each item, indicate the extent to which it is true, by checking the appropriate box next to the item.

Have you been bothered by unpleasant thoughts or images that repeatedly enter your mind, such as...
1. concerns with contamination (dirt, germs, chemicals, radiation) or acquiring a serious illness such as AIDS?
No
Yes
2. overconcern with keeping objects (clothing, groceries, tools) in perfect order or arranged exactly?
No
Yes
3. images of death or other horrible events?
No
Yes
4. personally unacceptable religious or sexual thoughts?
No
Yes
Have you worried a lot about terrible things happening, such as...
5. fire, burglary, or flooding the house?
No
Yes
6. accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car or letting it roll down the hill?
No
Yes
7. spreading an illness (giving someone AIDS)?
No
Yes
8. losing something valuable?
No
Yes
9. harm coming to a loved one because you weren't careful enough?
No
Yes
10. Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?
No
Yes
Have you felt driven to perform certain acts over and over again, such as...
11. excessive or ritualized washing, cleaning, or grooming?
No
Yes
12. checking light switches, water faucets, the stove, door locks, or emergency brake?
No
Yes
13. counting; arranging; evening-up behaviors (making sure socks are at same height)?
No
Yes
14. collecting useless objects or inspecting the garbage before it is thrown out?
No
Yes
15. repeating routine actions (in/out of chair, going through doorway, re-lighting cigarette) a certain number of times or until it feels just right?
No
Yes
16. need to touch objects or people?
No
Yes
17. unnecessary re-reading or re-writing; re-opening envelopes before they are mailed?
No
Yes
18. examining your body for signs of illness?
No
Yes
19. avoiding colors ("red" means blood), numbers ("l 3" is unlucky), or names (those that start with "D" signify death) that are associated with dreaded events or unpleasant thoughts?
No
Yes
20. needing to "confess" or repeatedly asking for reassurance that you said or did something correctly?
No
Yes

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment

Introduction
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is one of the most difficult to understand of all psychiatric illnesses. Persons who have this condition find themselves repeating certain behaviors or thoughts again and again and again and again. They know the repetition is unnecessary, but are unable to stop themselves. Common forms of this are checking locks, stoves, and lights, or recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or one's children.
Afflicted individuals usually experience severe anxiety if unable to complete their rituals, though many therapies work by helping the individual learn that no catastrophe occurs when the behaviors do cease.
Research has shown that one of the most difficult problems in OCD is in getting family members to understand that the patient is unable to simply stop the behavior. Many times relatives become angry and upset when they are forced to deal with the time-consuming and unrealistic repetitive behaviors. With this background, it is no wonder that many patients do not volunteer their symptoms, and instead complain only of anxiety or depression.
______________________________...
Psychotherapy
For many years, OCD was seen as a purely psychological disorder, related to a desire to control one's environment or to undo some perceived wrong action. Insight oriented psychotherapy has been singularly unsuccessful in treating this group of disorders, however. Behavior therapies have had much more success, especially those with specific small steps geared to the exact obsessions.compulsions involved in the individual case.
Behavior therapy has a lot to offer individuals with this disorder. Two common and popular techniques are systematic desensitization and flooding. Systematic desensitization techniques involve gradually exposing the client to ever-increasing anxiety-provoking stimuli. It is important to note here, though, that such a technique should not be attempted until the client has successfully learned relaxation skills and can demonstrate their use to the therapist. Exposing a patient to either of these techniques without increased coping skills can result in relapse and possible harm to the client. Relaxation techniques may include imagery, breathing skills, and muscle relaxation. It is important for the client to find a relaxation technique which works best for them, before attempting something like systematic desensitization or flooding. Flooding allows the patient to face the most anxiety-provoking situation, while using the relaxation skills learned. Systematic desensitization is the preferred technique of the two; flooding is not recommended except in rare uses. Flooding's potential harm usually outweighs its potential benefits (e.g., traumatizing the individual further).
Additional behavior and cognitive-behavioral techniques which may have some effectiveness for people who suffer from this disorder include saturation and thought-stopping. Through saturation, the client is directed to do nothing but think of one obsessional thought which they have complained about. After a period of time of concentration on this one thought (e.g., 10-15 minutes at a time) over a number of days (3-5 days), the obsession can lose some of its strength. Through thought-stopping, the individual learns how to halt obsessive thoughts through proper identification of the obsessional thoughts, and then averting it by doing an opposite, incompatible response. A common incompatible response to an obsessive thought is simply by yelling the word "Stop!" loudly. The client can be encouraged to practice this in therapy (with the clinician's help and modeling, if necessary), and then encouraged to transplant this behavior to the privacy of their home. They can also often use other incompatible stimuli, such as tweaking a rubber-band which is around their wrist whenever they have a thought. The latter technique would be more effective in public, for example.
______________________________...
Medications
In the last 25 years, medications have been found to be fairly successful in the treatment of OCD. First was the tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil). This has been followed by several of the newer SSRI class anti-depressants that act selectively on the re-uptake of serotonin, a neurotransmitter. In the last few years, neuro-imaging studies have begun to disclose the underlying pathophysiology of OCD. The area of the brain that functions abnormally is directly next to those areas that relate to tick disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome and to Attention Deficit Disorder. It now seems that variable amounts of dysfunction produce clinical symptoms that may be virtually all in one of these areas, or may be overlapping. Many people with ADD also have tics, as do many people with OCD. Most unexpected is the finding that children who have Rheumatic Fever and develop Sydinham's Chorea have a significantly increased risk of OCD. Therefore treatment with antibiotics early in an infectious illness may reduce the chances of future obsessive thinking.
______________________________...
Summary
Imaging studies have also demonstrated that both medications and behavior therapy alter brain metabolism in the direction of normalcy. This then is one of the few areas in all of mental health where clear proof exists for the efficacy of multiple types of treatment.
With medications, generally the dose used to treat depression is not enough to control OCD symptoms. Patients often will take 2-4 times the usual amount. Behavioral therapy with medications seems to offer the best long term improvement. Virtually no treatment is curative for OCD. Most treatment can be expected to reduce symptoms by 50-80% or more, however. The illness is cyclic, and worsens when the individual is under stress.

Obsessive-Compulsive
Categories:

Books (3)
Online Quizzes (1) Support Groups (12)
Symptoms (2)

Related Categories:

Disability

Resources:

Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation
Full of useful information, links, articles, and contacts.
View URL - 5-Feb-2000 - Hits: 8299 - Rate This | Details
A List of Common Obsessions
Dr. Haggerty gives a list of possible obsessions, and puts them into certain lists.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 891 - Rate This | Details
Distinquishing OCD from Other Conditions
Even those in the professional field are sometimes confused with the differences between OCD and other conditions. Dr. Hauser discusses how OCD and other conditions related to it are, in fact, different conditions and why are they different?
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 327 - Rate This | Details
How Do I Know if I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Someone may feel that they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but they do not really know. How can a person tell? There are no real reliable tests for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but Dr. Demitri discusses how a person can tell how they may have the disorder.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 459 - Rate This | Details
Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
What medications are good for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? What reactions and allergies can result? Which drugs are the safest? In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how a client who needs to take OCD medications can pick ones best suited for them, and also to help improve the quality of their lives.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 265 - Rate This | Details
NIMH OCD & Pediatric Studies
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Pediatric Studies ? National Institute of Mental Health

The study is located in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information about how to participate in OCD pediatric studies, please call 1-800-411-1222 or 301-496-5323, or visit http://patientinfo.nimh.nih.gov/pediatri...
View URL - 22-Jul-2005 - Hits: 248 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
View URL - 29-Dec-2005 - Hits: 202 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
How is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) react in childhood and adolescence? Discussed in this paper is how OCD reacts in the childhood and adolescent group.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 131 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
This research article discusses some conditions: Body dysmorphic disorder and trichotillomania, which appear at first to be obsessive-compulsive disorder, but are in actuality, just closely related to the disorder. Read on, and see if what you (or a loved one) have is not OCD, but one of these two...
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 103 - Rate This | Details
OCD Center of Los Angeles Top Rated
Treatment center specializing in OCD, OC Spectrum Disorders, and related anxiety disorders. Includes information on symptoms and treatment, an OCD test, a reading list, and links to online resources.
View URL - 16-Jul-2001 - Hits: 2108 - Rate This | Details
OCD: The War Inside
A film by co-director Mark Pancer, who himself has OCD, brings a unique perspective and compassion to his interviews, eliciting painful stories while also exploring the causes and possible solutions of this often misunderstood condition which affects millions of people. Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, sad and funny, full of love, hate, anger and courage, these stories will resonate long after the film has ended.


Andrew's OCD first appeared when he was only nine years old; his compulsions have included gnawing on walls and even streets and subway floors. With the unflagging support of his parents and sister he has found some relief through behavioral therapy.
Trisha has washed her hands until they were bloody, and has attempted suicide. SSRI medications have helped at times, but she still battles with side effects.
Marvin's OCD appeared in middle age and led to serious career and family problems; in trying to control his condition he even submitted to brain surgery, which was unsuccessful.
Grace's OCD also appeared when she was an adult. She cannot allow visitors into her house without becoming uncontrollably anxious; her obsessions have created serious problems in her relationships with her husband and young daughter.
(Film costs $229 to purchase, $60 to rent.)
View URL - 5-Dec-2002 - Hits: 1713 - Rate This | Details
Pediatric Anxiety Research Clinic
Does your child or teenager take medication for OCD?

Many children and adolescents who take medication for OCD still suffer from OCD symptoms that can interfere with school, work, and relationships with family and friends.

Dr. John March, at Duke University, Dr. Martin Franklin, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Henrietta Leonard, at Brown University, are conducting a multi-site study evaluating the effectiveness of adding two different types of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to ongoing medication management for the treatment of pediatric OCD that does not respond completely to medication treatment.

Participants in this study will receive medication management free of charge. In addition, they may be assigned to receive CBT at no cost from a psychiatrist or a psychologist.

Children ages 7-17 with a diagnosis of OCD, who are taking fluoxetine (Prozac), sertaline (Zoloft), or fluvoxamine (Luvox), and who still have residual OCD symptoms may be eligible. Children taking citalopram (Celexa) or excitalopram (Lexapro) may also be eligible.

Participants must live within commuting distance of Raleigh/Durham, NC, Philadelphia, PA, or Providence, RI.

Contact information: Brown University, Providence, RI: [phone]
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: [phone]
Duke University, Durham, NC Rebecca Dingfelder, [phone], [e-mail]
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The Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD can be considered deadly in thoughts, feelings, and obsessions. It can follow a course, wherever it can be waxing the one moment, and then the next, it will be going on full-throttle. Discussed in tihs article is how Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder runs throughout a lifetime.
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The Impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In this article, Dr. Haggerty discusses how common OCD is, who has it, and how it affects society. This is a primer to beginning to understand OCD, and is highly approved as a research starting point to help gain understanding on OCD.
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Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Believe it or not, once upon a time, obsessive compulsive disorder was considered not responsive to many therapies. In the present, however; that idea has changed, and such things as talk therapies are considered beneficial for those who suffer with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Read on further in this article to understand more about treatment options for OCD.
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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Ever really wondered what all the hubbub about Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was about? Many wonder what OCD entails. In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how OCD is an illness, how it interacts with people, and things that may be related with it.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
SYMPTOMS
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by either obsessions or compulsions:
Obsessions as defined by:
1.Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress
2.The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems
3.The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
4.The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion)
Compulsions as defined by:
1.Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
2.The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive
--- AND: ---
At some point during the course of the disorder, the adult has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable (not applicable to children).
The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
If another disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsions is not restricted to it. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.




Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Screening Quiz
Use this brief screening measure to help you determine
if you might need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis
and treatment of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).

Instructions: This is a screening measure to help you determine whether you might have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that needs professional attention. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a disorder or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation. For each item, indicate the extent to which it is true, by checking the appropriate box next to the item.

Have you been bothered by unpleasant thoughts or images that repeatedly enter your mind, such as...
1. concerns with contamination (dirt, germs, chemicals, radiation) or acquiring a serious illness such as AIDS?
No
Yes
2. overconcern with keeping objects (clothing, groceries, tools) in perfect order or arranged exactly?
No
Yes
3. images of death or other horrible events?
No
Yes
4. personally unacceptable religious or sexual thoughts?
No
Yes
Have you worried a lot about terrible things happening, such as...
5. fire, burglary, or flooding the house?
No
Yes
6. accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car or letting it roll down the hill?
No
Yes
7. spreading an illness (giving someone AIDS)?
No
Yes
8. losing something valuable?
No
Yes
9. harm coming to a loved one because you weren't careful enough?
No
Yes
10. Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?
No
Yes
Have you felt driven to perform certain acts over and over again, such as...
11. excessive or ritualized washing, cleaning, or grooming?
No
Yes
12. checking light switches, water faucets, the stove, door locks, or emergency brake?
No
Yes
13. counting; arranging; evening-up behaviors (making sure socks are at same height)?
No
Yes
14. collecting useless objects or inspecting the garbage before it is thrown out?
No
Yes
15. repeating routine actions (in/out of chair, going through doorway, re-lighting cigarette) a certain number of times or until it feels just right?
No
Yes
16. need to touch objects or people?
No
Yes
17. unnecessary re-reading or re-writing; re-opening envelopes before they are mailed?
No
Yes
18. examining your body for signs of illness?
No
Yes
19. avoiding colors ("red" means blood), numbers ("l 3" is unlucky), or names (those that start with "D" signify death) that are associated with dreaded events or unpleasant thoughts?
No
Yes
20. needing to "confess" or repeatedly asking for reassurance that you said or did something correctly?
No
Yes

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment

Introduction
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is one of the most difficult to understand of all psychiatric illnesses. Persons who have this condition find themselves repeating certain behaviors or thoughts again and again and again and again. They know the repetition is unnecessary, but are unable to stop themselves. Common forms of this are checking locks, stoves, and lights, or recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or one's children.
Afflicted individuals usually experience severe anxiety if unable to complete their rituals, though many therapies work by helping the individual learn that no catastrophe occurs when the behaviors do cease.
Research has shown that one of the most difficult problems in OCD is in getting family members to understand that the patient is unable to simply stop the behavior. Many times relatives become angry and upset when they are forced to deal with the time-consuming and unrealistic repetitive behaviors. With this background, it is no wonder that many patients do not volunteer their symptoms, and instead complain only of anxiety or depression.
______________________________...
Psychotherapy
For many years, OCD was seen as a purely psychological disorder, related to a desire to control one's environment or to undo some perceived wrong action. Insight oriented psychotherapy has been singularly unsuccessful in treating this group of disorders, however. Behavior therapies have had much more success, especially those with specific small steps geared to the exact obsessions.compulsions involved in the individual case.
Behavior therapy has a lot to offer individuals with this disorder. Two common and popular techniques are systematic desensitization and flooding. Systematic desensitization techniques involve gradually exposing the client to ever-increasing anxiety-provoking stimuli. It is important to note here, though, that such a technique should not be attempted until the client has successfully learned relaxation skills and can demonstrate their use to the therapist. Exposing a patient to either of these techniques without increased coping skills can result in relapse and possible harm to the client. Relaxation techniques may include imagery, breathing skills, and muscle relaxation. It is important for the client to find a relaxation technique which works best for them, before attempting something like systematic desensitization or flooding. Flooding allows the patient to face the most anxiety-provoking situation, while using the relaxation skills learned. Systematic desensitization is the preferred technique of the two; flooding is not recommended except in rare uses. Flooding's potential harm usually outweighs its potential benefits (e.g., traumatizing the individual further).
Additional behavior and cognitive-behavioral techniques which may have some effectiveness for people who suffer from this disorder include saturation and thought-stopping. Through saturation, the client is directed to do nothing but think of one obsessional thought which they have complained about. After a period of time of concentration on this one thought (e.g., 10-15 minutes at a time) over a number of days (3-5 days), the obsession can lose some of its strength. Through thought-stopping, the individual learns how to halt obsessive thoughts through proper identification of the obsessional thoughts, and then averting it by doing an opposite, incompatible response. A common incompatible response to an obsessive thought is simply by yelling the word "Stop!" loudly. The client can be encouraged to practice this in therapy (with the clinician's help and modeling, if necessary), and then encouraged to transplant this behavior to the privacy of their home. They can also often use other incompatible stimuli, such as tweaking a rubber-band which is around their wrist whenever they have a thought. The latter technique would be more effective in public, for example.
______________________________...
Medications
In the last 25 years, medications have been found to be fairly successful in the treatment of OCD. First was the tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil). This has been followed by several of the newer SSRI class anti-depressants that act selectively on the re-uptake of serotonin, a neurotransmitter. In the last few years, neuro-imaging studies have begun to disclose the underlying pathophysiology of OCD. The area of the brain that functions abnormally is directly next to those areas that relate to tick disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome and to Attention Deficit Disorder. It now seems that variable amounts of dysfunction produce clinical symptoms that may be virtually all in one of these areas, or may be overlapping. Many people with ADD also have tics, as do many people with OCD. Most unexpected is the finding that children who have Rheumatic Fever and develop Sydinham's Chorea have a significantly increased risk of OCD. Therefore treatment with antibiotics early in an infectious illness may reduce the chances of future obsessive thinking.
______________________________...
Summary
Imaging studies have also demonstrated that both medications and behavior therapy alter brain metabolism in the direction of normalcy. This then is one of the few areas in all of mental health where clear proof exists for the efficacy of multiple types of treatment.
With medications, generally the dose used to treat depression is not enough to control OCD symptoms. Patients often will take 2-4 times the usual amount. Behavioral therapy with medications seems to offer the best long term improvement. Virtually no treatment is curative for OCD. Most treatment can be expected to reduce symptoms by 50-80% or more, however. The illness is cyclic, and worsens when the individual is under stress.

Obsessive-Compulsive
Categories:

Books (3)
Online Quizzes (1) Support Groups (12)
Symptoms (2)

Related Categories:

Disability

Resources:

Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation
Full of useful information, links, articles, and contacts.
View URL - 5-Feb-2000 - Hits: 8299 - Rate This | Details
A List of Common Obsessions
Dr. Haggerty gives a list of possible obsessions, and puts them into certain lists.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 891 - Rate This | Details
Distinquishing OCD from Other Conditions
Even those in the professional field are sometimes confused with the differences between OCD and other conditions. Dr. Hauser discusses how OCD and other conditions related to it are, in fact, different conditions and why are they different?
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 327 - Rate This | Details
How Do I Know if I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Someone may feel that they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but they do not really know. How can a person tell? There are no real reliable tests for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but Dr. Demitri discusses how a person can tell how they may have the disorder.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 459 - Rate This | Details
Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
What medications are good for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? What reactions and allergies can result? Which drugs are the safest? In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how a client who needs to take OCD medications can pick ones best suited for them, and also to help improve the quality of their lives.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 265 - Rate This | Details
NIMH OCD & Pediatric Studies
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Pediatric Studies ? National Institute of Mental Health

The study is located in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information about how to participate in OCD pediatric studies, please call 1-800-411-1222 or 301-496-5323, or visit http://patientinfo.nimh.nih.gov/pediatri...
View URL - 22-Jul-2005 - Hits: 248 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
View URL - 29-Dec-2005 - Hits: 202 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
How is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) react in childhood and adolescence? Discussed in this paper is how OCD reacts in the childhood and adolescent group.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 131 - Rate This | Details
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
This research article discusses some conditions: Body dysmorphic disorder and trichotillomania, which appear at first to be obsessive-compulsive disorder, but are in actuality, just closely related to the disorder. Read on, and see if what you (or a loved one) have is not OCD, but one of these two...
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 103 - Rate This | Details
OCD Center of Los Angeles Top Rated
Treatment center specializing in OCD, OC Spectrum Disorders, and related anxiety disorders. Includes information on symptoms and treatment, an OCD test, a reading list, and links to online resources.
View URL - 16-Jul-2001 - Hits: 2108 - Rate This | Details
OCD: The War Inside
A film by co-director Mark Pancer, who himself has OCD, brings a unique perspective and compassion to his interviews, eliciting painful stories while also exploring the causes and possible solutions of this often misunderstood condition which affects millions of people. Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, sad and funny, full of love, hate, anger and courage, these stories will resonate long after the film has ended.


Andrew's OCD first appeared when he was only nine years old; his compulsions have included gnawing on walls and even streets and subway floors. With the unflagging support of his parents and sister he has found some relief through behavioral therapy.
Trisha has washed her hands until they were bloody, and has attempted suicide. SSRI medications have helped at times, but she still battles with side effects.
Marvin's OCD appeared in middle age and led to serious career and family problems; in trying to control his condition he even submitted to brain surgery, which was unsuccessful.
Grace's OCD also appeared when she was an adult. She cannot allow visitors into her house without becoming uncontrollably anxious; her obsessions have created serious problems in her relationships with her husband and young daughter.
(Film costs $229 to purchase, $60 to rent.)
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Pediatric Anxiety Research Clinic
Does your child or teenager take medication for OCD?

Many children and adolescents who take medication for OCD still suffer from OCD symptoms that can interfere with school, work, and relationships with family and friends.

Dr. John March, at Duke University, Dr. Martin Franklin, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Henrietta Leonard, at Brown University, are conducting a multi-site study evaluating the effectiveness of adding two different types of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to ongoing medication management for the treatment of pediatric OCD that does not respond completely to medication treatment.

Participants in this study will receive medication management free of charge. In addition, they may be assigned to receive CBT at no cost from a psychiatrist or a psychologist.

Children ages 7-17 with a diagnosis of OCD, who are taking fluoxetine (Prozac), sertaline (Zoloft), or fluvoxamine (Luvox), and who still have residual OCD symptoms may be eligible. Children taking citalopram (Celexa) or excitalopram (Lexapro) may also be eligible.

Participants must live within commuting distance of Raleigh/Durham, NC, Philadelphia, PA, or Providence, RI.

Contact information: Brown University, Providence, RI: [phone]
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: [phone]
Duke University, Durham, NC Rebecca Dingfelder, [phone], [e-mail]
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The Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD can be considered deadly in thoughts, feelings, and obsessions. It can follow a course, wherever it can be waxing the one moment, and then the next, it will be going on full-throttle. Discussed in tihs article is how Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder runs throughout a lifetime.
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The Impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In this article, Dr. Haggerty discusses how common OCD is, who has it, and how it affects society. This is a primer to beginning to understand OCD, and is highly approved as a research starting point to help gain understanding on OCD.
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Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Believe it or not, once upon a time, obsessive compulsive disorder was considered not responsive to many therapies. In the present, however; that idea has changed, and such things as talk therapies are considered beneficial for those who suffer with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Read on further in this article to understand more about treatment options for OCD.
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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Ever really wondered what all the hubbub about Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was about? Many wonder what OCD entails. In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how OCD is an illness, how it interacts with people, and things that may be related with it.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
SYMPTOMS
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by either obsessions or compulsions:
Obsessions as defined by:
1.Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress
2.The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems
3.The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
4.The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion)
Compulsions as defined by:
1.Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
2.The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive
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At some point during the course of the disorder, the adult has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable (not applicable to children).
The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
If another disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsions is not restricted to it. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.




Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Screening Quiz
Use this brief screening measure to help you determine
if you might need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis
and treatment of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).

Instructions: This is a screening measure to help you determine whether you might have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that needs professional attention. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a disorder or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation. For each item, indicate the extent to which it is true, by checking the appropriate box next to the item.

Have you been bothered by unpleasant thoughts or images that repeatedly enter your mind, such as...
1. concerns with contamination (dirt, germs, chemicals, radiation) or acquiring a serious illness such as AIDS?
No
Yes
2. overconcern with keeping objects (clothing, groceries, tools) in perfect order or arranged exactly?
No
Yes
3. images of death or other horrible events?
No
Yes
4. personally unacceptable religious or sexual thoughts?
No
Yes
Have you worried a lot about terrible things happening, such as...
5. fire, burglary, or flooding the house?
No
Yes
6. accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car or letting it roll down the hill?
No
Yes
7. spreading an illness (giving someone AIDS)?
No
Yes
8. losing something valuable?
No
Yes
9. harm coming to a loved one because you weren't careful enough?
No
Yes
10. Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?
No
Yes
Have you felt driven to perform certain acts over and over again, such as...
11. excessive or ritualized washing, cleaning, or grooming?
No
Yes
12. checking light switches, water faucets, the stove, door locks, or emergency brake?
No
Yes
13. counting; arranging; evening-up behaviors (making sure socks are at same height)?
No
Yes
14. collecting useless objects or inspecting the garbage before it is thrown out?
No
Yes
15. repeating routine actions (in/out of chair, going through doorway, re-lighting cigarette) a certain number of times or until it feels just right?
No
Yes
16. need to touch objects or people?
No
Yes
17. unnecessary re-reading or re-writing; re-opening envelopes before they are mailed?
No
Yes
18. examining your body for signs of illness?
No
Yes
19. avoiding colors ("red" means blood), numbers ("l 3" is unlucky), or names (those that start with "D" signify death) that are associated with dreaded events or unpleasant thoughts?
No
Yes
20. needing to "confess" or repeatedly asking for reassurance that you said or did something correctly?
No
Yes

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment

Introduction
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is one of the most difficult to understand of all psychiatric illnesses. Persons who have this condition find themselves repeating certain behaviors or thoughts again and again and again and again. They know the repetition is unnecessary, but are unable to stop themselves. Common forms of this are checking locks, stoves, and lights, or recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or one's children.
Afflicted individuals usually experience severe anxiety if unable to complete their rituals, though many therapies work by helping the individual learn that no catastrophe occurs when the behaviors do cease.
Research has shown that one of the most difficult problems in OCD is in getting family members to understand that the patient is unable to simply stop the behavior. Many times relatives become angry and upset when they are forced to deal with the time-consuming and unrealistic repetitive behaviors. With this background, it is no wonder that many patients do not volunteer their symptoms, and instead complain only of anxiety or depression.
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Psychotherapy
For many years, OCD was seen as a purely psychological disorder, related to a desire to control one's environment or to undo some perceived wrong action. Insight oriented psychotherapy has been singularly unsuccessful in treating this group of disorders, however. Behavior therapies have had much more success, especially those with specific small steps geared to the exact obsessions.compulsions involved in the individual case.
Behavior therapy has a lot to offer individuals with this disorder. Two common and popular techniques are systematic desensitization and flooding. Systematic desensitization techniques involve gradually exposing the client to ever-increasing anxiety-provoking stimuli. It is important to note here, though, that such a technique should not be attempted until the client has successfully learned relaxation skills and can demonstrate their use to the therapist. Exposing a patient to either of these techniques without increased coping skills can result in relapse and possible harm to the client. Relaxation techniques may include imagery, breathing skills, and muscle relaxation. It is important for the client to find a relaxation technique which works best for them, before attempting something like systematic desensitization or flooding. Flooding allows the patient to face the most anxiety-provoking situation, while using the relaxation skills learned. Systematic desensitization is the preferred technique of the two; flooding is not recommended except in rare uses. Flooding's potential harm usually outweighs its potential benefits (e.g., traumatizing the individual further).
Additional behavior and cognitive-behavioral techniques which may have some effectiveness for people who suffer from this disorder include saturation and thought-stopping. Through saturation, the client is directed to do nothing but think of one obsessional thought which they have complained about. After a period of time of concentration on this one thought (e.g., 10-15 minutes at a time) over a number of days (3-5 days), the obsession can lose some of its strength. Through thought-stopping, the individual learns how to halt obsessive thoughts through proper identification of the obsessional thoughts, and then averting it by doing an opposite, incompatible response. A common incompatible response to an obsessive thought is simply by yelling the word "Stop!" loudly. The client can be encouraged to practice this in therapy (with the clinician's help and modeling, if necessary), and then encouraged to transplant this behavior to the privacy of their home. They can also often use other incompatible stimuli, such as tweaking a rubber-band which is around their wrist whenever they have a thought. The latter technique would be more effective in public, for example.
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Medications
In the last 25 years, medications have been found to be fairly successful in the treatment of OCD. First was the tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil). This has been followed by several of the newer SSRI class anti-depressants that act selectively on the re-uptake of serotonin, a neurotransmitter. In the last few years, neuro-imaging studies have begun to disclose the underlying pathophysiology of OCD. The area of the brain that functions abnormally is directly next to those areas that relate to tick disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome and to Attention Deficit Disorder. It now seems that variable amounts of dysfunction produce clinical symptoms that may be virtually all in one of these areas, or may be overlapping. Many people with ADD also have tics, as do many people with OCD. Most unexpected is the finding that children who have Rheumatic Fever and develop Sydinham's Chorea have a significantly increased risk of OCD. Therefore treatment with antibiotics early in an infectious illness may reduce the chances of future obsessive thinking.
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Summary
Imaging studies have also demonstrated that both medications and behavior therapy alter brain metabolism in the direction of normalcy. This then is one of the few areas in all of mental health where clear proof exists for the efficacy of multiple types of treatment.
With medications, generally the dose used to treat depression is not enough to control OCD symptoms. Patients often will take 2-4 times the usual amount. Behavioral therapy with medications seems to offer the best long term improvement. Virtually no treatment is curative for OCD. Most treatment can be expected to reduce symptoms by 50-80% or more, however. The illness is cyclic, and worsens when the individual is under stress.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation
Full of useful information, links, articles, and contacts.
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A List of Common Obsessions
Dr. Haggerty gives a list of possible obsessions, and puts them into certain lists.
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Distinquishing OCD from Other Conditions
Even those in the professional field are sometimes confused with the differences between OCD and other conditions. Dr. Hauser discusses how OCD and other conditions related to it are, in fact, different conditions and why are they different?
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How Do I Know if I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Someone may feel that they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but they do not really know. How can a person tell? There are no real reliable tests for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but Dr. Demitri discusses how a person can tell how they may have the disorder.
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Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
What medications are good for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? What reactions and allergies can result? Which drugs are the safest? In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how a client who needs to take OCD medications can pick ones best suited for them, and also to help improve the quality of their lives.
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NIMH OCD & Pediatric Studies
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Pediatric Studies ? National Institute of Mental Health

The study is located in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information about how to participate in OCD pediatric studies, please call 1-800-411-1222 or 301-496-5323, or visit http://patientinfo.nimh.nih.gov/pediatri...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinical Trials
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
How is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) react in childhood and adolescence? Discussed in this paper is how OCD reacts in the childhood and adolescent group.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
This research article discusses some conditions: Body dysmorphic disorder and trichotillomania, which appear at first to be obsessive-compulsive disorder, but are in actuality, just closely related to the disorder. Read on, and see if what you (or a loved one) have is not OCD, but one of these two...
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OCD Center of Los Angeles Top Rated
Treatment center specializing in OCD, OC Spectrum Disorders, and related anxiety disorders. Includes information on symptoms and treatment, an OCD test, a reading list, and links to online resources.
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OCD: The War Inside
A film by co-director Mark Pancer, who himself has OCD, brings a unique perspective and compassion to his interviews, eliciting painful stories while also exploring the causes and possible solutions of this often misunderstood condition which affects millions of people. Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, sad and funny, full of love, hate, anger and courage, these stories will resonate long after the film has ended.


Andrew's OCD first appeared when he was only nine years old; his compulsions have included gnawing on walls and even streets and subway floors. With the unflagging support of his parents and sister he has found some relief through behavioral therapy.
Trisha has washed her hands until they were bloody, and has attempted suicide. SSRI medications have helped at times, but she still battles with side effects.
Marvin's OCD appeared in middle age and led to serious career and family problems; in trying to control his condition he even submitted to brain surgery, which was unsuccessful.
Grace's OCD also appeared when she was an adult. She cannot allow visitors into her house without becoming uncontrollably anxious; her obsessions have created serious problems in her relationships with her husband and young daughter.
(Film costs $229 to purchase, $60 to rent.)
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Pediatric Anxiety Research Clinic
Does your child or teenager take medication for OCD?

Many children and adolescents who take medication for OCD still suffer from OCD symptoms that can interfere with school, work, and relationships with family and friends.

Dr. John March, at Duke University, Dr. Martin Franklin, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Henrietta Leonard, at Brown University, are conducting a multi-site study evaluating the effectiveness of adding two different types of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to ongoing medication management for the treatment of pediatric OCD that does not respond completely to medication treatment.

Participants in this study will receive medication management free of charge. In addition, they may be assigned to receive CBT at no cost from a psychiatrist or a psychologist.

Children ages 7-17 with a diagnosis of OCD, who are taking fluoxetine (Prozac), sertaline (Zoloft), or fluvoxamine (Luvox), and who still have residual OCD symptoms may be eligible. Children taking citalopram (Celexa) or excitalopram (Lexapro) may also be eligible.

Participants must live within commuting distance of Raleigh/Durham, NC, Philadelphia, PA, or Providence, RI.

Contact information: Brown University, Providence, RI: [phone]
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: [phone]
Duke University, Durham, NC Rebecca Dingfelder, [phone], [e-mail]
View URL - 27-Mar-2006 - Hits: 45 - Rate This | Details
The Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD can be considered deadly in thoughts, feelings, and obsessions. It can follow a course, wherever it can be waxing the one moment, and then the next, it will be going on full-throttle. Discussed in tihs article is how Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder runs throughout a lifetime.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 143 - Rate This | Details
The Impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In this article, Dr. Haggerty discusses how common OCD is, who has it, and how it affects society. This is a primer to beginning to understand OCD, and is highly approved as a research starting point to help gain understanding on OCD.
View URL - 3-Apr-2006 - Hits: 88 - Rate This | Details
Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Believe it or not, once upon a time, obsessive compulsive disorder was considered not responsive to many therapies. In the present, however; that idea has changed, and such things as talk therapies are considered beneficial for those who suffer with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Read on further in this article to understand more about treatment options for OCD.
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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Ever really wondered what all the hubbub about Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was about? Many wonder what OCD entails. In this article, Dr. Demitri discusses how OCD is an illness, how it interacts with people, and things that may be related with it.

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