Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

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OCD is a psychological problem which leads the person afflicted to act in an extremely compulsive manner, such as washing hands obsessively. The paper examines the causes and symptoms of the disorder and shows how these symptoms manifest in six different areas - washing, checking, religious obsession, counting, sexual obsession and violent obsessions. The paper discusses the outcome of the disorder, the affect on the family and various treatments available including therapy and medication.

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"OCD has historically been difficult to treat. The various medications that were tried were ineffective and psychotherapy was not always successful. Over the years the mental health industry continued trying various treatment methods, while rejecting those that failed and by the early 1960's there was at last some hope for those who suffered with OCD. The concepts that were laid as a foundation in the 1960's were built on and by the 1980's patients, who for years had been told there was no help were getting their symptoms under control for the first time in their lives. This is a promising answer, but the battle is not over. There are still 25 percent of OCD sufferers whose anxiety from the disorder does not go away."

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