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Deep Brain Stimulation OCD

Treatment for Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) includes Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention and medications. However, despite these techniques, around 40%-60% of patients still experience symptoms. In the 1990s, the first investigative study on the effectiveness of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat OCD when medications do not work was conducted. Since it was started, […]

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Scrupulosity OCD

One of the many subsets of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is scrupulosity OCD, which can be identified in people who experience repetitive, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that surround a discrepancy in their moral and religious beliefs. Most of the time, these thoughts would coerce a person to engage in a series of compulsive behaviors that are caused […]

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OCD Rumination

There is a wide array of distinct obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compulsions that highly trained therapists can easily determine. But for everyday people, it would be very difficult to determine which one is which. Well, in general, you can settle on calling common mental compulsions as rumination. According to OCD experts who have been dealing with […]

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OCD False Memory

One of the lesser known types of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that still affects a lot of people around the world and causes them significant problems is the OCD false memory. It is called “false memory”, as there would be no actual evidence that something untoward has happened. Those who suffer from this condition tell stories […]

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OCD Cleanliness Symptoms

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental condition, where an individual have certain thoughts repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly and feels the need to check things repeatedly. One type of this condition—and the most well-known—involves cleaning rituals, where sufferers can be described as perpetually engaged in compulsive acts of decontamination. These people can be divided into […]

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OCD Cognitive Distortions

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by having unpleasant and repetitive intrusive thoughts, images and ideas about hurting oneself. This is also accompanied with compulsive behaviors that can affect one’s life. People with OCD also experience cognitive distortions that repeatedly play inside their heads. Cognitive distortions have been defined by Aaron Beck, a seminal cognitive-behavioral therapist […]

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Dermatillomania OCD

The term skin picking disorder (SPD) or otherwise known as dermatillomania is determined by the compulsive or obsessive picking of the skin. Those with this type of disorder often have feelings of anxiety, stress, and tension that will show tendencies of having an uncontrollable urge of picking, scratching, and squeezing of their own skin. This […]

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OCPD vs OCD

Many health-care providers, patients and researchers are getting confused about the condition involving obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and its distinction with obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Even with their similarities in terms of cases, names, and symptoms, both terms have different characteristics that can separate one from the other. Basically, OCPD deals with the chronic and […]

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OCD Intrusive Thoughts Examples

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts, ideas or images that have the tendency to become obsessions. In relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD, these repetitive and distressing thoughts can lead to anxiety and can be disruptive to the point of affecting an individual’s way of life and the people around him or her. Despite the […]

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How to Beat OCD Intrusive Thoughts

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) naturally has uncontrollable or recurring behaviors and thoughts that they often feel obliged to repeat endlessly. This disorder is known to have an impact on children, adolescents, and adults. Although there are no known causes for this condition, some of the risk factors include brain structure, environment and genetics. Most […]

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