Are you obsessed about situations like imagine your house might be on fire or if your hands are clean as you attend a key client? You are not alone.
According to a new global research, 94 percent of people experience unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or impulses.
Study Suggests Dogs Suffer from OCD too
Certain dog breeds such as German shepherds and Doberman pinschers are prone to high rates of obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD), says a new study.
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Thoughts, images and impulses symptomatic of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are widespread.
"This study shows that it is not the unwanted, intrusive thoughts that are the problem - it is what you make of those thoughts. And that is at the heart of our cognitive and behavioural interventions for helping people overcome OCD," said Adam Radomsky, a psychology professor from Concordia University in Canada.
![Ritual Prevention Therapy Boosts Antidepressant Treatment of OCD]( "Ritual Prevention Therapy Boosts Antidepressant Treatment of OCD")
A form of behavioral therapy can augment antidepressant treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) better than an antipsychotic, demonstrates NIMH grantees.
"Confirming that these thoughts are extremely common helps us reassure patients who may think that they are very different from everybody else," Radomsky added.
For instance, most people who have an intrusive thought about jumping off a balcony or a metro platform would tell themselves that it is a strange or silly thing to think, whereas a person with OCD may worry that the thought means they are suicidal.
OCD patients experience these thoughts more often and are more upset by them, but the thoughts themselves seem to be indistinguishable from those occurring in the general population, the researchers added.
This means therapists can focus on applying effective treatments that will work cross-culturally.
Source: IANS
Ritual Prevention Therapy Boosts Antidepressant Treatment of OCD
A form of behavioral therapy can augment antidepressant treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) better than an antipsychotic, demonstrates NIMH grantees.
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"Confirming that these thoughts are extremely common helps us reassure patients who may think that they are very different from everybody else," Radomsky added.
For instance, most people who have an intrusive thought about jumping off a balcony or a metro platform would tell themselves that it is a strange or silly thing to think, whereas a person with OCD may worry that the thought means they are suicidal.
OCD patients experience these thoughts more often and are more upset by them, but the thoughts themselves seem to be indistinguishable from those occurring in the general population, the researchers added.
This means therapists can focus on applying effective treatments that will work cross-culturally.
Source: IANS
Risk of OCD Among New Mothers
A recent study has shown that one out of 10 of new mums portray symptoms of OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder
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