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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Alexandria Virginia

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) come in many forms. Some common examples include persistent hand washing, behavioral rituals, repetitive thoughts or recurrent checking that the lights are off.


Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Alexandria Virginia


Stop My OCD is a mental health provider devoted to treating patients who have OCD.


Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) come in many forms. Some common examples include persistent hand washing, behavioral rituals, repetitive thoughts or recurrent checking that the lights are off.


An emerging treatment methodology in OCD treatment is called the inhibitory learning model. The methodology functions by maximizing the extinction of fear by using ERP to learn new safety information. OCD sufferers will tell you that they have obsessions that lead to fears. For example, a mother may fear harming her child. She has consistent compulsive thoughts about this yet she never acts on it. This is because in OCD, the sufferer does not want to perform the obsession, it is truly nothing more than a thought.The goal of ERP is therefore to learn safety in a way that permanently inhibits obsessional fear.


OCD is defined by the presence of obsessions, compulsions or both. 


Obsessions are defined by:


1) Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.  


2) The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion)


Compulsions are defined by:


1) Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to performing 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 anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive.  



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The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (more than 1 hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning.  


The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects f a substance.


The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder. 

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