Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Imagine feeling like you have to check the door forty-seven times to see if it’s locked before leaving for work everyday, and even if you check the lock, you go to work worried-sick that if you didn’t make sure you locked the door, then someone would come in and rob your house. ... This anxiety is called Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is most effectively treated by an intensive psychological treatment program based on cognitive-behavioral principles, and sometimes enhanced by the use of medications (Summers 67). The core of this therapy is for OCD patients to expose themselves to the very situations which create the obsessive anxiety while preventing themselves from doing the compulsive ritual (Treatment). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a medical illness that, unless an OCD patient has gone through cognitive-behavioral therapy, they can not live a continuously sociable life.