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obsessive compulsive disorder

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                                     Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 2
  
  
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  Millions of Americans are held hostage by their habits-compulsive hand washing or housecleaning, chronic overwork, endless shopping, or obsessive exercise. In the past two decades, a virtual epidemic of these and other examples of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs) has swept the country. Obsessive-Compulsive disorder sufferers are often crippled by their ritualistic behavior patterns: unable to form intimate relationships, stymied by simple day to day decisions, and short circuited in their careers. My goal is to help you identify these disturbing fears and rituals of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and in addition strategies and treatments for this condition. Recognizing the signs and symptoms of OCD is helpful. Since OCD doesn't go away on its own, seeking professional assistance at the earliest possible time is far better than waiting until a crisis develops. Following treatment, OCD sufferers can control their uncomfortable anxiety- provoking thoughts and actions, thereby allowing for happier and healthier lives.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
                                
  
  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 3
  
  
       Obsessive Compulsive disorder is one of the most common but frequently under diagnosed mental health problems of our time (Schackman, 1999). Until very recently OCD- an anxiety disorder of overwhelming obsessions and repeated rituals that sufferers are powerless to stop was considered rare and difficult to treat. Today we know that this disturbing and at times even incapacitating disease affects as many as one in forty people, making it the fourth most common of all psychiatric disorders (Schackman, 1999)...