Obsessive compulsive disorder - OCD treatment and therapy from NOCD

Treatment

Make no mistake: OCD is highly treatable. The key to getting your symptoms under control—so that OCD no longer rules your daily life—is understanding your treatment options and what's scientifically proven to work.

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Why Your Therapy Isn’t Helping Your OCD

When it comes to treatment for OCD, many people turn to therapy for help. However, if you’ve been trying therapy and you aren’t seeing the improvement you

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Suicidal OCD and ERP: Can They Work Together To Treat You?

Content warning: This post discusses topics of suicide in relation to suicidal OCD and suicidal ideation. Any thoughts of suicide or self-harm should be

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Why Teletherapy Might Be the Best Form of Therapy For You Right Now

In an increasingly digital world, online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is providing new opportunities for people to access the resources

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How Do You Know You’re Ready for OCD Therapy?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects between 7 and 9 million people in the U.S. Far too often, people with OCD suffer in silence and are unaware

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How Long Does ERP Therapy Take?

Therapy is an incredibly individual experience, which means it’s hard to make universal statements that apply to every single person undergoing therapy.

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How to Get Affordable ERP Therapy

Once you’ve made the decision to move forward with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), you’ll likely first look into whether or not your

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Will My Insurance Pay for ERP?

If you’ve researched treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you’ve likely come across ERP, or exposure and response prevention. ERP is widely

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How to Use Mindfulness to Manage Your OCD

You’ve likely heard the buzz around mindfulness and meditation. Mindfulness techniques have been proven to help people improve stress levels, reduce

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How Does ERP Help With Intrusive Thoughts?

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition marked by the presence of obsessive thoughts, images, doubts, or urges, followed by

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What is ERP and Does It Work For OCD?

If you’ve researched treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) you’ve likely come across ERP, or exposure and response prevention. Widely

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Does ERP Therapy Work for Everyone?

When it comes to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), exposure response therapy (ERP) is often referred to as the gold standard. But if you’re

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Why is ERP So Expensive?

Can you relate to this story? You finally figure out that what you are going through is OCD: an unwanted thought, image, or urge that violates your

By Stephen Smith

Reviewed by Patrick McGrath, PhD

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OCD Medications: An Introduction

Sir Norman Melancon, MD1 Jamie Feusner, MD1,2 The idea of taking medications, especially if it’s your first time, can sometimes be anxiety inducing and

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Causes and Cure of OCD

What Causes OCD?  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a psychological disorder marked by chronic intrusive or unwanted thoughts and images

By Dr. Foluso Solarin, PhD

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My Story: Overcoming Several Forms of OCD

I have been under the influence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for as long as I can remember.  As a child, I was frequented by intrusive thoughts

By Jaclyn Steinmann

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The forgotten in-between: Mixed mood disorders and why we should notice them

You have a friend who's been acting differently in the past few weeks—they can't get out of bed and ask you to help with basic tasks, but they're

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Why It Takes More Than Just Exposures To Overcome OCD

We talk a lot about exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy around here. Commonly known as ERP, this form of cognitive-behavioral therapy has two

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Why is OCD so Often Misdiagnosed?

By Phoebe Kranefuss

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