| OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) is a mental | | | | Some people with mild symptoms of OCD can |
| illness that involves obsessions and ritualistic | | | | improve using self-help books, but for others, how to |
| behaviors. Studies indicate that nearly 90% of people | | | | stop OCD thoughts is the combination of medication |
| have intrusive thoughts with repetitive behaviors in | | | | and therapy is needed to achieve improvement. |
| them, but people with OCD behave in a way that is | | | | Medication can sometimes successfully treat OCD |
| unhealthy and disruptive. Obsessions force people into | | | | behaviors, but this does not treat the root of the |
| a series of compulsive behaviors as a type of | | | | problem and should be complemented with a |
| defensive strategies used to deal with the | | | | psychological program as well. The medications that |
| obsessions. At first, certain rituals provide relief for | | | | treat OCD most effectively are ones that work to |
| the obsessive person but this pattern eventually | | | | balance serotonin. These include Fluoxetine, |
| becomes distressing. Those who suffer from OCD | | | | Clomipramine, Fluvoxamine, Parozetine, Citalopram, |
| are always looking for ways of how to stop OCD | | | | Sertraline, Buspirone and Lithium. These medications |
| thoughts. | | | | help to lower compulsions as well as obsessions. |
| The inability to be able to stop thoughts and impulses | | | | Behavior therapy refers to many different treatment |
| makes the person with OCD feel irrational, out of | | | | techniques used to changed behaviors that are |
| control and needing help to cope their negative | | | | undesirable and provide suffers a way of how to |
| emotions. For years, doctors have struggled to find | | | | stop OCD thoughts. Response prevention and |
| the best method to rid obsessive thinking. It must be | | | | exposure is the one type of behavior therapy that |
| realized that irrational thoughts are part of the | | | | has proven to be effective with OCD. With |
| human's brain and learning how to stop OCD thoughts | | | | exposure, people with OCD learn how to face their |
| and focus on rational ones is key to stopping such | | | | fears. Response prevention is the lowering of anxiety |
| thoughts. OCD cannot be cured completely, but | | | | without performing compulsive rituals. |
| treatment can help many people with great | | | | Sometimes, cognitive therapy is used in combination |
| improvement. | | | | with response prevention and exposure. This can help |
| People suffering from OCD do know their thoughts | | | | one suffering with OCD cope with anxiety and fears. |
| and actions are not rational but do not know how to | | | | Since the problem of OCD is found deep within |
| stop OCD thoughts. This is one thing that separates | | | | someone's thoughts, cognitive therapy is a great |
| OCD from many other psychological conditions. Some | | | | approach to treat it and shows someone how to |
| doctors believe that confronting an obsession and | | | | stop OCD thoughts. This type of therapy looks at |
| looking at it as something good will help to end the | | | | the thought processes that are repetitive and |
| compulsive behavior. If someone can face an | | | | obsessed. The direct approach of cognitive therapy |
| obsession and think through irrational thoughts and | | | | does work, but is can be time consuming if it is not |
| impulses, this will treat the root of the problem and | | | | used along with hypnosis. |
| not just the symptom. | | | | |