OCD Recovery Center
Where Caring & Science Create Solutions
Where Caring & Science Create Solutions
Our mission at the Center is to provide excellence in behavioral treatment services to patients suffering with these difficult disorders. At the OCD Recovery Center we are sensitive to the inner suffering and struggle that persons with OCD go through - often on a daily basis. We are also aware that obsessions and compulsions are not the only manifestations of OCD. A person with OCD often thinks differently and approaches life differently than those without OCD. These differences can create ongoing subclinical depression, life stress, conflict in relationships and blocks to spiritual and personal growth. We have developed specialized interventions to assist OCD and spectrum disorders patients with these essential lifestyle issues.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the fourth most disabling of all psychological conditions and affects more than 5 million adults and children in the U.S. alone. Social and economic costs of OCD are estimated to be over 10 billion dollars per year. Researchers believe that OCD is part of a spectrum of disorders which include Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis and Trichotillomania, Tourette's and possibly other conditions. A chronic, neuro-behavioral disease, OCD is correlated with irregularities in the right caudate nucleus of the brain. Recently identified as genetically inherited conditions, OCD is not the "fault" of the patient any more than other inherited diseases like diabetes.
OCD can take a variety of forms, from touching objects or repeating behaviors over and over, to compulsive house cleaning or hand washing, to constant intrusive fears one will harm others or self. Persons with OCD often feel tormented because they know that their compulsions and obsessions are not "real" and yet perpetual doubt and intense anxiety make them seem impossible to resist.
With new developments in psychopharmacological management of OCD spectrum disorders have also come specialized behavior therapy techniques including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy. When successfully conducted ERP causes the same remediative changes in the brain, and has a similar rate of improvement (75%) as psychoactive medication.
The Expert Consensus Guidelines for OCD treatment (J. Clinic. Psychiat. 1997; 58 (suppl. 4)) recommend cognitive-behavioral therapy as the first line of intervention with adults and children. The program for OCD recovery offered at the OCD Recovery Center combining CBT with ten additional interlocking elements:
First Key: Accurate & Complete Diagnosis
OCD Recovery Center provides the behavioral support you need to complete the recovery picture. If you believe that you or someone you care for has OCD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis or Trichotillomania we invite you to contact our office for further information.
