What are the Treatment Options for OCD?

Most Effective:

-Systematic Desensitization: gradually exposing a patient to overwelminjg anxiety

-Flooding: exposing patient to overwhelming anxiety all at one time.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

Most common:

-Saturation: patient is directed to think of only one thought.

-Thought Stopping: patient will learn how to stop their obsessive thoughts through identifying the obsession and forcefully stopping yourself

- medications

Clomipramine

(4x normal dosage)