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Obsessive compulsive disorder affects four to six million adults and almost one-half million children. Its symptoms include intrusive, recurring thoughts, images or actions which generate an anxious, irrational fear (obsession), for example of germs or dirt. This anxiety often results in the repetitive performance of rituals (compulsions), such as excessive hand washing, bathing, checking and hoarding that effectively reduces the fear to tolerable levels. The person is almost always aware that their strange behavior makes no sense, but feels helpless to stop it. The patterns may be repeated as much as 100 times per day, and renders the person unable to function normally. It appears to be caused by a complex combination of inherited biological and learned psychological factors.

Fortunately, treatment for OCD has improved dramatically over the past fifteen years. For many years, OCD was thought to be extremely difficult to treat. However, advances in the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) have led to the development of a therapeutic approach that is remarkably effective in treating OCD. This treatment, called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), has dramatically altered the therapeutic management of OCD. ERP is far more proactive and less time-consuming than other "talk therapies," and has consistently been found by researchers to be as effective as medication in the treatment for OCD with a lesser risk of relapse once treatment has stopped.

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