Someone washes his hands 100 times a day, someone arranges all things around the apartment in a very specific manner, someone is afraid to go out. The life of these people blighted by severe mental illness - obsessional neurosis. In America, we have met doctors who treat the disease.
Official medicine calls this disease obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder) . These days in the United States held 16 Annual Conference of the International OCD Foundation, where for three days attracts patients and physicians to exchange experiences. Only here, patients with OCD (among other things, the fourth most common mental illness in the world), can learn about the latest treatments.
Patty Lange feels a special fear of door handles. It is like to have touched thousands of people. Who knows what diseases they suffer. "Somewhere deep down I realize that the risk of catching any infection in this way is small, - said Lange. - But the fear is still sitting in the back of me. Mother tried to help me many times, touching the handles of the walls show as it is safe. And I thought to myself, 'That's good, get sick themselves, without me. It's your health, and the risk of them as you want! "
Patty became a member of the group courses of therapy, which was carried out by experienced professionals. She describes the thrill of one of the tasks received from the psychologist: return to the hotel before hand to touch the toilet toilet seat, and then the same hand to take some candy and put it in his mouth. Lange says that her fear of the whole life flashed before my eyes when she did it. The next day, being on treatment, she entered the room, holding his bare hand on the doorknob. The first success was achieved.
" OCD like a cancer - said psychologist Dr. Grayson. - If the disorder is not treated, it will grow until it will make life quite agonizing. People do not need to be shy obsessional neurosis - With him to fight. "
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