Helo doctor, I am 27 nd I have ocd from 6 years nd I know it yesterday. I started medicine from today. Is this disease curable? Nd I am giving competitive exams. What is my future in that. Nd what should I do now.

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist47yrs exp

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This can be a crippling disease, if not treated soon. You will need to meet with a counselor and psychiatrist and work with both medication and therapy for any reasonable success. You need to work with a counselor for some behavior modification program to expose you to the situations that cause obsessions and compulsions to gradually de-condition yourself. OCD is not a lifelong disorder and will over time reduce in intensity. Therapy hastens this process and together with the medication you can work through it better. It is related to fear and so emotional therapy will go a long way to alleviate symptoms and the underlying causes. You need to stay committed and remain cooperative right through the treatment. To reduce the frequency of repeated behavior patterns (compulsions) you need to get rid of the obsessions (repeating thought patterns that are non-productive). You need to maintain a log of regular activities you do and keep ticking it off of a log book and refer to the log to verify whether you have done a particular job or not. Over a period of time you can test yourself to see if you remember that you have done a particular task without listing it in the log book. Over time you can make two tasks, and so on. You will be very frustrated about your obsessions and may become irritable over small matters. So be patient and help yourself in this task fulfillment, and you will do fine soon. The bottom line is that there is fear and you need to deal with that fear for all things to return to normal.  

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