Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) features recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts and rituals. 

Reviewed November 2009

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Title:   Obsessive-compulsive disorder: symptoms - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience obsessive thoughts or compulsions, which can overpower the mind.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can often start during childhood or the teenage years from about the age of 7 years old.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder: what is it? - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   People who have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) may have persisting, unwanted, unpleasant and intrusive thoughts that they can't control.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and patient experiences of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder characterised by the presence of obsessions and compulsions within a patients comprehension and behaviour.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. Obsessions are recurrent thoughts, images or impulses that are intrusive and unwanted. Compulsions are time-consuming and distressing repetitive rituals. Psychological treatments including cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and medications can help.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder - family and friends
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Living with a person with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can have a major impact on family and friends. The fears and behaviours that are symptoms of OCD can be difficult to understand and may be disruptive to household routines and activities.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) versus placebo for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common and disabling disorder, which frequently follows a chronic course. It is characterised by intrusive thoughts of imagined harm, which are difficult to dispel, and ritualistic behaviour such as repetitive wa...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   This fact sheet contains information about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and suggestions for how you can manage it.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Psychological treatments versus treatment as usual for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling anxiety disorder characterised by recurrent obsessions, such as persistent thoughts, impulses or mental images, that promote anxiety, together with compulsions, such as repetitive behaviours...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   OCD is an anxiety disorder, characterised by the presence of recurring intrusive and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses - obsesssions and repetitive behavioural and mental rituals - compulsions.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD)is an anxiety disorder.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Obsessive compulsive disorder - Wendy's story
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Wendy was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder in her early 50s. She believes the symptoms started during her childhood.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Transcranial magnetic stimulation was introduced as neurophysiological technique in 1985 when Anthony Barker and his team developed a compact machine that permitted a non-invasive stimulation of the cerebral cortex. In addition it has been suggested tha...
Date:   Dec 2002
Title:   Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): is my child at risk? - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Use this checklist to learn some of the signs of OCD.
Date:   Jun 2001
Title:   Obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders week - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Anxiety is abnormal when the amount of anxiety experienced is inappropriate for the situation. This abnormal anxiety may show itself as one of a group of illnesses, known as the anxiety disorders.
Date:   Oct 2000

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