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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) features recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts and rituals.
Updated August 2011
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| Title: | Online OCD Treatment |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Editorial Team |
| Description: | Preliminary results for a new online psychological treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) show it is effective in managing symptoms and improving quality of life. The program may advance the delivery of health care to rural and remote areas of Australia. |
| Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Title: | Obsessive compulsive disorder - family and friends |
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| 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: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| 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: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | This fact sheet contains information about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and suggestions for how you can manage it. |
| Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Title: | Second-generation antipsychotics for obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review found some trials comparing the effects of adding second-generation antipsychotic drugs or placebo to antidepressants in obsessive compulsive disorder. There were only 11 trials on three second-generation antipsychotic drugs (olanzapine, que... |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
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| 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 2010 |
| Title: | Obsessive-compulsive disorder: symptoms - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience obsessive thoughts or compulsions, which can overpower the mind. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Fact sheet 37 - Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| Publisher: | beyondblue |
| Description: | This fact sheet contains information on the signs and symptoms, causes and treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Includes tips on helping someone recover from OCD. |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| 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: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Obsessive compulsive disorder: what is it? - myDr.com.au |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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: | Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) versus placebo for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| 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: | Psychological treatments versus treatment as usual for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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| 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 - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD)is an anxiety disorder. |
| Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Title: | Obsessive compulsive disorder - Wendy's story |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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