Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

A very well researched treatment for OCD is Exposure and Response Prevention (ExRP) therapy. The treatment combines a behavioral strategy that reduces over time an anxiety response to the obsessive thoughts, while preventing rituals so that real-life situations reduce their potential to trigger the anxiety. Sometimes the exposure is done through repeated thinking of a set of obsessive thoughts, while other times it is done with a recording of those thoughts played repeatedly. There is research that suggests that the best outcomes occur when 90 minutes of exposure to the thoughts is done once per day over several days. Contact us if you have OCD and want to consider ExRP: www.ccbtcolumbus.com