Derek's Guide to Depression

OCD Treatment

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the most common existing Anxiety disorders, better known as OCD. OCD involves obsessions that initiate noticeable anxiety and/or compulsions that try to counteract anxiety. There are many effective treatments for OCD, ranging from therapy to self-help and medication.

Relaxation Techniques
This types of treatment is also known as cognitive techniques, this type of treatment includes techniques for relaxation such as self-talk to alleviate existing symptoms. There techniques help the patient confer interpersonal situations and promote self-assurance. Sixty to seventy percent of patients benefit from this type of therapy according to clinical studies.

Antidepressant Medication
Two types of drugs are used to treat OCD namely, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), like fluoxetine (Prozac®) and sertraline (Zoloft®), and a Tri-cyclic Antidepressant (TCA), clomipramine (Anafranil®), that also affects serotonin levels.In the treatment of OCD, high doses of SSRIs may be needed. It can take approximately 12 weeks to experience its beneficial effects.

About 60% of OCD patients react remarkably to antidepressant medication, while 40% undergo a partial decrease of symptoms. On the other hand, only 10% to 15% have a reduction of symptoms. This means that the disease is chronic for most patients even undergoing treatment. Most take medication for an indefinite period of time, and 85% of patients relapse within 1 to 2 months after discontinuing their medication.

Psychotherapy
This treatment is considered as the first-line solution for OCD particularly for children. Psychotherapy covers the teaching of mechanisms through neutralizing activities in order to handle with obsessive thought without the need to resort to the OCD habit.

Psychotherapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is proven to be successful and considered to be highly effective as it is focused on changing thought patterns to alter the obsessive and compulsive behavior itself.

Family Therapy

As the family is considered to be the primary unit of society which can affect and shape an individual, family therapy is beneficial in providing solutions to OCD. It can help give solution to family conflicts by promoting the right consideration about such disorder, which can motivate family members help the OCD patient.

Psychosurgery
Psychosurgery is being performed in acute cases of OCD. This is done when the signs and symptoms of the OCD are now overpowering and are unresponsive to other treatments available. Psychosurgery is a new breakthrough of science. It involves cutting certain parts of the brain using an electrode. The procedure involves Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to make sure that only preferred brain part is involved during the surgery. Considerably, more than 30% of patients who had undergone psychosurgery exhibited great improvements in their OCD unlike the Lobotomy Procedure which produces unexpected brain damage and memory loss.

About the Author

Dr. John E. Neyman, Jr.
Christian Counselor

I am a believer in Jesus Christ. I love people from all over the world. Even though, life has not turned out how I thought it would God has been very faithful. I have discovered a lot walking through the valley’s of life. I like to refer to them as life lessons. They are lessons that no one can ever take away.

I enjoy life a lot and I love to work. Work really has not been work to me. I really enjoy most every aspect of life. I love to be with my family, I love to just walk and think, I like to talk about deep things of life.. I really like the internet and the work I do on it.

My dream is to help as many people as I can to reach Heaven. I also want to help as many as I can to reach their dreams. I am a dreamer and have a lot of dreams that I still want to accomplish in life.

I am the happiest when I am teaching people out of the Ancient book called the Holy Bible. I think my strongest gift is teaching and counseling. I own and operate a Christian Counseling Center in Butler, PA. I am also, now a Mobile Therapist for an organization that helps families especially with Autism and special needs such as ADHD/OCD.

I have found in my journey of life that some desire to know how to find God. The Holy Bible is very clear with its message. it says that it is through Jesus Christ. If you desire to know God, simply acknowledge to God that you are a sinner (We all have offended God through the breaking of His laws), secondly through personal faith acknowledge that Jesus Christ is God and that you are receiving Him as your personal Lord. It is a commitment to Him as the only God.

As I stated above I really enjoy the ocean and walking on the beach.

I have a desire to build a home in the Philippians Islands for the Street Children. One of the street children that I was trying to help died this year.

He was about 12 years old. He was hoping to see a house built that he would have other brothers and sister there. His name was Andrew so I will name the house Andrew’s Place when God permits the work to be done.

I am a counselor/therapist and Pastor by profession. My passion is to help people work through their problems so that they find a peace of mind and happiness.

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