It’s intrusive, unwanted thoughts, anxiety, and a stressful response to them that causes a compulsion, which urges you to perform rituals to stop the anxiety effects, however, the relief is only temporary.

Why?

OCD interferes with your neurological wave pathways, by impairing or rerouting those processes, so that is what interferes with certain brain functions.

Current Statistics

47+ Million Americans today are reported to either have a mental illness or to be in treatment for it, but many more people are not reporting their illness to therapists, so that number is much, much higher.

Estimates show over 19 percent of adults now currently have anxiety disorders, a form of, or subset of it, and over 30 percent of children have anxiety disorders.

Approximately 2.2 million adults, (1 in 40), are either currently in therapy treatment for, or have an obsessive compulsive disorder, and approximately 1 in 100 children have an obsessive compulsive disorder, so please remember- you are not alone!!!

Plus, here is the really good news, based upon extensive research in those areas of the mind that cause OCD for so many patients, to present the positive aspects of it for you:

OCD brain scans show high levels of creativity in many cognitive functions, and that’s so important for everyone who has it, because it means you have the power to focus your creativity, to help you overcome it with therapy.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is the primary foundation for OCD treatment, and it effectively works to slowly change your responses to your thoughts, eliminating your anxiety over time, and then it reduces or removes the thoughts via the effects of exposure response prevention (ERP).

Therapy shows you ways to counter your intrusive thoughts, and it also strengthens you, so you feel a sense of control in your behavioral responses.

Now is the perfect time.

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