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Article: Treating OCD.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, and images which the sufferer usually acknowledges as, at least in part, senseless. The obsessions may vary from mildly annoying to very disruptive. Approximately one of every 200 young persons have OCD to some degree.
Many adults with OCD have successfully lessened or eliminated their OCD symptoms by taking one of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) drugs. The SRIs were introduced as antidepressants but, like many other drugs, they have been found effective in treating other illnesses. SRIs have been used to treat OCD in young adults, but, until now, no ...