CNY Psychiatry
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD is not simply being organized, particular, or perfectionistic.
Request a ConsultationOBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
OCD is not simply being organized, particular, or perfectionistic. It is characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both that can profoundly disrupt daily life.
Symptoms can involve contamination and washing, checking, harm fears, intrusive violent/sexual/religious thoughts, reassurance seeking, counting, symmetry, mental rituals, scrupulosity, catastrophic doubt, and avoidance.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a core evidence-based treatment. Medication, particularly serotonergic treatment, can also play an important role.
CNY Psychiatry does not provide ERP internally but strongly encourages appropriate evidence-based psychotherapy and collaboration with OCD therapists.
For selected patients with persistent symptoms despite appropriate care, CNY Psychiatry offers rTMS for OCD. We provide rTMS, not dTMS. Our rTMS approach is off-label.
Our goal is not to replace proven OCD treatment with technology. It is to determine when technology can thoughtfully add to it.