How Do You Encourage Someone with OCD to See a Doctor? (0:44)
There are plenty of resources for you to help a loved one who has obeessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) get treatemtn. In this WisePatient video, psychiatrist Wayne Goodman, MD, of The Mount Sinai Medical Center, shares his favorite.
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There are many resources, there are books, there are very good internet sites, there's a whole organization that I helped found 25 years ago that's an advocacy group for OCD, and that's called the International OCD Foundation. There are tremendous resource. You can go online and find them, and there are usually support groups in your area and they provide a lot of information in OCD and also where to find suitable treaters, therapists.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness where frequent obsessive thoughts cause obsessive, destructive actions like hand-washing. Counseling and medications can help patients manage OCD.
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