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The Science & Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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The Y-BOCS Test to Diagnose OCD

The most commonly used test of o c d is called the yale brown obsessive compulsive scale. It goes on for dozens of pages and has all these different categories designed to pin point what people obsess about, or what they feel compelled to do. They really trying to get people to identify, if they have obsessions, what are their exact obsessions? Now this turns out to be really important cause, as we talk about some of the therapies that really work,. i'll just give away a little bit of why they work best in certain cases and why they don't work as well in other cases.

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