Expert Help for OCD

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Take Your Life Back from OCD

Offering expert treatment for all types of OCD, including unwanted obsessional thoughts. Our OCD treatment program is typically 10 weeks. We offer twice-weekly sessions, groups, and intensive programs. Intensive program can be in person or online. Low cost options available. Contact us...

Behavioral Wellness Clinic

392 Merrow Rd, Suite E, Tolland, CT 06084
Office: (860) 830-7838

  OCD TYPES

  Types of Obsessions

  Types of Compulsions

  OCD Tests

  OCD Related Disorders

OCDTYPES

Obsessive-compulsive disorder comes in many forms

Articles at OCD Types

General Information About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

About OCD Treatment

Contamination and Washing

Sexual Symptoms of OCD

Symmetry and Arranging

Doubt and Checking

Morality and Religion

Health Anxiety

Other OCD Issues

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This figure illustrates the four major types of OCD. Some of these types also have subtypes under them.

Hoarding

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

New England OCD Institute


The Impact of OCD

It is estimated that between 2 and 3 million people are suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder in the United States. About one in fifty people have had symptoms of OCD at some point in their lives, with 1% suffering within the last year. OCD afflicts people of all races, faiths, nationalities, and ethnic groups. OCD causes great suffering to patients and their families, as up to 10 hours per day may be devoted to performing rituals. OCD has been classified by the World Health Organization as one the leading causes of disability worldwide.

Therapy Going Nowhere?

Although any medical doctor can take your blood pressure, only a few can do heart surgery. Likewise, any therapist can help someone who is feeling a bit blue, but only a few can effectively treat OCD.

OCD treatment is a type of therapy that requires a specialized protocol called Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP or EX/RP).

Read about Why People With OCD Need an OCD Specialist.

Top Seven Myths About OCD

One stereotype is that people with OCD are neat and tidy to a fault. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Although many people with OCD wash because they are concerned about dirt and germs, being tidy is actually not a typical symptom of the disorder. Almost two-thirds of people with OCD are also hoarders...

Learn more about the Top Myths about OCD.

 

Take a Clinical OCD Test

 

 
At New England OCD Institute you will learn about the many types, symptoms, signs, and forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related OC Spectrum Disorders. There are four kinds of OCD, with many subtypes beneath it. OCD is a brain disorder that can cause repeated washing, compulsive cleaning, obsessions about harming others, anxiety, and depression. Take a self-test for OCD, find a treatment program, and get online help for OCD.

New England OCD Treatment Clinic