A 33-year-old member asked:
Do sufferers from obsessive-compulsive disorder have their symptoms fade away with old age?
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Dr. Chris Esguerraanswered
Psychiatry 18 years experience
Not necessarily: Obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) tends to develop in the teen years (or younger), but this does not mean that it gets better as one gets older. What helps with OCD is cognitive behavioral therapy, supports, and/or medication treatments. One reason that it looks like its gets better as one gets older is more likely due to developing better strategies to manage the ocd.
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Dr. Susan Uhrichanswered
Psychiatry 38 years experience
Not usually.: Symptoms can wax and wane, but without adequate treatment the illness remains.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
What are the milder symptoms of early obsessive compulsive disorder?
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Dr. Susan Uhrichanswered
Psychiatry 38 years experience
Obsessive Compoulsiv: Disorder involves either obsessions or compulsions. Excessive worry/guilt is ofter one of the early symptoms or silently counting things like letters in a word, holes in the ceiling, books in a bookcase.
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