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What are the causes of obsessive compulsive disorder, and has a cure for it been found?
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Effective treatment: No true cure has been found for ocd, but a number of treatments, both medication and cognitive therapies, have been shown to produce lasting benefits. Ocd can be so severe that it is one of the few mental disorders for which psychosurgery still is used at times too. Ocd tends to wax and wane over time, but a good treatment regimen should enable an individual to function quite well.
Answered 4/10/2016
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Likely Are Mulitiple: Via ocd-uk: "in spite of a range of theories ; considerable research, scientists...Have not been able 2identify a definitive cause 4a person developing ocd... However...Is believed that ocd is likely 2be the result of a combination of either neurobiological, genetic, behavioural, cognitive, or environmental...Triggers..." http://bit.Ly/14igwa5 effective treatment =exposure ; response prevention.
Answered 4/3/2016
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