Comments on: OCD Study a Boost for Non-Drug Advocates http://brainblogger.com/2008/01/30/ocd-study-a-boost-for-non-drug-advocates/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Janey Smith http://brainblogger.com/2008/01/30/ocd-study-a-boost-for-non-drug-advocates/#comment-98759 Janey Smith Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:33:11 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2008/01/30/ocd-study-a-boost-for-non-drug-advocates/#comment-98759 A new documentary type show for a major cable network that emphasized Entertainment, the Arts and Education is looking for people in S. California with OCD, anxiety, hoarding or extreme fears. We are doing a show in conjuncture with a well-established, world-famous OCD Center here in Los Angeles. By offering these people free cognitive behavioral therapy (for 12 weeks and then follow up treatment) we hope to help them, and hopefully help others that will be watching our show. Please have contact us at therapycasting@tijuanaent.com. A new documentary type show for a major cable network that emphasized Entertainment, the Arts and Education is looking for people in S. California with OCD, anxiety, hoarding or extreme fears. We are doing a show in conjuncture with a well-established, world-famous OCD Center here in Los Angeles.

By offering these people free cognitive behavioral therapy (for 12 weeks and then follow up treatment) we hope to help them, and hopefully help others that will be watching our show.

Please have contact us at therapycasting@tijuanaent.com.

]]> By: Anonymous http://brainblogger.com/2008/01/30/ocd-study-a-boost-for-non-drug-advocates/#comment-92203 Anonymous Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:11:07 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2008/01/30/ocd-study-a-boost-for-non-drug-advocates/#comment-92203 "Yet, when viewing alternative health as the body’s ability to heal itself, CBT fits the term." I disagree, alternative treatments usually refer to non empirically-supported treatments that are used adjunctively or in lieu of the normal standard of care. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) IS the gold standard of treatment, based on empirically-supported research. OCD is manifested behaviorally--in the compulsive behaviors that are continually acted out in order to soothe the anxiety. So doesn't it make the most sense to treat the behaviors behaviorally and the anxiety cognitively? By the way, such research is nothing new. The effects of CBT on the brain of OCD patients was published four years ago as well: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/9/34 “Yet, when viewing alternative health as the body’s ability to heal itself, CBT fits the term.”

I disagree, alternative treatments usually refer to non empirically-supported treatments that are used adjunctively or in lieu of the normal standard of care.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) IS the gold standard of treatment, based on empirically-supported research. OCD is manifested behaviorally–in the compulsive behaviors that are continually acted out in order to soothe the anxiety. So doesn’t it make the most sense to treat the behaviors behaviorally and the anxiety cognitively?

By the way, such research is nothing new. The effects of CBT on the brain of OCD patients was published four years ago as well:
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/9/34

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