Posted by Rzip on January 28, 2001, at 1:14:03
In reply to Re: Behavior Modification Treatment helps with OCD, posted by PatJ. on January 27, 2001, at 23:09:46
> It has also been established that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and medicine for OCD (not limited to SSRI) works for OCD. I personally know of many who have benefitted this way opposed to one or the other.
I believe the point of the article is that CBT works as effectively as medicine. Either form effectively decrease the cerebral glucose metabolic rate of the right caudate nucleus. The question then becomes whether the combo is significantly more effective. Not necessarily so, since brain change is brain change however you look at it. Personally, I think the therapy should work faster just because an effective treatment requires the client to work at it. There is no faster route to recovery than a client's will to get better. I mean think of the somatic circumstances. Many miracles have occurred due to a patient's will to live. Since the mind and the body is interlocked, the same principle should be applied to psychiatric illnesses.
In this particular study (1996, which is historical by academic psychiatry standard), changes were observed via PET (positron emission tomographic) scan within 10 weeks. So the question then becomes, do the people afflicated with OCD experience systematic changes within 5 weeks or something (double dose success rate).
- Rzip
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