1. Systematic desensitization therapy: By inducing patients to slowly expose the situation that leads to anxiety and fear neurosis, psychological relaxation can be used to combat this anxiety, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating obsessive-compulsive behavior.
2. Psychological counseling: establish a good doctor-patient relationship between therapists and patients, listen to patients, help patients find and analyze inner contradictions, promote patients to solve problems, increase their ability to adapt to the environment, and reshape their sound personality.
3. Aversion therapy: a treatment that links painful and unpleasant experiences with inappropriate behaviors and inhibits such inappropriate behaviors. For example, when the compulsive concept or behavior appears, you can hit your wrist with a rubber band dozens or even hundreds of times until the compulsive concept disappears and you feel pain, thus achieving the purpose of restraining compulsive behavior.
4. Immersion therapy/exposure therapy: presenting the strongest terror and anxiety stimulus (shock) at one time, so as to quickly correct patients' misunderstanding of terror and anxiety stimulus and eliminate habitual terror and anxiety response caused by this stimulus. For example, let a cleanliness patient stay in a particularly chaotic environment for a period of time to maximize his anxiety value. After repeated experiences, he felt that nothing terrible had happened, and it didn't matter if it wasn't dirty at all, so he wouldn't wash his hands and clean up repeatedly.
5. Cognitive comprehension therapy: a kind of psychotherapy that makes patients change their understanding and gain understanding through explanation, so as to alleviate or disappear the symptoms and achieve the purpose of treatment. Analyze the nature of symptoms together with patients, analyze the symptoms and feelings or childishness of behavior that do not conform to the logical laws of human beings, and point out that the root cause lies in the mental trauma of childhood.
6. Drug therapy: The onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder is related to the imbalance of various neurotransmitters in the brain, mainly manifested as the disorder of 5- hydroxytryptamine system function. At present, the anti-obsessive-compulsive drugs used are all antidepressants, which are characterized by regulating the function of neurotransmitters such as serotonin in the brain, thus improving the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
7. Physical therapy: For patients with intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder, modified electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation should be selectively used according to specific conditions. Neurosurgery is regarded as the choice to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, but its effect still needs further study and demonstration.
Generally speaking, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disease that needs comprehensive treatment. Patients need to seek the advice and treatment plan of professional doctors, and at the same time cooperate with psychological and drug treatment, and if necessary, physical therapy. At the same time, family and social support is also very important, which can help patients relieve anxiety and improve their quality of life.