DIRT provides hope for OCD hand washers

16 June 2008

A new treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) pioneered at the University of Sydney is having great success by targeting the beliefs behind the obsessive behaviour rather than the behaviour itself.

Now this is interesting. The OCD I live with has, so far, proven to be uh, treatment resistant. So I am always looking for new forms of treatment. And this sounds promising. Besides you have to love the acronym. DIRT (Danger Ideation Reduction Therapy). A bit more info on it can be found here. http://www.commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org/index.php?id=54