What are the treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents?

Nowadays, many young people are more and more likely to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder due to increasing pressure from work and study. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common mental illness in life, but it can have a serious impact on the life of patients. Therefore, we must treat adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder in a timely manner. So what are the methods for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder in teenagers? Let’s learn more about it with the editor below.

Treatment for adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder

1. Psychotherapy:

Psychotherapy is very important for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It mainly analyzes and explains the contradictions and conflicts between various psychological phenomena and eliminates anxiety by helping patients to gain insight, change emotional experiences, and strengthen themselves, so as to achieve the treatment goal. However, when a cured patient faces similar pressure again, the unforgettable pain may reappear, leading to a relapse of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

2. Cultivate interests and hobbies:

Daily care for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder is very important, and parents should also pay attention to it. They can encourage patients to participate in more group activities and have more contact with the outside world, so that children can make more friends and cultivate their interests and hobbies in many aspects, such as singing, dancing, listening to music, playing ball, running, etc., in order to establish new brain excitation foci, inhibit the excitation foci of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and divert the high attention to obsessive-compulsive symptoms. This can greatly promote the recovery of the disease.

3. Correct parents promptly:

Bad character: If the patient's parents have abnormal personalities, such as being particularly fond of cleanliness, overly cautious, too rigid, indecisive, hesitant, etc., they should be corrected. Otherwise, it will affect the recovery of the child's obsessive-compulsive symptoms and will not be conducive to the child's future psychological health development. This is very important.

4. Use drug treatment:

Children with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder must receive medication because their obsessive symptoms affect their study and life. The drugs currently used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder are mainly those with central nervous system recycling blocking effects. They can effectively relieve the depression and anxiety factors deep in the hearts of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, thereby controlling the onset of the disease.

The above is the treatment method for obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents. I believe that after reading the editor’s introduction, you have a certain understanding. However, patients with OCD should not worry too much. Mild OCD will not have much impact on life. Severe OCD can be greatly alleviated or even cured with effective treatment.