Overcoming obsessive-compulsive disorder

Did I remember to lock the back door? Did I turn off the stove? Were the lights still on when I left the house this morning?
Such minor doubts are part our daily mental chatter. But for more than 650,000 Canadians who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), thoughts along these lines can lead to compulsive checking — a potentially debilitating behaviour that keeps the sufferer locked in an endless cycle of fear and doubt.For Concordia University’s Adam Radomsky, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health at Concordia, finding a viable treatment for these individuals is driving research freshly funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).Based on previous work conducted with colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, Radomsky is now testing a novel approach to treatment for compulsive checking that could just mean vast improvements in the quality of life of countless individuals.

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