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OCD & Anxiety: The Year 2009 in Review

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 2 Comments

    

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and anxiety were in the news throughout 2009.  Some news was good, some bad, and some flat-out ugly.  Here are our votes for the top stories of the year related to OCD, Social Anxiety, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Trichotillomania, Phobias, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): › Continue reading

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OCD and the Swine Flu – Part 2

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) No Comments

    

As summer ends, students return to school, and flu-season appears on the horizon, the drumbeat of panic about Swine flu is starting to increase again.  Yesterday (August 25, 2009), the CNN website had a headline that read: “Swine flu could cause up to 90,000 U.S. deaths”.  On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story that reported that 20% to 40% of the US population could get Swine flu this year, and up to 2 million Americans could be hospitalized as a result. › Continue reading

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