Given the severe and debilitating symptoms of OCD, many patients and their families ask: can OCD be cured?

Is There A Cure For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and debilitating condition that impacts nearly 2% of the global population. OCD is characterized by uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that the sufferer feels compelled to repeat over and over.

What Is OCD?

What is treatment-resistant depression?

OCD was previously ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be one of the top 10 debilitating medical conditions associated with a decreased quality of life and loss of income. It is now listed among other anxiety-based disorders, which together rank as the sixth-leading cause of worldwide disability.

Can OCD Be Cured?

What is treatment-resistant depression?

Can OCD Be Cured?

According to the Mayo Clinic, OCD treatment may not result in a cure, but there are several OCD treatment options that can help bring symptoms under control.

Treatments for OCD

There are several ways to treat OCD, with varying remission rates. These options include: - Psychotherapy - Medication - Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS™)

Treatments for OCD

Psychotherapy for OCD

What is treatment-resistant depression?

Psychotherapy for OCD

Psychotherapy (or talk therapy), including exposure response therapy (ERP), can be very helpful to manage OCD, but durability is limited. This is because OCD, like diabetes, is a chronic illness with constant daily implications and periodic worsening or relief.

Medication for OCD

What is treatment-resistant depression?

Medication for OCD

Only five medications have been FDA-approved over the last 35 years to treat OCD, yet 40% to 60% of patients fail to achieve a response from them. It also takes a significant period of time -- eight to 12 weeks on average -- to see if there will be a response. In addition, many patients have difficulty tolerating the higher doses needed to treat OCD.

Deep TMS For OCD

Deep TMS 

If talk therapy and medication do not work, another treatment option is Deep TMS for OCD.

What is Deep TMS?

What is treatment-resistant depression?

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What is Deep TMS?

Deep TMS was the first noninvasive device to be FDA-cleared to treat OCD. It uses magnetic fields to stimulate the neural activity of brain structures found to be related to OCD.

How Effective is Deep TMS for OCD?

A multicenter study published in 2019 by the American Journal of Psychiatry demonstrated the treatment’s efficacy, concluding that focusing brain stimulation on “the medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex significantly improved OCD symptoms.” 

In that study, more than one in three treatment-resistant OCD patients achieved a reduction of more than 30% in their OCD severity rating, greatly improving their quality of life.

A post-marketing study of over 200 patients published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found Deep TMS to have an even greater effect in a real-life clinical practice setting.

Nearly 60% of patients achieved a reduction in the OCD severity rating of more than 30%, and almost 90% of patients maintained their response for more than one year.

Does Deep TMS Have Side Effects?

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Does Deep TMS Have Side Effects?

Deep TMS is also safe to combine with other forms of treatment and does not cause any systemic side effects. It is noninvasive and the short treatments can easily be integrated into a patient’s daily schedule.

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