OCD: What is OCD and Can It Be Treated?

When you live with a chronic mental disorder, your life will forever be impacted by the symptoms of such a disorder. However, all hope is not lost, and you can always seek professional treatment at a dedicated psychiatric care facility. Beethoven Recovery Centre is an ideal solution if you live in Gauteng and the surrounding areas, as our psychiatric care facility is next to the Hartbeespoort dam and surrounded by nature to remove our patients from familiar surroundings and give them the time and space to focus on their mental health.

What is OCD?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD for short, is defined by experiencing excessive thoughts and obsessions that lead to a string of repetitive behaviours and compulsions. The obsessions refer to a thinking pattern of unnecessary thoughts and fears that could have an abundance of side-effects and cause irrational behaviours and reactions towards other people around you. In most cases, OCD revolves around singular themes, with most people who have OCD having a fear of germs (germophobic) or a compulsion to arrange everything around them in specific patterns.

OCD symptoms usually start with small and dismissible displays of germophobia and/or other compulsions or obsessions. However, these symptoms can gradually get more intense and reach a point where it controls a person’s impulsive behaviours and thinking patterns. Treatment for OCD includes talk therapy, medication, or a combination of both to ensure that the person can overcome these symptoms and live a life where they are in control of their actions and thoughts instead of being driven by their OCD.

Seeking Treatment at Our Psychiatric Care Facility

Beethoven Recovery Centre admits people of 16 years and older to our psychiatric care facility. When you are admitted to our care, we evaluate you to come up with a corresponding treatment that caters specifically to your needs as an individual, as well as your mental disorder/condition. This ensures that you will not waste your time in our care and get the accommodating treatment solutions to allow you to get back in the driver’s seat of your life and not be a back seater to your mental condition and its symptoms.

We have the perfect backdrop to give you the chance to break away from your familiar environment and put the focus on your own personal and mental health – free from any daily distractions that could come in your way to make time for yourself. We have a professional chef who cooks 3 daily meals for our patients, and lush gardens to explore. We also have a gym and various outdoor activities to enjoy in your free time.

If you need a solution to a professional psychiatric care facility in your area, Beethoven Recovery Centre is your answer. You can contact us with any questions about how we can help you and browse our website for more info on our facility. Grab onto the helping hand that is reaching out to you and wants to pull you from the downward spiral that is treatable mental disorders today with us on your side.

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