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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Patient UK
Has an information leaflet called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCD Action
The national organisation for people with OCD, their carers and interested professionals.
Obsessions and Compulsions: A Self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
OCD-UK
A registered charity for those that suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in the UK. One of their key aims is to raise awareness of the condition within the UK, in-particular with young adults. Another prime objective is to improve the NHS services offered to OCD sufferers.
OCD-Today
A user friendly website for people affected by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Providesinformation for the family, friends, carers and parents of anyone withOCD.
First Steps to Freedom
Help, advice and support for those suffering from phobias, panic attacks and obsessional compulsive disorder. Help now available via e-mail.
Anxiety UK
Aims to help anyone affected by anxiety disorders including phobic and obsessive disorders.
Obsessions and compulsions - a self help guide
One of a set of self help guides on mental health issues that have been developed in Northumberland by Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses and other Therapists.
The OCD Centre
The centre is the first specialised unit for the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder in the UK. Offers online, telephone and in-person help. All of our information is free and they have a charitable trust in place. 80% of staff have personal experience of OCD and the Chairman is a well known author and researcher in the field of OCD, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz. They are affiliated with the charity First Steps to Freedom (an anxiety and OCD registered charity).
Habits/Obsessions/Compulsions - Responding helpfully to a child or young person who appears to have troubling habits, obsessions or compulsions.
Information from HandsOnScotland
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Wallsend Self Help Group
Tyneside based support, provided by ex-sufferers, for those with Anxiety, Depression, OCD and other stress and phobia related problems. Although this is a local group, their website gives useful general information on these problems.
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies provide a leaflet on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Mental Health Foundation
Provide good information about OCD.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Provide a range of information leaflets about OCD.
Medicine Guide for Obsessional states
Provides detailed information about the drugs available to treat this condition. Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines, conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
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- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
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- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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