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Matching Treatment: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is matched to exposure with response prevention, in which the feared situation is met and the compulsion is not performed.

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A person touches a doorknob and does not wash, until the anxiety falls on its own.

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Exposure without preventing the compulsion does not work. The relief is what maintains the cycle.