Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder With Hypnosis

Extrapolations of prevalence and incidence statistics suggested that we have 285,383 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder patient in Malaysia. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder with 2 components :

   Obsessive - intrusive thoughts, feeling which cause tension, fear, anxiety or uneasiness

    Compulsive - repetitive action or behaviours to prevent or ease the intrusive thought
                           or discomfort

Usually the patient is aware of the obsessive compulsive behaviour which is unreasonable but will not be able to control. Compulsive symptom could be time consuming, causing emotion and financial distress which results to social impairments.

The most common compulsive behaviours are : repeatedly checking
                                                                           : excessive washing or cleaning
                                                                           : arrange and re-arranging
                                                                           : preoccupation with sexual

It is believe that traumatic experiences during childhood contribute to the development of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Medication such as tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine or psychotherapeutic intervention could appropriately treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and relevant hypnosis technique could effectively eliminate intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviour and go into the root cause of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to reintegrate dissociated material from possible traumatic past experience.

With the use of Clinical Hypnosis technique, therapeutic session could significantly reduced as compared to pure conventional psychotherapy sessions, as Clinical Hypnosis is able to make change deep into the subconscious level of the mind.


Reference : Obsessive Compulsive treatment in Malaysia