Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Children
The NeuroResearch Clinics treatment
advance.
Prior to development of the
NeuroResearch Clinics approach to
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Children, the obsessive thoughts thoughts
leading to
repetitive behaviors (compulsions)
have proven difficult for medicine to treat.
But what if? You could abruptly as turning off a light
switch, the obsessive thoughts
stopped and the repetitive
compulsive behavior stopped abruptly
stopping
in patients suffering
from OCD?
Results such as this are not
possible for most people treated
with
prescription drugs. The cause of
OCD is
not a drug deficiency it is a
deficiency of the serotonin and
dopamine neurotransmitter systems.
The treatment approach of
NeuroResearch Clinics in treating
OCD allows observation of what
happens when the light switch
controlling
OCD is
turned off leading to abrupt
cessation of obsessive thoughts
and compulsive repetitive behaviors.
Some patients simply emerge from
their disease into a new life with
no further problems. Other patients may react in an unexpected ways
at which point the treatment
challenge is not getting obsessive
compulsive symptoms under
control but integrating the patient back into a normal life.
In these cases the patient, family,
and other people close to the
patient may need
to be included in treatment to get
the patient support needed to
make the transition into life
without OCD.
In these patients the challenge
becomes learning to live life
without OCD symptoms as the world
continues to react to them as if the
disease and its symptoms were still
active. The key may be
psychotherapy focused not just on the patient but
to include immediate family
members and other close to
the patient in order to learn to live
and react to life without
OCD symptoms. The main cause of
symptom relapse under the NeuroResearch
Clinics OCD treatment approach is
not that treatment is not working as
is the case with prescription drugs,
it is the struggle of integrating
some patients, family and other
people close to the
patient back into a normal life in
the face of abrupt control of symptoms.
While most patient do well after
symptoms are controlled, some
patients experience a challenge in
living a normal disease free life, quit their treatment and go back living life with OCD. It is sad
when this happens where the patient
takes the stand it is easier to
crawl under a
rock and live with the disease than to come out in the sun
light with the rest of the world and
live symptoms free.
Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder Children
STANDARD MEDICAL TREATMENT
MDs (medical doctors) who provide
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Children treatment do so primarily with counseling
(psychotherapy) and prescription drugs, neither of
which are very effective.
The primary drugs used to treat OCD are the following "reuptake inhibitors":
- Clomipramine
(Anafranil)
- Fluvoxamine
(Luvox)
- Fluoxetine
(Prozac)
- Paroxetine
(Paxil)
- Sertraline
(Zoloft)
Each of these drugs do nothing to increase the
overall number of serotonin and dopamine
neurotransmitter molecules in the brain, they work
by moving serotonin and dopamine molecules from one
place to another in the brain and in the process deplete these
neurotransmitters making the cause of the problem
worse, "low levels of neurotransmitters". The
effectiveness of these drugs in Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder Children treatment of
patients is low involving years of medical clinic
office visits where very small gains in obsessive
thoughts and compulsive behaviors being gleaned out
of the visit. Few patients obtain complete and
abrupt relief of symptoms seen using the
NeuroResearch Clinics Approach. The natural nutrient
approach of
NeuroResearch Clinics with neurotransmitter testing
as indicated, in most patients, leads to results
similar to turning off a light switch
turning off, the obsessive thoughts and compulsive
behaviors abruptly stop when the proper balance of
neurotransmitters is achieved.
It
is
no secret NeuroResearch Clinics uses
the nutrients 5-HTP, tyrosine,
levodopa,
and cysteine with neurotransmitter testing as indicated to treat
OCD
patients in order to achieve the results
that are documented by our doctors, Proper
use of these simple nutrients in
medical treatment is not simple.
From time to time a patient will
say, "Why do I want to take that, I
can go to a health food store and
buy it?" People off the street
buying in a health food store is
like going to an art store and
buying a bunch of oil paints then
going home and expecting to paint
like a mater artist even though
there was no previous painting
experience. Due to their unique
chemical properties nutrients have
tremendous potential. The potential
is only fully realized in the hands
of the fully trained professional using
neurotransmitter testing. Treatment
is not just giving a nutrient pill, it is the whole medical approach
doctors are trained in to manage the
disease properly and make sure that
that the treatment plan is on track
to get symptoms under control.
The Peer Reviewed Research of
NeuroResearch Clinics
The research findings of NeuroResearch Clinics
have not been ignored. The University of
Minnesota Medical School is writing a series of
papers on the neurotransmitter testing research of NeuroResearch Clinics. The first of a series of papers by University of Minnesota Medical School based on the neurotransmitter testing research of NeuroResearch was published in "NeuroPsychiatric Disease and Treatment" May 1, 2009. Ingrid
Kohlstadt, MD of Johns Hopkins in her new
medical text book released February 7, 2009
included a chapter on depression written by
Marty L. Hinz, MD President Clinical
Research NeuroResearch Clinics outlining in
depth the proper use of amino acids and
neurotransmitter testing in treatment of
depression.
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