How to treat cleanliness addiction? Exposure therapy?

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In our understanding, cleanliness is excessive love clean, even see a hair on the ground are particularly uncomfortable. Excessive cleanliness will seriously affect the normal study and work. So how to suffer from cleanliness addiction? Now let me tell you something.

How to treat cleanliness addiction? Exposure therapy?

First, cognitive behavior therapy mainly includes thought blocking method and exposure reaction prevention. Thinking blocking method is to block the obsessive-compulsive thinking by diverting attention or exerting external control, such as setting an alarm clock. Under the guidance of therapists, exposure reaction prevention encourages patients to gradually face the situations that can cause obsessive-compulsive thinking without compulsive behavior.

Second, the "full irrigation therapy" of "fighting poison with poison" is a serious disease of cleanliness, and it is difficult for patients to recover by breathing relaxation. You can try this method. That is to say, let the patient do whatever he is afraid of. Try this method several times a day to push people to the peak of anxiety at the beginning, but with the increase of practice times, anxiety will gradually decline, and compulsive behavior will gradually subside.

Third: aversion therapy often uses rubber band method. That is to say, let the patient wear a rubber band on his wrist. Once he is about to have compulsive action or behavior, let him play his wrist dozens or even hundreds of times with the rubber band until the obsessive-compulsive concept disappears and there is pain, so as to achieve the purpose of restraining compulsive behavior.

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At the same time, this kind of therapy does not advocate to be carried out by family members and patients alone at home. Professional psychotherapists are needed to assist them. They will guide patients and their families how to treat them step by step.