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What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?

As the numbers of people seeking treatment for mental health disorders rises globally, what do we know about the treatments on offer?

As the numbers of people seeking treatment for mental health disorders rises globally, what do we know about the treatments on offer? Where did they come from, how strong is the evidence that they work and what will the future of mental health care look like?

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Is Psychiatry Working?: OCD and Dom

OCD and Dom

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How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder?

How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder? Dom's story of hope and recovery.

In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio’s own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question  - what is working in psychiatry now?

In this episode, Dom helps us to better understand what it’s really like to live with debilitating OCD. We investigate first line treatments for the disorder – including SSRIs and exposure therapy as well as specialist inpatient services and innovations in neurosurgery.

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