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China DailyRepeated washing of hands, an obsession with closed doors or windows, anxiety about cleanliness - these may all be the physical symptoms of a much more disturbing mental disorder. "In daily life, people use 'obsessive-compulsive disorder' to describe someone who is meticulous, perfectionistic, or fixated, and it is meant as flattery, more or less," Yan says. "The causes of the disorder are not clear, but there is a widely agreed hypothesis that both physical and psychological factors play a role," says Guo Xufang, director of the Psychotherapy Room at Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, a respected mental health hospital in the capital. "For mild OCD patients, psychotherapy is enough, but severe cases need to be treated with a combination of psychotherapy sessions and medication," Guo says. "Unlike physical diseases, OCD can only be treated efficiently when the patients are willing and cooperative," Guo says.
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