Millions of adults in the United States live with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
OCD, in a nutshell, creates strong urges to ensure that everything is clean, symmetrical, and orderly. The inability to do this can create feelings of distress and anxiety within those suffering from this particular mental health challenge.
So far, there isn’t a cure for OCD. However, scientists are always working hard to discover treatment methods for challenges like this and others in the medical field.
Some of that work may very well be paying off. According to the Gateway Pundit, it seems as though a cause of OCD has finally been discovered.
This is Major
After considerable review and studying, the medical community has determined that a frontal lobe imbalance of brain chemicals glutamate and GABA is directly tied to OCD manifesting in individuals.
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Glutamate is critical because it directly controls the impulses that individuals feel. GABA, on the other hand, is all about toning down excitability in the neural system. Hence, individuals who struggle with OCD are believed to have an excess of glutamate and a deficiency in GABA.
Medical officials believe with this development having come to light, it’ll go a long way towards being able to produce various treatment options for OCD.
Stay Tuned
Possible treatments for OCD may very well work on balancing out GABA and glutamate chemicals in impacted individuals. After all, simply suppressing the symptoms of OCD wouldn’t make a significant difference in actually curing their underlying cause.
OCD can be miserable and significantly interfere with your life, but treatment can help you keep it under control.
OCD can affect men, women and children.
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Americans should stay tuned to learn what comes next and find out if any serious developments are made.
Amid these latest revelations being made public about OCD, it also begs to question what other details about different conditions will eventually come to light.
After all, with modern medicine and resources for various studies, anything is possible.
