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Carol shares how exposure response therapy for OCD helped her experience joy

More than 8 million American adults suffer from PTSD. Rogers’ Chad Wetterneck, PhD, and Jennifer Parra Nelsen, MA, LPC, recently took part in a Q&A to talk about the importance of understanding trauma, PTSD, and the treatments available.

At Rogers’ OCD and Anxiety Center, multidisciplinary teams use highly effective cognitive behavioral therapy to help kids and teens reduce symptoms and develop lifelong coping skills.

At Rogers, residential care specialists (RCSs) are an integral part of the treatment team, working one-on-one with patients to help them develop new skills so they can rise above their mental health challenges.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) impacts an estimated 3.5 million Americans of all ages, gender identities, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. One important step toward reducing the stigma around OCD is to better understand the symptoms.

Studies show the median age of onset for an eating disorder is 18-years-old for bulimia and anorexia, and 21-years-old for binge eating. Ten to 20% of women and 4 to 10% of men in college suffer from an eating disorder, and rates are on the rise.