The new drugs that have proven effective in many cases of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) mark a major advance, in that they not only throw another shovel of dirt on the coffin of psychoanalysis, but that they also demonstrate that the very intractable obsessive compulsive symptoms can be treated by modifying brain chemistry. However, as is now well known, these drugs have some rather deplorable side effects.

I am wondering whether any readers of this Journal are aware of any Orthomolecular or nutritional approaches to OCD which might bring about the benefits of the new drugs, without their horrendous side effects. I am sure other readers of this Journal, in addition to myself, would welcome such information.

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1992/articles/1992-v07n01-p059.html