Latest Treatment Suggestions

peter greene: Tell Gary to take a 24-hour break from having OCD.

Nancy Botwin: Considering Gary's negative reactions to your treatments, perhaps you should attempt to form a closer, more intimate relationship with him. When I was a child, I went to a psychologist who built model boats with me. You could do that...Or give Gary lots of hugs.

Mia: Maybe Gary would respond to negative reinforcement. Everytime Gary acts on his OCD, has an incident of repeating or whatever, you should touch him. On the knee or something. Maybe ruffle his hair.

Ted Mason: Tell Gary to expose himself to contamination ? in his imagination. That's often quite effective. Of course, you should be empathetic during the experience and prepare yourself for a great deal of Gary's anxiety.

judy: Gary needs to be set up with a woman who is more OCD than he. Perhaps he could discern this in an on-line dating service and attempt a match....for therapeutic purposes only.

Lester James: Gary's too comfortable with you. You need to shake him to his core by acting really weird in front of him. If he can see dysfunction in you, he can begin to understand his own dysfunction. Rub guacamole all over yourself, explain to him your theories about how guacamole testing will supplant DNA testing in all murders that occur in Fresh Mex restaurants. Tell him about how you inexorably obsess over J. Congdon, a certain fresh mex fast food chain owner. How you hired a Serbian man to break into Congdon's mom's minivan. Do lines of cocaine during your next session, bash Koreans, be inappropriately sexual. I have a feeling this will shake Gary to his core and spur a breakthrough.

Amy Cooley: Whenever Gary has his problem of repeating back everything that?s said to him, he should take a drink. That way he?ll either find a way to avoid it or drink his way out of the anxiety. He?s a winner either way.

will p.: i tried exposure therapy. it's not for everyone and unfortunately some shrinks don't understand that.

Matt: Gary needs to be psychologically kicked in the nuts. He?s self-absorbed and he?s an asshole. Find a way to make that register.

Jason: Try exposure therapy with Gary, say with newspaper, which is apparently a source of contamination for him. Force him to touch a newspaper and gradually work through his anxiety.

Ben Chambers: He doesn't have to take the drug - only if he wants to keep seeing you. Otherwise you're wasting your time.

the actual rod: well, ben chambers doesn't seem to understand ethics, because it is unethical to force a drug upon a coherent individual who does not want it. does this commenter know how the pharmaceutical industry functions?

Ben Chambers: Enough of going easy on Gary. Tell him if he doesn?t go on a psychiatric drug indicated for OCD, you?re going to stop seeing him. It?s almost unethical for you to stay on your present track with him.

Adam Mitchell: Just try imagining how different life would be without OCD. I lost sight of that but remembering it really helped me.

judy: Gary needs a seat belt so that he does not eject from the chair. And observers need dramamine.

A friend: Gary--I don't think you're OCD. Look at yourself in the mirror every day and say this: "I am not obsessive-compulsive. I am NOT obsessive-compulsive. I AM not obsessive-compulsive."

Once you believe it, it will be true.

will p.: oh god. this guy is me. don't post any more of him. i have to see more.

thisguy: Perhaps he would prefer some medicinal marijuana.

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