Oprah is pabulum for soccer moms. I wouldn't take anything said on a daytime talk show all that seriously.

I watched the thing and felt for the people on there. So much fear. I knew that 72 hours would never be enough. They did make progress, but if they wanted to keep it, I could see that a lot of really hard work would have to follow what they did at the camp. Also, they went to incredible extremes, forcing the people there to do things that seemed ridiculous to me. Even dangerous. They touched the inside of a dirty garbage can (I mean REALLY filthy) and had to lick their hands after that. I thought, if someone comes down with some sort of disease, or gets sick, who pays the bill? Dr. Oz? Oprah? I think not. I don't know. Maybe they went to extremes because OCD is extreme, but it reminds me of repulsion therapy where they used to hit people with cattle prods to change a behavior like smoking or even bulimia. I thought it was cruel. There are better ways to help people than that. Exposure Response Prevention can be done without being nasty and completely unsafe. The other doc lost me when he said that the ONLY therapy that should be used is ERP and if ERP isn't part of your therapy, then you should find another therapist. One size fits all? Nope. Not for me.

ERP really is one of the best forms of therapy there is for OCD. I mean if you don't do the things that scare you then are you really ever going to get better? As far as the extreme ways in which they went, that really is what goes on during ERP. At a residential hospital that I am probably going to have to go to in a month they have patients go days without washing their hands and other extreme stuff. It really is necessary, but the thing is is that the doctors do it along with them so you know it cannot be that dangerous or deadly.