Investigating duration of illness and duration of untreated illness in obsessive compulsive disorder reveals patients remain at length pharmacologically untreated.

Conclusions: The current literature clearly converge in delineate a duration of untreated illness of several years (around 7 years in the majority of them), which represented on average, a portion ranging between the 40 and 70% of the overall duration of untreated illness. PMID: 31144538 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract Source Type: research