You may be dealing with health fraud if whoever is advertising it:
1. Tries to sell you something based upon anecdotes and testimonials from cured customers instead of data from large science-based double-blind placebo-controlled studies
2. Claims it was discovered by someone who has special information or knowledge that no one else in the field has, and tries to create a sense of ‘mystery’ about it
3. Makes extraordinary claims and even puts forth a long list of unrelated serious disorders that it is supposed to also successfully treat
4. Claims to be able to produce results within only one or just a very small number of treatments
5. Guarantees successful results
6. States that ‘the establishment’ in the form of large companies, the government, and/or professional organizations are conspiring to keep consumers from sharing their special knowledge just so they can make a profit
7. Says that it is ‘clinically proven’ or states that it is ‘supported by scientific studies,’ without mentioning where, when, and how it was tested, and cannot cite any real articles published in recognized mainstream scientific journals
8. Claims that it is supported by ‘experts,’ but either won’t name them, or relies on people who seem to have credentials in fields unrelated to OCD treatment or who have no real credentials at all
9. Cannot explain it in simple terms, but can only explain it in confusing and complicated language, scientific or medical sounding terms, or sometimes newly invented terms no one has ever heard of
10. Won’t show or share the data that supposedly backs up their claims of effectiveness
11. Has gone straight to advertising it without first submitting it to real scientific testing
12. Says that it has been known since ‘ancient’ times and is based upon ‘lost’ principles that have been recently rediscovered, but which no one else understands today
13. Plays upon your fear of possible side effects associated with other treatments
14. Promises to permanently cure you of your disorder, even though OCD is known to be chronic (meaning that at present, it can be controlled but not cured)
15. States that their approach is superior to all others, and puts down all other accepted OCD treatments as ineffective or possibly even harmful
16. Wants to sell you a special machine or device that will somehow cure your symptoms without ever clearly stating what it actually does or that its use has been tested and scientifically verified
17. Claims that OCD is caused by such things as diet, allergy, energy field problems, etc. but has no real proof to back up these claims
18. Tells you that OCD is really caused by underlying unconscious psychological factors that first have to be resolved for you to be able to recover, and which it promises to fix
19. Claims that OCD can only be helped via their natural or all-organic treatment that somehow works in harmony with what nature intended
20. Promises some kind of free trial or introductory information about the treatment as a tease but then charges high fees to reveal the rest of what you need to know