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The use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat certain mental conditions has been present in the society. It is a form of therapy that is used to treat anxiety and depression. It entails changing the way a patient thinks and behavior. Unlike most forms of therapy such as the Freudian psychoanalysis, which focus on childhood as the root of a mental problem, CBT advocates for solutions, encouraging patients to change their patterns of behavior in the present. Through this letter, a case presentation of a patient suffering from a rare condition of sanitary napkin anxiety caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) will be analyzed. The use of CBT to cure and manage this condition will also be discussed providing evidence of the effectiveness of CBT in curing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorders. REFERENCES 1.Olatunji BO, Davis ML, Powers MB, Smits JA. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a meta-analysis of treatment outcome and moderators. J Psychiatr Res 2013;47(1):33-41. 2.Cristea IA, Huibers MJ, David D, Hollon SD, Andersson G, Cuijpers P. The effects of cognitive behavior therapy for adult depression on dysfunctional thinking: a meta-analysis. Clin Psychol Rev 2015:42:62-71. 3.Meichenbaum D. Changing conceptions of cognitive behavior modification: retrospect and prospect. In The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Routledge 2017:32-38. 4.Castro-Rodrigues P, Camacho M, Almeida S, Marinho M, Soares C, Barahona-Corrêa JB, et al. Criterion validity of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Second Edition for diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults. Front Psychiatry 2018;9:431. 5.Beck Institute for CBT. Beck Scales | Beck Institute for CBT. [Internet ]2013. Available from https://beckinstitute.org/get-informed/tools-and-resources/professionals/patient-assessment-tools/. 6.Kaczkurkin AN, Foa EB. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders: an update on the empirical evidence. Dialogues Clin Neurosci 2015;17(3):337-346. 7.American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5). American Psychiatric Pub., 2013. 8.Jonsson H, Kristensen M, Arendt M. Intensive cognitive behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord 2015;6:83-96. 9.Carpenter JK, Andrews LA, Witcraft SM, Powers MB, Smits JAJ, Hofmann SG. Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials. Depress Anxiety 2018;35(6):502-514. 10.Abramowitz JS, Blakey SM, Reuman L, Buchholz JL. New Directions in the Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of OCD: Theory, Research, and Practice. Behav Ther 2018;49(3):311-322. 11.McKay D, Sookman D, Neziroglu F, Wilhelm S, Stein DJ, Kyrios M, et al. Accreditation task force of the Canadian Institute for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Res 2015;227(1):104-113. 12.Ost LG, Havnen A, Hansen B, Kvale G. Cognitive behavioral treatments of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published 1993-2014. Clin Psychol Rev 2015;40:156-169. 13.Hara KM, Aviram A, Constantino MJ, Westra HA, Antony MM. Therapist empathy, homework compliance, and outcome in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: partitioning within-and between-therapist effects. Cogn Behav Ther 2017:46(5):375-390.

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