Remission of obsessive-compulsive disorders and syndromes; evidence from a prospective community cohort study over 30 years

Abstract

Our findings suggest a lack of diagnostic stability over the long-term and a high chance of eventual remission, albeit often after several years of illness, for obsessive-compulsive syndromes including OCD. However, roughly one-third of OCD cases do not remit by 50 years of age.