Break Free from OCD: Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with CBT

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To assist you in achieving some of these steps, you may want to access some self-help resources. There are many ways to educate yourself about OCD, with self-help materials often offering advice on how to apply CBT techniques. Self-help services include: Do you have troublesome habits that get in the way? Do you have worries that bother you much more than you should? THIS BOOK MAY BE FOR YOU. The hardest thing for anyone to control is their own mind. This book points the way, to you and to those close to you, to free yourself from OCD. vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Written by leading experts on OCD, this step-by-step guide is written for adolescents with OCD and their families, to be used in home treatment or as a self-help book. Using the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is the proven method for helping those with OCD, it offers teenagers a structured plan of treatment which can be read alone, or with a parent, counsellor or mental health worker. The guide provides useful advice and worksheets throughout.

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The next step you wrote down was to limit yourself to ten hand washings a day no matter how many doorknobs you had cozied up with.Includes: detailed information on the many different manifestations of OCD; the differences between normal and obsessive worries; clear information on treating your individual problem; real-life case studies and examples; and advice and support for friends and family of OCD sufferers. The ‘obsessor’ OCD individual becomes anxious when various thoughts come to mind. These may be random, and nearly always are meaningless. It may be that after reading a news report of some tragedy the person thinks “What if that happened to my child?” An image of their child in that tragic situation briefly forms whereupon the obsessor thinks “I wonder if I want that to happen to my child?” This question then proceeds to haunt the obsessor, and a sense of nearly unbearable guilty/shame frequently follows.

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How could I be so stupid?” he moans. His notecards are laying on top of a pen. What’s more, two textbooks have been left open next to his desk, and his spare reading glasses lay on the bottom shelf of his bookcase. When you suffer with OCD that leads to repetitious behavior it is usually due to believing that certain things must be done perfectly. No exceptions. There are some commercial online therapy courses that a person can follow for help. Like self-help books these are only helpful if the reader correctly interprets the meaning of the information, but can certainly be useful. Most tend to be ERP based rather than CBT based, but they’re still helpful resources. We cannot list the commercial programmes, but we can recommend the following non-commercial online CBT run by an American charity, Peace of Mind Foundation which was setup by OCD sufferer Liz McIngvale. The young college age woman who, due to childhood abuse, was convinced that she had no ability to make and keep close friends. This did not make her anxious, but it had caused her to give up on the idea of ever having satisfying friendships. When going to college she was placed in a dorm room with another young woman who wished to be her friend.

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To do this you will need to consider what successfully conquering this looks like. If it was a fear of touching door knobs perhaps your ultimate success, that final stage of being free from this fear, is when you no longer wash your hands after opening a door. Instead you wash your hands only before meals or after using the bathroom. When I discovered that my child had OCD I read many books on the subject but none as clear or well laid out as this one. I wish I'd had this to read right at the start...essential reading for anyone who has been recently diagnosed with OCD or suspects that their child may be suffering from it. OK, that was a lot to take in. If you got lost along the way that’s understandable. Take a few minutes to re-read that material starting with the Pattern Of Anxiety section. Some people with extreme OCD spend several hours every day repeating specific behaviors just to win a few brief moments of relief from their overwhelming anxiety. This book does none of that. This book is written by people who know their shit and I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers with OCD or is interested in OCD or wants to understand what someone they love is going through. Some of what's in this book I already knew from my time at CBT but some of it gave me that lightbulb moment of 😮 oooh yeaaaahhh, to explain some of my behaviours. It also made me feel a little less... mad.

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How disgusting. Everyone touches the light switches in the house and who knows where their hands have been.”

A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy guide for young people and their families

The graph above shows why OCD does not lessen, or resolve, on its own. The compulsive behavior (or thoughts) do serve a purpose – they lessen the anxiety. When anxiety is reduced in this way, the compulsion grows stronger. That is because it has been reinforced. THREE Assign each fear a number with ONE being the most difficult to face and TEN being the least difficult to face.

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The longer these patterns become disrupted, and the more frequently they become disrupted, the better.

Break Free from OCD: Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with CBT

Imagine fear #TEN was the anxiety triggered by thoughts of contamination from touching door knobs. Let’s also imagine that this fear was driving you to wash your hands every time you touched a door knob. Such intrusive thoughts are not limited to themes of violence but also include sex, impulsive behaviors that break societal norms, and activities that go against the person’s deepest held beliefs regarding right and wrong.