by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | See Additional Resources
In this final section, we shall be getting into the thick of things. We shall learn how to do some exposures, and we shall also talk about a few ways to handle our compulsions. Since there is truly no end to the number of compulsions one can engage in, in ROCD, and...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | See Additional Resources
When you do your exposures start with the ones that would cause you the lowest anxiety if you had to not do them. If the lowest compulsion in your list causes you an anxiety of 2 or 3, you can move on to larger ones. You could try picking out some compulsions that...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | See Additional Resources
What we have discussed so far about ERP, about how it is done, is called in-vivo exposure. In ERP, the combination of in-vivo exposures and imaginal exposures yields the best results (Gillihan et al., 2012). In ERP, in-vivo exposure means doing the exposures by...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | See Additional Resources
Sometimes it is not going to be possible for you to expose yourself directly to your trigger. For example, one of your obsessions may be ‘What if my partner is cheating on me?’ In order to expose yourself to the trigger in-vivo, since you cannot actually get your...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | See Additional Resources
When you are anxious, how do you know? You know it through some physical sensations in the body. You may have breathlessness, palpitations, chest pain, choking, dizziness, tingling feelings, hot/cold flushes, sweating, faintness, and/or trembling (Clark, 1986). When...
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