by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
The anxiety hierarchy is one of the most important worksheets you will fill in your recovery journey. An anxiety hierarchy is a list of all anxiety provoking stimuli arranged from the least anxiety provoking to the most anxiety provoking (Obi, & Oguzie, 2019). It...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
Now that you have populated the anxiety hierarchy up to the compulsions column, it will soon be time to bite the bullet and face your fears. The premise in ERP for the treatment of ROCD is systematic desensitization and not flooding. In flooding, you face all your...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
After the Anxiety Hierarchy is made, the real process of recovery will begin when you start exposing yourself deliberately to your lowest fears and resisting the pull of compulsions. As you get better at handling those smaller fears, you move on to the larger...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
Since you are going to start the process of ERP from the next section, it is important that you understand a small crucial aspect. Why this merits a separate chapter is that I did not want this important aspect to get lost in other chapters. Exposure and...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
We shall now rationalize the first example mentioned in the anxiety hierarchy for ROCD Type 1. Remember that rationalization is always…always…to be done only in a non-triggered state and never when you are triggered – preferably with the help of your partner....
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