by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
In this chapter, we shall discuss what makes an exposure correct. When you have decided to get into ERP for getting your ROCD under control, you should also know the correct way of doing your exposures. Doing your exposures incorrectly will make you feel like you are...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
After you have completed your exposures, the next step is to fill in the Reflection column with your experience. This is the feedback to yourself about how your exposure went. Say, you step out believing that it would not rain. But it does rain and you get drenched....
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
Sometimes in the midst of our exposures, we end up doing some sneaky compulsions without realizing that we have done the compulsions. Again, it is impossible to provide all scenarios given the complexity of the disorder, but I shall provide two examples to offer some...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
Let us now discuss the reassurance compulsion a little more in detail, as this is an important element of OCD (Haverkampf, 2017) and one of the most deceitful compulsions ever. First, identifying reassurance is difficult. Well, not as difficult as it is confusing....
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