by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
You know that reassurance seeking is a compulsion. Yet, reassurance seeking is…well…reassuring. When your friends understand that offering reassurance seeking is unhealthy, they may learn responses like ‘You know the answer to this’ or...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
One of the sneakiest features of OCD is the backdoor spike. When you get into therapy, you learn to handle these doubts. You also understand that your doubts are not rational. The fact that they cause anxiety is an indication that these thoughts are irrational. With...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
Obsessions cause anxiety. Anxiety is the reason why you start doing compulsions. You want to relieve the anxiety and, in the beginning, doing compulsions seems like a good way to relieve anxiety. But after a point, the compulsions do not seem to relieve the anxiety as...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
Relapse prevention is not to be confused with response prevention, which we have been practicing so far. Relapse prevention is the set of processes that are aimed at maintaining the progress achieved during therapy. When you reach the end of your anxiety...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 13, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 5
This is the last chapter of this course book. Thank you for making it this far. In this chapter, I am just going to leave you with a few thoughts. If you have followed this course book through, you may be able to get a grip of your ROCD to a large extent. However,...
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