There is a paradox in Harm OCD that you should be aware of. Harm OCD makes you fearful of your obsessions. You do not want the obsessions and wish that they would go away. For example, the thought,...
Obsessions are thoughts that cause anxiety, are intrusive and disturbing (Goodman et al., 2014). Obsessions in Harm OCD may take many forms. They may take the form of a thought. Thoughts could be in...
1. Write the name of your Harm OCD in the...
Harm OCD being so common, it is understandable that almost anything can become an obsession, because any object can begin to look like a weapon and any event can begin to look like a crime scene....
D1 - Me Accidentally Hurting MyselfSr. No.ObsessionsExJay is telling me I may poke myself in the eye with a pencil accidentally 1 2 3 4 5 D2 - Me Accidentally...
When you have an obsession about whether you are a good person or not, you inadvertently find yourself engaging in a debate. The question that your mind always seems to ask you is ‘Am I a good...
We do not need to solve all the doubts our Harm OCD throws at us. But it seems like the mind will not find relief...
We start off by reiterating that Jay is a liar. Jay is not interested in making you feel better. He is only...
One of the most useful skills you can learn to recover from your Harm OCD is the ability to say ‘I don’t care’ to your obsessive thoughts, as per the ‘acknowledging without agreeing’ principle. If...
What do you do when the obsessions seem real? According to the metacognitive model (Myers & Wells, 2005),...
ObsessionDistancingAttributionAcceptanceI want to kill my motherI am getting the thought that I want to kill my motherJay is giving me the thought that I want to kill my motherI am okay with the...
Often when people are asked to rate the levels of anxiety that their obsessive thoughts may cause them, they may be unable to assign a number. The anxiety may feel too high and it may be difficult...
Let us now see what kind of compulsions there could be in Harm OCD and how to identify your compulsions....
1. Write the name of your Harm OCD in the box 2. From the Y-BOCS Compulsion Checklist identify if any compulsions apply to you and write them down in the space provided. 3. Observe yourself and...
Even though you may know that you may be doing compulsions, and that you need to stop them, the bigger task is identifying them. The more obvious ones are easy to identify but OCD is a sneaky...
In this chapter, we shall further understand the importance of acceptance and mindfulness in your recovery journey. Sometimes you may think that your compulsions come without obsessions. Sometimes,...
ABCDCompulsionsUnwilling / UnableUnpleasant / RiskyAction...
When Harm OCD first hits, we do the compulsions because they seem like the right thing to do to help us out of our misery. Indeed, they seem to relieve the anxiety in the short term. But even when...
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...