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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Links Female Guide: https://youtu.be/86HUcX8ZtAk Male Guide: https://www.youtu.be/R0L-4bRY2pM The method to clench specific muscle groups in PMR taken from the...

We do not realize, but most of us do not get adequate sleep. Either the quantity is insufficient, or the quality is bad, or both. We like to believe that we can do with very little sleep. Or that we...

The Blind Men and the Elephant - J. G. Saxe It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy...

TypeObsessionsExamplesAggressionI fear I might harm myselfFear of eating with a knife or forkAggressionI fear I might harm myselfFear of handling sharp objectsAggressionI fear I might harm...

TypeCompulsionExamplesContaminationI wash my hands excessively or in a ritualized wayWashing your hands many times a day or for long periods of time after touching, or thinking that you have touched...

A] Monitoring your own feelings and sensations 1Rationalization (Non-Triggered State)Why do I need to monitor my feelings? - To check if I feel good about my partner. Why do I need to feel good? -...

Example 1: For the avoidance compulsion                I have been in therapy and I have been asked not to avoid meeting people...

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This is my interview on a mental health podcast "The SOS Show with Suchita Bhhatia" in which I talk about my personal story and about how OCD needs to be dealt with....