If you have OCD, your thoughts and images that cause you so much distress are more than likely not correct. You are probably making mistakes in your thinking; known as thinking errors or cognitive distortions. Correcting these mistakes in your thinking is part of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a good first step to helping you with your OCD. Your […]
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I spent a large part of my life with anxiety,
and spent an even larger part studying it!
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Relationship OCD; ROCD
ROCD stands for Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If you have ROCD, you will have both obsessions and compulsions about your relationship. This simply means that you frequently analyse your relationship and partner, (obsess) and feel compelled to spend a large amount of checking the quality of your relationship, (compulsions). This article is written by Dr Elaine Ryan and […]
Contamination OCD and the fear of germs; the real reason you clean
Contamination OCD is a type of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, where you are afraid that one thing may not be clean and germ free, and may contaminate something else, which ultimately could cause harm to you, or other people, and you will be responsible. I mentioned the ’cause harm’ bit right at the start of this article […]
Old writings of CBT
I was having a ‘digital clearout’ of my laptop and came across old papers that I had written for my doctorate. Some are no use to man or beast, as many years have passed since they were written and are now outdated. However, I have copied and pasted a part of a paper I had […]
Warning signs were anxiety can turn to panic
I was just looking over this page were I talk about my first panic attack and I realised that there are early warning signs to watch out for, before you start having panic attacks. I don’t mean the early warning signs that psychologists talk about, where you can end up having a panic attack in […]