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 […]
Intrusive Thoughts & OCD
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 […]
Reassurance seeking in Intrusive Thoughts; it does more harm than good.
If you have intrusive thoughts, you probably have looked for reassurance to help you to cope with the content of your thoughts. Even though it might feel like it helps, albeit short term, you are in fact doing more harm than good and I want to talk to you about that today. I am […]
Planning for bad things to happen and why you need to be specific!
Planning for bad things to happen, trying to prevent bad things, or expecting the worse, not only takes up time, but it also can affect your mood, how you feel about yourself, and can even stop you from getting things that you want from life. I want to talk about why you might feel the […]
Thought Action Fusion and it’s importance in Intrusive Thoughts
If you recognise yourself in the following statements, then the following information on Thought Action Fusion is for you. If you believe that thinking about something makes it more likely to happen and/or thinking something ‘bad’ or ‘immoral’ is practically the same as having carried out the thought, then you are suffering because of faulty […]
Compulsions make your intrusive thoughts worse
Many people with Intrusive Thoughts, mistakenly think that they do not have compulsions, but they will be there. The compulsions not only make your intrusive thoughts worse, but they serve to keep it going. Intrusive Thoughts have also been termed Pure O, which stands for Pure Obsessional. If you have Pure O I can see […]
ERP for Intrusive Thoughts
ERP – Exposure Response Prevention is helpful in treating Intrusive Thoughts, and it is something I am asked about a lot, so I thought I’d write an article to help explain the concepts and how it will help you. This article is useful for all types of intrusive thoughts including HOCD, ROCD, harm related OCD, […]
