With the outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus many of my clients have been struggling with how to best manage this new threat, especially my clients with the contamination version of OCD or Health Anxiety.
Read MoreThis is the second part of my writing about Intrusive Thought OCD (here is the link to the first part). In this post I want to address an important question about intrusive harming and sexual thoughts that
Read MoreOCD has many tricks, maneuvers and distortions that keep you repeating your compulsions over and over, and one of the subtler ones is that the minute you don’t want a thought/feeling/urge then, guess what, you have that thought/feeling/urge! This is especially relevant when the type of OCD is the
Read MoreContamination OCD is perhaps the type that most people associate with OCD. People with this type are afraid to touch something because they fear being exposed to germs, bacteria, anything they think will lead to them or their loved ones getting sick or being harmed in some way.
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