Empirically supported treatments, Behavior change, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
Somatosensory OCD is a specific type of OCD, also referred as hyperawareness OCD or sensorimotor OCD. This type of OCD includes intrusive obsessions about “involuntarily bodily sensations.” For instance, if you were struggling with this sensory motor OCD you...
Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
What is Gay OCD? One type of obsessive compulsive disorder that have been very minimally researched is Gay OCD that involves obsessions and compulsions around sexual orientation. Sexual orientation fears may involve fear been sexually attracted to individuals of the...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Are you struggling with obsessive thoughts or excessive fears about contamination, illnesses, death, harm, or doing things right, that are keeping you from living your life? Are your compulsions of checking, or cleaning or checking again disrupting work, school, or...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal problems, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
Many people experience doubts about their intimate relationships. They ask themselves, “is this the person for me?,” “Does this person truly love me?, “Is my partner being loyal?” “Is my partner cheating on me?” Clinicians make it clear that...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change
Dear Readers, The next TED talk is given by one of the founders of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Steve Hayes, Ph.d. this is a very intimate talk about his struggles, how he learn to live with and learn from them, and how he made a promise to himself to make a...
Behavior change, Interpersonal problems, Mindfulness
In the previous post, Communication SOS: What do you want? you learned to recognize your emotions as the first step to really pay attention to what you need or want. Here is the next important skill when dealing with others: making requests. Making requests of others...
