What to Do When Sexual, Religious, and Harm Obsessions Carry Unwanted Arousal NEW BOOK RELEASE by Carol Edwards! About the Book Pure-intrusive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are involved, disturbing, and more challenging to treat when they consist of a desire-intrusive component. This book examines this critical issue. The first part looks at the author’s experiences of living with OCD. It further discusses self-harm, paedophilia, addiction, morality and guilt. The second part gives a practical guide for treating OCD. Currently, the methods include cognitive-behavioural therap ..read more

Research is always looking at improving patient engagement and to decrease drop-out rates. A pilot study to integrate Mindfulness into ERP (Strauss et al., 2015) showed the drop-out rate was twenty-five percent. It could be said that the reason for this is that people on the OCD spectrum who show poor distress tolerance need the combined approach to help them complete their course of ERP treatment. What about those who do ERP successfully, how can Mindfulness help them? While some do complete their course of exposure-response prevention (ERP) successfully, others don’t fully engage with the as ..read more

First, guilt is an emotion that most people experience. For example, if someone lies, they may feel guilt. If someone steals, it’s likely they’ll feel guilt. If someone has deliberate unkind thoughts about someone, guilt might follow. The list goes on, but there’s a general idea. Levels of normal guilt Usually, unkind thoughts and misdoings tend to have a relationship in terms of the level of guilt a person feels. The intensity of guilt, however, does not usually preoccupy the person’s mind for too long, not in the general sense of things, at least. Even when someone feels overly guilty for va ..read more

Do you have intrusive thoughts that make you think your partner is attracted to someone else or vice-versa? Do you worry endlessly that your partner will leave you for someone else, or that you should end the relationship? Is ruminating on things like whether your partner still loves you, values you, cares about you driving you mad? Anyone can have doubts about whether the partner they are with is right for them, and usually, such doubts circle around one and the other’s values. For example, someone may develop insecurities about their seemingly mundane job because their partner’s occupati ..read more

What to Do When Sexual, Religious, and Harm Obsessions Carry Unwanted Arousal NEW BOOK RELEASE by Carol Edwards! About the Book Pure-intrusive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are involved, disturbing, and more challenging to treat when they consist of a desire-intrusive component. This book examines this critical issue. The first part looks at the author’s experiences of living with OCD. It further discusses self-harm, paedophilia, addiction, morality and guilt. The second part gives a practical guide for treating OCD. Currently, the methods include cognitiv ..read more

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The following is an example to help non-OCD persons understand how it feels to have anxiety in OCD. Have you ever been walking along and suddenly thought that your wallet wasn’t in your pocket? For a split second did you get a horrible feeling of blind panic? Were you fearful that you might have lost it? Did the alarm make you feel shaky and nauseous? Did you check and find the purse in your pocket or handbag? Once you knew your wallet was there, did your feelings of anxiety quickly subside? Perhaps you checked one more time to make sure you had your purse and to feel reassured. pisq ..read more

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Approx. 2,300 words Learning objective The learning objective for this tutorial points towards how and why NSSI occurs. Presently, the general understanding is that people self-harm either because they become emotionally overwhelmed with specific stressors, or they self-blame for not being “good enough”. Thus, NSSI serves to release tension or acts as a punishment for not meeting perceived standards. In which case, this article focuses on investigating whether NSSI regulates: affective valence in addition to affective arousal; or serves a cognitive regulation function in addition to an ..read more

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