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Posts Tagged: treatment
When My OCD’s Worst Case Scenario Came True
By Alie Garza IOCDF Advocate Alie Garza, LCSW, shares about her life currently as she navigates what she describes as “her OCD’s worst-case scenario come true.” The term “worst-case scenario” is often… Read more »
Self-Acceptance: A Repeated Practice
By Judith Stern After our first fifty minutes, my new therapist concluded, “Self-acceptance might be helpful.” I almost laughed out loud. I totally accept myself, I thought. Compared to where I… Read more »
Am I a Bad Person?
By Shaela Lundy People always say to “just go with your gut feeling” and quote, “what you think, you become,” or “watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words,… Read more »
A Healing Journey – How I Chose Hope
By Nicolas Sanchez I have spent most of my life running. I was in Cross Country throughout high school and always somehow managed to find myself in last place at… Read more »
You Can Always Make Progress: Teagan’s OCD Story
By: Teagan Miller Hi, I am Teagan Miller, I’m twenty years old, & I have lived with obsessive-compulsive disorder for all my life. My mind is overflowing with things I… Read more »
On the Frontlines with OCD: #valuesovercompulsions
By Anonymous I am writing today, trying to wiggle a small piece of me out from under the OCD spell. Maybe it will only be a finger or, less, a… Read more »
Understanding ERP & Chronic Dissociation
By Alexandra Reynolds When I first began my Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy six years ago I imagined it would be a relatively straightforward process. After all, I’d finally found… Read more »
Before and After Treatment
When I began treatment for OCD several years ago, I wondered what my life deep into recovery would look like. Many people starting OCD treatment for the first time have… Read more »