https://www.sheppardpratt.org/events/event/first-annual-mid-atlantic-ocd-conference/2025-10-17/ Join Sheppard Pratt and OCD Mid-Atlantic on Friday, October 17, 2025 for the First Annual Mid-Atlantic OCD Conference, a free hybrid conference all about OCD. Attend in person in Towson, Maryland at Sheppard Pratt’s historic campus or tune in online. The first annual OCD Conference, by Sheppard Pratt and co-sponsored by OCD Mid-Atlantic (an… Read more »
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 used to describe the outcomes, consequences and unknowns we fear. OCD convinces us that by engaging in compulsions, we can mitigate, avoid, and prevent this…. 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 was just five years ago, how could I possibly be any more accepting? Pamela didn’t know me as the suicidal self-harming millennial who practically wore… 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, they become actions…” But for me, I have always felt gut feelings I would never want to believe or act on and thought things that… 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 our school competitions. What I ran towards was sometimes unclear, but I always knew what I was escaping. When Fight or Flight kicks in, I’ve… 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 want to share in regard to my experience with this painful disorder, but for starters, I would like to make it clear that recovery is… 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 fingernail. Either way it will still be progress for me, regardless of what anyone else or even OCD tells me. *** I hung up the… 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 an OCD specialist who was an excellent fit, understood the lessons, and worked my exposure ladder as expected. I finished my hierarchy with all the… 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 the same question. The answer differs for everyone, however, I want to give you an idea of what life far into OCD recovery can look… Read more »