Welcome to the OCD Library! Here you will find books, films, podcasts, and more forms of media that can help you feel less alone in the battle against OCD and related disorders and better understand these conditions.

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What to Do When You Have a Tricky, Sticky, Picky Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Strategies to Help Kids with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Marni L. Jacob, PhD, ABPP | 2026

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Pediatric OCD
  • Kids & Youth
  • Self-Help
  • Book

Intended for kids aged 8–13, this book is filled with exercises, worksheets, and tools to help kids recognize common thinking traps, stop giving in to compulsions, and replace both with real strategies that will help them find relief.

By His Stripes: Navigating Life with Mental and Physical Suffering

Whitney Paige | 2025

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Scrupulosity
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Personal Memoir
  • Book

Follow Whitney as she boldly travels through her life of mental and physical suffering, giving an unhindered account of how the OCD mind processes what the world is, what people say, and how society responds to those who live life differently than most.

The House that Held Everything: A Family’s Hidden Hoarding and the Secrets Left Behind

Eileen Stukane | 2025

  • Hoarding Disorder
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Personal Memoir
  • Book

The author inherits the childhood home of a deceased cousin and finds rooms filled wall to wall, floor to ceiling, with piled up items from years of secret hoarding. As she separates significant items from garbage, she peels apart and exposes the emotional underpinnings of hoarding.

Your Love Life and OCD: Overcoming OCD and Discovering Intimacy and Wholeness in Relationships *

Flavio Marenco, PhD | 2025

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Self-Help
  • Book

Practical strategies to address specific OCD-related challenges that hinder genuine emotional connection.

The BFRB Workbook for Teens and Young Adults

Laura Chackes, PsyD, and Lauren McKeaney | 2025

  • Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)
  • Kids & Youth
  • Self-Help
  • Book

This workbook will give you the tools to manage not only your BFRB, but also your thoughts and feelings about other stressors in your life. It’s time to end the cycle for good!

Freeing your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder *

Tamar E. Chansky, PhD | 2025

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Pediatric OCD
  • Families & Supporters
  • Self-Help
  • Book

With its research-backed and reassuring guidance, Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder spells out exactly what parents can say and do to help their children reclaim their lives.

Thumbnail of Estrella Tiene TOC book

Estrella tiene TOC

María Torres Marrero | 2025

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Families & Supporters
  • Kids & Youth
  • Fiction
  • Book

Este cuento tierno y valiente acompaña a Estrella y a su familia en el camino hacia la comprensión, la empatía y el apoyo. A través de rutinas, retos y el acompañamiento de un terapeuta, aprenderán que con amor y herramientas adecuadas, se puede vivir mejor con el TOC.

How I Thought I Might Kill My Husband

Erin Margaret Northey | 2024

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Personal Memoir
  • Book

This book explores the complexities of navigating medication withdrawal, adjusting to a new OCD diagnosis, and the challenging reality of hospitalization

Hello Baby, Goodbye Intrusive Thoughts: Stop the Spiral of Anxiety and OCD to Reclaim Wellness on Your Motherhood Journey

Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP | 2024

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Perinatal OCD
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Self-Help
  • Book

Evidence-based cognitive behavioral (CBT) and exposure and response prevention (ERP) strategies to stop the spiral of anxiety and alarming intrusive thoughts, so you can spend less time “in your head” and more time connecting with your child.

Book cover of How to Hide in Plain Sight by Emma Noyes

How to Hide in Plain Sight

Emma Noyes | 2024

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Individual with Lived Experience
  • Fiction
  • Book

A dysfunctional family, a four-day wedding on a private island, and a runaway copywriter who swears coming home won’t make her fall apart again. Can Eliot Beck maintain the strict rules that once “cured” her of OCD, or will this wedding send her careening right back into her old obsessions—and the first love she thought long over?