By Summer Contreras When I was 13 years old and in 8th grade, a friend invited me to church. It was there I experienced my first religious intrusive thoughts, even… Read more »
Why I Became An Advocate: Summer Contreras
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What causes OCD in children?
By Krista Reed, LSCSW In all the years that I have been treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents, one question comes up with every single case. “What… Read more »
Attentional processes in scrupulous OCD
Scrupulosity is a subtype of OCD that is defined by a prevalence of moral and religious obsessions and compulsions. Scrupulosity affects 1 in 20 of Western OCD sufferers; in some… Read more »
2015 Donor-Awarded Research Grants: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Prediction, understanding, and treatment of perfectionism using acceptance and commitment therapy Used for OCD and other mental health disorders, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a form of cognitive behavioral… Read more »
What if it’s not God? Finding freedom from scrupulosity
By Aly Prades I can still remember the drop of red food coloring my Sunday school teacher squeezed into a jar of water as an illustration of sin. She lined… Read more »
A Therapist’s OCD Journey: From Paralyzing Fears to Building an OCD Center
By Natalia Aniela PLEASE NOTE: This blog post includes mention of several topic areas that readers might find troubling or distressing, including intrusive thoughts of suicide, intrusive thoughts of harming… Read more »
Are Eating Disorders Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Let Us Discuss.
By Jonathan Hoffman, PhD, Dee Franklin, PsyD, LMHC, Ciana Mickolus, PsyD, & Myriam Padron, PsyD This article was initially published in the Winter 2022 edition of the OCD Newsletter. Eating… Read more »
Finding a robust OCD recovery despite disability, chronic illness, and comorbidities
By Sandy Robinson A few weeks ago, I was an inpatient at my local hospital. I had a bowel obstruction and needed medical intervention to address it. This is one…
By Andrew GottWorth Thinking thinking thinking… wait, am I obsessively thinking or compulsively thinking? Oh no. I don’t know! Hi there! If we’ve not met before – I’m Andrew. I’m… Read more »Ruminating on Ruminations: Mental Compulsions and What to Do About Them
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