The term Pure O or purely obsessional was coined by Dr Steven Phillipson in 1988 to help those people who […]
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Navigate by your values
We can navigate through life by our values. Sailors used to use the North Star 🌟 to navigate. The North […]
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Delay to slay compulsions
Compulsions can be hard to stop. So in therapy one approach is to initially set a more achievable goal which […]
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Between stimulus and response there is a space
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1946) founder of logotherapy, which was used for OCD many decades ago long before exposure and response […]
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Experiential Avoidance
It’s really hard and uncomfortable to make space for our internal experiences: urges, sensations, feelings/emotions, thoughts. Because it’s tough to […]
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It’s not courageous, unless you’re scared
We often look at people who seem fearless and take risks and go after what they want as brave and […]
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OCD is tough, be kind to yourself
OCD symptoms are hard. Difficult. Painful. Challenging. Agonising. Terrifying. So they are already those things, why add to it? OCD […]
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Exposure without Response Prevention is torture
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can sometimes be referred to as exposure therapy. This is misleading. As it’s way more […]
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Treat the OCD, not the theme
The scary part of OCD is the theme: contamination, religion, sexual orientation, violent or sexual, relationship worries etc (The list […]
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See Paris First
I stumbled upon this poem a few years ago by M Truman Cooper called ‘See Paris first’: Suppose that what […]
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