The term Pure O or purely obsessional was coined by Dr Steven Phillipson in 1988 to help those people who […]

We can navigate through life by our values. Sailors used to use the North Star 🌟 to navigate. The North […]

Compulsions can be hard to stop. So in therapy one approach is to initially set a more achievable goal which […]

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1946) founder of logotherapy, which was used for OCD many decades ago long before exposure and response […]

It’s really hard and uncomfortable to make space for our internal experiences: urges, sensations, feelings/emotions, thoughts. Because it’s tough to […]

We often look at people who seem fearless and take risks and go after what they want as brave and […]

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can sometimes be referred to as exposure therapy. This is misleading. As it’s way more […]

The scary part of OCD is the theme: contamination, religion, sexual orientation, violent or sexual, relationship worries etc (The list […]

I stumbled upon this poem a few years ago by M Truman Cooper called ‘See Paris first’: Suppose that what […]