Please find below OCD illustrations we created to bring to life certain teachings and metaphors shared on the podcast. These illustrations were originally posted on our social platforms. We hope you find these illustrations helpful.
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We often look at people who seem fearless and take risks and go after what they want as brave and courageous. As therapist Jonny Say said on episode 334 of the podcast, “if they aren’t scared, it’s not courage” (paraphrasing).…
Read more OCD symptoms are hard. Difficult. Painful. Challenging. Agonising. Terrifying. So they are already those things, why add to it? OCD is pain. Learning to nurture and grow a compassionate voice within, to meet that pain and suffering won’t remove the…
Read more Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can sometimes be referred to as exposure therapy. This is misleading. As it’s way more than that. ERP works because our brain learns something new. How? It learns through our behaviour change i.e. changing from…
Read more The scary part of OCD is the theme: contamination, religion, sexual orientation, violent or sexual, relationship worries etc (The list is endless). But the theme (mask) is not important. It of course feels it is, and this is exactly why…
Read more I stumbled upon this poem a few years ago by M Truman Cooper called ‘See Paris first’: Suppose that what you fear could be trapped, and held in Paris. Then you would have the courage to go everywhere in the…
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OCD symptoms are hard. Difficult. Painful. Challenging. Agonising. Terrifying. So…
Read more Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can sometimes be referred to…
Read more The scary part of OCD is the theme: contamination, religion,…
Read more I stumbled upon this poem a few years ago by…
Read more When life feels too much, our emotions can feel like…
Read more This metaphor is taken from a special edition episode of…
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