Q&A for Interrupting OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not”
Here are the questions submitted about my blog Interrupt OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not” (MOMN) and my answers.
Here are the questions submitted about my blog Interrupt OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not” (MOMN) and my answers.
Realistic expectations of recovery are so important for the well-being of people with OCD. Because if people with OCD have unrealistic expectations they cannot achieve, they are incredibly likely to beat themselves up, which hurts them and their recoveries. Read more on my Psychology Today Beyond the Doubt blog.
If you have trouble using Shoulders Back/Man in the Park because you keep transacting with your OCD in your mind, otherwise known as “mentally ritualizing” or what some call “pure-O,” read about an ERP technique that’s a bridge tool to help you develop the strength to do Shoulders Back/Man in the Park effectively.
Here are the questions submitted about my blog post Shoulders Back! The Man in the Park and my answers.
The man in the park metaphor is one I use all the time with clients to explain how to most effectively handle OCD.
I wrote a 5-part series for my Beyond the Doubt Psychology Today blog called The Best TED Talks for People with OCD, plus an additional post related to Part 4 about how to feel more connected to others.
Make the most of your recovery journey with six steps. Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology Today blog. [...]
How to turn OCD's little wins into BIG victories for your recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology [...]
But you can have an amazing, joyful life anyway! Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology Today [...]
Three ways to use the art and science of cursing to power up your recovery. Read this post on my [...]
What manspreading, "c is for center," and a Buddhist equation mean for recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the [...]
Why my OCD is very sorry it threw a tantrum in a train station. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
Why I never leave home without four special keys...that don't unlock my house. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
I'm not going to say which magazine put "Be a little OCD" in print because this is not about shaming them; that would be doing the very thing that I'm advocating against. Instead, this is about education.
On Monday, as I was boarding a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta, I asked the flight attendant standing by the cockpit door [...]
When you have OCD and/or anxiety, your life can be dominated by attempts to attain the BIG Cs: CONTROL and [...]
Why do I have a dog toy with a tissue taped to it sitting on my desk? And how [...]
I read the following paragraph from Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams [...]
"You can do this," I said as I held Lily's hand, the scene before me becoming blurry as my [...]
As I sit here thinking about what an amazing time I had at the 2015 IOCDF Conference—the fun I [...]
We're less than one week away from one of my favorite events of the year: the International OCD Foundation Annual Conference. [...]
One of the most basic human desires is to be understood. To be heard fully and deeply by another [...]
Let's talk about something seemingly unrelated to OCD: the Stockholm syndrome. Named after a situation in the early 1970s where [...]
When I was a little girl, I used to daydream that I had fantastic, magical powers. I would imagine myself [...]
When I attended my first International OCD Foundation conference in 2010, the whole thing was one huge Aha! Moment [...]
Watching Amy Cuddy's TED Talk, "Your body language shapes who you are," gave me an aha! moment about a new way [...]
It was an auspicious coincidence that I decided to read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and Unbroken: A World War [...]
I love the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I have read the books and watched the movies countless times. [...]
One of the things I love most about Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jonathan Grayson, PhD is Dr. Grayson's [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have personified my OCD and thought of it as an entity [...]
I grew up in the 80s, and with the exception of the "big hair" phenomenon, nothing defines that decade for [...]
My parents saw one of the authors of The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Richard Davidson, Ph.D., interviewed on Charlie [...]
During Brene Brown's ecourse, The Gifts of Imperfection, she once said, "Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Showing up [...]
The pills Several days after Abby's passing, I was driving to work listening to Still Alice. Alice's memory was failing [...]
I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but there are two things I've learned in the past few years [...]
The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts, by Lee Baer, PhD, is a [...]
OCD can be a little overwhelming at times. You can feel like your whole life is defined by OCD [...]
In November of 2012 on a flight home from a training given by the International OCD Foundation in Boston, I [...]
On no page of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail will you find any mention of OCD. [...]
The basic premise of The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is how to live a life free from [...]
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly [...]
In The House of Velvet and Glass, Sybil Allston is trying to make sense of the death of her [...]
Recently I read the novel Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg. The main character, Cece Ross, is a motivational [...]