Shala Nicely, LPC OCD Treatment with ERP Therapy
When it comes to OCD, the “choose your hard” concept can be an especially helpful perspective-shifting exercise. Learn how OCD tries to warp our perspectives and how we can instead reframe them to empower you to make hard choices that help you reclaim your life.
Personifying your OCD helps you build insight by separating you and your desires from OCD and its desires for certainty, comfort, and control, making it easier for you to fight back with ERP.
Micro-monitoring your OCD symptoms in hopes that you can finally eliminate them all often backfires, and here’s why.
These posts were published on Psychology Today as part of the long-running blog Beyond the Doubt, which was created by fellow OCD advocate Jeff Bell and later became a joint project. The posts featured here are ones I’ve written since 2017. They offer an inside perspective on living with OCD, learning to tolerate uncertainty, and […]
