The Ocd Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free

A major revision of the best-selling classic provides the latest information about recent findings on the neurobiological causes of OCD, the latest medications and treatment measures, as well as a new chapter outlining cutting edge day-to-day coping strategies.

Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Hollywood, FL, and director of the OCD Resource Center of Florida (www.ocdhope.com). He specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of adults and children with anxiety disorders, including the OCD-spectrum disorders. Cherry Pedrick, RN, is a registered nurse and freelance writer. She is coauthor of Loving Someone with OCD, Helping Your Child with OCD, The Habit Change Workbook, The BDD Workbook, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. She lives in Lacey, WA.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Who We Are

How This Book Can Help You

About This Book

Part I

What Is OCD?

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Basic Types of OCD

OCD Through the Ages

Breaking Free from OCD

So You Have a Problem: What Is It?

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A Closer Look at OCD

What OCD Is Not

The Symptoms of OCD

How Is OCD Diagnosed?

OCD and Shame

Does OCD Run in Families?

What Causes OCD?

What Can Be Done?

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Medication Therapy

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Medication, CBT, or Both?

Psychotherapy

Neurosurgery

Unproven Treatments

Make Wise Treatment Choices

Part II

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for OCD: The Self-Directed Program

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Why ERP Works

Exposure ``In Vivo''

Response Prevention

Getting Ready for Change

Preparing for Change

Helping Your Family Get Ready for Change

Make Breaking Free from OCD a Priority

Preparing for the Challenge---Self-Assessment

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Assessing Your OCD Problem

Target Your Symptoms

Assessment Is the First Step on the Road to Recovery

Your Intervention Strategy

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Tips for Writing Your Personal Anxiety/Exposure List

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): Step-by-Step

Doing ERP for Some Common OCD Problems

Reach Beyond Your Fears

Imaginal Exposure

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Doing Imaginal Exposure

When Imaginal Exposure Doesn't Work

Make Imagination Your Ally Against OCD

Challenging Your Faulty Beliefs

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Faulty Beliefs

The ABCDs of Faulty Beliefs

Correcting Faulty Beliefs

Additional Challenges to Faulty Beliefs

What If My Beliefs Aren't Changing?

Challenging Your Faulty Beliefs Enhances ERP

More Tools for Breaking Free---First Aid for OCD

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A Mindful Response to OCD

Mindfulness Techniques Complement ERP

Part III

Breaking Free from Pure Obsessions

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The Nature of Pure Obsessions

Anatomy of a Pure Obsession: Overview

Four Steps to Breaking Free from Pure Obsessions

Thought Habituation Exercises

Dealing with Covert Rituals

Hope for Mental Compulsions

Scrupulosity: When OCD Gets Religious

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What Is Scrupulosity?

Differentiating Between Strong Religious Beliefs and Scrupulosity

Hypermorality and Hyperresponsibility

The Self-Directed Program for Scrupulosity

Challenge OCD Daily

Hyperresponsibility: Hit 'n Run OCD

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Self-Directed Program for Hit 'n Run OCD

The Role of Hyperresponsibility

Hoarding OCD

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Self-Directed Program for Hoarding OCD

Uncluttering Will Help You Maximize Usable Living Space

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Maintaining Your Gains for the Long Haul

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It's Not Working: Common Problems

Managing Lapses and Preventing Relapse

Make CBT a Part of Your General Lifestyle

Welcome Lapses As Opportunities for Growth

It Happens to Children Too

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Children and Rituals: Could It Be OCD?

Cleaning, Checking, Counting, and Children

Help for Children with OCD

Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococci (PANDAS)

OCD and Related Disorders

Family Help for Children with OCD

Hope for the Future

OCD and Company

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Trichotillomania

Depression

When OCD Is Not the Only Problem

Part IV

OCD Is a Family Affair

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Support Starts with Each Family Member

How Family Members Can Help the Person in the Self-Directed Program

How to Deal with Obsessive Reassurance Seeking

Additional Guidelines for Dealing with OCD in the Family

Family Members Play an Important Role

Where to Get Help

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Professional Help for OCD

Questions to Ask Prospective Therapists

Support Groups

Help in Cyberspace

This Is Only the Beginning

Appendix

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A Brief Introduction to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Family and Friends

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)

Resources

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References

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The Ocd Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

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