Motherhood and OCD
There was a fantastic report on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour regarding mental health in motherhood. I think it’s a real elephant in the room and needs to be talked about more, hence why I am covering it on this week’s blog post. The programme talked specifically about perinatal suicide, the leading cause of maternal […]
Dealing with uncertainty via Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
One of the most intriguing and indeed difficult areas of OCD to treat is what might be called False Memory / Real Event OCD. To summarise, it is where your brain takes a real memory that is innocuous and turns it into something horrific that gives you crippling anxiety. For instance, you may have a […]
How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) turned my OCD recovery corner
I received an email from Russ Harris’ mailing list with a link to a free ebook which you may find helpful. Here it is – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sk6o4LB86JcXTkLGQMQxwRBgNfZI7_9O/view?pli=1 The link gives you five simple ways to defuse from thoughts, or what is known as cognitive defusion in the trade. Cogntive defusion basically means unsticking from those horrendous […]
Perception, shower heads and OCD
Everything is perception – so say many spiritual teachers and writers who I happen to admire. To sum up (and apologies if this sounds a bit basic) change the lens of your circumstances, grab some gratitude for good measure, and have a better life. The great Chuck C of Alcoholics Anonymous wrote a book called […]