Coping with OCD: Practical Strategies to Living Well with OCD

Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Start Living Without Fear

Coping with OCD offers a brief yet comprehensive and effective approach to dealing with the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) — a great book for people recently diagnosed with OCD and a source of in-the-moment strategies for managing symptoms for those already receiving treatment.

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When you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can feel like your own mind is at war with itself. Instead of having productive and positive thoughts, you rehash the same worries and fears over and over again until they become unbearable. Did you really remember to lock the front door? What if you were to hit someone while driving your car? You may find yourself engaging in exhaustive rituals to keep these thoughts at bay. But soon, the doubts come back with a vengeance.

Coping with OCD offers a simple and engaging program that can help anyone with mild to moderate OCD get started on the road to recovery. This book begins with a crash course on what OCD is-and what it is not. You'll learn a proven, three-part program for recovery that uses safe and gradual exposure to distressing thoughts and situations, mindfulness practice, and techniques to restructure thinking. Additional chapters address how families can help, dealing with shame and blame, depression, and maintaining progress. The book also includes a helpful list of resources for further reading and additional support.

Contents

1. The Doubting Disease
2. Accepting Your OCD
3. Behavioral Tools for OCD: Changing What You Do to Change How Your Feel
4. My Thoughts Are Driving Me Crazy! Challenging Your Obsessive and Intrusive Thoughts
5. Paying Attention to Being Here Right Now: Mindfulness for OCD
6. It Just Kills Me to See You Like This: Helping Family Members and Friends
7. Maintaining Progress and Preventing Lapses and Relapse
8. Finding Out More

About the Authors:
Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., LCSW, is a cognitive behavior therapist with an active private practice in south Florida specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is coauthor of The OCD Workbook.
Troy DuFrene is a writer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.