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Sometimes we might want to better understand our OCD/worry and perhaps even take a crack at managing it on our own or would like some reading material to refer to as we go through therapy. Certainly if your

One of the versions of OCD that is most frequently misunderstood, even by some fellow professionals, is what has been called “Pure O”, or more recently, and more specifically Pedophilia OCD (POCD) or Harm OCD (HOCD). The term “Pure O” stands for Pure Obsessional because initially it was thought that there were just obsessions and no compulsions with this…

Anxiety treatment is full of paradoxes. We have evolved over the history of our species to avoid danger - and those of us who are alive now are here, in part, because our ancestors were the ones who could anticipate danger and carefully avoided it and thus survived,

I must start by apologizing for not having posted now for several months. My main excuse is that I got remarkably busy for a while, got out of the rhythm of posting weekly and simply didn’t get back to it. Now that I have completed this blog post, I plan to get back on track and it is my intention to once again post weekly.

I thought it would continue building upon the content of the last blog post regarding the cognitive aspects of anxiety and depression and list this week some beliefs that are thought to play a major role in OCD.