Obsessive Disorder

"Unseen Chains: The everyday struggles of OCD" is an in-depth exploration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder that goes beyond common misconceptions. This guide examines how intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors impact daily life, relationships, and professional endeavors. From the anxiety-driven behaviors to practical coping strategies, each chapter provides valuable insights for those experiencing OCD symptoms, their loved ones, and healthcare professionals. The book delves into the complex interplay between obsessive thoughts and ritualistic behaviors, exploring how these patterns ...

If you're ready to toss the OCD rulebook aside and start living with more freedom than ever before, this book can help you step by step.

Therapist Chloe Brotheridge has used the latest scientific research and her own personal experience to create a programme that has already helped thousands of her clients to overcome anxiety. The Anxiety Solution will provide you with simple yet powerful practical tools to help you manage your symptoms and start feeling better every day. Chloe will help you to understand why we feel anxious in the first place and equips you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life.

Today a large part of our population is addicted to technology and social media. Every day we spend hours and hours tweeting, clicking thousands of Likes, videocalling, replying to emails or messages on Whatsapp. When we want to relax, we binge on Netflix and YouTube videos. Our children spend so much time in front of smartphone and tablets that they struggle to interact with real humans. The abuse of technology and social media creates also anxiety, stress, and insomnia. How can we mitigate the damaging effects of technology on our well-being, health and happiness of our children? In this ...

Anxiety is a normal human condition. For most people, anxiety is temporary and manageable. However, for some people, anxiety can become acute and/or pervasive. The cause of this anxiety can come from a variety of sources.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, even those who have never struggled with mental health have found themselves reeling, looking for answers they don't know how to find. For Christians, especially those who've despaired of help from a church that has too often stigmatized poor mental health as a lack of faith, the way forward can be particularly difficult to see. Jonathon Seidl aims to fix that. Having fought his own way through crippling anxiety, life-altering OCD, and suicidal thoughts, he knows the value of concrete advice grounded in strong biblical truth.

Struggling to find peace amidst OCD’s challenges? Breaking Free from OCD: Discovering God’s Guidance and Strengthening Relationships combines faith, science, and practical steps to help you overcome obsessive thoughts and build a meaningful, connected life.

OCDish is a guide that explains obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and many similar conditions in an easy-to-understand way. With this book, you can learn if your symptoms and behaviors are normal or something you should seek help for. It contains tips you won't find elsewhere to get control of your life. All the current treatments are discussed, along with an explanation of how to seek help and what to expect on those first visits. OCDish contains a great deal of information for concerned parents and family members, along with the latest resources. ...

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: A woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with more than 3,000 prostitutes - because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her.

Battling with overthinking is a battle that never ends. You need to constantly be vigilant with analyzing your thoughts and identifying when bouts of anxiety begin to occur. This book will help you by teaching you strategies that will give you the tools you need to overcome your struggles and overcome them. Typically, overthinking is not a disorder or problem on its own, and is more of a symptom of another larger issue. Through listening to this book, you will begin to understand and discover the reasons for your overthinking.

In the first comprehensive guide to treating obsessive compulsive disorder based on clinically proven behavioral therapy techniques, Dr. Lee Baer’s Getting Control has been providing OCD sufferers with information and relief for more than 20 years. In this updated edition, OCD sufferers and their loved ones will find everything they need to assess their symptoms, set realistic goals, and create specific therapeutic exercises for managing this disorder.

From the heart and soul of lifelong mental-health sufferer Adam Shaw, combined with the expert mind of the talented and leading psychologist Lauren Callaghan, this audiobook is cohesively divided into two helpful parts. Detailed from the separate perspectives of a sufferer and a psychologist is an insight into mental-health recovery to which sufferers can really relate.

Are you sick and tired of being triggered and punishing your partner with unnecessary questioning while everyone around you seems to enjoy their relationships? Have you tried to put an end to your intrusive thoughts and triggers, but nothing seems to work? Do you want to finally say goodbye to all of your pain and see what works for you? You see, ridding yourself of retroactive jealousy forever doesn’t have to be complicated. You can easily start melting away RJ today, even if RJ has destroyed every relationship you’ve ever had.

If you're navigating the stormy waters of parenting an explosive child and searching for a guiding star to lead you to calmer shores, then purchase this audiobook now! Embrace this opportunity to transform your parenting journey, turning challenges into triumphs and chaos into harmony.

WINNER OF THE 2024 BRONZE GLOBAL PUBLISHING AWARD for the Category Psychology & Counseling Written by a former stress head who knows first-hand how to navigate the maze of overthinking and emerge victorious, this revolutionary book presents hard-won practical advice from Nikki Goldstein, an AWARD WINNING ex-Vogue and Elle health journalist who coined the term "underthinking" (a clever, easy, Zen-like mental health hack) to re-engineer her overthinking. Underthinking is the exact opposite of overthinking. Goldstein has distilled tried-and-tested therapeutic tools, such as Cognitive Behavior ...

Seeking reassurance to remove doubt or fear is natural, and we all do it from time to time. However, it becomes a compulsion when it develops into something repetitive and ritualistic. This compulsion is linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can perpetuate and worsen this condition, and can also create conflict between you, your friends, coworkers, and loved ones. So, how do you stop? The Compulsive Reassurance Seeking Workbook offers proven-effective tools to reduce compulsions, make peace with uncertainty, and better manage your OCD.

Almost every person will suffer from issues relating to negative thinking patterns at some stage in their life, it's unavoidable. Whether it's facing phobias, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, or full-scale anxiety or depression. It's much more prevalent than you think. But most people aren't equipped with the right mental tools to identify the underlying reasons for their problems, or spot the triggers which set them off. This is where Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help.

We are often too busy or preoccupied to attend to our emotions until they hit with the strength of a tornado. When signs of anxiety and panic appear, they ravage our lives, our dreams, and our spirit. It is now possible to stop anxiety from stopping us in our tracks. In her book, Dr. Odessky helps you understand the process of anxiety, and how to arm yourself with strategies that work. Dr. Odessky draws on her 15 years of clinical experience to guide you through the process of not only learning how to overcome anxiety, but also how to enrich your life.

Today, you might be in the darkest place you can imagine. You are struggling to make it through the day, let alone be happy. It’s not that you don’t have the ability to turn your life around. It’s that you are missing the practical knowledge to do so. And here it is, at your fingertips!

In a world where everything is at our fingertips, the tendency for anxiety, analysis paralysis, FOMO, jealousy, and unneeded comparison to pop up is all too common. Each of these issues has a common foundational root: overthinking. In the modern world, overthinking is the root cause of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and depression. Recognize when you are overthinking, and your triggers for doing so. You will learn in this step-by-step guide how to begin battling and changing those thought patterns for good.