Relationship Obsession (R-OCD)
What is Relationship Obsession OCD? Relationships are an essential part of our human experience. However, forming and sustaining intimate relationships can cause major stress for OCD sufferers and non-sufferers alike.…
OCD Sufferer’s Forum: Selling a Soul
This is the first installment of the OCD Sufferer's Forum, which is intended to inform people about the course, nature, and treatment of OCD. There is a lot of misinformation…
The Benefits Of Mindfulness Therapy
The truth is that many of us—if not all of us—are caught up in a mental race for life achievements. We're always planning, striving, and stressing about an uncertain future.…
Finding the Right OCD Treatment
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Mindfulness: CBT, MBCT, and Trying to Think a Feeling Away
You can learn to relate more skillfully to your emotions using mindfulness. A common mistake that we make, however, is depending on our rational, problem-solving mind to "fix" our negative…
From CBT to Mindfulness: MBCT
There are many therapeutic approaches that have been created to help decrease human distress and suffering. In this article, I will talk about two particular approaches, as well as a…
How to Overcome Your Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
About 7% of the U.S. population suffers from social anxiety. That means that at an event with a hundred attendees, chances are that at least six other people present suffer…
Would You Rather Be Right or Happy?
The Chinese Finger Trap Have you ever tried a Chinese finger trap? You slide the index fingers of each hand into a woven tube, then try to remove your fingers.…
Where Was I Just Then? Mindfulness
Mindfulness: identifying our thoughts, images and automatic reactivity to them—seeing our thoughts instead of being our thoughts. Paying attention For many years, as I ate meals I would often noticed…
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
What is meditation? The Pali word for meditation is "Bhavana," which means "to make grow" or "to develop." What is mindfulness? Mindfulness meditation is what comes from paying attention…