OCD is not an easy concept to explain to young children. This book was written to give parents and professionals an entry into talking with children about OCD, a complex and usually progressive neurobiological disorder. Children can relate their own experiences to those of Henrietta, Daisy, Snort, and Biscuit, a group of farm animals who have obsessive thoughts and compulsions…
The first ever comic book about OCD for kids and adolescents. The graphic novel is about Conner, Emily, and their peers at a special camp to learn how to live with OCD. At camp, they learn about cognitive-behavioral therapy tools to help them get on with life and go in the direction they care about even though their OCD could hold them…
A practical guide by three leading cognitive behavioral therapy experts, enabling sufferers to make sense of their symptoms, and to follow a simple plan to help conquer obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Whether one is compelled to clean more and more thoroughly, is plagued by “bad” thoughts, or feels the need to keep checking if they’ve turned off appliances, obsessive worries can…
A classic self-help workbook, used in hospitals and clinics all over the world, offers self-assessment tools and cognitive behavioral self-help tools and techniques. Includes info on medications and medical treatments and advice on finding the right professional help. Also includes information for family members seeking to understand and support loved ones with OCD or a related disorder, such as body dysmorphic disorder or trichotillomania.…
Storytelling and metaphor are among the most effective and useful tools therapists can use to better identify with their clients, clearly explain a disorder to family members, and introduce new treatment options. Drawing upon years of clinical experience with clients their families, Dr. Weg offers dozens of stories that therapists can adapt and employ in their own practices to explain…
People who suffer from mental illness rarely do so alone. Their families and loved ones face their own set of unique challenges—problems that deserve their own resources and sources of support. This book is written specifically to the loved ones of people with OCD. It helps readers examine how OCD affects their lives and offers a straightforward system for building a…
People often ask Christina, “What helped you stop pulling and picking? and, perhaps even more important, “How do you stay stopped?” While the tools and strategies that lead one person to recovery will not always work for another, in Pearls, Christina shares many small tools and shifts in perspective that helped her become aware of, and effectively eliminate, these unwanted behaviors…
With her middle-class upbringing and well-liked demeanor, Emily M. Watson is your typical girl next door. She admits that she used to believe that mental disorders were weaknesses and not real illnesses. However, at eighteen years old, she began to suffer from OCD, as well as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. And so her story begins. Journey through this brutally honest…
Part memoir, part self-help for teens, this book tells the story of how OCD dragged the author to rock bottom—and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and research, Dotson explains what OCD is and how readers with OCD can begin to get better. The essays in the book by teens…
Tormented by bullies in childhood, the author’s onset of OCD at the age of 16 took the form of horrific intrusive thoughts involving his bullies. He aims to raise public awareness that bullying has long been causing needless suffering in the lives of countless nice, intelligent, and sensitive people. Overcoming his OCD through effective treatment, as well as love and support…