Book Therapy

ERP Music Therapy with Justin & Selena for Relationship OCD

The song playlist “prescription” for relationship or partner themed OCD when you’re as obsessed with your partner’s ex the way Hailey is “Single White Female” accused of being with Selena. ERP homework Belieber style.

Non Traditional Relationship OCD and Pets

Yes you can have OCD about your best friend!

OCD Clinic Spotlight: Beyond Borders CBT

Finding the right care is vital to OCD recovery. One specialty clinic to check out if you are looking for an OCD specialist is Beyond Borders CBT who offer Telehealth services in 20 states.

Why Justin Bieber’s Love Drama is Perfect Material for Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy for Relationship OCD

Look no further if your relationship OCD theme is obsessed with your partner’s ex in some way shape or form. Let Justin make a Belieber out of you for the effectiveness of Exposure and Response Prevention in treating symptoms of relationship or partner themed OCD

Book Therapies: Finding Help for OCD

If Anxiety were a car it would be a Camaro and treatment would be gasoline. If OCD were a car it would be a Tesla and treatment would be a charging station. How to find the right charging station aka ERP ( Exposure and Response Prevention) therapist for you.

OCD or Anxiety?

Ketchup or Catsup or same thing? Are OCD and Anxiety two different conditions? Or are they two sides of the same coin?

Book Therapies: Review of the Doubting Disease in Religious OCD

When OCD weaponizes faith it can turn prayer into punishment that is unrelenting. The book The Doubting Disease by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi explains the cause and treatment for religious themed OCD also known as scrupulosity. 

Book Therapies Series: OCD and You and Me and Everyone

Did you know that talk therapy and OCD are a mismatch? Why? Talk therapy or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) can worsen OCD symptoms. How? The compulsive in OCD relentlessly seeks assurance and certainty. Unfortunately, the more one engages in a compulsive quest to attain assurance and certainty the more their obsessions grow. Talk therapy provides temporary relief but is like gas on fire. 

Introducing Book Therapies

Not the debut episode but the prelude talking all about how to choose the most useful therapy book based on succinct summaries of what's between the covers.