(Part six of a continuing series by the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California’s OCD experts) With all of the recent, and long overdue, attention on the topic of sexual harassment in the media, it’s not surprising that this topic is showing up in…
(Part five in a continuing series by the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California’s OCD experts) We’ve previously written (see OCD Treatment Tip #1: Why Checking Doesn’t Bring Us Certainty) about the function and the peril of CHECKING in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) but…
(Part four of a continuing series by the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California’s OCD experts) We come to therapy for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) because we are in PAIN. We come to therapy when what we have been doing to try to contain…
(Part three of a continuing series by the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California’s OCD experts) It is a momentous moment when someone who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) decides to enter treatment. It is usually a difficult decision to make, as so…
(Part two of a continuing series on the treatment of OCD from one of Southern California’s OCD experts) When Damian was a student in college he took a biology class where he learned about “mutagens” – chemical substances that could possibly cause mutations in the human…
(Part one of a continuing series on OCD treatment from one of Southern California’s OCD experts) “Frank,” worried about fires and break-ins, checks and recheck the burners on his stove and the locks on his front door before he goes to bed or leaves his house.…
Psychologists are often asked: “Why do you use exposure therapy? It sounds torturous to ask me to face what I’ve feared and avoided for so long! Isn’t there an easier way to have the fear go away?” Exposure therapy is a name for one of…