by Sunil Punjabi | May 15, 2023 | See Additional Resources
Most times, a Harm OCD attack is not a simple attack. Harm OCD attacks in various layers, at various levels. When you first learn to use the principles of ERP to deal with your Harm...
by Sunil Punjabi | May 15, 2023 | See Additional Resources
Think back to when you have had a baseless, futile argument with someone. Who wins a baseless argument? The person who doesn’t listen to the other side. The person who does listen to...
by Sunil Punjabi | May 15, 2023 | See Additional Resources
One of the sneakiest features of OCD is the backdoor spike. When you get into therapy, you learn to handle these doubts. You also understand that your doubts are not rational. The...
by Sunil Punjabi | May 15, 2023 | See Additional Resources
What we have discussed so far about ERP, about how it is done, is called in-vivo exposure. In ERP, the combination of in-vivo exposures and imaginal exposures yields the best results (Gillihan et al., 2012). In ERP, in-vivo exposure means doing the exposures by...
by Sunil Punjabi | May 15, 2023 | See Additional Resources
Sometimes it is not going to be possible for you to expose yourself directly to your trigger. For example, one of your obsessions may be ‘What if I want to push my friend into oncoming traffic?’ In order to expose yourself to the trigger in-vivo, since you cannot...
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