Psychological insight means awareness of the rationality or irrationality of one’s thoughts. Insight is important in the maintenance of and recovery from several mental disorders. Depending on their...
The seventh pillar of recovery is compassion. Compassion has been defined as a feeling “that arises in witnessing...
After CBT, ERP, mindfulness, acceptance, gratitude, insight and compassion, the eighth pillar is a good diet. There is evidence that shows that certain types of foods can cause anxiety and certain...
The twelfth pillar of recovery is medicines. One section of people is averse to taking medicines because of the various side-effects. Plus, medicines do not cure OCD, they only treat OCD. So, there...
There is widespread confusion about some concepts on OCD, even in literature. Some literature says distraction is...
In your struggles, you may have experienced the following three states from time to time: Anxiety without intrusive thoughts Intrusive thoughts without any accompanying anxiety. Anxiety with...
Sometimes it helps to give your Harm OCD a name (Prudovski, n.d.). That is, think of your Harm OCD as a separate person. This has been recommended for children but it helps equally for adults. You...
We often say I got triggered by this or I got triggered by that. But what are these triggers? Triggers in Harm OCD are those events that bring about obsessions, which in turn lead to compulsions and...
Based on the cues, identify your thoughts, and write them down in the space provided. You can have more than one obsession for one cue. Sr. No.CueTriggerObsessionEXAMPLESensoryViolence in moviesThe...
There is a paradox in Harm OCD that you should be aware of. Harm OCD makes you fearful of your obsessions. You do not want the obsessions and wish that they would go away. For example, the thought,...
Obsessions are thoughts that cause anxiety, are intrusive and disturbing (Goodman et al., 2014). Obsessions in Harm OCD may take many forms. They may take the form of a thought. Thoughts could be in...
1. Write the name of your Harm OCD in the...
Harm OCD being so common, it is understandable that almost anything can become an obsession, because any object can begin to look like a weapon and any event can begin to look like a crime scene....
D1 - Me Accidentally Hurting MyselfSr. No.ObsessionsExJay is telling me I may poke myself in the eye with a pencil accidentally 1 2 3 4 5 D2 - Me Accidentally...
When you have an obsession about whether you are a good person or not, you inadvertently find yourself engaging in a debate. The question that your mind always seems to ask you is ‘Am I a good...
We do not need to solve all the doubts our Harm OCD throws at us. But it seems like the mind will not find relief...
We start off by reiterating that Jay is a liar. Jay is not interested in making you feel better. He is only...
One of the most useful skills you can learn to recover from your Harm OCD is the ability to say ‘I don’t care’ to your obsessive thoughts, as per the ‘acknowledging without agreeing’ principle. If...
What do you do when the obsessions seem real? According to the metacognitive model (Myers & Wells, 2005),...
ObsessionDistancingAttributionAcceptanceI want to kill my motherI am getting the thought that I want to kill my motherJay is giving me the thought that I want to kill my motherI am okay with the...