Often when people are asked to rate the levels of anxiety that their obsessive thoughts may cause them, they may be unable to assign a number. The anxiety may feel too high and it may be difficult...
Let us now see what kind of compulsions there could be in Harm OCD and how to identify your compulsions....
1. Write the name of your Harm OCD in the box 2. From the Y-BOCS Compulsion Checklist identify if any compulsions apply to you and write them down in the space provided. 3. Observe yourself and...
Even though you may know that you may be doing compulsions, and that you need to stop them, the bigger task is identifying them. The more obvious ones are easy to identify but OCD is a sneaky...
In this chapter, we shall further understand the importance of acceptance and mindfulness in your recovery journey. Sometimes you may think that your compulsions come without obsessions. Sometimes,...
ABCDCompulsionsUnwilling / UnableUnpleasant / RiskyAction...
When Harm OCD first hits, we do the compulsions because they seem like the right thing to do to help us out of our misery. Indeed, they seem to relieve the anxiety in the short term. But even when...
The anxiety hierarchy is one of the most important worksheets you will fill in your recovery journey. An anxiety hierarchy is a list of all anxiety provoking stimuli arranged from the least anxiety...
Now that you have populated the anxiety hierarchy up to the Action Point column, it will soon be time to bite the bullet and face your fears. The premise in ERP for the treatment of Harm OCD is...
Since you are going to start the process of ERP from the next section, it is important that you understand a small crucial aspect. This merits a separate chapter because I did not want this...
We shall now rationalize the sixteen dimensions of Harm OCD so that you can customize your own plan. We do this exercise to form the response prevention script that you can use to face your fears...
Table 3.21.1: Dimension 1 – Me Accidentally Hurting Myself Harm caused bySelf - What if I cause harm?Nature of HarmAccidental - What if I cause harm accidentally?Harm caused toSelf - What if I cause...
If you check the response prevention script of all the dimensions, you will observe that the methodology for...
In this final section, we shall be getting into the thick of things. We shall learn how to do some exposures, and...
ACTIONAnxiety Experienced DateBeginning10 Min20 Min30 Min40 Min50 Min60 MinReflection1st January 2023898654 Very difficult but I could do...
Before your OCD is diagnosed, you may have already begun to do some compulsions even if not too many or too...
When you do your exposures start with the fears that would cause you the lowest anxiety if you had to face them....
When you start facing your fears, you may either be able to handle your fears well, or you may find some fears too large for your state of readiness. It may still not be easy for you to face a large...
SituationObsession Compulsion Action point Mini-hierarchyStep 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step...