Evidence-based online therapy for OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention. Understand intrusive thoughts and compulsions and how ERP works.
You do not need to identify with all of these. Even a few is reason enough to talk to someone.
Everyone has intrusive thoughts; research on non-clinical populations consistently finds this. The difference in OCD is interpretation — the thought is treated as meaningful, dangerous, or as revealing something about your character. That interpretation creates anxiety, the compulsion relieves it, and the relief teaches the brain that the compulsion was necessary. The compulsion is therefore not a symptom of OCD so much as its fuel, which is why treatment targets it directly.
What the work actually involves, session by session.
Including mental compulsions, which are frequently missed and are the reason many people believe their OCD is 'untreatable'.
ERP is the gold-standard psychological treatment: gradual, planned contact with triggers while not performing the ritual, so the anxiety is allowed to fall on its own.
Addressing inflated responsibility, thought-action fusion and perfectionism — the beliefs that give intrusive thoughts their charge.
Family members are often drawn into providing reassurance or participating in rituals. Reducing that, kindly and gradually, is part of treatment.
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