The OCD Travel Guide: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Risk, Discomfort, and Uncertainty - Softcover

Parker LCSW, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736409131 ISBN 13: 9781736409138

Publisher: The Center for OCD & Anxiety, 2021

Synopsis

Are you spending excessive amounts of time responding to unwanted intrusive thoughts?

Are you exhausted from bearing the heavy weight of an OCD concern?

Have your OCD symptoms taken you off course from where you want to be going in life?

Living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be a confusing experience. Your symptoms can overwhelm you to the point that it's hard to differentiate between events in the real world and the OCD story unfolding in your head. The OCD Travel Guide provides guidance on how to better recognize your OCD symptoms, reduce the influence these symptoms are having over your life, and prioritize your own internal compass over OCD's "misdirection." By drawing from the evidence-based approaches of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and presenting these strategies in clear and engaging language, the OCD Travel Guide will prove a valuable aid to anyone struggling to find their way in the world while living with OCD.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Meet Your Annoying, but Inseparable, Travel Companion (aka. OCD)

• Chapter 1. Preparing for Your Travels (Understanding the Symptoms of OCD)

• Chapter 2. Going in Circles (The OCD Cycle of Avoidance)

• Chapter 3. Map Out the Course of Your Adventure (How to Ignore the OCD Misdirection and Set Your Own Coordinates)

• Chapter 4: START Your Journey (Strategies for Venturing Out onto the Open Road and Living with Unwanted Thoughts and Feelings)

• Chapter 5. Exposure and Response Prevention (Pointing Your Compass Directly at What Makes You Anxious)

• Chapter 6. Managing Your Brain During Your Travels

• Chapter 7. Time to Get Rid of Some of Your Baggage (aka. Let Go of the Past)

About this title

About the Author

Michael Parker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice based in Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and other anxiety-related issues, utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and, more recently, Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT) strategies. As a Youtuber, trainer, and therapist, he enjoys sharing his passion for these proven treatment methods with others. You can find him online at his practice website, pittsburghtherapyocd.com, and his Youtube channel, youtube.com/@OCDspace412.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for OCD & Anxiety
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736409131
• ISBN 13: 9781736409138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251