Taming Obsessive Thoughts: Tips for Managing OCD

Learn four main subtypes of OCD, and how CBT helps reduce obsessive thoughts and obsessions associated with OCD. Find all the related videos in my Free Self Help Course for OCD at https://shtoons.com/ocd and to support my channel please see the links below 👇

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0:00 Intro
0:36 Contamination-Based OCD
0:56 Responsibility for Harm OCD
1:23 Symmetry and Ordering OCD
2:05 Taboo/Forbidden Thoughts OCD
2:58 Pure "O" OCD
3:33 Treating OCD
3:57 Intrusive Thoughts
4:49 Over-Importance of Thoughts
6:16 Thought-Action Fusion
8:25 Need to Control Thoughts
9:48 Inflated Responsibility
11:30 Overestimate Threats and Danger
13:22 Intolerance of Uncertainty
15:22 Cognitive Restructuring
15:40 Mindfulness









References:
Clark, D. A. (2020). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD and Its Subtypes (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press.
Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group. (1997). Behaviour research and therapy, 35(7), 667–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(97...

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