"Exposure Therapy/Exposure and Response Prevention." Anyone who does any reading about OCD comes across these terms all the time. Most people (including professionals) THINK that they know what ERP is ...

01 Many OCD sufferers learn to "check" their emotional responses to certain situations as a way of being aware of their OCD. 02 For some, this "checking" can turn into a compulsion. One in which a ...

My parents are away on holiday and they have left me to look after the house. The other day, as I left, I checked that the back door was locked ten times. I checked that the front door was locked 14 ...

IFS for OCD, which is compatible with standard exposure and response prevention (ERP), brings comfort and respect to the ...

A man says taking the psychoactive ingredient in "magic" mushrooms has cured his OCD. People with OCD can have recurring thoughts and feel compelled to repeat behaviors multiple times. Before the ...

Dany Grimwood's OCD compulsions were so severe, they affected him from the moment he woke up every morning. (Supplied) My childhood was very normal – I thought I was like any other boy. I loved ...

Michaela has to check everything compulsively, over and over again. Has the stove really been turned off? Has it? Compulsions accompany her constantly and have had a major negative impact on her life.

Program has OCD sufferers kick tires, jump in Dumpsters, touch toilet seats. Feb. 15, 2010 — -- Away from home for a conference, Faye Lange takes a minute before heading out for what she calls ...

It’s normal to worry about your baby, I assured myself as I stood in the dark, hand resting on my sleeping baby, carefully counting the rise and fall of her chest in sets of five. I was exhausted and ...

Before a "magic" mushroom trip, one man's o bsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms were so bad that he would check that the stove was turned off up to 20 times in a short time period to ease a ...