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

Are OCD doubts making it hard to trust yourself?

Are you spending an excessive amount of time responding to disturbing intrusive thoughts?

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 Set Your Own Coordinates and Ignore OCDs Bad Directions) Chapter 4: START Your Journey (Strategies for Venturing Out onto The Open Road and Living With Your 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)