Ten Strategies

THE TEN BEST STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING OCD

For many years I led weekly OCD groups.  One main focus was always a discussion of what “strategies” were working best for people to deal with their OCD. Everyone was encouraged to try out a good strategy. The following is a list of the 10 strategies that worked the best over the years, according to the reports of my patients. This material is covered in more detail in the book Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals.

What is important, from the standpoint of the cognitive-behavioral approach to OCD, is to put an obsession in a new light, to take a new attitude, to reframe it in a therapeutic manner. Click on the strategy in order to be taken to the web page devoted to it. Give these a try!