How to Find a Therapist for Panic Attacks
How to find a therapist for panic attacks: what a panic attack actually is, why exposure-based treatment matters for panic disorder, and what to ask a prospective therapist.
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What Type of Therapy Works for Skin Picking?
What type of therapy works for skin picking? Habit Reversal Training, the ComB model, and ACT for excoriation disorder, and where inhibitory learning fits.
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Existential OCD: When “Deep Thinking” Becomes Distressing
Existential questions are part of being human. What is the meaning of life? Is reality real?…
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Sexual Orientation OCD: When Attraction Doubt Becomes OCD
Sexual orientation OCD: when attraction doubt becomes OCD. Attraction checking, body checking, groinal responses, and how ERP treats SO-OCD.
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Harm OCD: Fear of Losing Control and Hurting Loved Ones
Harm OCD and the fear of losing control: unwanted violent thoughts about hurting loved ones, why the horror is the point, the compulsions and accommodation that keep it going, and how ERP treats it.
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Taboo Thoughts OCD: Why the Content of a Thought Tells You Almost Nothing
Taboo thoughts OCD: violent, sexual, and religious intrusive thoughts, why the content of a thought tells you almost nothing about you, and how ERP treats disturbing thoughts without arguing with them.
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Process Addictions and the Anxiety Spectrum: How Gambling, Sex, and Pornography Compulsions Co-Occur with OCD, Anxiety, and Trauma
If you have searched for help with compulsive gambling, compulsive sexual behavior, or out-of-control pornography use,…
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EMDR vs CPT vs Prolonged Exposure: How Trauma Treatments Differ
EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Prolonged Exposure are all evidence-based trauma treatments, but they work differently and suit different people. Here is a clear breakdown.
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Skin Picking Treatment: What Actually Works
Excoriation disorder (skin picking) is more common than most people realize, and most approaches to treatment miss the mark. Here is what the evidence actually supports.
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Why Reassurance Seeking Makes OCD Worse
Reassurance seeking is one of the most common OCD compulsions, and one that quietly makes the disorder worse over time. Here’s the science behind why, and what ERP does about it.
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All ERP: Cultural Context in Ethical Exposure Therapy
By: Felix Murad, LPC-S, LMHC, CMHC, NCC A Call to the Field for Culturally Responsive OCD…
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Understanding BFRBs: Trichotillomania and Excoriation
Understanding BFRBs: trichotillomania (hair pulling) and excoriation disorder (skin picking), the neuroscience and function of body-focused repetitive behaviors, and why standard talk therapy fails.