The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

I love how insightful this book is.

The best book on rhis subject that I have read. Every counselor should have ir! Very practical. It relaxes....

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Great book

As a sufferer of OCD I'd recently lapsed again due to a significant bereavement. Whilst I have been receiving cbt treatment , I wanted a book that would focus specifically on OCD. After seeing Jon on a you tube video for 'OCD stories', I felt as though he really understood the nature of OCD and so bought his book. I'd pretty much thought I'd exhausted most of ocds more common themes yet I became highly distressed at the thought of a certain song coming into my head. I panicked and fought so hard to rid the lyrics. At the same time I also became obsessed with ringing noises or noises that were high pitched. I questioned whether this was ocd or if I was going mad (which usually means it's OCD! ). When I received the book I was amazed to see these types of obsessions listed. Jon talks about 'loud thoughts' which is exactly the term I was using to my therapist to articulate how they felt. I've started to make real headway with these obsessions now. The songs don't bother me at all now and I'm over the ear thing! I have had a new obsession regarding 'the meaning of life' which I believe some refer to as exestential OCD. I never thought this one would bother me but it has. Whilst it's not covered in the book I'm starting to work with my therapist around ERP and script writing in order to habituate to these awful thoughts and feelings. The mindfulness element I find incredibly useful. I think in the past this is what I had been doing but not recognising it as being 'mindful'. Accepting you had an awful thought and awful feeling yet carrying on with my day without dwelling on it was how I pulled myself out of previous obsessions. This is essentially what this book helps you to do. To pull yourself back to the present and let the thoughts be. This is still something I'm trying to master but do feel like progress is being made. What is useful about this book is that it is written in a way that really resonate's with sufferers. It covers a lot of the main obsessions including relationship OCD, pocd, harm, contamination and sexual orientations OCD. As someone with a short attention span I like a book to be to the point. This is exactly that with really good exercises that aren't dragged out. You don't feel like you are reading war and peace like some books. I'll will be (and have been) recomending this book to my OCD friends 😊

Ótimo livro para entender abordagem Mindfulness para tratar o TOC. Os autores faze uso de metáforas para ajudar a descrever os conceitos que permeiam o Mindfulness, embora o livro se destine a quem já tem prévio de outras abordagens de tratamento para o TOC, como a Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamental, por exemplo. Sem falar no passa-a-passo do self-help que é muito didático.

This is the most comprehensive book I have found about using mindfulness techniques to help people control OCD symptoms. I also recommend Brain Lock but this book is probably better for people with more severe OCD symptoms. I am a psychologist in Toronto at The Mindfulness Clinic and i want my patients to learn useful techniques, to understand why the techniques work, and to be able to use the techniques when the going gets tough. This book is written by someone who is very experienced with treating people with OCD. This book has given me many useful tips on how to help my patients from a mindfulness perspective. It is a great resource for people with OCD - whether they are working on getting control on their own, or whether they are working with a therapist for support and coaching.

I recently finished reading the book "The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD" by Jon Hershfield, MFT and Tom Corboy, MFT and I have to say I was quite impressed and have already started using many of their ideas with my current OCD clients (as well as clients with other kinds of anxiety disorders besides OCD!). Both authors clearly have a wealth of experience working with OCD and share a number of useful ideas, tips, and techniques in their book. Essentially, mindfulness is moment to moment nonjudgmental awareness of what is happening in your mind. When you start paying attention to what your mind is actually doing, it is really quite surprising how little of the time we really are present. So often we get lost in our thoughts, react to them without thinking, and get caught up in our thought streams which can take us into some very dark and scary places which are very far from the present moment. And this entire process takes place without us being aware that it is happening - we may not be aware that we have a choice to not pay attention to our thoughts and see then for what they are as just "thoughts" and simply not respond. As one develops the ability to be more mindful it is possible to notice these things happening and the very noticing then gives us the possibility of making a different choice. If, after touching a doorknob, I suddenly feel the urge to rush to the bathroom and wash the germs off my hands, I can mindfully be aware that I'm having thoughts about my hands being contaminated but also since I am now more aware I can make a choice to either do what I've always done, rush to wash my hands, or I can make a choice in the moment to stay with the discomfort and see what happens. Mindfulness allows me to be aware of the "automatic pilot" and to disengage from what may have become long-standing habits of responding to discomfort by seeking immediate relief. The authors also certainly incorporate more traditional Cognitive Behavioral Treatment approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention and cognitive restructuring, but they add to our clinical repertoire these new techniques derived from mindfulness which I think only serve to enhance the effectiveness of these more traditional approaches. The book begins with several chapters on mindfulness, followed by a very useful chapter entitled "Acceptance, Assessment, Action", then there are nine chapters on applying their particular techniques to specific kinds of OCD, and finally a few chapters at the end on maintaining your progress and preventing relapse. I highly recommend this book to anybody who is suffering from any form of OCD, and, in fact, anyone suffering from other types of anxiety as well as I believe the

Es un buen libro para ayudar a gente con OCD, escrito por personas que realmente necesitan esta ayuda. Aconsejo su compra.