Not sure if you're ready to engage? Or perhaps you're wait-listed.
Either way, there are resources for people that I've suggested over the years. Here they are:
(Scroll down to the end of this document for information about support groups for people with OCD.)
Books
Anxiety- The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution, by Clark and Beck
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry. By Pittman and Karle.
- Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety, by Wilson (one of my personal favorites)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)by Claiborne and Redrick
- The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder Revised Edition, by Phillips
- Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder 1st Edition, by Phillips
Hoarding Disorder
- Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring, by Tompkins and Hartl
- The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life, by Zasio
OCD
Books for Adults:
Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears, by Pittman and Youngs
Books for Parents/Children:
- Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD, by Lebowitz
- Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers, by Lebowitz.
- Blink Blink, Clop, Clop: An OCD Storybook by Moritz.
- What To Do when Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD, by Huebner and Matthews
Books for Clinicians/Clinical Texts:
- Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children, by Lebowitz
- The Big Book of Exposures: Innovative, Creative, and Effective CBT-Based Exposures for Treating Anxiety-Related Disorders, by Springer and Tolin
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm (Treatments That Work) by Yadin, Foa, Lichner
- Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (Treatments That Work) 2nd Edition, by Tolin, Tompkins, and Steketee
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Treatment Manual, by Wilhelm and Phillips
OCD Groups:
New Mexico:
OCD Support Group Albuquerque. Learn more here.
Washington:
OCD Seattle sponsors meetings at Swedish hospital in Seattle on the third Saturday of the month. (Learn more here)
Looking for an OCD or anxiety treatment provider near you? I provide effective treatment is available via telehealth in the Seattle, Olympic Peninsula, and Surrounding areas and throughout Washington state. I also provide treatment client clients in Albuquerque, and throughout New Mexico.
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