Obsessive Compulsive

About Dr. LaShonda M. Jackson-Dean Dr. LaShonda M. Jackson-Dean an American Author of a variety of genres to include African American Studies, Women, Management, Militaristic, Motivational, Wellness, and Fitness Studies, Fiction as well as Non-fiction literature. She is a Motivational Speaker, Life, Transformational, and Total Wellness Coach. Dr. Jackson-Dean, adjunct professor, and entrepreneur gives voice to the voiceless through her writings and speaking. She is the author of A Phenomenological Study of the Underrepresentation of Senior Level African American Women in Corporations, Seed ...

Navigating relationships is challenging enough—but when Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) enters the equation, it adds another layer of complexity. An OCD Life: OCD, Dating, and Marriage is an insightful and deeply personal guide for individuals struggling with OCD who want to build meaningful romantic relationships. Drawing from personal experience, research, and expert strategies, this book explores how OCD impacts dating, marriage, intimacy, and communication.

Are you sick and tired of being triggered and punishing your partner with unnecessary questioning while everyone around you seems to enjoy their relationships? Have you tried to put an end to your intrusive thoughts and triggers, but nothing seems to work? Do you want to finally say goodbye to all of your pain and see what works for you? You see, ridding yourself of retroactive jealousy forever doesn’t have to be complicated. You can easily start melting away RJ today, even if RJ has destroyed every relationship you’ve ever had.

In a world where everything is at our fingertips, the tendency for anxiety, analysis paralysis, FOMO, jealousy, and unneeded comparison to pop up is all too common. Each of these issues has a common foundational root: overthinking. In the modern world, overthinking is the root cause of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and depression. Recognize when you are overthinking, and your triggers for doing so. You will learn in this step-by-step guide how to begin battling and changing those thought patterns for good.

Frank Night is a lay minister that spends all his free time running interventions in at-risk communities. When the tiny community of Brooklyn, Cape Town, offers him two new cases, an unconventional stabbing leading to the death of a local boy, and a self-mutilating girl that disappears one Saturday night, he suddenly finds himself with much to do and manage. A diagnosed neuro-divergent, his interactions with others are strained and complex at the best of times. But when the stress from these two interventions, as well as what seems like a neighbourhood that’s set itself against him, ...

It's a couple of months after that disturbing night in Brooklyn. Frank and Didi have just started settling down but Brooklyn and the community's at it again: Jenny brings over a silent and highly detached friend, a new prostitute starts working their corner, and whereas Hamma's eventually finding his feet, certain interactions between him and the community has Frank concerned. As if all of that isn't enough, even while Frank's trying to manage his neuro-divergence, he's also realising that he might slowly be losing control. Half the time he can't sleep due to nightmares and the other half ...

Literary short stories about love, madness, delusion, romance, loneliness, isolation, science, metamorphosis, and more. The settings for these short stories are England, Ireland and Italy. The protagonists are generally outsiders who are trying to regain or maintain mental stability without much success. There is first person narrative and third person, too. The narrator is occasionally omniscient. The stories show the influences of Gogol, Kafka, and Dostoevsky as well as Mansfield and Beckett. The tone is serious overall but with some humour. The collection will appeal to readers with ...

In the first comprehensive guide to treating obsessive compulsive disorder based on clinically proven behavioral therapy techniques, Dr. Lee Baer’s Getting Control has been providing OCD sufferers with information and relief for more than 20 years. In this updated edition, OCD sufferers and their loved ones will find everything they need to assess their symptoms, set realistic goals, and create specific therapeutic exercises for managing this disorder.

Almost every person will suffer from issues relating to negative thinking patterns at some stage in their life, it's unavoidable. Whether it's facing phobias, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, or full-scale anxiety or depression. It's much more prevalent than you think. But most people aren't equipped with the right mental tools to identify the underlying reasons for their problems, or spot the triggers which set them off. This is where Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help.

When people are diagnosed with OCD, it doesn’t always come as a surprise. With others, it may be more of a shock. However, when we look at the symptoms and the influences that affect such people, it may not be any wonder that it is more prevalent than many have assumed it to be. OCD is a very real, common disorder that knows variations in severity and randomness. Some people are obsessed with cleaning, while others can’t stop double-checking locks, organizational spaces, or items.

Many people are shackled by their own rigidity and perfectionism. This book was written for those with OCPD as well as the loved ones of those with OCPD. We will explain what OCPD is and discuss its causes. We will then go into the various ways that a person with OCPD can seek to be more open, less rigid and perfectionistic, and experience less overall frustration with life.

Therapist Chloe Brotheridge has used the latest scientific research and her own personal experience to create a programme that has already helped thousands of her clients to overcome anxiety. The Anxiety Solution will provide you with simple yet powerful practical tools to help you manage your symptoms and start feeling better every day. Chloe will help you to understand why we feel anxious in the first place and equips you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life.

Stop Picking on Me is the definitive guide on excoriation (skin picking) disorder (SPD). Learn how to make peace with your critical self and how to change your lifestyle to finally heal the phenomenon of nervous, obsessive, compulsive, and habitual skin picking. Mary-Margaret "anand sahaja" Stratton is the founding mother healer of excoriation disorder. She is an Essene minister, certified raw food nutritionist, instructional designer, and veteran of twelve step philosophy.

From the heart and soul of lifelong mental-health sufferer Adam Shaw, combined with the expert mind of the talented and leading psychologist Lauren Callaghan, this audiobook is cohesively divided into two helpful parts. Detailed from the separate perspectives of a sufferer and a psychologist is an insight into mental-health recovery to which sufferers can really relate.

Tauche ein in die komplexe Welt der Zwangsgedanken und entdecke, wie du die Kontrolle über dein Denken zurückgewinnen kannst. Erfahre, was Zwangsgedanken sind, wie sie entstehen und welche Auswirkungen sie auf das tägliche Leben haben können. Durch meine persönliche Geschichte, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und praktische Tipps bietet dieses Hörbuch nicht nur Verständnis, sondern auch Hoffnung und Strategien zur Bewältigung.

Imagina vivir atrapado/a en una mente que nunca se detiene, con pensamientos intrusivos que te atormentan y compulsiones que parecen la única vía de escape posible… solo para darte cuenta de que cada vez te atrapan más. El trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo es mucho más que la imagen popular de alguien lavándose las manos en exceso: es una lucha silenciosa contra la duda, el miedo y la necesidad de certeza en un mundo que nunca la ofrece

Today, you might be in the darkest place you can imagine. You are struggling to make it through the day, let alone be happy. It’s not that you don’t have the ability to turn your life around. It’s that you are missing the practical knowledge to do so. And here it is, at your fingertips!

OCD has often been treated with success. In most cases, this treatment simply means that the symptoms are reduced and managed effectively. OCD can be something to live with, and can even, in some cases, work to a person’s advantage. However, addictions and compulsions can also be harmful to the brain and create a wave of dopamine fluctuations that damages one’s mental health. In this audiobook, we’ll go over some specific compulsions. We’ll answer various questions and tap into the information we have about hereditary causes.

The struggles and humiliations of adolescence are told in an unflinching, funny, surprisingly universal tale of one good Jewish girl's battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Most of us know what it's like to wait for God to change our circumstances. But whether we're waiting for physical healing, an emotional breakthrough, or better relationships, waiting is something we usually try to avoid. Why? Because waiting is painful and hard. The truth is it's also inevitable. In Still Waiting, Ann Swindell explores the depths of why God wants us to wait by chronicling her own compelling story of waiting for healing from an incurable condition.