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International OCD Foundation

Medicine for OCD

EKS:  Expert Consensus Guidelines

Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

American Psychiatric Association

Practice Guidelines for Treatment of OCD

My Experience in Choosing Medication: A Continuing Series

Part 1: OCD and Medication Decisions
Part 2: Starting Medication while Struggling
Part 3: The Limits of Research in Medication Decisions
Part 4: My First Prescription for SSRI's
Part 5: Feeling it in the Jaw: Side Effects of Medication
Part 6: Being on Medication & OCD Weeping
Part 7: Wanting to Get off my Medication
Part 7.5: Built on Sinking Sand:  OCD and Health Anxiety
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I took the average 17 years to find out I have OCD and even longer to actually find someone who knew how to treat it.

Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy allowed me to reclaim my life.

OCD can be treated. Remember this.

Update 9-10-16: I rarely check my email for this account.


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Helpful Sites on OCD

  • Center for OCD and Related Disorders
  • Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
  • Fred Penzel Articles
  • International OCD Foundation
  • Local Support Groups from IOCDF
  • Online Support Groups from IOCDF
  • Newsletter of OCD Foundation of Michigan

My Blog List

  • CBT School Podcast with Kimberley Quinlan
    How to Navigate Depression (During the Holiday Season) | Ep. 414
    5 days ago
  • Alison Dotson
    Understanding I-CBT with Mike Heady
    1 week ago
  • ocdtalk
    My Apologies!
    4 years ago
  • unreasonably rational
    Change
    6 years ago
  • The Beat OCD Blog
    Getting My Thoughts on "Paper"
    9 years ago
  • OCD Reflections
    Spreading the Word: OCD on the Air
    9 years ago

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    Email was like a miracle. I went to graduate school in 1993, and one of the perks was an email address. Since making phone calls filled me...
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    The first obstacle to writing about the history of Exposure Therapy is, of course, my rituals of researching things indefinitely in hopes o...
  • OCD A to Z: L is for Lost Time
    Lost time is one of my OCD themes. I had a realization that the thoughts about wasting time, doing the wrong thing with my time, or losi...
  • Am I still anxious? Does this still bother me? And other querulous questions.
    It's as if I am poking someone who is sleeping, and saying "Are you sleeping?" poke, poke, poke, and then they wake up. Th...
  • Busy Work and Incompleteness OCD
    Thinking about my time, it occurred to me that I do a lot of "busy work" in relation to my OCD. In fact, my compulsions are busy ...

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