This section will be updated with lots of information, advice and features to help families understand and cope better with their loved one’s OCD. Because of this it is important to involve an adult helper to encourage you to fight your OCD symptoms.

They might be a guardian, carer or counsellor, or another important adult who knows you well and can support you in making changes even when you feel unsure or frightened. Professor Paul Salkovskis is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science and Programme Director of the forthcoming doctorate programme in clinical psychology at the University of Bath. Including real life case studies and examples, this definitive resource will help you reclaim your life and keep OCD away for good.

Your local library service also offers many Reading Well books as ebooks and audiobooks, free to download. Dawn Huebner, PhD, and author of Outsmarting Worry and What to Do When You Worry Too Much You may also be interested in.

Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site.This book offers an extensive and practical guide to overcoming OCD through cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). If you know someone with OCD but don’t understand their mindset or how to help them, then this is also the book for you!

From understanding child anxiety and OCD, to learning how to talk with an anxious child, to avoiding common traps and pitfalls (such as being overly protective or demanding), to identifying the ways in which parents have been enabling a child's anxious behaviors, this book is full of detailed guidance and practical suggestions. Through a period of some significant challenge, the services offered by Anxiety UK has been fantastic, and whilst there is a long road head, progress is positive and forward.

They are relieved when they see their kids being less dependent on them and more successful at getting through difficult bouts of anxiety.

Parents will learn how to alleviate their children's anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children's symptoms-importantly, parents are not required to impose changes on their children's behavior. Thus, instead of deliberately offending God, the person could repeatedly expose oneself to thoughts such as 'I am mad' 'I am going to hell' etc (depending on what bothers them the most about the initial intrusive though). Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now.It you want to know how to empower your child/teen to live their life to the fullest in the face of anxiety, this is the book! Using the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is the proven method for helping those with OCD, it offers teenagers a structured plan of treatment which can be read alone, or with a parent, counsellor or mental health worker. There is more updated information out there that shows that this is NOT helpful, and if anything is likely to turn into a compulsion/ritual in itself. It is the kind of book which I wish I had owned when my OCD was at its worst, one which shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and shows you how to get there. Fantastic book to learn everything about OCD, breaking the stigma that OCD is only based on behaviour compulsions.