Summary of Edna B. Foa & Reid Wilson's Stop Obsessing!

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#1 Worrying and obsessing are two different things. Worry is the process of thinking about something in detail, and it is usually distressing. Obsessions are relatively stable worries that are distressing and often frightening. They are difficult to resist.

#2 Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an anxiety disorder. It is characterized by symptoms that interfere with your daily social and work activities. About five million people in the United States are thought to suffer from OCD.

#3 Until recently, we have not had specific programs to help the worriers of the world. With the assistance of a mental health professional, individuals can identify their specific distressing thoughts and learn how to replace them with more supportive ones.

#4 You can get better. Thousands of people have used cognitive-behavioral techniques to rid themselves of their obsessions and compulsions. You can overcome your symptoms and take back control of your life step by step.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521506

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#1

Worrying and obsessing are two different things. Worry is the process of thinking about something in detail, and it is usually distressing. Obsessions are relatively stable worries that are distressing and often frightening. They are difficult to resist.

#2

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an anxiety disorder. It is characterized by symptoms that interfere with your daily social and work activities. About five million people in the United States are thought to suffer from OCD.

#3

Until recently, we have not had specific programs to help the worriers of the world. With the assistance of a mental health professional, individuals can identify their specific distressing thoughts and learn how to replace them with more supportive ones.

#4

You can get better. Thousands of people have used cognitive-behavioral techniques to rid themselves of their obsessions and compulsions. You can overcome your symptoms and take back control of your life step by step.

#5

The seven types of OCD are checkers, repeaters, washers, cleaners, orderlies, obsessors, and wigglers. Checkers are people who check excessively to prevent a certain catastrophe from occurring. Repeaters are those who engage in repeating actions.

#6

There are four types of OCD: hoarders, thinking ritualizers, worriers, and pure obsessionals. Hoarders collect trivial objects and find it difficult to get rid of them. Thinking ritualizers have repetitive thoughts or images to reduce their anxiety-provoking thoughts or images.

#7

The seven traits of obsessions and compulsions are as follows: your worries and obsessions involve a concern with disastrous consequences, you know that your obsessions are irrational, you try to resist your obsessions, but that only makes them worse.

#8

Your obsessions are maintained in part through paradox: the more you fight them, the more difficult it is for you to dismiss them. But the more you actively resist them, the more stubborn they seem to become. To control your obsessions, learn how to stop fighting them.

#9

The relief provided by the compulsive behaviors is temporary. They never provide