Overcoming Compulsive Checking: Free Your Mind from OCD (Paperback)

by Paul Munford (Author) "Until recently, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was considered rare and untreatable..." (more)
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Product Description
Stop worrying about:
·Risk and danger
·Being irresponsible or careless
·Causing accidents and making mistakes
·Unintentionally harming or offending someone
·Being criticized.

Imagine being unable to leave the house without first checking the stove, the faucets, the lock on the door ten, fifteen, twenty times. Even performing the simplest daily routines can be a source of considerable fear and anxiety for someone suffering from one of the most often seen forms of obsessive-complusive disorder, checking.people with compulsive checking engage in these kinds of behaviors to avoid some perceived danger, the looming consequence they fear if they don't check and recheck and check again the objects of their obsession. Even though compulsive checking can be devastating, research suggests that behavior therapy can enable 75 percent of checkers to significantly reduce or eliminate their symptoms.

While many books offer strategies for treating the whole spectrum of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, this is the first book to apply the proven-effective techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy specifically to overcome checking. Its engaging exercises teach you how to face, embrace, and erase your fears. And when the fears are eliminated there is no further need for compulsions. Chapters further help you to troubleshoot particularly difficult situations and educate family members and loved ones.

From the Publisher
This is the first book to adapt clinically-effective cognitive behavioral techniques specifically to the treatment of checking, the most common form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. 6 million people in the United States have OCD; the fourth-most common mental disorder. OCD is more prevalent than more visible disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and panic disorder. This is the first self-help book specifically written to people with compulsive checking. Research indicates that CBT alone is as effective for treating OCD as combination treatment using medication and CBT.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 153 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (December 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572243783
• ISBN-13: 978-1572243781
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,425 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Michael Tompkins, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, May 2, 2009

By	Michael A. Tompkins "San Francisco Bay Area C... (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Few clinicians understand the nature and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder as thoroughly as Dr. Munford. He has written a book that is thoughtful, sensitive, and pragmatic and will certainly help anyone who follows his straightforward and proven strategies to overcome compulsive checking. I recommend his book to those who suffer with compulsive checking as well as to clinicians who are looking for ways to help their clients overcome this debilitating problem.