What Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

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Obessive Compulsive Disorder can be terrifying and debilitating, but it is treatable. You do not need to continue suffering from it or let it get in the way of the life you want to live. Working with a therapist who offers skilled and precise Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can help you fully walk away from all compulsions. But to do this, you have to be all in.

Here’s one way I explain ERP to my clients:

The brave but cautious knight came to a fork in the road. One path led her East, the other path West. Facing the knight was a stone with directions engraved on it. “To the East,” the stone said, “is a life filled with adventure, creativity, fun, family, friends, and learning”. The knight read this and nodded with excitement; those were all things she wanted in her life.

But the stone’s inscription continued, “to the West is a life with filled with certainty”. Again, the knight nodded. This was also a life........

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