The Free Me from OCD Blog
How to Respond When Your Child is in OCD Crisis
It’s 9 PM and your daughter calls, saying, “Sorry to bug you, Mom, but my OCD is really bad right now, and I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”
What do you do?
In this blog, I’ll share with...
Debunking the Top 5 Myths about OCD
I would like to nominate OCD as one of the 5 most misunderstood diagnoses in medicine.
Why do I say this?
I talk with people whose lives have been touched by OCD every day. I see the questions they ask and the beliefs they hold.
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What you say and what you do can make a huge difference for your child. In fact, you can give them skills that will set them up for a life of success.
Let’s kick this conversation off with a story.
When my son was in Little League, I set a goal of attending all of his games. Then I...
One day I went to visit a friend who had just moved into a new house. She said, “I’ve got to show you something.” She tool me up to her bedroom and opened her husband’s sock drawer. I saw perfectly folded pairs of socks fanned in neat rows organized by color. She...