How to Support Someone with OCD
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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When you notice your child, family member, partner or loved one in distress, or compulsing, it is natural to want to do whatever you can to relieve their distress. You might not realize that trying to meet someone’s needs or demands that has OCD is called accommodating. It can make their OCD worse, or at least make their recovery more difficult.
Family members can help the success of their loved one’s recovery by addressing accommodation early. Unfortunately, the more a family accommodates their loved ones, the more the dysfunction and stress all the way around.
Accommodations come in many different forms, and you may not even realize that you are doing it, especially when it comes to giving a loved one reassurance. But it occurs when you take part in their rituals and compulsions. Remember rituals and compulsions are the behaviors they do to relieve their anxiety.
Ways that you may be accommodating their OCD and hindering their recovery include things like:
• Waiting for their rituals to be completed
• Avoiding their triggers
• Supervising them
• Hiding things
• Participating in rituals
• Following their OCD rules
• Giving them reassurance
• Accommodating their avoidance and safety behaviors
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Extremely useful pod cast. Thanks
Thank you. I am so glad it was helpful ❤️
Hey Paige, I'm in recovery of my health anxiety and OCD, but your videos have done wonders for me, so thank you. but I do have one question, can you do a video on what to do when you idenifiy yourself by only one thing, (Like a hobby or something), and you don't see as anything else, and hate yourself for everything else? Because that's what I've been going through.
I am sorry you are struggling with that. I would be interested in hearing a little more details about what you are experiencing. If you wouldn’t mind, you could send me a more detailed explanation at paigepradko.com.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Ok, where can I send it to you on the website?
There is a contact form on paigepradko.com and it comes directly to me
Thank you so much for sharing this! Learned alot❤
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful. 😊
Thank you for sharing such valuable info. In your experience, are there situations where group ERP therapy might be a suitable option for individuals with OCD? If so, could you share some insights or considerations regarding the effectiveness and adaptations needed for successful group ERP therapy?
It can be somewhat challenging to teach group ERP to people with OCD because everyone has such different themes, intrusive thoughts, urges and compulsions. Yet, people can learn by hearing how a completely different theme might be treated, because it does not emotionally trigger them. They can learn the concepts and then apply it to themselves. A possible drawback is that some people can easily adopt the themes of others and one may potentially be triggered by others sharing. Therefore some considerations might be how can a person share within a group without triggering others and yet still feel supported. I believe that Jonathon Grayson has established and tested recommended OCD group protocols to teach ERP. Grayson wrote the book Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Great points! I agree that the diverse nature of OCD themes presents both challenges and opportunities in group ERP. Jonathon Grayson's work is definitely worth exploring.Thank you for giving me directions. 💖@@PaigePradkoTherapy
Hi paige, i was having a question for a long time.
In life there are both positives and negatives right? And we must focus on positives right?.
But imagine for a moment we got a life where no such thing as positivity exists and the only thing that exists are negativity, pain and suffering. So if everyone got such a life, would everyone prefer living or everyone kill themselves? What about you?
I am sorry if you feel like you are living a life of only negativity, pain and suffering. If this were the case for me, I would try to create positivity in my mind in the same way that Viktor Frankl describes in his book, A Man’s Search for Meaning.
I understand where you are coming from 😥 I see it in my son. It's a terrible blockage in thoughts which will not shift, no matter what anyone says to you. But only you can get through it. It's your brain and your response to the lies it's coming up with. I really hope you are doing better
My OCD was brought on by the strep virus when I was 11
I am so sorry that happened to you. It sounds like you are aware of PANDAS and how there are recommended antibiotic treatments. Not too many are aware that you can get OCD from a virus. We saw an up tic of cases from Covid. Were you diagnosed at the time it began, or was it diagnosed as an adult? Were you prescribed antibiotics to treat it?
@@PaigePradkoTherapy I'm aware of PANDAS. I had a much younger cousin get it. I was diagnosed as an adult. I started showing signs of trichotillomania when I was 12 just a few months later. This was 88/89. My parents tried to get me help but none to be had back then. I had no idea of antibiotic treatments.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy I was prescribed antibiotics for the strep but I didn't get it regularly. There is a whole other thing to that
@@donnaaranda7175, unfortunately there was so little known back then. 😢