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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can tear apart a family. Often family and friends have tried to stop a loved ones OCD--with little success. This is the first book specifically for the family and friends of someone with OCD. In this quick and easy fast tract era, its not so easy to reflect back to the basics of family life. Families especially are led to believe if somethings wrong, somehow its their fault. This loving book is an inspiration and will be considered way ahead of its time in years to come. -Janet Greeson, Ph.D.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder : A Survival Guide for Family and Friends
author
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Cohen, Roy.
publisher
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Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin
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0962806617
print isbn13
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9780962806612
ebook isbn13
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9780585150123
language
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English
subject
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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RC533.C63 1993eb
ddc
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616.85/227
subject
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A Survival Guide for Family and Friends
By Roy C.
Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous World Services, Inc. New Hyde Park, New York
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Copyright 1993, 1999 by Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous World Services, Inc. PO Box 215, New Hyde Park, New York 11040 516/739-0662
All Rights Reserved
Publisher's note: This book is based on personal experience. Its contents are not intended to replace professional help which should be sought from a competent doctor. A full list of resources can be found in the back of this book.
ISBN: 0-9628066-1-7 Library of Congress Catalog Number: 93-83800
03 02 01 00 99 7 6 5 4 3
Manufactured in the United States of America
Cover Design: Chuck Abrams
Illustrator: Mike Reed
Editor: Shannon Rothenberger
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Contents
Introduction
i
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
1
Letters from the Professional Community
Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
5
Douglas Hogan, Ph.D.
7
Wilmer Betts, M.D.
9
Janet Greeson, Ph.D.
11
Living With and Loving Someone Who Has OCD
13
Recovery for Family MembersTaking Care of Ourselves
29
The Twelve Steps for Families
43
Father and DaughterOur Recoveries from OCD
61
Resources for OCD
65
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Introduction
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be a difficult illness for everyone involved. The purpose of this book is to help the families and friends of those with OCD. For the purposes of this book we refer to these people as Person/People with OCD or PWOCD to make it clear that they are people, and not a disease or a problem. OCD is a chronic illness like cancer, chemical addiction or clinical depression in that it is often progressive and usually not curable, but it is treatable, and with treatment people with OCD can live full, healthy lives.
You might be thinking right now: "I'm not the one who needs help! It's my son (or my wife or my father) who needs help. I don't have OCD!" True, but you are probably also suffering as a result. A family in which one of the members has a chronic illness is a family under stress. If you are paging through this book, it means you are probably concerned about a loved one with OCD. His or her OCD symptoms have likely placed you in an occasional or constant caregiver role that is very demanding and is taking its toll on you. You may not even realize how much stress you are under as family crises put all the attention on the family member who seems to be in the "most" trouble. Like many of us were, you are probably accustomed to not thinking about yourself very much. It may seem selfish or unnecessary, or you may feel you don't have the time to take some of your focus off the PWOCD and take time for yourself. If there is only one message this book carries to you, we hope it is that taking care of yourself will improve your relationship with the PWOCD. In this family manual we offer you the hope that you can live a happy, full life even if your loved one doesn 't fully recover from OCD. We will also give you some suggestions for what you can do for the PWOCD without hurting yourself. We hope this book makes your life a little easier and your relationship more rewarding.
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What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
*Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (or Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis). The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent obsessions or compulsions sufficiently severe to cause marked distress, be time consuming, or sufficiently interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational functioning, or usual social activities or relationships with others.
Obsessions are persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at least initially, as intrusive and senseless for example a parent having repeated impulses to kill a loved child, or a religious person having recurrent blasphemous thoughts. The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts or impulses or to neutralize them with some other thought or action. The person recognizes that the obsessions are the products of his or her own mind, and are not imposed from without (as in the delusion of thought insertion).
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