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Mental Health: OCD

OCD

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) consists of obsessions and/or compulsions and exceeds being neat or organized. Related disorders include trichotillomania (hair-pulling), excoriation (skin-picking), body dysmorphic disorder, and hoarding disorder.  Tri-C Student Counseling Center

Overview

Link to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, National Institute of Mental Health
Link to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Link to Help Separate OCD Myths from the Facts
Link to What is OCD, International OCD Foundation
Link to OCD Video

Diagnoses

Links to DSM-5-TR |
Obsessive-compulsive or Related Disorders | ICD-11

Take a Screening

Link to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Screening Quiz

Helping Yourself & Others

Link to Treatments for OCD
Link to Not Alone Notes
Link to Living With Someone Who Has OCD. Guidelines for Family Members
Link to Helping Someone with Hoarding Disorder
Link to Hoarding Disorder: Help for Hoarders
Link to How to Help a Loved One with HD
Link to Do You Suspect that a Loved One is Suffering from BDD?
Link to Therapy Dogs Research Guide

Having Conversations

Link to What Not To Say To Someone with OCD (And What To Say)

Personal Stories

Link to video Howie Mandel on Battling Severe Anxiety and OCD
Link to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and What I Would Tell  #MyYoungerSelf, Mayim Bialik
Link to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), The Mighty
Link to video Ginny Fuchs and OCD
Link to Behaviors of video Someone with BDD
Link to Personal Stories, NAMI
Link to Stories, This is My Brave

Resources & Support

Link to Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous
Link to Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation Online Support
Link to Clutterers Anonymous
Link to Clutter Movement Individual Support, Facebook
Link to Hair Pullers Anonymous
Link to Obsessive Skin Pickers Anonymous
Link to Buckeye State BFRBs
Link to Crisis Text Line
Link to 988 chat
Link to 988 Call
Link to 988 Text
Link to Mental Health Screening
Link to Helplines | Tri-C Website
Link to Tri-C Help Is Here
Link to Tri-C Help Is Here App
Link to Support Groups | Help Is Here | Tri-C
Link to Substance Use & Addiction, Tri-C Help Is Here

Learn More

Books & More

Link to library catalog record for Getting Over OCD
Link to library catalog record for The Anti-Anxiety Program
Link to library catalog record for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Demystified
Link to library catalog record for The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD
Link to library catalog record for Help for Hair Pullers
Link to Amazon record for Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Mine and Yours
Link to Amazon record for The Parents' Guide to Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Link to Amazon record for Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Link to library catalog record for Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Link to library catalog record for Where's My Hair?
Link to Amazon record for Trichotillomania: Workbook
Link to library catalog record for Pure O OCD
Link to library catalog record for Ocd: a Workbook for Clinicians, Children and Teens
Link to library catalog record for Standing up to OCD Workbook for Kids
Link to library catalog record for Obsessed
Link to library catalog record for When a Family Member Has OCD
Link to Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Link to Psychology Today
Link to Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
Link to Journal of Clinical Psychology
Link to Psychiatric News magazine

Get Help Now

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Link to Crisis Text Line