Articles and educational documents by Carol Edwards
If ever you get the urge to say to someone who has OCD, “get over it”, think instead of how to help them through it. By doing this, and showing that you understand to some extent what they must be going through, you can help them weaken OCD’s influence and help them towards recovery.
Carol Edwards 7 powerful tips can help you get back to study with little time to ruminate, procrastine or worry about failing. Her tips can help free your mind, help you focus and allow you to achieve the results you want.
In public, I unthinkingly cover my ears to drown out sudden noises and will briefly close my eyes to “visual sounds” that make me nauseous (eye-rubbing, nose-wiping, poking ears etc.).
How does ruminating about an obsession in OCD differ from worrying, generally? Usually, worrying makes you feel anxious about something … More
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There is another factor to consider, which comes from Isaac Mark’s expression “obsessive phobia” which is not, as he puts it, ‘a direct fear of a given object or situation, but rather of the results which are imagined to arise from it’. While there is a distinction between a standard phobia and an obsession, an overlap can be noticed when a person shows signs of one and the other.
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