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The OCD Workbook for Teens: Manage Intrusive Thoughts and Compulsive Behavior with CBT and Mindfulness
Give teens the tools to take control of their OCD
Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder can feel overwhelming and confusing, especially for teens. It’s tough for teens to manage the intrusive thoughts and behaviors that can disrupt their day, but The OCD Workbook for Teens can help. They’ll learn about what OCD really is, then find simple exercises and affirmations to help them manage their symptoms and feel more productive and happy every day.
Based in mindfulness and CBT—Explore how cognitive behavioral therapy and mindful habits can treat OCD by helping teens differentiate compulsive and non-compulsive behaviors.Stories and case studies—Teens will find reassurance as they read about other teens with OCD and how they regained control of their lives with help from these strategies and exercises.Designed for teens—This book shows teens how to handle OCD in the face of modern-day teen stressors like school, social media, and thoughts of the future.
Help teens with OCD understand themselves, find their confidence, and thrive.
Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder can feel overwhelming and confusing, especially for teens. It’s tough for teens to manage the intrusive thoughts and behaviors that can disrupt their day, but The OCD Workbook for Teens can help. They’ll learn about what OCD really is, then find simple exercises and affirmations to help them manage their symptoms and feel more productive and happy every day.
Based in mindfulness and CBT—Explore how cognitive behavioral therapy and mindful habits can treat OCD by helping teens differentiate compulsive and non-compulsive behaviors.Stories and case studies—Teens will find reassurance as they read about other teens with OCD and how they regained control of their lives with help from these strategies and exercises.Designed for teens—This book shows teens how to handle OCD in the face of modern-day teen stressors like school, social media, and thoughts of the future.
Help teens with OCD understand themselves, find their confidence, and thrive.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2021
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April 4, 2022
“The OCD Workbook for Teens” is an excellent resource. Anthony Bishop (full disclosure: I know Mr. Bishop socially and was given an advance copy by the publisher) does a fantastic job throughout this workbook of putting together all the tools a teenager needs in order to confront the challenges that come with having OCD. This book is written clearly and is organized well, making it a wonderful workbook for the OCD sufferer to work through on his or her own or in conjunction with a therapist (or a parent, friend, or trusted family member). I’m long past my teenage years--I was first diagnosed with OCD when I was 15--yet I still found many insights and interesting ways of looking at OCD that made this workbook valuable for me personally.
One of the pitfalls of books written about OCD, and I’ve read about 7 or 8, is sometimes they feel like information/data dumps. As anyone who has OCD knows, running your eyes across pages and chapters of information about biochemical pathways, brain part functioning, and familial and genetic links to OCD might be intellectually edifying but it gets you virtually nowhere in making headway in your battle against OCD. The war that people face against OCD is not an intellectual one; it is not one based on rationality and an understanding of what OCD is doing. In short, you can’t outthink OCD; it’s a battle waged with tools (CBT and ERP). The war against OCD is about doing. Mr. Bishop does a great job of getting the reader to work immediately. There are plenty of opportunities throughout the workbook to write down one’s issues and experiences and get right into the work of confronting OCD. The explanations Mr. Bishop gives about what OCD is doing to you and how are free of overly technical language and jargon.
As Mr. Bishop makes clear in the beginning, he too has OCD. This is one of the most important and valuable parts of this book. I’m not suggesting someone who doesn’t have OCD can’t write material for those grappling with OCD (many clinicians who have worked decades with OCD patients while they themselves haven’t had OCD have written wonderful stuff). But there is something special about reading a book/workbook by someone who has first-hand experience dealing with OCD. What makes this personal connection to OCD special is Mr. Bishop brings all sorts of personal analogies and astute ways of thinking about OCD. I know from experience as someone who has had OCD for decades that one develops his or her own personal vocabulary for how he or she is going to confront OCD. Sufferers develop their own comparisons, analogies, personal goals, and other tricks of the trade in their fight against OCD. Mr. Bishop’s intelligence and deep, personal thoughts on the vagaries and vicissitudes of OCD come through in his writing as he is full of novel observations about how OCD can slow you down and how you can think about and your “OCD work” to improve your life.
This is a fantastic resource, excellent for teens--maybe even 11 and 12 years olds--and it is also a workbook adults will find rewarding. Mr. Bishop clearly knows OCD in and out, yet in this book he never sacrifices his commitment to providing clear and engaging ways of grappling with OCD for long-winded passages that would lose the reader’s attention. Mr. Bishop’s decades of experience with OCD, as someone who experiences it himself and as a clinician, come through in this gentle and inspiring workbook.
One of the pitfalls of books written about OCD, and I’ve read about 7 or 8, is sometimes they feel like information/data dumps. As anyone who has OCD knows, running your eyes across pages and chapters of information about biochemical pathways, brain part functioning, and familial and genetic links to OCD might be intellectually edifying but it gets you virtually nowhere in making headway in your battle against OCD. The war that people face against OCD is not an intellectual one; it is not one based on rationality and an understanding of what OCD is doing. In short, you can’t outthink OCD; it’s a battle waged with tools (CBT and ERP). The war against OCD is about doing. Mr. Bishop does a great job of getting the reader to work immediately. There are plenty of opportunities throughout the workbook to write down one’s issues and experiences and get right into the work of confronting OCD. The explanations Mr. Bishop gives about what OCD is doing to you and how are free of overly technical language and jargon.
As Mr. Bishop makes clear in the beginning, he too has OCD. This is one of the most important and valuable parts of this book. I’m not suggesting someone who doesn’t have OCD can’t write material for those grappling with OCD (many clinicians who have worked decades with OCD patients while they themselves haven’t had OCD have written wonderful stuff). But there is something special about reading a book/workbook by someone who has first-hand experience dealing with OCD. What makes this personal connection to OCD special is Mr. Bishop brings all sorts of personal analogies and astute ways of thinking about OCD. I know from experience as someone who has had OCD for decades that one develops his or her own personal vocabulary for how he or she is going to confront OCD. Sufferers develop their own comparisons, analogies, personal goals, and other tricks of the trade in their fight against OCD. Mr. Bishop’s intelligence and deep, personal thoughts on the vagaries and vicissitudes of OCD come through in his writing as he is full of novel observations about how OCD can slow you down and how you can think about and your “OCD work” to improve your life.
This is a fantastic resource, excellent for teens--maybe even 11 and 12 years olds--and it is also a workbook adults will find rewarding. Mr. Bishop clearly knows OCD in and out, yet in this book he never sacrifices his commitment to providing clear and engaging ways of grappling with OCD for long-winded passages that would lose the reader’s attention. Mr. Bishop’s decades of experience with OCD, as someone who experiences it himself and as a clinician, come through in this gentle and inspiring workbook.
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