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Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition)
OCD is treatable. Here's what the treatment actually looks like. 🧠🛠️
Who it's for
Foa is one of the researchers most associated with developing exposure and response prevention, the behavioural approach used for OCD, so this book brings that method to a general reader in plain language.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Stop Obsessing! is a self-help guide to obsessive-compulsive disorder by psychologists Edna B. Foa and R. Reid Wilson; the revised edition was published by Bantam in 2001. It sets out a behaviour-therapy programme based on exposure and response prevention, with step-by-step plans for both milder and more severe symptoms.
Where to find it
Paperback and ebook from major booksellers; audiobook editions exist; available in many libraries.
Before you start
Heads up: Detailed intrusive thought examples.
Age: Not rated (adult self-help; suggested 15+)
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
