Help for Family Members and Friends of Someone with OCD
When someone in your life has OCD, it is natural to try to help them by trying to “talk them out of their symptoms.” “Just stop it!” seems like a logical response. Other times, if someone’s OCD is creating problems in their lives (or ours) it is easy to become frustrated, angry, or critical. Finally, accommodating or, even helping with, the person’s compulsive rituals sometimes occurs. Understanding OCD and how to be helpful support person is the first step toward helping your loved one and yourself.
How to (and not to) Respond to Your Loved One with OCD
When Reassurance is Harmful
This document provides insight on relating to someone with OCD and why providing them with reassurance is harmful to their progress. [IOCDF]
Learning to Live with OCD
Learning to Live with OCD gives guidelines on how to live with someone who has OCD and provides special guidelines for educators, employers, children, and adolescents. Also includes an overview of OCD and the types of treatment. [IOCDF)
Families and OCD
This page has information about “Family Accommodation Behaviors” which are things family members do that enable the OCD symptoms. That is, in their attempt to be helpful or to get the OCD sufferer to stop doing their compulsions, family members may accidentally feed into the OCD cycle. [IOCDF]
Why Families of OCD Sufferers Seldom Get The Help They Need
This article by OCD experts, Heidi Pollard, RN, MSN and Alec Pollard, Ph.D., explains why family members rarely get the proper help they need when coping with the burden of caring for a loved one with OCD and provides helpful tips to address this problem. [Beyond OCD]
Information to Help You Understand OCD and How to Support Your Loved One
Videos about OCD, Its Subtypes, and Treatment in Children, Teens, and Adults [Peace of Mind Foundation]
Click on the section headings to find information specific to what you are needing information about:
- Education (What is OCD, Types of OCD, Related Disorders)
- Living with OCD
- Treatments
- For Caregivers
4 Steps of Brain Lock
This site offers an overview of Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz’s 4-Step method for overcoming OCD. This information is helpful for OCD sufferers as well as their friends and family members who want to know more about it in order to encourage them.
Additional Articles
Seven Shifts For Beating Religious Scrupulosity
In this webinar recording, Ted Witzig Jr. will walk through seven different ways to pivot your treatments to help improve your condition and to grow. From To 1. Faith is what I feel. 1. Walking Faith: living into my beliefs. 2. Taking medication may mask a spiritual problem. 2. Medication
Scrupulosity OCD & Mending Your God Image
Scrupulosity OCD can badly distort how you view God and how you think He relates to you. Plenty of terms get thrown around that describe this condition when it comes up in a discussion. They may include: Religious OCD. Extreme Christian anxiety. Moral OCD. Religious intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts about
Five Keys to Beating Scrupulosity
What is scrupulosity and what can be done to overcome it? In this webinar recording, Ted Witzig Jr. shares real hope and practical helps with those who struggle with scrupulosity OCD and those who love them. He walks through five practical keys including: Understanding faith, doubt, and uncertainty. Using Acceptance
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