It’s OCD Awareness Week, so let’s recap on what OCD is and why it’s often overlooked as a personality quirk. If you’re living with OCD, how did a diagnosis help improve your daily life? Are there any mindful activities you find helpful for managing your symptoms? #ocd #obsessivecompulsivedisorder #ocdawarenessweek #mentalhealthmonth #mentalhealth | Heart On My Sleeve Movement

All too often I see parents trying to rationalize why their child has an OCD intrusive thought. They’ll ask things like: Do you think they don’t feel loved? Do you think something happened to them? Do you think I’m doing something wrong? Do you think they’re upset about XYZ…OCD thoughts are typically incongruent with who a child wants to be. They are often irrational thoughts that the person knows is irrational. Approaching an OCD thought as if it IS your child’s thought can be not only ineffect

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