Breaking Free from OCD

Part 1: Understanding Your OCD. 1. About This Book. 2. What is OCD? 3. Can I Get Better From OCD? 4. What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? 5. Understanding My OCD. Part 2: How To Recover from Your OCD. 6. How to Use this Book to Help Change Your OCD. 7. Understanding the Role of Anxiety. 8. What Does My OCD Look Like? 9. Designing Prevention Exercises. 10. Making Progress with Prevention Exercises. 11. Overcoming Difficulties. 12. What is the Role of My Thoughts? 13. How Do I Challenge My Thoughts? 14. How Do I Test if My Thoughts Will Come True? 15. How to Maintain the Gains that I Have Made. Part 3: OCD and the Bigger Picture. 16. OCD and My Family. 17. OCD, School and Friends. 18. Where To Go for More Information. Appendices. References. Subject index. Author index.