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Why Hoard?
By Lori L. Riddle-Walker, MFT
Articles for April, 2009
16th Annual OCF Conference (2009)
The 16th Annual Obsessive Compulsive Foundation Conference was held August 7-9, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Special
The first time I held you in my arms
Understand
You don’t understand all this suffering
and pain, this heavy burden,
What Does O.C.D. Stand For?
Occasionally changing dilemma
Can’t make up your mind
Try to put it behind
Just say no
Then it will go
Maybe it will climb up a tree
I don’t care as long as it flees
It’s overwhelming
The problem is swelling
Just say no then it will go
Going around and checking
Everywhere, you even rewash your hair
OCD
Hittin’ and clawing with a panic attack
Hanging on the ledge of manic, slipping fast
Weapons of thought repeat to me
Ripping my emotions with OCD
I am not going to die, I am going to defy
All of the thoughts inside my head
Organizations and Treatment Centers
Following is a list of organizations, treatment centers and clinics related to OCD that you might find helpful.
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What is an MFT or LMFT?
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, also known as MFTs or LMFTs, are clinicians with a minimum of a master’s degree in psychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, or marriage and family therapy.
Overcoming Compulsive Checking
This is the first book to adapt clinically-effective cognitive behavioral techniques specifically to the treatment of checking, the most common form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
