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Can Cognitive Behavioural Therapy help me?

Extensive research on Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies has been carried out.
It has been shown to be an effective form of treatment, particularly for the following:

Obsessional OCD

Obsessional OCD

Here Jackie describes this distressing problem. Obsessional OCD is a form of OCD that people are often very frightened of or are too embarrassed to talk about.

CBT News

This section contains links with blogs or recent news articles relating to Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT)


In this article a woman describes her experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She describes her fears about harming her children and how she overcame her difficulies. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1317151


This article looks at common thinking errors that can interfere with relationships http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-leahy-phd/12-worst-relationship-mindsets_b_807926.html


These are two blogs from staff at the OCD Centre in Los Angeles, USA  about Social Anxiety/Phobia. The first link describes the symptoms of this distressing disorder. http://www.ocdla.com/blog/social-anxiety-phobia-alone-witnesses-1141#more-1141 IThe second link describes treatment and looks at the overlap between some forms of social phobia and OCD. http://www.ocdla.com/blog/social-anxiety-phobia-alone-witnesses-2-1172#more-1172


These are three blogs from the staff at the OCD Centre Los Angeles, USA about Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Part 1 http://www.ocdla.com/blog/body-dysmorphic-disorder-bdd-news-946

Part 2 http://www.ocdla.com/blog/body-dysmorphic-disorder-bdd-teens-986

Part 3 http://www.ocdla.com/blog/category/bdd


This article provides information for people suffering from sleep difficuilties and disturbance. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/30/sleep-problems-new-drugs

This blog by Lisa Shives, M.D., the founder of Northshore Sleep Medicine in Evanston, Illinois, recommends the use of CBT for sleep problems and discusses some of the problems related to medication use. http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/07/beware-the-sleeping-pill-hangover/


This blog is from the OCD Centre in Los Angeles on Compulsive Overeating http://www.ocdla.com/blog/binge-eating-compulsive-overeating-treatment-1086

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