The OCD Workbook for Teens by Jon Hershfield

Author:Jon Hershfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2021-01-28T23:26:18+00:00

Story update: Exposure is defying the OCD and response prevention is denying the OCD what it wants.

12:

you’re a better writer than OCD

for you to know

In the previous activity, we explored in vivo ERP, or exposure and response prevention where you stand up to what triggers you in real life. But many obsessions involve thoughts that go way beyond anything that we can directly confront here on Earth. If you have fears that can’t be confronted with in vivo ERP alone, or even if you do but want to defy the OCD in more than one way (OCD hates that), writing stories as a form of exposure can be really useful. This concept is usually called imaginal ERP or scripting.

When I was teenager, nerds like me read horror novels instead of playing horror video games. We would’ve played horror video games, but aside from contemplating what it would be like to run from edible ghosts in a perpetual maze, PAC-MAN didn’t quite cut it. I particularly enjoyed stories with really graphic descriptions of mangled and mutated monster-people. Stories like these may not be your thing, but the writing was good and they made an impact on me. OCD fancies itself a horror novelist too. Its big dream is to have one of its scary stories made into a movie. Writing imaginal exposures, or scripting, is a great way to give your OCD a chance to pitch its story so, frankly, it can shut up about it.

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