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How to Beat Health Anxiety Using Three Proven CBT Strategies

March 14, 2022 by Dr. Paul Greene

If you find yourself preoccupied and fearful about having a serious illness, you may suffer from health anxiety. Fortunately, there are concrete steps you can take to (eventually) feel less anxious.

What Is Health Anxiety?

Health anxiety is worry or concern about having a medical condition that is disproportionate to the actual risk. Sometimes health worries are the only topic someone is anxious about. For others, health is just one of several focuses of worry. At its worst, health anxiety can be quite impairing.

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Filed Under: Anxiety, OCD

What Is OCPD? Can Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Help?

January 11, 2022 by Amoha Bajaj-Mahajan, Ph.D.

Do you or someone you know seem overly preoccupied with rules, regulations, and orderliness? Do things often need to be done “a particular way” or “the perfect way?” If so, it may be Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, or “OCPD.”

What Is OCPD, Exactly?

OCPD is a personality disorder. A personality disorder is a characteristic style that is constant across many domains of life (i.e. work, relationships, etc.) and is often rigid. It also causes significant interference with one’s life.

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Filed Under: OCD Tagged With: OCPD, perfectionism

Stress vs. Anxiety: What’s the Difference?

October 18, 2021 by Dr. Paul Greene

Many people think of stress and anxiety as the same thing. There are important differences, however. Understanding them can help you if you’re experiencing stress or anxiety.

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Filed Under: Anxiety, OCD, Panic attacks, PTSD, Social Anxiety Tagged With: stress

Contamination OCD: How to Know If You Have It

August 9, 2021 by Dr. Paul Greene

Are you a germophobe? Typically, a fear of germs is actually not a phobia. Often, it’s is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder known informally as “contamination OCD.”

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A fear of germs often causes temptation to avoid people, places, or things thought to be contaminated. Sometimes the concern is about a specific disease like HIV or hepatitis or just general germs. Other times the contamination is less well-defined.

The impact of this type of OCD can vary widely. If severe and untreated, contamination OCD can even result in people feeling that their homes are too contaminated to continue living in.

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Filed Under: OCD Tagged With: germophobia, germs, residential treatment

Excessive Hand Washing: How Much Is Too Much?

May 15, 2021 by Dr. Paul Greene

It used to be easier to determine how much hand washing was excessive — but the COVID pandemic changed that. So what makes sense now?

girl engaging in excessive hand washing at school

In the early months of COVID in the United States, health authorities constantly reminded the public to wash their hands often, and well. Indeed, the CDC still reminds us that “Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.” Given the fear of the deadly virus, most Americans were eager to comply. But many wondered at times, “am I overdoing it?”

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Filed Under: OCD Tagged With: contamination

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