Book contents
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Reviews
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is OCD and Is It Really a Problem?
- 2 Who Gets OCD and How Would Anyone Know if They Had It?
- 3 Types and Presentation of OCD
- 4 Drug Treatment
- 5 Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
- 6 Children and Adolescents with OCD
- 7 Old Treatments, Modern Developments, New Research, and Potential Treatments for the Future
- 8 Other Conditions Which Appear Similar to OCD
- 9 What Can Family and Carers Do to Help a Person with OCD?
- 10 What Can You Do to Help Cope with Your OCD?
- 11 General Principles of Treatment
- 12 How to Better Manage Your Symptoms Before and During Treatment
- 13 Overcoming Fears of Contamination
- 14 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Failure to Act
- 15 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Your Own Actions (or Thoughts)
- 16 Overcoming ‘Taboo’ Obsessive Thoughts
- 17 Loss of Something (Objects or Part of ‘Self’)
- 18 Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Slowness, Perfectionism and Symmetry
- 19 Overcoming Obsessive Ruminations (Sometimes Known as ‘Pure O’)
- 20 When the Treatment Doesn’t Go According to Plan or Even If It Does, What to Do Next
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Resources
- References
- Index
18 - Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Slowness, Perfectionism and Symmetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2022
Book contents
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Reviews
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is OCD and Is It Really a Problem?
- 2 Who Gets OCD and How Would Anyone Know if They Had It?
- 3 Types and Presentation of OCD
- 4 Drug Treatment
- 5 Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
- 6 Children and Adolescents with OCD
- 7 Old Treatments, Modern Developments, New Research, and Potential Treatments for the Future
- 8 Other Conditions Which Appear Similar to OCD
- 9 What Can Family and Carers Do to Help a Person with OCD?
- 10 What Can You Do to Help Cope with Your OCD?
- 11 General Principles of Treatment
- 12 How to Better Manage Your Symptoms Before and During Treatment
- 13 Overcoming Fears of Contamination
- 14 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Failure to Act
- 15 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Your Own Actions (or Thoughts)
- 16 Overcoming ‘Taboo’ Obsessive Thoughts
- 17 Loss of Something (Objects or Part of ‘Self’)
- 18 Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Slowness, Perfectionism and Symmetry
- 19 Overcoming Obsessive Ruminations (Sometimes Known as ‘Pure O’)
- 20 When the Treatment Doesn’t Go According to Plan or Even If It Does, What to Do Next
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Resources
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter will examine the idea of obsessive-compulsive slowness and how to tackle this problem, as well as examining perfectionism, the need to perform actions until they feel ‘just right’, and symmetry obsessions. Ideas such as ‘Lucky Dip’ and ‘Chance’ programmes will be described.
The overlap between autism and OCD will also be examined, as well as consideration about the role of other diagnoses in symmetry obsessions.
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- Everything You Need to Know About OCD , pp. 265 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022