Mindfulness for OCD

From the new Mindfulness Workbook for OCD, by Jon Hershfield and Tom Corboy, here's a linked chapter about Relationship OCD (hit "click here to read an excerpt").  What's Relationship OCD? From the excerpt:

ROCD is difficulty in tolerating uncertainty about the quality of a relationship and the genuineness of your feelings about another person. This isn’t the typical doubt you might expect when, say, one person is ready for marriage and the other isn’t. This is the kind of doubt that seeps in insidiously and chips away at the very concept of love and fidelity. 

Much more about using mindfulness-based CBT to take on OCD symptoms in the workbook.

Worksheets Grab Bag

Here are some helpful sites sent in by TW reader, Victoria S.  Good finds all. Thanks, Victoria!

• A workbook for couples from lifelineforfamilies.net.
• A huge list of infosheets and worksheets for individuals and couples from achangeinthinking.com.
• And here are lots and lots of downloadable tools made to accompany the Treatments That Work book series. It may have been posted here before, but, if so, worth another look.

Meanwhile, we've updated our look after many years. Hope you like.

Relationship Worksheets

A "Relationship Worksheet" sits deep in a long list of questionnaires, worksheets, and infosheets available from CMHAMJ (that's the Canadian Mental Health Association Moose Jaw). Quick sampling:

 1. What qualities first drew me to my partner?
 2. What troubling qualities does my partner have that are similar to my early caretakers?
 3. What qualities does my partner have that I think I lack?

Those three alone could keep you busy for a while.

TMS Recovery Program

For people with chronic pain that jumps from place to place, that baffles MDs, or that seems directly connected to stress, here's something you may find helpful: an online TMS Recovery Program, put together by Alan Gordon, LCSW.  What's TMS?  Some explanation here.  Think you might have it?  Here's what the folks at the TMS Wiki recommend, starting with some reading.

CBT Online

Among the helpful stuff posted at getselfhelp.co.uk (worksheets, mp3s, ACT exercises, etc.), here's a long list of links for doing CBT online. Free sites, paid sites, and, of course, apps (the new worksheets?). Their page describing what CBT is and how it works is here.

Positive Coping with Health Conditions Workbook

From the folks at Simon Fraser U., here's a Positive Coping with Health Conditions Workbook (health condition not necessary to benefit).  Included:

• Relaxation
• Managing Worry
• Activating Your Life
• Solving Problems
• Managing Depressive Thinking
• Managing Anger
• Relationship Building

Positive Psychology Exercises and Worksheets

From zonepositive.com, here's a collection of Positive Psychology-based exercises and worksheets. Trying to get happy? These may be worth a look.

More Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Worksheets

Plus some Russ Harris chapter samples at ACT Mindfully.  Some old, some new--among the new, worksheets and pages from The Confidence Gap.  

Beck Institute Worksheets

From the Beck Institute itself, here are five CBT Worksheets from Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, by Judith Beck. (They'll aim to sell you more on the site.) The book's mostly for therapists and the very, very curious, but take a look.