Clients With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Pandemic by Maggie Bechtol https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug Recovering from the Pandemic en-us 2022-05-29 21:27:40 UTC 2024-03-31 16:07:35 UTC hello@padlet.com VIDEO: The Pandemic Through The Eyes of Someone With OCD maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211002239 AJ+]]> 2022-06-04 17:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211002239 Resource 1: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211009566 This resource is great for important information about Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Additionally, it provides professional resources and trainings. ]]> 2022-06-04 17:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211009566 Quote 3: Career Quote maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211108219 “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” — Marilyn Monroe

]]> 2022-06-04 23:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211108219 Resource 2: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211110388 Bibliotherapy is shown to have a positive impact on clients. It can serve as a way for clients to understand their disorder and how to work with themselves. ]]> 2022-06-04 23:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211110388 Quote 2: Living with OCD maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211110913
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought]]> 2022-06-04 23:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211110913 Quote 1: What OCD Makes People Think maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211111136 “Q. How can I be certain that what I fear will happen will never really happen?

A. Sadly, the answer is you can't be certain! If you suffer from OCD you probably want a 100 percent guarantee that you will never do anything dangerous or that no harm will ever come to you or your family members. Unfortunately, life does not work like this. If I think about it, I know that there is no guarantee that I won't be hit by a car coming home from work today - but somehow my brain automatically accepts the very small chance of this happening and so permits me to go on living my life.

More than two thousand years ago the Buddha (a great psychologist besides being a religious teacher) warned that one of the key things that makes us suffer is that we always want more than we will actually get - whether what we want is material like gold and jewels, or (my addition) in the case of OCD, more certainty than you will ever achieve. Thus the solution the Buddha might have offered you in northern India those thousands of years ago might have been something like this: "To stop suffering you must learn to accept that you will never achieve as much certainty as you want, no matter how much you pursue it; so it is up to you to choose: Either accept this truth and live your life happily, or fight against this truth and continue to suffer."

Let me say it again for emphasis: you will never be certain that you won't act on the urges you have, or that the terrible things you fear will happen will not actually happen - but I can assure you that the odds of these things actually happening are small enough that it is not worth wasting your life trying (in vain) to get 100 percent certainty. Better to trust in yourself, your religious beliefs, or in evolution having prepared us well for surviving in this world.

If evidence from brain studies better helps to convince you this is true, brain imaging studies of OCD sufferers now suggest that there really is something wrong with their "certainty system"; whatever automatically lets someone without OCD feel that things are OK does not function correctly in the OCD sufferer's brain (who then tries to convince himself that everything is OK, eventually becoming tired and frustrated when he cannot use other brain functions to achieve 100 percent certainty).”
― Lee Baer, Getting Control (Revised Edition]]> 2022-06-04 23:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211111136 TIP: Practice Tools and Possible Scenarios at Work maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211114280 Managing mental illness and work can be very demanding. As a counselor, it is important to work with clients to manage their obsessions and compulsions in their workplace setting. For example, a client can't miss meetings due to acting on their compulsions. ]]> 2022-06-04 23:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211114280 TIP: Finding the Right Balance maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211116969 When helping clients choose their career, it is important to remember that balance is key. Finding a job that the client is passionate about and is not too stressful is key. ]]> 2022-06-04 23:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211116969 Snapshot 1: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211479317 I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 12 years old. It started slowly taking over my life until it became debilitating. I felt like I could not talk to any of my friends about it because they wouldn't understand. 

Especially being that young, I had no idea why I had to act on these things I was thinking. It wouldn't stop unless I did it and then all the anxiety went away. I now know that to obsessions and compulsions. For example: The obsession would be "oh my god I'm going to get sick." Then the compulsion would be washing hands, not touching door knobs, etc. 

Where I think I was led astray in my treatment was when I was diagnosed. No one ever explained to me what having OCD meant and why I was doing the things I was and suffering.

Fast forward 10 years later, I no longer have any symptoms of OCD and still find it fascinating what goes on in someone's brain with this mental disorder. This disorder can keep people from doing all the things they once did before or make them do a million extra things. ]]> 2022-06-05 18:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211479317 TIP: Finding the Right Treatment for Your Client maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211483354 If a client comes to you asking for career advice, yet has severe OCD symptoms, it is important to know the net steps to take in finding them the correct treatment.

According to APA, the guideline for the treatment of patients with OCD is a type of cognitive behavior therapy called exposure and response prevention (2013).

The following resources can be helpful in referring clients to diagnose treat their OCD:

https://www.treatmyocd.com/about-us/our-story

https://www.amitahealth.org/find-a-service/behavioral-medicine/programs/conditions-and-treatments/obsessive-compulsive-disorder






]]> 2022-06-05 18:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211483354 Snapshot 2: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211499684 OCD can present in many different ways. It is important to not rule anything out and be aware of multicultural issues. Some clients may see career counseling as acceptable in their culture but getting treated for a mental disorder as shameful. 

After COVID, unemployment was still high- which leads to higher rates in career counseling.
 

]]> 2022-06-05 19:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211499684 Resource 3: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211500446 This resource is for support groups of people living with OCD. ]]> 2022-06-05 19:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211500446 Resource 4: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211501509 This resource provide worksheets and exercises that are downloadable to use with clients. ]]> 2022-06-05 19:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211501509 Resource 5: maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211604800 The long lasting effects of COVID]]> 2022-06-06 00:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211604800 VIDEO 1: Long Lasting Effects of COVID maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211615645 2022-06-06 00:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211615645 VIDEO 2: How COVID Relates to Career Counseling and Clients With OCD maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211616252 2022-06-06 00:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211616252 References maggiebechtol1998 https://padlet.com/maggiebechtol1998/9ak1eofxobfohtug/wish/2211626971
Career choices and OCD – the right balance. Mental Help Career Choices and OCD The Right Balance Comments. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/career-choices-and-ocd-the-right-balance/ 


Exposure and response prevention (ERP). International OCD Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/ocd-treatment/erp/ 


Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment: Amita health: Chicago, IL. Amita Health. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.amitahealth.org/find-a-service/behavioral-medicine/programs/conditions-and-treatments/obsessive-compulsive-disorder 


Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) worksheets. Psychology Tools. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.psychologytools.com/professional/problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/ 

OCD-support groups.io group. Groups.io. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://groups.io/g/OCD-Support 



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