ERP: Motivation and Overcoming Resistance
Click below for a discussion with Chris Trondsen, Alec Pollard and myself on ERP: Motivation and Overcoming Resistance: #OCD
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- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
OCD and Acceptance
Below is the link for my interview on Kimberly Quinlan’s, the Anxiety Toolkit on OCD Recovery and the Role of Acceptance: Ep. 168: Acceptance with Dr. Jonathan Grayson #Acceptance #JonathanGrayson #OCD #OCDTreatment
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- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
ONLINE OCD CONFERENCE
Connect with others living with OCD and related disorders at this year’s #OCDCon! Join me and thousands of others for a three-day virtual event filled with support, community, and learning
on 7/31-8/2. Learn more at onlineocdconference.org or @IOCDF! #ExposureandResponsePrevention #JonathanGrayson #OCD #OCDTreatment
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- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Uncertainty, Covid 19 and Modifying ERP
Ethan Smith, Liz McIngvale and I discuss Uncertainty, Covid 19 and Modifying ERP on Peace of Mind’s Webinar.
Click here #covid19 #erp #coronavirus #modifyingesposureforcovid19 #OCD #Uncertainty #JonathanGrayson
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- Dec 20, 2019
- 1 min
New Podcast: OCD Staring
This Sunday, 12/22/19, I will be discussing OCD Staring on Ralph Stuart’s podcast, The OCD Stories. #OCDStaring #OCD #PureO #JonathanGrayson #MentalObsessions
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- Apr 26, 2018
- 1 min
Grayson Center Pasadena 1,000,000 steps for OCD Walk
EVENT DATE: JUN 02, 2018
Join us for the our first Pasadena 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Walk, hosted by The Grayson LA Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD to benefit the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)! This is part of the IOCDF’s national week of walks to raise funds. If you can join us, please register yourself at OCD Walk (click link). It’s free to join us, but if you walk with us and raise $25 in your name by May 7th, you will receive an official OCD Walk t-shirt. If
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- Oct 30, 2017
- 1 min
Living with Uncertainty Podcast with Dr. Yip
Podcast of interview with Dr. Yip on Living with OCD and Uncertainty. See link:
https://youtu.be/qb3lxcZSLSs #Copingwithuncertainty #JonathanGrayson #OCD
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- Jul 25, 2017
- 1 min
ADAA Webinar: OCD & Strategic Pressure: Working with Treatment Resistant Children & Adult
September 22, 2017 | 12 noon – 1:00 pm ET
OCD & Strategic Pressure: Working with Treatment Resistant Children & Adult Children Living @Home Webinar Description: As therapists we have all experienced the painful difficulty of seeing sufferers in extreme distress and having difficulty functioning, who are refusing to follow through with treatment at any level. When confronted with a treatment refusing child, the stakes seem even higher because we know that with each passing yea
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- Nov 6, 2016
- 1 min
OCD Sufferer’s Panel accompanying my OCD Awareness Week presentation
This is from a an OCD Awareness Week Event. This is the panel that followed my presentation, “The ABCs of Overcoming OCD.” The speakers, Liz McInvale, Ethan Smith and Jeff Bell humble me with their life stories and their bravery. I hope I could do as well as them if I were in their circumstances. Click here to see their panel. #ExposureandResponsePrevention #OCD #OCDInformation #OCDTreatment
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- Nov 6, 2016
- 1 min
The ABC’s of OCD – an introduction to OCD treatment
This is from a livestreamed OCD Awareness Week Event. Click here to watch my presentation of “The ABCs of Overcoming OCD.” My thanks to Liz McInvale, Ethan Smith, Jeff Bell and Barbara Van Oppen for putting this together and for there wonderful presentations. You can check out their presentation which is also shared on this site. #OCDTreatment #ERPTreatmentMotivators #Copingwithuncertainty #OCD #JonathanGrayson #OCDInformation #ExposureandResponsePrevention
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- Nov 6, 2016
- 1 min
OCD Stories interview with me
Click on this link, OCD Stories, to watch a podcast interview with me on The OCDStories – a site dedicated to sharing stories of those with OCD and information from professionals. #OCDTreatment #ERPTreatmentMotivators #Copingwithuncertainty #OCD #JonathanGrayson #OCDInformation #ExposureandResponsePrevention
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- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
Free OCD Speakers Series & USC Genetic Study Event
WHEN:
Sunday March 13 2016, 10:30am – 4:00pm (if you have OCD or an OCD related disorder ( hoarding, skin picking, hairpulling, body dysmorphic disorder, you may be eligible to participate! Study enrollment opens at 10:30) WHERE:
Courtyard Marriott Pasadena
180 N Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA
(Free parking on the street) RSVP:
By March 7, 2016 to vannoppe@usc.edu * Light refreshments will be provided Presentations: 11:00am-12:15pm
Jonathan Grayson, PhD, The Grayson LA
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- Jul 21, 2014
- 1 min
OCD Treatment In LA!
It’s official, I will be relocating to LA on Dec. 1 this year and starting a new anxiety and OCD treatment center there. The new office will be in LA county (I’m open to suggestions for possible locations, but please have reasons other than convenient to where you might live). Go to LAOCDTreatment.com for: New center updates or; if you are interested in becoming a patient or; joining the free GOAL support group #OCDTreatment #LosAngeles #OCD #JonathanGrayson #LA #Exposureand
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- Jun 18, 2014
- 1 min
OCD and Hope
OCD can be devastating, but there is treatment that works. When reading comments from other readers that may sound hopeless, please search through the thread – it is likely that earlier on I did discuss some of what can be done for that manifestation of OCD. I’ve been working with OCD since 1978 (I know, I’m ancient) and I haven’t seen a manifestation/presentation that can’t be treated successfully. At the same time, I have seen many people suffer needlessly from bad treat
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- Feb 18, 2010
- 2 min
Scrupulosity – Answer to Faye’s Question
Faye – I do remember you from last year’s Virtual Camping and it was nice to see it on Nightline — they did a decent job in showing what we did; although, more time and more explanation would have been nice (Click to see Nightline segment). In answer to your question, can scrupulosity be treated with exposure and response prevention? The short answer is yes. Like all OCD, the focus of treatment is learning to live with uncertainty. There are many kinds of scrupulosity, s
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- Nov 9, 2009
- 4 min
Answer to Amanda’s “Gay OCD” Question and the Importance of Acceptance
Amanda’s suffers from fears of being gay and says that she has read my book and understands that she needs to accept the possibility of being gay to get better (see book for why this is so). However, she then goes on to say that she thinks she may have arousal feelings and this might make it true and that she doesn’t want to accept. Amanda, you are raising the most important issue about acceptance. To work on accepting the possibility is exactly what you are not doing. And
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- Jun 14, 2009
- 2 min
Answer to Nina about “Compulsive Staring” at Privates
Nina’s OCD behavior, feeling compelled to stare at the private parts of others is not unusual and is an OCD behavior that we have seen before. Nina, you mention your fear that you will be caught by others and be humiliated. I am guessing you also have fears/concerns about what this may mean about you and are concerned is this really OCD or is there some other problem you have. This is OCD. The targets of OCD are often focused on what might be most threatening to us. With
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- May 18, 2009
- 2 min
Exposure and Response Prevention Motivators
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is hard work and it can be terrifying. We always say that both ritualizing and treatment are difficult and that the only difference is that treatment leads to an end of rituals and avoiding treatment leads to endless rituals. Nevertheless, ERP is painful and what can you do when you feel your fear rising and the idea of a OCD free life doesn’t seem as important as your anxiety in the moment. I think at these times it is useful to reme
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- May 18, 2009
- 2 min
Answer to Reassurance Seeking/Self Reassurance/Uncertainty
Canadian with OCD tells us the s/he feels overwhelmed at times and seeks reassurance from others or attempts to reassure her/himself about self harm. S/he also notes that listening to the exposure script activates his/her fears. I know it is really hard to do exposure, but remember, almost all OCD involves trying to attain 100 %certainty. Most OCD sufferers are unable to do this, because there is no true certainty in the world. As you know for every answer or reassuran
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- May 13, 2009
- 1 min
Answer to Medication didn’t work for my OCD
OCD is both a learned and biological disorder. Given this, medications play an important role, but you need to remember that medication affects biology and not the learned parts of OCD. Because of this, medication alone usually results in a 30-50% reduction in symptoms and sometimes the learned parts of the problem are so powerful, that they overshadow the effects of medication. The best plan of attack with OCD is medication and a form of cognitive behavior therapy known as e
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