Tag: mental health apps
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6 meditation tips for people with OCD
If you’re one of the many people who suffer from OCD, you know how difficult it can be to manage your symptoms and live a normal life. But there is hope! Meditation has been shown to be an effective tool in managing OCD symptoms. Here are six tips to help you get started: 1. Choose…
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OCD test: to check or not to check?
People who deal with OCD can often feel the urge to check. Constant checking can become a ritual. Checking comes in many forms: making sure the door is locked, checking body temperature, monitoring relationships and checking to see if harm was done to self or others. Due to the nature of constant checking, people who…
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Can a mobile app help cope with OCD?
In the past, people coping with OCD who were looking for solutions had limited options. You could go see a psychiatrist, whose tools are psychotherapy and medicine. Later on, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) introduced new protocols that proved to be effective for OCD. Nowadays, the gold standard for OCD remains CBT therapy, however there are…