Stop Obsessing: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions

by Edna B. Foa, R. Reid Wilson, Edna B. Foa

Book Overview

Newly Revised and Updated Are you tormented by extremely distressing thoughts or persistent worries? Compelled to wash your hands repeatedly? Driven to repeat or check certain numbers, words, or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553353500
• ISBN13: 9780553353501
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Best One Yet

I've read many books on OCD - I've been a sufferer since I was a child. This is definitely the best one yet! It offers so much hope: strategies for postponing compulsive actions, quizzes and checklists, etc. I have even tried a few, and they actually worked!! That's a new one for me. YOu definitely feel as if you can get help from this book. I congratulate the author - she must be an amazing therapist!

Excellent book

OCD can be a devastating blow to the flow of everyday life. I know because I have it. This book covers all areas of OCD. From hoarders, to obsessive thinkers and worriers. This book can shed light on a subject that affects 2.5% of the population. This book is an invaluable piece of literature.

Best self-help book for pure O's

I've read many good books about OCD, but this is the one that offers the best help for those called "pure obsessionals".

Practical Help That Works!

I had never allowed myself to seriously think that I had OCD, I was just a little quirky, I thought. What I had was a mild range of compulsions that relieved my anxiety - counting (silently)by twos to twenty, constantly rechecking to see if I'd locked the house, the car, turned off my headlights, feeling obligated to read anything that even slightly interested me (and most things did, because what if there was something in that particular book that I needed to know?), mentally repeating words I'd hear, and all the while I'd think something wrong here. Well, anyway, among the solutions I've found have been in this book. Train yourself to reduce the compulsions (mine distracted me from my real fears), it can be done. There may be not cure but there is effective management.