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Author Erin Ramachandran opens up about loving and supporting her husband Keith, an individual suffering with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The book maps out ways marriages can thrive even if one of the spouses is diagnosed with a mental illness. The book blends resources and personal experience beautifully and is a must-have for a spouse married to someone with OCD. Keith and Erin are both members of OCD Southern California and have attended and volunteered at numerous OCD So Cal events. Below are details and a description of the book.
To find out more, visit the official website: https://mentalhealthstrong.com
The book can be purchased either on the publisher’s website: iuniverse.com or on Amazon: Mental Health Strong – Amazon.
See details about the book below:
Justin is an individual who has recovered from OCD through evidence-based treatment (exposure and response prevention – ERP). After treatment commenced, Justin created his blog in 2019 as a way to give back to the OCD community. To visit Justin N.’s blog, click here: https://ocdpeersupport.com/blog/
An excerpt from Justin N.’s blog:
We Don’t Always Get to Feel What We Want to Feel
“This means when you’re feeling good, enjoy it. Don’t try to strangle it so it never escapes…it’s a futile mission. Not the best use of your time. It also takes you out of the present moment of simply feeling because now you’re doing a reverse brain loop thinking about how you can engineer and clone these feelings forever. Instead, simply be present and enjoy it. Later on, when you inevitably experience a dip in your feelings as a natural part of the human experience, accept that too. Trusting that it too will pass. And soon, hopefully, you’ll feel good again. (confidence, not certainty: I’m confident this too will pass).”
About the author:
Justin N. is a Christian Dentist from Southern California, who has been deeply affected by OCD for over 20 years – all without even knowing it had a name or a proven treatment. Since finally commencing treatment in 2017, he can finally say that he is actually living his life instead of living in his head.
OCD made his life really small, for a really long time. He has committed to never allowing that to happen again. He has been so impacted by recovery and what it’s done for him and those around him, that he feels a deep call to give back to the community in a big way and help others actualize their own potential.
He is pursuing a counseling degree at a Christian seminary in Southern California, to maximize his ability to care for souls for the rest of his time on Earth.
To learn more about Justin N., click here: https://ocdpeersupport.com/about-me/
The OCD Test website has been created by a team of professionals dedicated to helping people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Their goal is to aid individuals in recognizing they have the condition, which allows them to find effective treatment for OCD. Their goal in offering this online test is to support people worldwide with the tools to identify OCD. Additionally, they aim to provide education so individuals can understand this condition and find effective treatment. The quicker someone with OCD receives treatment, the sooner they can go back to living a “normal” and healthy life. The team at OCDTest.com hopes their online OCD test will help shorten the time it takes to find adequate treatment.
The test measure utilized by OCDTest.com is the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), which is the industry standard in helping to diagnose the severity of OCD symptoms. Although this test is the gold standard, the professionals at OCDTest.com recommend being assessed by a therapist specializing in the treatment of OCD to receive a true diagnosis.
The OCDTest.com website is dedicated to individuals suffering from OCD. We believe in you, and never forget that this condition is treatable.
Take the free, online OCD test by visiting OCDTest.com.