Links & Resources
| Support Groups | Organizations | Understanding OCD |
Treatment | Books | Articles | Online Programs, Support & Forums | OCD in the Media | Interest Websites | Smartphone Apps |
Miscellaneous |
Support Groups
- OCD Support Groups in Connecticut
- Behavioral Wellness Clinic OCD Support Group (Tolland, CT)
- OCD Survivors and Thrivers (Darien/Stamford, CT)
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Support Groups in Connecticut
- Clutters Anonymous (Greenwich, CT)
Organizations
- International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)
- OCD Connecticut (An IOCDF Affiliate)
- The Connecticut Mental Health Center (New Haven, CT)
- The New England OCD Institute (Tolland, CT)
- Behavioral Wellness Clinic (Tolland, CT)
- Southwest CT Regional Mental Health Board
- Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA)
- InStride Health
- Anxiety Institute
- ABCT: Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
- NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Mental Health America
- Connecticut’s Network of Care for Behavioral Health
- ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act
- JAN: Job Accommodation Network - Accommodation Ideas for Mental Health Impairments
- Peace of Mind Foundation
- The Happiness Club
Understanding OCD
- About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- The OCD Cycle - Break Free From OCD Using Exposure Response Prevention (Discussed in every meeting!)
- Podcast Featuring Dr. Christopher Pittenger, Director of the Yale OCD Research Clinic (NYU Langone Health)
- All About ‘Meta’ OCD and the Solving Ritual
- Real Event OCD: Symptoms, Obsessions, Compulsions and Treatment
- Riding the Wave Diagram
- OCDSymptoms (A website from the UK offering extensive advice on OCD causes & treatments)
- OCD Screening Quiz
- Social Signs of OCD: What to Look For (An Infographic)
- Understanding and Healing Touching and Movement Rituals
- Obsessive Cleaning and Other Compulsions from OCD
- Guidelines For Families Coping With OCD
- OCD in Children & Adolescents
- Parents Guide to OCD
- Anxiety in the Classroom
- Relationship OCD (ROCD)
- Relationship Between OCD and Social Anxiety
- OCD in Kids & Teens (An International OCD Foundation website)
- About Compulsive Hoarding
- Understanding Hoarding
- Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale (SUDS)
Treatment
- How to Find the Right Therapist
- List of Providers in Connecticut
- Center for Anxiety Disorders and Phobias
- Yale OCD Research Clinic
- The Institute of Living (An anxiety disorder center providing an intensive treatment program for OCD based in Hartford, CT.)
- REACH Adult OCD and Anxiety Disorders Track (Bridgeport Hospital)
- Yale Child Study Center
- NOCD (Therapy includes video-based OCD therapy and in-between session support, right in the NOCD platform. It offers exposure and response prevention, or ERP, the most effective OCD treatment.)
- Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) (A New Treatment Approach to OCD)
- Katie Marrotte Counseling (Specialist in Inference-Based CBT)
- Thoughts Never Come True – Why Meta Cognitive Therapy (MCT) is the Right Treatment for OCD
- The Metacognitive Approach to OCD Treatment & Self-Help
- The Intensive Program for Children and Adolescents Suffering from OCD at Bradley Hospital, East Providence, RI
- Behavioral and Cognitive Treatment Associates, LLC (Farmington, CT)
- Institute for Behavior Therapy (The oldest private cognitive behavioral therapy center in the U.S.)
- Rogers Memorial Hospital (A nationally recognized leader in the treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders offering intensive cognitive-behavioral therapy.)
- Online Database of OCD Therapists
Online Programs, Support & Forums
- The OCD Advantage
- OCD & the 6-Moment Game: Strategies & Tactics (A 4-Hour Video Series Designed to Help You Take Down OCD)
- CBT SCHOOL - An Online CBT Platform for OCD, Anxiety Disorders, and Eating Disorders
- Scrupulosity Solutions, LLC (Treatment for scrupulosity OCD)
- SOAR - Conquer Fear of Flying
- International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) Blog
- Impulse - Online OCD Treatment
- NOCD (Therapy includes video-based OCD therapy and in-between session support, right in the NOCD platform. It offers exposure and response prevention, or ERP, the most effective OCD treatment.)
- OCD Challenge
- "40
BAGS IN 40 DAYS" Clutter Challenge Facebook
Page
- OCDTribe.com, A New Online Support Community
- Stuck In A Doorway (Online OCD Support Forum)
Smartphone Apps
- NOCD: OCD Treatment App (iPhone app & Android app)
- Unstuck My OCD (An A.I. app designed to help you resist or break free from compulsions)
- OCD Manager (iPhone app based on CBT and rational emotive behavior therapy. The app is available through the iTunes store)
- Breathe2Relax (A stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing)
- Smartphone Mobile App Study for OCD
- Live OCD Free (ERP-based smartphone app where users develop their own exposure hierachy & set reminders to complete exposure trials)
The OCD Workbook by Bruce
M. Hyman, Ph.D. & Cherry Pedrick, R.N.
(This
book has become among the most trusted and recommended OCD resources
available.)
Up
and Down the Worry Hill by Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D.
(A great book for children with OCD.)
Articles
- "This is what it’s really like to have OCD, according to 4 people living with it" by Claire Murashima (NPR)
- "Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here's why..." by Annie Waldman, Maya Miller, Max Blau, Duaa Eldeib, & Rhitu Chatterjee (NPR)
- "Avoidance Predicts Worse Long-term Outcomes from Intensive OCD Treatment" by Julian Nowogrodzki (Medscape)
- "I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness" by Rose Cartwright (The Guardian)
- "What OCD is — and what it isn’t — according to the experts" by Madeline Holcombe, CNN
- "What is Meta OCD? And, Do I Have It?" by Dr. R.Y. Langham
- "Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view" by Ariana Orvell (Psyche Digital Magazine)
- "Living With O.C.D. in a Pandemic" by Jane E. Brody (The New York Times)
- "A Marriage Stressed by Obsessions and Compulsions" by Nicole Comforto (The New York Times)
- "How OCD and Hand-Washing and Coronavirus Collide" by Katherine Rosman (The New York Times)
- "The Boxing Champion Who Battles O.C.D." by Aimee Berg (The New York Times)
- "Compulsion To Touch Things In OCD Cases" by Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
- "O.C.D., My Exhausting Best Friend" by Wajahat Ali (The New York Times)
- "Connecticut College Student On a Mission of Awareness and Strength" by Jeff Jacobs (Connecticut Post)
- "With Short, Intense Sessions, Some Patients Finish Therapy in Just Weeks" by Andrea Petersen (The New York Times)
- "Understanding Religious OCD" by Rachel Ehmke (Child Mind Institute)
- "O.C.D. in N.Y.C." by Mike Sacks (The New York Times)
- "How I Finally Kicked My O.C.D." by Rich Monahan (The New York Times)
- "A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day" by John Tierney (The New York Times) (An article discussing that an "attitude of gratitude" is linked to better mental and physical health.)
- "Three Treatment Issues When You Have OCD and Social Anxiety" by Barbara Markway, Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
- "Hoarding is not just on TV, it's a real disease in our communities" by Frank Juliano (Connecticut Post)
- "A Journey Through Darkness" by Daphne Merkin (The New York Times Magazine) (A gut-wrenching, absorbing and beautifully written article in which the author chronicles her lifelong bout with chronic depression.)
- "The Father I Thought I Knew" by Michael Winerip (The New York Times) (Interesting article about a man's experience with a father who apparently suffered from undiagnosed and untreated OCD.)
- "Are You Crazy Enough to Succeed?" by Jeremy Katz (NBC News)
- "Tackling OCD: Talk Is Not Cheap!" by Christina J. Taylor, Ph.D.
- "To Tell, Or Not To Tell, About Your OCD?" by Christina J. Taylor, Ph.D.
Interest Websites
- Facebook: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder / OCD Awareness Page
- Struggle into Strength (Website by Tom Smalley, a mental health advocate.)
- TurningPointCT.org (Website designed by and for young people as a resource for mental wellness.)
- Compulsive Hoarding Website (International OCD Foundation)
- David F. Tolin, Ph.D. (A leading expert in the study of Compulsive Hoarding.)
- Randy O. Frost, Ph.D. (A registered expert on Compulsive Hoarding.)
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Anxiety Disorders Association of America)