5 Key Insights into OCD: Understanding a Friend’s Struggles Last week, one of my clients sat across from me in my Edinburgh office, visibly frustrated. “My flatmate keeps saying she’s ‘so organised’ about keeping the kitchen tidy,”...
5 Ways Hyper-Responsibility OCD Affects Your Life Picture this. A few weeks ago, one of my clients sat in my Edinburgh office, absolutely shattered. She’d spent three hours the night before checking every single electrical outlet in her house. Not once, not...
5 Reasons Why Ignoring Intrusive Thoughts is Challenging Last Tuesday, I watched a client here in my Edinburgh practice literally hold his head in his hands. “I keep telling myself to just stop thinking about it,” he said, exhausted. “But the harder...
10 Insights into Rumination OCD and Intrusive Thoughts Last Tuesday, I watched a client spend forty minutes trying to “solve” a single intrusive thought. She sat in my Edinburgh office, eyes fixed on the floor, mentally replaying the same scenario over and...
Loving Someone with Relationship OCD: 10 Essential Tips Last week, a woman sat in my Edinburgh office, tears streaming down her face. “He keeps asking if I really love him,” she whispered. “But Federico, he asks me this twenty times a day. I tell him...
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