Coaching practices for How to Deal with Ocd and Health Anxiety

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• A nagging thought or urge takes hold and the only way I get relief is to do the ritual
• Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
• I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
• What I’m actually terrified of isn’t out there in the world
• What I’m really afraid of isn’t a place or a situation

Practices that may help

1. Exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD-like patterns
   Trigger obsessional distress, then refrain from the compulsive or avoidant response.
   Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them
2. Engage with the present moment
   Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
3. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
4. Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
   If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
5. Interoceptive exposure for physical anxiety sensations
   Deliberately produce feared bodily sensations (racing heart, dizziness) to learn they are tolerable.
   Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them
6. Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
   List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
7. The Worry Log: Capturing and Categorizing Worries
   Write down each worry as it arises, then categorize it as solvable or hypothetical before the worry window.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
8. Run toward the feeling
   Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
9. Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry
   Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
10. Fade reassurance-seeking
    Gradually reduce how often you seek reassurance from others that the feared thing won't happen.
    Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical

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