Compulsive Behavior

Do You Have Obsessions or Compulsions?
Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions
by Edna B. Foa, Ph.D., R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
Most of us are familiar with how unpleasant worrying can be. Driving down the highway, heading to the beach for vacation, you think, Did I remember to unplug the iron? You reassure yourself that you did. Seconds later, though, the question returns

Preface
The Real 13th Step: Discovering Confidence, Self-Reliance, and Independence Beyond the 12-Step Programs
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
Since the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, twelve-step based recovery programs have proved very effective in helping victims of addictive, obsessive and compulsive behavior put a stop to that behavior and the damage it has created in their lives.

Facts about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
OCD: People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control.

Scruples
Devil in the Details
by Jennifer Traig
My father and I were in the laundry room and we were having a crisis. It was the strangest thing, but I couldn't stop crying. And there were a few other weird things: I was wearing a yarmulke and a nightgown, for one, and then there were my hands, red

Scruples, Part 2
Devil in the Details
by Jennifer Traig
I lied more than I ever had in my life. I lied, and lied and lied. Sure, not lying was one of the Ten Commandments, and not eating meatballs wasn't even in the top two hundred, but lying seemed preferable.