The Power of Response Prevention: The Key to Conquering Anxiety and OCD

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Response Prevention is in my opinion the most critical component of any exposure therapy, and without it, the treatment will likely be ineffective. Response Prevention means that you are resisting the urge to do certain physical and mental behaviors and rituals in an effort to calm your anxiety or discomfort NOT only during an exposure but after an exposure and anytime you are feeling anxious or triggered.

When clients engage in avoidance, safety or compulsive behaviors, they reinforce the idea that their anxiety is justified and that their fears are legitimate.
The purpose of doing exposures and response prevention is to give your brain opportunities to learn that you are safe and to learn that you are capable of coping with your thoughts, sensations and feared situations.

Response Prevention includes resisting physical and mental compulsions while not avoiding those triggers and not performing any safety behaviors and reassurance seeking.

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[terencereed]

This lady is an angel to the community. Helped me a lot. Long way to go, but she assisted and cared.

[larrybacheller]

I suffer from the mental compulsions and i sometimes don’t even realize I am performing them.

[zpex]

I wish you were my therapist! I desperately want to effectively perform ERP. Thank you so much for the video!

[AR-nksy]

Paige, you’re an Angel. Since listening to your videos I’ve seen a decrease in my anxiety symptoms. I’ve seen a change in my compulsion to fix or correct it but to identify accept and sit through it. Today, I identified it as a feeling of being overwhelmed from work and a series of emails that seemed so confusing at the time. And then it hit. I was tempted to get away from the project I was working on but I sat there, took one task at a time and worked through it. It flared again within 30 minutes but I continued with work. It was a first that’s happened twice in one day but maybe I shouldn’t look at it in any other way than my brain is changing. Im guessing it’s so use to the anxiety it must not think it’s done for the day. Bring it on! Ok not really but I’ll be ready with what should I do. I will say the only thing that really calmed me is watching this video and arming myself with some tools to slay the dragon.

I’ve started speaking to a therapist and looking for another who specializes in anxiety, OCD and exposure and ERP. Thank you!!

[DannyGautama]

I sincerely adore this lady. Such a kind person with effectiveness.👍🏽💯

[niklevesque]

for a while I was clueless on what I was actually going through and now I think I know, I'm thankful to have found you. Clarity on what's going on will hopefully help me start making steps towards getting my life back! I have a beautiful wife and 2 kids, lately i've been calling out of work, avoiding driving, and it's really been affecting me and everyone around me. Somehow I've managed to not lose my job or my wife, I need to get my confidence back. I can't let this ruin my life... I will continue to watch your videos, thank you so much

[maggiefernandez]

Wow great video Paige! Most of my compulsions are mental. My only physical compulsion is that I have to do alot in a a day and fast "to have a productive day" so on purpose I do whatever I'm doing slowly or just say no I'm not doing anything else today and just sit with a smile to trick my brain that it's ok. It's so hard Paige but definitely doable! Thank you so much for your videos they have helped me tremendously especially with insomnia❤

[Sereneis]

This was extremely helpful, and the music level was much better. Ty very much, Paige. You are the best!

[dylannicks]

You and your videos mean so much to me 💜 I’m battling agoraphobia and fear of stroke. It can be hard if you are part of the LGBT community when people bother you. The last story was so sweet also 💜

[haritejabandaru]

The solution starts at 12:18 - ACT ( defusion technique)

[patriciapablos]

Eternally grateful to you and your knowledge

[journalwithrach]

Hi Paige! I’ve been struggling with counting and checking the locks in my house for a while, I think my ocd got triggered when my grandmother passed away a couple years ago. I’m not sure why though. I wasn’t ocd before then, but it’s gotten progressively worse. I’m still trying to stop my compulsions though :) thank you so much for all of your advice❤

[markj]

Thank you so much for this video. I love it!!! I have probably watched it 3 times and it helps me every time.

ERP has helped me a lot. I used to deal with a lot of mental compulsions and I would follow up on every thought. It was wearing me out every day.
I would come home from work and my kids would look at me and say, "Are you ok"?

I work an 8-hour shift. I kid you not, I would be doing mental compulsions the entire workday. Fighting my thoughts. Trying to remember
conversations and then ruminating about that. It was bad! It has gotten better but I still struggle at times.

I think it's very important to know that you don't have to follow every thought. You don't have to solve every intrusive thought. Resisting the urge to do a compulsion is probably the hardest thing I have ever done, especially when I am trying to maintain my sanity at work.

Let me ask you this because this happens often. Why does anxiety make you believe things that you know aren't true? It's so powerful.

Why does the sensation of anxiety feel so damn strong? There are times when I am having a good day. No intrusive thoughts. Stress-free.
Everything is all good until that first intrusive thought. That first thought is always a shock. It's a thought that will sometimes stop me in my tracks.
That's when I know I am in my anxiety mode. My anxiety mode makes me feel like my thoughts are true and the only important thing
at the moment is that intrusive thought. No matter how I try to deal with it, the initial shock is devastating.

Now my Response Prevention helps but it takes time to kick in. You're from Michigan right? How doesn't it feel on cold mornings when you haven't started your car? You're in a hurry, the car is not warm but you can't wait - now you have to deal with an ice-cold car. Cold right! Damn cold! You keep putting your hands to the vents because you're trying to get some sensation of heat, something that will feel good.

It takes time for me to resist. I have to really concentrate and sometimes talk to myself, "We can't let this get worse. let's resist"

That's how it is with my anxiety. Once I start my response prevention, I have to fight like hell to resist a mental compulsion. Because once
I get sucked into a thought, it's almost impossible to pull myself out. Why? Can anxiety be that strong?

I get this strong sensation and my thoughts become powerful and very specific, especially if I succumb to the obsessive thought.
And then miraculously, my thoughts will ease up and the sensation goes away. Temporarily

Then morning comes and now my thoughts are waiting to flood my mind. ERP helps. How long does it take to get through this?

Love your videos. Thank you for the shout-out.

[katrinaklug]

Thank you so much for posting these free videos! You do a great job with the editing and look comfortable on camera. This makes it so easy to focus on what you are saying!! Thanks for putting in the effort to make these high-quality.

[bhartiarora]

Ur videos mean so much to the battered souls out there trying to fight OCD

[Mikeybooks]

Your a beautiful soul, i truly would be lost without these videos. Its hard to tell ourselves the steps, it helps to hear it from another. This disorder has robbed me of enough.

Thank you.🎉

[hernanezequielferrari]

Paige, from Argentina I can't tell thank you enough for all your help and guidance through what I'm going through. Thank you so much. I agree with all the comments, you're an angel. Much love.

[donjon]

Already learnt to do mixing up ocd checking pattern by myself it does help

[NatureAffirmationsChannel]

Good day Mrs Paige. I cannot say enough thanks for what you have done for us. I do exposure by my own. But I am also working so I only do 15 mins imaginal exposures (I trigger the anxiety so high and let it go by its own without any impulsions). However I do it 10 times a day. Would it be okay?
Thank you in advance.