Take part in this game show-inspired workshop where you will team up with your peers to prove you can be just as knowledgeable and effective as therapists when it comes to creating your own exposures, challenging and reframing distorted thoughts, and using positive coping skills to bounce back from lapses or low moods. Find out what works for others with OCD and help others out by sharing your success story. The prize? Bragging rights to show your parents and therapist how effective you can be when it comes to managing your own OCD! Teens with any amount of OCD treatment experience (including none!) are invited to join us.
Everyone says that your high school years are supposed to be the best years of your life, but when you're a teenager with OCD, they can seem like the worst. From doing exposures to fighting compulsions, it can be hard to feel like a “normal” teenager. Three young adults discuss the difficulties they faced in their teenage years, from feeling isolated from their peers to not being able to be fully present in their own lives due to OCD. Part of being a teenager with OCD is accepting that you may not have the stereotypical teenager experience, but also remembering you have the power to make these years into what you, not your OCD, want them to be.
