Rewire Your OCD Brain

Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears

By: Catherine M. Pittman PhD, William H. Youngs PhD

Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Rewire the brain processes that cause obsessions and compulsions - and take back your life!

If you've ever wondered why you seem to get trapped in an endless cycle of obsessive, compulsive thoughts, you don't have to wonder anymore. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Rewire Your OCD Brain will show you how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertainty, and worry; and offers the tools you need to short-circuit this response and get your symptoms under control-for good.

Written by clinical psychologist Catherine Pittman and clinical neuropsychologist William Youngs, this groundbreaking book will show how neurological functions in your brain lead to obsessions, compulsions, and anxiety. You'll also find tons of proven-effective coping strategies to help you manage your worst symptoms.

The brain is powerful, and the more you work to change the way you respond to obsessive thoughts, the more resilient you'll become. If you're ready to rewire the brain processes that lie at the root of your obsessive thoughts, this book has everything you need to get started today.

©2021 Catherine M. Pittman, PhD and William H. Youngs, PhD (P)2021 Tantor

Excellent!

The authors clearly explain how the amygdala and your FFR affect anxiety. They include several strategies to help you manage your anxiety and obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

So helpful!

So helpful to learn how the brain works in my anxiety and I have control to change it

Great Help for OCD

this is a wonderful book. Catherine Pittman makes complicated brain science accessible to not only the provider, but the consumer of mental health treatment. the narrator is a little bit boring at times, but the repetition in the book is excellent. stick with it. and read it again and again. I highly recommend this as a therapist who treats OCD on a regular basis.

Great information. Helpful.

Explanations. The book was very informative and offered very practical information. I recommend it to anyone who can listen to this book.

Wonderful in-depth neuroscience of OCD

I love very detailed books that explain exactly how things work. This book is that. As one example, the book helped me realize that fighting the stress response backfires because once the adrenaline is released, it has to work it’s way through the body for the stress response to be over. I used to freak out each time I felt my anxiety levels rise. Now I just mindfully breathe into it, waiting for it to work it’s course. It’s much more freeing. You definitely still need to work with a therapist, and the authors say so. But this book can definitely be of amazing help on the journey to taking back your life from OCD.

Great

And useful book. I highly recommend for anyone who is trying to get through their OCD with self help

A must read for anyone with OCD in their life

This book was such an amazing comfort and I will def read it again and again. I wish help like this had been more accessible when I was a little girl. I thought I was crazy back then and sadly, anyone who I shared my ocd with only confirmed that for me. It is so amazing to know how intricate ocd is and how many ppl suffer from it. These writers are geniuses and the narrator was like a wise old sage, soothing your mind with every word.

I love the breakdown of all the chapters and how in depth they explain the science of ocd. I’ve heard throughout my life that ocd is not a thing or just to knock it off. I don’t mean that I will continue to use it as an excuse for my bad behavior, I only mean that it’s reassuring to see it emphasized as a true mental condition and to know that there is hope and help.

I really learned so much more about ocd and the science was mostly easy to follow. I think I am going to name my ocd Amygdala lmao. The examples of sufferers used was excellent and my heart twisted for each of them. The breathing and muscle exercises never work for me but everything else was incredibly insightful. I also loved that they mentioned the serenity prayer which is a logical saying apart from religion.

I highly recommend this godsend of a book to anyone who has ocd in their life, whether you are the sufferer or watching a loved one suffer. This is the help that they need, especially if they are wary of going to an actual therapist. Hands down best book on ocd I have ever read. So grateful ♥️

Concise and Well-Explained

An essential listen for those who suffer from OCD; this book explains the inner-workings of the disorder regarding the science, physiology and functions of the OCD brain, then covers practical tools and strategies to help lessen its grip on your life.

Focuses entirely on understanding the workings of the brain

This book was a helpful way to under stand the way the brain works around anxiety but was lacking in any applicable tools for OCD outside of regulation.