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Conquering Your State of Anxiety

How to Battle OCD and Reclaim Your Life

By: Kirsten Pagacz

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Conquering Your State of Anxiety

How to Battle OCD and Reclaim Your Life

By: Kirsten Pagacz

Conquer Your State of Anxiety with Inspirational insight “Her description of her escalating illness is irreverent, brutally honest, and compelling, her successes are inspiring.” —Booklist Receive practical and insightful anxiety relief and comfort from someone with first hand experience struggling with a specific type of OCD. Discover what anxiety looks like. Kirstin Pagacz tells the riveting story of how she discovered her disorder. By high school, she was anorexic and a substance abuser —common "shadow syndromes" of OCD. By adulthood she was holding onto jobs and friends through sheer grit. Help came in the form of a miraculously well-timed public service announcement on NPR about OCD —at last, her illness had an identity. Learn what anxiety feels like. "It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist. After learning how to conquer her specific type of OCD, Pagacz wants to share her insight with you in hopes that you banish those intrusive thoughts, conquer your anxiety, and live a better life. Inside you'll gain insight into: The benefits of meditation and yoga Cognitive behavioral therapy Medication and exposure therapy If you learned from guides like Anxious for Nothing, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, or The Anxiety and Worry Workbook, then you’ll want to read Conquering Your State of Anxiety.

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Mango Media Inc.

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1642509191

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9781642509199

Leaving the OCD Circus

Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing

By: Kirsten Pagacz

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Leaving the OCD Circus

Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing

By: Kirsten Pagacz

The author's personal story of living with OCD and a guide for others suffering from the disease. This book tells the story of the author's childhood and introduces the tools she used for healing: such as meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, exposure therapy, yoga, and others. Readers will learn how OCD works to misshape a life and also how to begin work on their own issues of obsession and compulsion"--

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1573246816

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9781573246811

Conquering Your State of Anxiety

How to Battle OCD and Reclaim Your Life

By: Kirsten Pagacz

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How to Battle OCD and Reclaim Your Life

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Leaving the OCD Circus

Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing

By: Kirsten Pagacz

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Leaving the OCD Circus

Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing

By: Kirsten Pagacz

A true story of taming OCD: “Her description of her escalating illness is irreverent, brutally honest, and compelling [and] her successes are inspiring.” —Booklist It’s like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me. That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist in their first session when she was well into her thirties. She’d been following orders from this mean taskmaster for twenty years, without understanding why. The tapping, counting, cleaning, and ordering brought her comfort and structure, two things lacking in her family life. But it never lasted. The loathsome self-talk only intensified, and the rituals she had to perform got more bizarre. By high school, she was anorexic and a substance abuser—common “shadow syndromes” of OCD. By adulthood, she could barely hide her problems and held on to jobs and friends through sheer grit. Help finally came in the form of a miraculously well-timed public service announcement about OCD—at last, her illness had an identity. After finally learning how to conquer her OCD, Pagacz shares her story—from her traumatic childhood to the escalation of her disorder to her triumph over it—along with knowledge and insight about such techniques as meditation, yoga, cognitive-behavioral therapy, medication, and exposure therapy, to help others leave the OCD circus and live a better life.

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1633410153

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Conquering Your State of Anxiety

Conquering Your State of Anxiety

Leaving the OCD Circus

Leaving the OCD Circus

Conquering Your State of Anxiety

Conquering Your State of Anxiety

Leaving the OCD Circus

Leaving the OCD Circus

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