Loving Someone with OCD

Loving Someone with OCD

Help for You and Your Family

Karen J. Landsman, Ph.D.,

Kathleen M. Rupertus, MA, MS,

and Cherry Pedrick, R.N.

What the Experts are Saying about Loving Someone with OCD

“This is the best book available addressing the serious problems that OCD can cause in families. Loving Someone with OCD is a uniquely helpful and wonderful book because it provides step-by-step, easily understandable plans for dealing with every problem that commonly arises between OCD sufferers and their loved ones. The format of the book makes developing a successful plan for overcoming family problems a cinch.”

Ian Osborn, MD, psychiatrist, assistant professor of psychiatry oat the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, and author of Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

“I am excited to read this book, with its very specific and detailed instructions on how to help a loved one deal with and hopefully recover from his or her OCD. The chapters on designing and implementing family contracts, with their step-by-step directions, should be especially helpful in the day-by-day battle with OCD. This book should also be particularly helpful for those of us who do not have a qualified therapist available for treatment. I recommend that every family with an OCD member – child, sibling, spouse, and so forth – purchase a copy of the workbook. I only wish we had access to it twenty years ago.”

Jacqueline Stout, owner of the online support list, Parents of Adults with OCD, sixteen member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, and mother of an adult who has had severe OCD for twenty-three years.

“Loving Someone with OCD is a long overdue book that provides solid and accurate information along with extremely practical advice for anyone who has a loved one with OCD. The book is a tremendous resource! I am thrilled to be able to provide this to all families of my patients with OCD. If someone you love has OCD, read this book first.”

Mark E. Crawford, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist and author of The Obsessive-Compulsive Trap

“Loving Someone with OCD is unique in the literature on obsessive-compulsive disorder because it is not for the person suffering with the disorder – it’s for the family or friends of the sufferer. If you live with or love someone with this problem, this is the one book on the subject you should read. The authors lay out, step-by-step, what a family needs to do to stop supporting the OCD and start supporting the person with OCD while he or she deals with the disorder. The book is the next best thing to bringing a therapist home to live with you.”

Patricia Perkins, JD, executive director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, Inc.

“All too often the families of those suffering from OCD are ignored. Loving Someone with OCD goes beyond other books for families of OCD sufferers; rather than simply providing them with understanding, it gives them the tools to help themselves as well as their loved ones.”

Jonathan B. Grayson, Ph.D., director of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University Medical School and author of Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty

“This excellent book is just what families need when they are stuck in the web of OCD. It goes beyond simply helping families understand what needs to change by offering a practical, step-by-step guide to doing it. Very easy to read – clear and positive – this book will bring hope and help to many in despair.”

Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D., clinical associate professor of neurology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, director of the OCD and Anxiety Consultancy in Rochester, NY, and author of What to do when your Child has OCD, Up and Down the Worry Hill and Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents

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