Jill R Stevens, MA, LCPC

02/13/2025

Highly recommended - in Chicago this year!

The 30th Annual OCD Conference is on July 10–13, 2025 in Chicago with Virtual attendee options! You can register at iocdf.org/ocdcon

09/25/2023

This is a great conference every year. Highly recommended to anyone with OCD or with a family member or loved one who has OCD (and of course mental health professionals).

Join us for three days of virtual programming for the entire OCD and related disorders community at the 2023 Online OCD Conference! Get ready to connect and learn with others who understand, and hear from treatment providers, researchers, and lived experience individuals (along with their support sy...

04/26/2022

Excellent short video (5") on how women patients, especially women of color, get dismissed and misdiagnosed. Also points out how the vast majority of research is only done on males - whether human or animal. As a result, actual research on women is scant and our health care far behind. This is especially a problem with autoimmune conditions.

Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Maria Shriver looks into a troubling trend of doctors misdiagnosing, dismissing and gaslighting female patients despite showing sy...

04/14/2022

May 9, 2022 | Online

10/09/2021

Really Outstanding OCD Conference this year. Learned about this website:

We understand and we can help. If you are looking for a safe, supportive space to learn to manage your anxiety (even just to hear that you will get through it), you've found your people. Join our free community.

10/07/2021

Highly Recommended!

Join us for the largest national conference dedicated to OCD! This year’s Online OCD Conference will feature three days of programming dedicated to obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders for the entire OCD community, including: Individuals with lived experience, Family members and sup...

07/08/2021

Good tip

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often feel like they cannot trust their own memories. They may fear they're failing to remember things, modif...

04/14/2021

I have worked with people whose OCD was worsened by the wrong treatment, who then benefitted tremendously from stopping that and engaging in appropriate CBT with ERP.

by Dean McKay, PhD, Jonathan Abramowitz, PhD, and Eric Storch, PhD This article was initially published in the Spring 2019 edition of the OCD Newsletter. James[1] sought treatment with one of us for his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). His symptoms were primarily intrusive images of harmi...

04/09/2021

https://amihungry.com/articles/im-bored-want-eat-overeating-trigger-2-boredom-2?inf_contact_key=a987b7955ae3b924200cb647562dc1cf651f238aa2edbb9c8b7cff03e0b16a0

If you are one of the many people who say, "I eat when I'm bored," here's what causes boredom eating and what you can do about eating when you're bored.