exposure and response prevention

We have the obsessions and the compulsions.

So exposure and response prevention is the two-part solution.

OCD specialist Jenna Overbaugh breaks down exposure and response prevention and how ERP helps break the anxiety cycle.

It's worthwhile to ask yourself, what are the things that I do that if anxiety and fear weren't part of my life, that I probably wouldn't do?

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Imagine looking your deepest, most terrifying thought right in the eye and choosing to do nothing.

That's the heart of Exposure and Response Prevention, or ERP, the gold standard therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

There's a possibility that I wasn't really ready to listen to anything that I felt was wrong, that how I was living wasn't great for me, and so I feel like I deflected a lot of my anger and the way that I was really feeling about my situation onto that person.

ERP, which stands for Exposure Response Prevention.

It's about exposing yourself to that which you fear.

So say you were completely avoiding knives.