Further Resources

If a life is in danger, please call 000 immediately.

• Lifeline: 13 11 14
• Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800
• Beyondblue: 1300 22 4636
• Headspace: (03) 9027 0100
• Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 – This is a telephone counselling service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for people who are suicidal
• ARCVic: (Vic-based Anxiety/OCD helpline) 1300 269 438

Head to Health: https://headtohealth.gov.au

Head to Health is a good starting point to find help, either for yourself or for a loved one.

NOCD: licensed therapists who practice Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

NSW

• WayAhead’s OCD Online Anxiety Support Group

VIC

• ARCVic’s OCD Support Group (online)

• International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)
• OCD LA
• Beyond Blue
• Made of Millions
• Maternal OCD
• Relationship OCD

Adults

• This Way Up
• MindSpot OCD Course

Kids

• OCD? Not me!

Adults

• Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty by Dr. Jonathan Grayson

• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop by David Adam

• Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally M. Winston & Martin N. Seif
• Daring to Challenge OCD: Overcome your fear of treatment and take control of your life using exposure and response prevention by Joan Davidson, Phd
• Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Motherhood by Karen Kleiman, Amy Wenzel, Hilary Waller, and Abby Adler Mandel
• The Joy Thief by Penny Moodie

Kids

• What to do when your brain gets stuck: A kid’s guide to overcoming OCD by Dawn Huebner

• No Filter: Living with Relationship OCD
• The OCD stories
• Breaking the Rules (for clinicians but also helpful for anyone wanting to learn more):
  • What it’s like to live with OCD- Penny Moodie and Rosie Frankish
  • What your family member with OCD needs from you- Penny Moodie and Rosie Frankish
• Heart on my Sleeve podcast – Lena: The Doctor Becomes the Patient
• The Imperfects podcast- Rick Davies: Living with OCD
• The Imperfects podcast- Penny Moodie: OCD
• The Good GP- OCD-Episode 99

• You Can’t Ask That: OCD on ABC iView
• Pure

• The Choice Point: A map for a meaningful life (ACT)
• Rosie’s journey with OCD 

Increasing Willingness to Experience Obsessions: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Michael P. Twohig, Steven C. Hayes and Akihiko Masuda, University of Nevada, Behaviour Therapy Volume 37, pages 3-13
Available at: http://thehappinesstrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Twohig-Act-2006_-ACT-for-OCD.pdf

Obsessive-compulsive disorder: The role of the GP, Caroline Johnson & Scott Blair-West, Australian Family physician Volume 42, No.9, September 2013 Pages 606-609. Available at: https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2013/september/ocd/

Exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A review and new directions Dianne M. Hezel 1,2 and H. Blair Simpson 1,2. Indian J Psychiatry. 2019 Jan; 61(Suppl 1): S85–S92.
Available at: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_516_18 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343408/

Twohig MP, Abramowitz JS, Bluett EJ, Fabricant LE, Jacoby RJ, Morrison KL, et al. Exposure therapy for OCD from an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) framework. J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord. 2015;6:167–73. Available at: https://www.actmindfully.com.au/upimages/Twohig_et_al._-_2015_-_Exposure_therapy_for_OCD_from_an_acceptance_and_commitment_therapy_(_ACT_)_framework.pdf

Acceptance and commitment therapy: Pathways for general practitioners, Matthew Smout, Australian Family Physician Volume 41, No.9, September 2012 Pages 672-676. Available at: https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2012/september/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/