What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck. A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD What to Do Guides for Kids

Customer Reviews

Great Workbook for children with OCD

2008-09-30
This workbook uses Cognitive Behavior Therapy and helps give children tools for fighting OCD. My daughter is 9 and found this book to be very helpful. It helped her to understand what OCD is and how to find ways to lessen its power over her mind. I definitely recommend this book.

OCD informative

2008-09-18
this book was great for my little girl..she was diagnosed with OCD
and coming to terms with it..she needed to know she was not "weird"
and that others like herself deal with OCD every single day to some degree
I highly recommend this book
!

Life-changing book

2008-08-14
I read this book with my nine-year-old child in one afternoon. We saw immediate results. Her OCD symptoms were relatively mild to moderate, but we saw a dramatic decrease in OCDs immediately. It was as if the book gave her permission to take control of a situation that she felt was out of her control. She was instantly transformed back into our happy, cheerful and talkative child. She no longer sits in social settings repeating words in her head and missing the life going on around her. I HIGHLY recommend this book. I wish our physician had given it to us two years ago. It is a condensed version of books written for adults and parents. I even recommend it for adults struggling with anxiety and OCD.

This book changed my son's life for the better

2008-08-08
My 9 year old son worked through this book with his OCD therapist, and it had an immediate, positive impact on his understanding of his disorder. It gave him the tools he needed to fight back against his intrusive thoughts and anxiety. He continues to rely on this book when things "flare up" occasionally. I'm so thankful that he has this book to help remind him what is really happening in his head when his OCD bothers him, and what he can do to help get it under control.

Easy to read and offers great ideas

2008-03-28
I thought this was a great book for kids and teens with OCD. I am a therapist and I will recommend it to all my clients with OCD.

Excellent resource to help children/early teens

2007-12-28
What To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Revealing OCD in a whole new light, this interactive self-help book turns kids into super-sleuths who can recognize OCD's tricks. Engaging examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions help children master the skills needed to break free from the sticky thoughts and urges of OCD, and live happier lives. This is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to work toward change. Included in the book is an extensive Introduction to Parents and Caregivers.

Well worth the price!

2007-11-29
This has been a great book for my 13 year old son, who has OCD, along with autism. There is a very helpful analogy comparing dealing with obsessive thoughts with entering a movie theater--just like sometimes at first the theater's air conditioning is too cold or the sound is too loud, after a while, we get used to it. In the same way, if the child waits out the anxious thought, it too will go away, as he "gets used to it". I don't often write reviews, but this book was so helpful that I wanted to make sure I recommended it to those who have children struggling with OCD.

A must have for anyone with OCD

2007-11-29
This is must have for anyone with OCD. I am reading it over and over as you can't comprehend everything with just one reading.

What to do when your brain gets stuck

2007-11-01
My daughter is 7 and was diagnosed with OCD in Aug. This book is fantastic!!! It is full of great tools to fight OCD. The book is interactive and kid friendly. The concepts are easy for kids to understand. This book is great for parents who need something that can help free their children from OCD. We did the work book together, a little at a time,and we also got help from a therapist. The therapist mainly supported what we did in the work book, and helped reinforce the techniques and information we learned. My daughter is free from OCD thanks to this book, and a great and caring therapist. This book is a must for any parent, and child facing OCD. Forget all the other books and order this one.

I will use this again and again with my clients

2007-09-07
This book is just what I needed to reach my youngest OCD clients. It along with John Marsh's OCD books are the perfect combination for a therapist.