Ep. 85: Harm OCD with Jon Hershfield
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Overcoming Harm OCD with Jon Hershfield
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today we have a special guest, Jon Hershfield, LMFT. Jon has been on the show already and is a favorite among the CBT School-ers.
Today, Jon and I talk about how to manage specific obsessions related to violence and physical harm. In OCD terms, we call it Harm Obsessions or Harm OCD (if you meet the requirements for a diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD).
In this episode, Jon answers some important questions such as:
- Does everyone have Harm Obsessions, thoughts, impulses or images?
- Why do these Harm Obsessions bother some people and not others?
- What is the difference between a Harm OCD and having thoughts about harm?
- Are people with Harm OCD any different than those who have other types of OCD?
- How do we treat Harm OCD?
This was such a fun episode and I really hope it helps those with harm obsessions, thoughts, images, impulses, and urges (Harm OCD).
Fore more information on Jon's latest book, Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts, click HERE.
For more information on Jon Hershfield, visit:
Website: Ocdbaltimore.com
Twitter: @cbtocd
IG: @ocdbaltimore
FB: @JonHershfield
GOOD NEWS!……WE HAVE A HUGE SURPRISE!
On January 28th, 2019, we are offering our FREE webinar called “10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OCD.” This is a FREE online video course explaining exactly what OCD is, how to treat it and what complicating factors can occur during the process.
This free webinar will run daily at 6pm PST for one week ONLY. If you are not able to attend the free webinar, no stress! There will be a free replay sent to your inbox the day after signing up. I cannot wait to share this FREE educational resource with you.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
ALSO, ERP School is COMING BACK! Exposure and Response Prevention School is an online course that teaches you the tools and skills I teach my clients in my office. Let me tell you a little bit about it. The course is a video-based course that includes modules on:
- The science behind ERP
- Identifying YOUR obsessions and your compulsions
- The different approaches and types of ERP, including gradual exposure, writing scripts, interoceptive exposures and how to get creative with ERP
- Mindfulness tools to help you manage anxiety, panic and uncertainty
- Troubleshoot common questions and concerns
- BONUS 6 videos of the most common subtypes of OCD, including Harm OCD.
The course also includes many downloadable PDF’s and activities to help you navigate how to best apply ERP to your specific obsessions and compulsions.
We are so excited to finally share ERP with you and would love to have you join us and the CBT School Community. It’s a beautiful day to do hard things!
If you are worried about doing it alone, please don’t fear. We meet bi-monthly on the Facebook group and on Instagram to talk about questions you may have.
Click HERE to sign up.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 85. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:14.4 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:17.4 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:23.0 | Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three, |
| 0:29.6 | and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing |
| 0:37.0 | anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:38.7 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:46.2 | Well, welcome back and I'm so thrilled to have you here. |
| 0:50.4 | Happy Friday to you guys. |
| 0:53.3 | Well, this is going to be a pretty extraordinary episode, if I do say so |
| 1:00.0 | myself. We have a really amazing guest and I'm so happy to share it with you. We've had some |
| 1:06.7 | amazing guests here in the last couple of weeks. So once I've recorded them, I get so excited, |
| 1:12.0 | I kind of just want to get them to you. So that's why we have had so many guest speakers |
| 1:18.1 | instead of me being a speaker so much, which I really have enjoyed. Before we get to the episode, |
| 1:25.4 | though, and let you in on the big secret on who it is, let's first |
| 1:31.1 | talk about a couple of exciting things here on CBT Schools end of things. So, right now I know |
| 1:38.7 | it's Friday. On Monday, January 28, 2019, we are relaunching the free training. |
| 1:49.6 | It's a webinar. |
| 1:50.9 | It's called The 10 Things You Need to Know About OCD. |
| 1:55.9 | It will be out on January 28th. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.