Tenisa Montgomery on OCD
What is it like to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? In this episode of Woman Worriers, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Tenisa Montgomery, a therapist who has experienced OCD.
“I couldn’t get the thought out of my head unless I actually followed the command of the disorder.”
Show Notes:
Santa makes a list and checks it twice. But if he checks it a third or fourth or fiftieth time—if he can’t stop checking it—he may suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. In this episode of the Woman Worriers podcast, therapist Elizabeth Cush, of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., interviews Tenisa Montgomery, a licensed mental health counselor in Maitland, Fla., who works with teens and young adults who have experienced trauma. She also has special insight into treating OCD, because she suffers from the disorder herself. She shares her personal story and talks about how she uses mindfulness and meditation to manage her OCD successfully.
Listen and learn:
What obsessive-compulsive order is—and it isn’t what you might think it is
What it feels like to have OCD
How OCD can show up
The role of stress and anxiety in OCD
How counseling can help those with OCD
What a genogram is and how it can help you gain insight
How mindfulness can help you manage OCD
How to handle “breakthrough” symptoms with compassion
Why it’s important to recognize how anxiety affects your body
How self-knowledge can help you reduce your stress
Why it can be useful to work with a therapist who has struggled herself
When you might consider medication
Why mindfulness is an appropriate tool for women with anxiety
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