Book for Obsessive Thoughts

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FYI

For you readers out there ---- The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent

Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts. By Lee Baer, Ph.D. New York, Dutton, 2001,

154 pp ----- offers an interesting view of this problem.

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> Hello,

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> I am a new member hoping to gain advice and support for my almost 9 year old

son. I recently gave him the sex talk and now he is having unwanted sexual

thoughts constantly. He says he is bad for thinking this way. I explained to

him that it is natural and normal, but he is tormented by these thoughts/visions

and keeps coming to me to confess every thought he has.

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> I know quite a bit about ocd because I have had it since I was a kid. CBT

helped me, but I really have no idea how to implement that in his case. I am

also wondering if anyone knows of a good therapist in the Atlanta area?

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> He is so stressed out and told me that he would rather die than go on living

this way. Does anyone have experience with this particular obsession?

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> Thanks so much,

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