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This is such a great video to help educate family members or others who may not understand .

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A new summer camp organized by OCD Wisconsin aims to help campers overcome fears associated with their anxiety or OCD. 💙

Jason Niosi, VP of OCD Wisconsin and founder of OCDfeat, has seen his own son, Dexter, benefit from therapeutic group settings as he learned how to manage his OCD. These kids won't be alone this summer, they will be with other campers who have similar diagnoses. Dexter will be there as volunteer in hopes of sharing some of what he has learned along the way. 🙌

“I remember how difficult OCD was for me, and I didn't really have control over my own life. And that was an awful feeling to have to deal with all the time, and take away focus from everything that I actually wanted to do," Dexter said.

We are thrilled to see this camp kickoff and are so proud Dexter for giving back in such a big way!

To: Dexter From: Mom

This is the post-it note Dexter's mom gave him. Something he could see every morning while getting ready for school. He had a hard time going to school sometimes, as many kids with OCD experience, and this little reminder from Mom helped him break down some of his intrusive thoughts.

He doesn’t need it anymore but he still has it up. 💙 It's a good reminder for us all as we go through life.

If you love powerful poetry, you must read this book 📖. We were lucky enough to attend the release party and it was amazing.

Exciting summer camp opportunity for middle schoolers and families struggling with OCD. Registration is now open so please share with anyone you know might be struggling. There are a limited number of spots so register today!

🎟️ We’re THRILLED to announce that registration for Fearless Family Camp is now OPEN! 🏕️

Fearless Family Camp was created to support 5th-8th graders with OCD & related disorders, specific phobias, & social anxiety disorder AND their families! The camp runs from June 27-30 at Cedar Valley, and is hosted by OCD Wisconsin & Pure OCD Therapy. 🧠

The retreat begins on Thursday morning and ends with brunch on Sunday. Kids and caregivers will have their own programming schedules, although some activities will be for everyone to experience together. Kids’ programming will include time for exposure and response prevention (ERP), as well as art activities, games, and more. Caregivers’ programming will include education about OCD and family accommodation, opportunities to connect with other caregivers, and time to engage in creative activities and relaxation. The retreat will be a balance of activities designed to be therapeutic, relaxing, and fun! ☀️

Cost is ALL-INCLUSIVE: lodging, meals, therapeutic programming, and all activities are included!

⭐️ The Plant a Summer Camp Program is made possible by the generous grant-funding of JACK Mental Health Advocacy (MHA) and developed by the JACK MHA clinical staff with consultation by the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Fearless Family Camp is presented in partnership by OCD Wisconsin and Pure OCD Therapy and made possible by the generous grant-funding of JACK Mental Health Advocacy (MHA). This program was developed with consultation of JACK MHA clinical staff and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF).

🎟️ Registration is now OPEN! Visit ocdwisconsin.org/camp to learn more and apply! 🔗

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OCDfeat is a platform to help you manage OCD in between appointments, featuring a homework manager/ERP tracker, compulsion tracking (digital ban book!), and anxiety survey. We are excited to share our platform with you! If you want a sneak peak visit https://hubs.la/Q02hfcSv0 to schedule a product demo!

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This time of year isn't easy for everyone. If you or a loved one have OCD, we hope you find some peace and encouragement, and that you are able reflect on the you had this year.

*Trigger warning* ‼️

Studies show that people with OCD are 10x more likely to commit su***de. 😢

highlights real quotes from real families dealing with OCD. Our hope in sharing this content is that we can shed light on the diverse set of challenges OCD brings, provide support, and celebrate wins. 💙

"OCD is literally killing my child. She was struggling with rituals and paranoia so took her anxiety pills and tried to go to bed when she said she suddenly realized that every day was going to be horrible and tortured. She got up and slit her wrists and tried to cut open her throat but the blade wasn't sharp enough. She was so angry because she said they make it look so easy on tv shows and now she has these awful scars for nothing. She still wants to die."

Share your comments of support. ⬇️

OCD is hard, but it's manageable when the right people surround you. We have a lot to be thankful for this year. We are grateful to all those in our OCD community, from customers and caregivers to therapists and advocates. The support we've received since the launch of OCDfeat last month has been truly amazing. 🙏

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving filled with hope, love, relaxation, and understanding.

We make treating and managing OCD easier for families outside the clinic. ➡️ Schedule a demo to learn how OCDfeat can help you ditch the paper treatment plans and old-fashioned binder to track activities at home.

OCDfeat makes it easy to track Exposure Response Prevention activities digitally and report them to your therapist before your next visit.

Schedule a demo: https://hubs.la/Q0297XL_0

"Things I wish my family and friends knew and understood about my daughter with anxiety, OCD and ADHD ➡️ This is way harder on her than it is on you or me."

What do you wish your friends and family knew about your child with OCD? 😕

Accommodation is a natural instinct for parents that want to help their child. For children with OCD, those instincts can be feeding the OCD monster. 😈

"Mom and dad, can you stay with me until I fall asleep?"

Parents want to do anything they can to help their children. In this case, saying yes and staying with them until they fall asleep is accommodation, which feeds OCD.

Do you have trouble giving in to your child's OCD demands? Share your thoughts!

These stories are not uncommon. 💔 Our mission is to make OCD management better in those moments when you are home in between appointments and losing hope.

: "I’m struggling big time with a teenager with severe contamination OCD. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever been through. All I do is cry, accommodate, not accommodate, yell, cry, try to hug her, repeat, and the process starts all over again. I’m lost, don’t know what to do, I feel like I’m taking care of a toddler. She used to be sweet, empathetic and that is almost gone. Our household has been turned upside down. I’ve almost resorted to sleeping in my car at night just to get away. I’m lost and tired of this."

OCDfeat can help. Learn more ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q026RYhd0

Taking care of the caregiver is vital. 🙏

: "I can’t do this anymore. I truly cannot. He’s tearing the family apart. I’m about 2 seconds from a divorce. That should be fun with zero income because ya know how can I work when he needs me 24/7? The other kids have lost their childhoods. I’m over this sh**. I’m done. I can’t even imagine I have many years left anyway with this amount of stress on a daily basis."

We are here for you. Don't give up.

✨ Ask for help and accept it
✨ Focus on what you can do
✨ Seek therapy for yourself
✨ Get connected to others

We share these stories to build awareness and create a community for those who may be struggling. OCDfeat is here to help. https://hubs.la/Q026PqPT0

✨ Life purpose realized ✨

Jason Niosi, father of Dexter and founder of OCDfeat, started this app to make managing life with OCD easier for families. ➡️

As a child, Dexter experienced 200+ doctors visits, 39 manifestations of obsessions and compulsions, 15 treatment programs, medications & dosage changes and so much more over the course of 5 years before getting the diagnosis of OCD.

A new diagnosis is scary. Jason wanted information but there wasn't a ton out there about pediatric OCD or a streamlined way to manage it (ban books, anyone?). Jason knew there was a better way. Something that could help his son, his family, and the thousands of others trying to manage OCD.

Since his diagnosis, Dexter has learned to live victoriously with OCD. It is a part of him but does not own him. His ups and downs and challenges and wins are what inspired the app and keep us going. 🙌

Last spring Jason's kids, Dexter and Ruby, saved up to get their dad a tattoo of the OCDfeat logo. Then Dexter came home from school one day and said "I got one too." 💙

Grateful you are here to support our mission, help us improve the lives of people with OCD, and be a part of our community.

OCD does not have a cure. But it will get better. 🫶

is raw and real. It highlights stories you might not be able to imagine unless you are living through it. Can you relate? ⬇️

"Feeling like s**t today after I lost it on my dtr last night. She has OCD and lost one of her 8 hair clips she MUST have in her hair in a certain way. This is the 2nd time its happened this week before bed and she REFUSES/cant lay or try to go to bed until “she finds it.” Every single day She is crying for one to two hours on and off about some new trigger. She also has been unable to bathe for 5 days bc she is scared to take her hair out and wash it. Im so so tired. I just want to live a semi functional life and not lose my temper on my kid so often. I want her to stop suffering and be the way she was before this last ocd regression. We started her on meds yesterday, starting ERP this week. Someone tell me it will get better."

OCDfeat is here to help. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q0261nND0

Do you have someone in your life who suffers with OCD? Learn how you can help support them. ⬇️

✨ 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 ✨
Learn more about OCD to understand what your friend or family member is going through. The International OCD Foundation is great place to start: International OCD Foundation.

✨ 𝗕𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 ✨
It's not always pleasant to listen to a person's compulsive thoughts and obsessions. But try to hear them without judgement, knowing their fears are very real no matter how irrational they may sound.

✨ 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘀 ✨
Avoid comparing day-to-day changes or expecting big wins. Instead celebrate the small wins! Small wins still take a lot of work and the acknowledgement of that is a great motivator for them to keep going.

"Just wanted to share a win with people who will understand…my son is sitting on the couch in the living room for the first time in almost three years! He asked me to put a sheet on the couch first, but it is totally worth it to me!"

highlights real quotes from real families dealing with OCD. Our hope in sharing this content is that we can shed light on the diverse set of challenges OCD brings, provide support, and celebrate wins. 🙌

OCD can be difficult to deal with but you are not alone. 🫶

Now is the perfect moment to recognize and share that OCDfeat is ready to help individuals digitally manage OCD! Check it out: https://hubs.la/Q024Kwrk0

Wisconsin friends! Come see us tomorrow in Oconomowoc as we start a day early at the IOCDF 1 Million Steps 4 OCD walk hosted by Wisconsin! Saturday, October 7th at 9:00am at the Fowler Park Pavilion | 438 N Oakwood Ave, Oconomowoc, WI 53066.

UNSTUCK is free to watch as week kicks off October 8th! This movie helped our founder's family explain OCD to friends, neighbors, school staff and family members who don't understand the daily challenges of OCD. Be sure to check out their website for other resources as well!

week is coming up soon. Be on the lookout for some exciting news from OCDfeat!

Save the date for this years !

A great resource from Child Mind Institute for parents of children with OCD or those trying to learn more about the disorder.

Parents Guide to OCD Children with OCD have intrusive thoughts and worries that make them extremely anxious, and they develop rituals they feel compelled to perform to keep those anxieties at bay. This guide explains the often confusing behaviors that can be associated with OCD, and the treatments most effective for hel...

Wishing families everywhere a happy, healthy holiday season from OCDfeat. Keep an eye out for some exciting stuff coming from us in 2023!

Video games and YouTube are often go-to resources for parents to get some time to themselves. Here is a compelling reason why to think twice about it.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/video-gaming-strongly-tied-to-compulsive-behavior-in-preteens-ucsf-study-finds/ #

Video gaming strongly tied to compulsive behavior in preteens, UCSF study finds SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Many preteens are eagerly waiting to open their new PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch wrapped under the Christmas tree. Researchers with UC San Francisco, however, are c…

From our family to yours, we hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving surrounded by family, friends, love and support.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is misunderstood. If family members don't get it, how will anyone else?