BLUE PRINT FOR OCD A Blue Print is a helpful overview which looks at how your OCD difficulties developed,

what kept them going, what you learned during treatment and how you can continue to tackle OCD now that treatment is coming to an end. This is a guide which you can look at as and when you feel vulnerable to OCD, and will act as a reminder of what to do to overcome your OCD if you feel like the problems are starting to return. 1. How did the problem develop?

2. What kept it going?

3. What were the main intrusive thoughts/ urges/ images that bothered you and how did you interpret them? You can use the table below to help you. Intrusive thoughts/ urges/ images Before Treatment Interpretation/Meaning

Now

4. What did you learn about the problem that was useful? How has treatment helped you to deal with your difficulties?

5. What were your most unhelpful thoughts/ assumptions/ predictions? What other ways of thinking about these unhelpful thoughts/ assumptions/ predictions have you now learned? Alternative explanations or ways of thinking about the Unhelpful thoughts/ assumptions/ predictions unhelpful thoughts/ assumptions/ predictions 1. 1.

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6. Describe the most helpful behavioural experiments and what you learnt from them- both in the sessions and outside them.

7. What things were you unable to do before treatment? What were you avoiding- people, places, actions?

8. What were your goals at the start of treatment?

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Medium term

Long term

9. How are you going to move forward to achieve these goals? How can you continue to build on what you have learned?

10. What will you do now if you have obsessional thoughts/feelings in the future?

What will you do from now on to keep OCD at bay?

11. What could cause a setback and how should you deal with a setback?

12. You can use this space to draw your OCD model