Monarch Behavioral Health Articles

Graphic about holiday stress with tips for navigating anxiety around the holidays, including pacing yourself, preparing before gatherings, grounding techniques, patience, and challenging negative thoughts

Holiday Stress

For some the holiday season can be especially stressful. Social anxiety is often at a high with the increased amount of parties and events going on this time of year.

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Graphic explaining what is RO DBT, including radically open dialectical behavior therapy, overcontrol, and therapy support

What Is RO DBT?

RO DBT is intended for those who have an excessive sense of self-control as well as severe and difficult-to-treat mental health issues such as anorexia nervosa, persistent depression, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

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Graphic explaining what OCD can look like, including intrusive thoughts, fear of contamination, checking, hand washing, and difficulty with uncertainty

What OCD Can Look Like?

Those with OCD may or may not realize that their obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable, but they take up a great deal of time and interfere with daily routines and functioning.

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Graphic explaining what is OCD, including obsessions, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, and the cycle of obsessive compulsive disorder

What Is OCD?

OCD is often triggered by the debilitating fear that if certain tasks are not completed in a certain way, or at a certain time, that something negative is likely to happen.

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