Compulsive Behaviour Worksheet


SECTION A.

Compulsive behaviour is when an individual performs an act persistently and repeatedly. 

Compulsive behaviour is a tendency or behaviour motivated by factors that compel a person to act against their own wishes.

What Are The Theories Behind This Worksheet?

Compulsive behaviours can range from simple everyday motor behaviour (cleaning, washing, sitting, standing) to extremely complex rituals and patterns (excessive hand washing, excessive checking of locks, electrical and gas appliances).

Compulsive behaviours are linked by repetition, inflexibility, and lack of purpose or function.

With time, these compulsive tendencies become problematic to human behaviour interfering with family, social and work relationships.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that helps you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. 

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) involves exposure to obsessive thought and progressively learning to delay or stop the compulsive action.

How Will This Worksheet Help You?

This worksheet is intended to help someone with compulsive behaviours change their patterns of thinking, beliefs and behaviours that trigger compulsive symptoms.

This worksheet will also help you develop an awareness of the possible signs of compulsive behaviours and develop healthy coping skills that will keep your behaviours in check and prevent compulsive behaviours control your life.

How Should You Use This Worksheet?

This worksheet should be used whenever you feel the need of engaging in a behaviour or action repeatedly and persistently as a way to prevent an obsessive fear or create anxiety thoughts.

This worksheet should be used the moment you begin battling with compulsive and disruptive thoughts and feelings in your everyday life.

Compulsive Behaviour Worksheet

SECTION B.

  1. What are some of the compulsive behaviours you engage in?
  1. What is anxiety to you and how does it affect your everyday life?
  1. Identify situations that make you feel terribly anxious and fearful.
ANXIOUSFEARFUL
  1. What do you do to relieve yourself from feeling anxious and fearful?
RELIEVE ANXIETYRELIEVE FEAR
  1. Identify ways in which you can challenge your compulsive behaviours.
  1. What activities can you engage in to take control of your life?

SECTION C.

  1. Daily Journal:

This activity should be done every day before going to bed.

Journal your anxieties, compulsive thoughts and feelings, and how you dealt with them.

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  1.   Gratitude & Self-Improvement.

This activity should be done every day before going to bed.

What I’m I grateful for today and how can I become a better person?

DAYS OF THE WEEKGRATITUDE & SELF-IMPROVEMENT
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REFERENCE:

Better Health Channel. (© 2021). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Available at: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/obsessive-compulsive-disorder. [Accessed November 05, 2022]

National Library of Medicine. (2019). Defining Compulsive Behavior. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499743/. [Accessed November 05, 2022]

ScienceDirect. (© 2022). Compulsive Behavior: The Development of Neurobiology of Repetitive Behavior. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/compulsive-behavior. [Accessed November 05, 2022]

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