Free Resources

Neurodivergency Handouts

Hyper Empathy

Infographic about hyper empathy and OCD, featuring illustrations of people hugging, emotional heads, and a talking phone with text explaining symptoms and behaviors related to hyper empathy, OCD, and relationship OCD.

Ableism & Internalized ableism

An educational infographic explaining internalized ableism. It presents definitions, impacts on mental health including decreased self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal, and includes illustrations of people experiencing distress. The infographic emphasizes recognizing societal reflections over personal failures and features depictions of women and a man with thought bubbles expressing self-critical thoughts.

Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

An informational graphic about rejection sensitivity, part of a neurodivergent vulnerable self theme. It features a heading, a description, and a section on how rejection sensitivity may appear as obsessive doubt with related labels, and common thoughts related to rejection sensitivity. There is also an illustration of a woman and a man interacting, with a speech bubble explaining research on the interaction between rejection sensitivity and self-regulation.

Spoon theory

Illustration explaining the Spoon Theory with icons and text about energy management, sleep impact, and daily activities like eating, working, and socializing.

Blending Revised For Neurodivergence

Educational infographic titled 'Blending Revised Neurodivergent Edition'. It explains the concept of blending in OCD and discusses neurotypical and neurodivergent identities, with examples of how each might describe themselves.

Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)/ Persistent Drive for Autonomy

An informative graphic about PDA: Persistent Drive for Autonomy/Pathological Demand Avoidance in adults, including features like anxiety-driven need for autonomy, extreme demand avoidance, desire to be a co-parent or co-teacher, resistance to ordinary expectations, and use of social strategies.

Heightened Sense of Social Justice

An infographic titled 'Heightened Sense of Social Justice' with illustrations of diverse people protesting with signs saying 'Peace' and 'Black Lives Matter'. The infographic explains characteristics and traits of individuals with heightened social justice awareness, including increased sensitivity to right and wrong, empathy, sense of fairness, and hyper-responsiveness to others' experiences.

Masking

An infographic explaining masking, its reasons, pros, and cons, with illustrations of people wearing masks and social interactions.

Tactile stimming

An informational poster about stimming behaviors, featuring illustrations of a woman with long hair, a person knitting, and a person hugging a pillow. The poster lists examples of tactile stimming activities.

Auditory Stimming

A poster titled "Auditory Stimming" listing activities such as humming, singing, tapping fingers or objects, clicking a pen, snapping fingers, clapping hands, tapping feet, whistling, making animal noises, repeating words, and listening to music. Includes an illustration of a hand writing with a pen and a smiling woman wearing headphones, surrounded by musical notes.

Visual Stimming

Poster titled 'Visual Stimming' with an image of a colorful, symmetrical, star-like light pattern, and a picture of a lava lamp. The poster lists activities such as watching spinning objects, observing moving water, gazing at fire or flames, watching animations, and staring at brightly colored objects.

OCD & I-CBT RESOURCES

The Doubt Sequence

Diagram showing the OCD sequence with five steps: trigger, doubt, consequence, anxiety, and compulsion. Two instances of the diagram are shown on the page, credits at the bottom.

Reasonings

A worksheet titled 'REASONINGS' with sections for practicing obsessive doubt related to food contamination and love. It includes categories like facts, rules, heresay, personal experience, and possibility.

The Tricks & Cheats of OCD

An infographic titled 'Tricks & Cheats of OCD' with sections outlining various cognitive tricks and misconceptions about obsessive-compulsive disorder, including Mismatch, Reverse Reasoning, Out of Context Facts, Distrust of the Senses, Living in Fear, Double Jeopardy, Going Deep, and Testing it Out, all on a dark red background with styled text boxes and a starburst pattern.

Bridging

Educational infographic about bridging in storytelling with four numbered points explaining the concept.

The Feared Self

A person in a hooded jacket with their face obscured, holding an apple. Text surrounding the person discusses fear and self-awareness, emphasizing themes of mental health and self-reflection.

Lyme Disease & PANS/PANDAS

Testing

Flyer from Zen Psychological Center explaining PANS/PANDAS testing and related tick-borne diseases, herpes virus, mono/EBV, bacterial infections, and viruses with details on Lyme disease testing and other tick-borne diseases.