OCD Straight Talk
By Chris Leins, MA, NCC, LPCC-S
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An anxiety and OCD treatment-specialist explains how these debilitating conditions are effectively treated, why sometimes they're not, and how anxiety sufferers tend to keep themselves symptomatic. This podcast is designed both for those who suffer from anxiety disorders, and OCD and related disorders, and those who seek to treat this population with greater efficacy.
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The Trifecta of Ingredients Yields the Right Result
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May 17, 2024 |
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MicroCompulsions: the Rituals You DON'T See
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May 10, 2024 |
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Pull the "C" out of the OCD
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May 03, 2024 |
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The Ultimate OCD Hack
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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OCD Straight Talk: The Backstory
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Is It Objective Danger or OCD?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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I Got Anxiety but Not OCD
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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What Causes A Relapse of OCD?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Do Intrusive Thoughts Show Up Differently for Some People?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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How Can Family Members Help OCDers?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Obsession + Evidence + Possibility = Oh Sh*t?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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How Do I "Get Rid" of My Thoughts?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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What Exactly Is OCD?
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Focus More; Ruminate Less - Here's How
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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The Versatility of Behavior-Change, Pillar 5
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Pillar 4 is about Letting Go of Both Thoughts & Compulsions
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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What's So Wrong with Trying to Manage Risk?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Accepting Uncertainty Reduces Your Need for Compulsions, Pillar 3
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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"Practice Makes Perfect," Pillar 2
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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You Gotta Go to Therapy, Pillar 1
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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What is My Role in Getting Better?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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When OCD Turns Itself Inside-Out and Backward
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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You Need Both Will and Strategy
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Everybody's Pure-O ... Sometimes
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Mistakes You're Probably Making in Exposure Therapy
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Chris Conducts an Imaginal Exposure ... on Himself
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Four Bosom Buddies of Good Exposure Therapy
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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When OCD Says "This" Means "That"
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Is My Anxiety Interfering with My Sex Life?
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT of Your Anxiety Toolkit
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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2 Rules of Thumb: the Difference between OCD and Skin Picking Disorder
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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The Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Manage Feelings; but F*** Anxiety
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Talking Back to Thoughts in Hair-Pulling and Skin-Picking Disorders
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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You Play Offense for OCD. You Play Defense for Skin-Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Got Triggered? What Now?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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What Do I Do When I Don't REALIZE I'm Doing Compulsions?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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It's about Tolerating the Itch and Stopping the Scratching Response
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Grit & Resilience in Your Fight Against OCD
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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It's Easier to Act Yourself into a New Way of Thinking Than It Is to Think Yourself into a New Way of Acting
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Why Do I Have These Intrusive Thoughts?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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What's the Difference between Facts and Fears?
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Compulsions Make the Thoughts Real
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May 25, 2023 |
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Can You Imagine Anxiety-Producing Thoughts That Don't Produce Anxiety?
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May 10, 2023 |
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Introducing Dr. B: A Follow-Up on the System and Its Parts
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May 03, 2023 |
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The System is Made Up of Parts
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Your Compulsions Hide in Your Assumptions about What is NOT a Compulsion
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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The 2 Primary Reasons OCDers Don't Tend to Make Much Progress
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Mark McMinn, Ph.D.
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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What Does That Thought Mean?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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To Panic or Not to Panic: That is the Question
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Act Better First; Feel Better Next.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Focus on What You Can Control!
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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What Disorders Are Truly "Related" to OCD?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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How Informal Is Too Informal in Exposure Therapy?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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The Anxiety's A Good Indicator
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Is It A Compulsion Or Just An Anxious Behavior?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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"I Think It's More Nuanced Than That"
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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"Watch the Anxiety Manage Itself"
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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What's the Difference between Overthinking and Rumination
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Take the Next Step with OCD Straight Talk
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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"Pure-O" & Mental Contamination
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Is One Compulsion Better than Another?
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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After That, What Do I Do with My Thoughts?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Is Arguing with My Thoughts A Compulsion?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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I Have Anxiety, Not OCD: What Do I Do?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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"Just-Right OCD": Can't Stop This Feeling
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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How Do I Stop Ruminating?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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The Fear behind the Fear: The Core of the OCD
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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You Can't or You Won't?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Just Trying Harder is a Step in the Right Direction
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Kathleen Rupertus, Psy.D.
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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OCD - the "C" = EX/RP
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Edna Foa, Ph.D.
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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You're Doing One at the Expense of the Other or the Other at the Expense of the One
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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The Banana Peel Effect
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Heart and Skill is a Powerful Combination
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Is It Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Or Is It OCD?
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May 20, 2022 |
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Is It Panic Disorder or Is It OCD?
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May 17, 2022 |
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An Overview of Skills in Successful Treatment
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May 06, 2022 |
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Two Cases, One Lesson
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Thanatophobia and Meta-Cognitions within OCD
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Real Event OCD
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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How Are Obsessions & Compulsions Interconnected?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Robert Hindman, Ph.D.
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Uncertainty is Your Friend; I'll Prove It
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Why Is My OCD Not Getting Better?
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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What's the Difference between CBT and Ex/RP?
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Knowing is Half the Battle
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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David H. Barlow, Ph.D., ABPP
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Jon Abramowitz, Ph.D., ABPP
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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The Mosquito Bite Analogy
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Getting Started with Exposure Therapy
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Jason Adams
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Common Errors Made in Exposure Therapy for OCD
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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What is Exposure Therapy - Exactly?
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Tell Me, "Do I Have OCD?"
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Eric Storch, Ph.D.
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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What Do You Mean, Compulsions Drive Obsessions?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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OCD & The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The Difference between Rumination and Reflection
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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On Weakening the Connection between Thoughts, Behaviors, and Feelings
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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True or False: If You Think It's Your OCD, It Is
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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EMDR vs. Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Is Uncertainty Your Friend or Your Enemy?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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What, Essentially, Is OCD?
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions in Existential OCD
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Macro-, and Micro-Compulsions: A Very Important Idea
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May 27, 2021 |
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Common Pitfalls on the Road to Therapeutic Progress
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May 26, 2021 |
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Another Technique for Letting Go of Intrusive Thoughts
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May 25, 2021 |
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A Discussion with Mr. Michael May, LPCC about ACT for OCD
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May 21, 2021 |
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More Details on Stopping Mental Compulsions: Another Episode by Popular Request
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May 20, 2021 |
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Why Does Psychotherapy for Clinically Significant Anxiety Sometimes Not Work?
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May 17, 2021 |
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A Discussion about PTSD with Dr. Joseph Birli
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May 10, 2021 |
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Is There a Connection between Obsessions and Outcomes - Association OCD
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May 07, 2021 |
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To Choose or Not to Choose: That is the Question
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May 06, 2021 |
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Gonna Tell You A Bit about Myself
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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When I'm Loving Someone with OCD
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Weed-Smoking, Psychotropic Medications, and OCD
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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The Cognitive Model: How You Can Force Symptomatological Change
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Various Faces of Existential OCD
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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What's the Difference between Rational Thinking and Rumination?
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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This Makes A Behavior A Compulsion
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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What Makes A Behavior A Compulsion?
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A (Second) Case Discussion
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A Case Discussion
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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OCD-101 vs. Advanced Techniques
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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What Causes OCD?: The Theory That Will Never Die
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Chasing Certainty
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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How Long Will It Take for Me to Get Better?
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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How Can I Better Find Compulsions?
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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When OCD Causes Depression
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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What Compulsions Go with Which Obsessional Themes?
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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How Do I Tell the Difference between Obsessions & Compulsions?
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Compulsions Breed Compulsions
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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What Do I Do When I Can't Stop My Compulsions?
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Relationship OCD, What is It?
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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POCD, What Is It?
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Harm OCD, What Is It?
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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You're Why I Podcast
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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How Do I Let Go of My Intrusive Thoughts (Part 2)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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How Do I Let Go of My Intrusive Thoughts? (Part 1)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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How Do I Stop Ruminating?
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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You're Not Doing Exposure Therapy If You're Also Doing Compulsions
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The Most Important Question in the Treatment of OCD
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Getting Better Matters Less Than Learning How to Get Better
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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I Feel Better; Therefore I ... Am Better?
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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How Do I Know When My Therapist Doesn't Know What They're Doing?
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Tomato, Tomahto: Is there a Real Difference between Anxiety-Related Disorders
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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The Big "Why?" Of All This
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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The YBOCS Cheat Sheet
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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0% vs. 100%: Certainty is a Mirage
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May 27, 2020 |
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Not So Certain about Being Certain
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May 26, 2020 |
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Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
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May 05, 2020 |
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Where's Waldo?
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Cracking the Code
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Anxiety & OCD treatment specialist introduces a new podcast on a troubling theme.
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Mar 13, 2020 |