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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2 Tasks in Treating OCD
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Does Stop Compulsions REALLY Mean Stop?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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OCDSpace.com
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Tolerance & Patience: Where OCD Goes to Die
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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How Do USE Uncertainty?
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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I Want to Arm You with Hope
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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It's Been a Minute. Welcome Back, Dawg
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Negative & Positive Symptoms of OCD
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Are You Sure? How to STOP Seeking Reassurance
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Jesus Is King
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The ART of Exposure Therapy
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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When You Can't Win for Losing
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Reprised: The Only 3 Tools You Need
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The Top Subtypes to Explain OCD-Work to Everyone
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Magical Thinking
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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"Trust the Process"
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Intrusive Thoughts REQUIRE Assumptions
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May 30, 2025 |
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3 Challenges of ERP for OCD
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May 23, 2025 |
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Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 2
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May 16, 2025 |
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Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 1
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May 02, 2025 |
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A Tale of Two Patients
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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How Did ERP Come to Be?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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What Makes an OCD Therapist A Good One?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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How to CHEAT your OCD
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Lindsay & Emily from PRESENTLY
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Can You Tell Me Everything I Need to Know in 20 Minutes?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Will AI One Day Be My Therapist?
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Should ALL Therapists be Trained as Specialists?
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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You Are OCD's Kryptonite
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Skill-Growth Starts Where Your Need to be Great at This ENDS
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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What Would You Tomorrow Want You Today To Do?
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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A Case Conundrum: Why Is She NOT Getting Better?
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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If OCD Were A Stray Dog
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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What Is The True Gift of Therapy?
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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What is Your Biggest Obstacle to Getting Better?
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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I Got Dirt on Ya: Contamination OCD
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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I'm Not Sure It's Really Romance: Relationship-OCD
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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It Just Feels WRONG: Just-Right OCD
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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I'm Sick! And Nobody Knows It but Me
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Final Question & The One Piece of Advice
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Lens Grows Bigger
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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65.7% Threat Level before Compulsion. What after?
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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It's You Against YOU: OCD is a Closed System
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Exposures Are Opportunities to Practice Skills
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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A Self-Perpetuating System of Symptoms: the Cognitive Model
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Understanding OCD through Newton's First Law of Motion
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Solving A Problem Starts with Understanding It
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Bonus Episode: On Getting YOURSELF Better
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Become Your Own Behavior Therapist
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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AI and the Future of OCD Treatment
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Perfectionism: Allow Yourself to Make A Mistake
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Keep Your Head When OCD Wants You to Lose Your Mind
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Increasing Your Quality of Life by Doing It "Backwards"
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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When You Have No Idea That "That Thing" was OCD All Along
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Make Yourself Impervious to Chronic Anxiety
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Using Behavioral Techniques to Feel Better about Yourself
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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How Do I Spoil My Compulsion?
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Get Started! How to Build My Hierarchy
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May 31, 2024 |
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OCD - the C = ERP
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May 24, 2024 |
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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 |