7. Compulsions Anyone?

7. Compulsions Anyone?

Learn all things OCD with the OCD Whisperer Podcast.

Today we are talking about Compulsions!

Themes of different compulsive behaviors:

  • Avoidance
  • Compulsive crying (other OCD influenced emotions)
  • Self reassurance (sneaking them in sometimes)
  • Decontamination
  • Checking
  • Magical compulsions
  • Perfectionistic compulsions
  • Counting
  • Tracing
  • Touching/ tapping
  • Mental compulsions (there is an episode just on this)
  • Protective compulsions
  • Body focused
  • Self-mutilating (cutting, burning)
  • Hair pulling/ skin picking (this may or may not be due to OCD, it may be due to trichotillomania mean hair pulling or excoriation-means skin picking)

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes. Though I am a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, this does not replace therapy.

See you in the next episode!

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*Episodes will be coming out bi-weekly.

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