Just Trying Harder is a Step in the Right Direction
Chris discusses the Cognitive Model and how it applies to depressive and anxious symptoms. Distinguishing between symptoms that we can directly control and symptoms that we can't is an essential first...
29 Heinä 202212min
Kathleen Rupertus, Psy.D.
Chris sits down with Dr. Kathleen Rupertus, Clinical Director of the Anxiety & OCD Treatment Center in Wilmington, DE, and coauthor of the acclaimed Loving Someone with OCD. Together they discuss a ra...
15 Heinä 202226min
OCD - the "C" = EX/RP
Chris is on Instagram (@ocdstraighttalk)! On this episode, Chris explains the idea that we're not really doing exposure therapy if we're also doing compulsions (or OCD minus the "C" equals Exposure an...
1 Heinä 202215min
Edna Foa, Ph.D.
Chris sits down with Dr. Edna Foa, a psychological scientist who needs no real introduction. To those who are even somewhat familiar with the literature relative to the treatment of OCD, the anxiety d...
20 Kesä 202229min
You're Doing One at the Expense of the Other or the Other at the Expense of the One
Chris discusses the symptomatologic reality that individuals can't manage their anxiety and manage their compulsions: they're either working to keep their anxiety in check, and in so doing they're eng...
17 Kesä 202215min
The Banana Peel Effect
Chris discusses a phenomenon that he calls, The Banana Peel Effect that changes the power individuals report feeling over resisting and stopping compulsions. The idea is that the more individuals enga...
9 Kesä 202211min
Heart and Skill is a Powerful Combination
Chris discusses the idea of coupling your fight to get better with strategic no-how. Being determined to stop compulsions without the skill of identifying them is like swinging at the baseball with a ...
2 Kesä 202213min
Is It Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Or Is It OCD?
Chris discusses a central distinction between symptoms indicative of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD and those indicative of OCD. The punchline is: you can't have trauma without trauma; but you...
20 Touko 202212min
