Tomato, Tomahto: Is there a Real Difference between Anxiety-Related Disorders
Chris gripes about the treatment-system, and thinks out-loud about the industry-implications of myriad treatment protocols across so many (apparently) different conditions.
9 Kesä 202019min
The Big "Why?" Of All This
Chris revisits the reasons and convictions behind the OCD Straight Talk podcast, and bears witness to a distinction between generalists and specialists in the field of psychotherapy.
4 Kesä 202018min
The YBOCS Cheat Sheet
Chris discusses the specifics of how OCD and the anxiety related disorders function comparative to the YBOCS-II, a gold-standard psychometric for measuring OCD. It all hinges on forcibly stopping safe...
1 Kesä 202023min
0% vs. 100%: Certainty is a Mirage
Chris discusses the ineffectiveness of striving after certainty in the context of intrusive thoughts and disordered anxiety.
27 Touko 202013min
Not So Certain about Being Certain
Chris discusses certainty as a fact life with or without an anxiety related disorders. It's not our intrusive thoughts or worries that are irrational but the behaviors we engage to regulate them that ...
26 Touko 202019min
Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
Chris discusses mental rituals and how to decipher between mental rituals and intrusive thinking.
5 Touko 202017min
Where's Waldo?
In this episode, Chris discusses not only the clinical importance of stopping all compulsions, but of finding them. Safety-behaviors (or compulsions) don't scream and shout, saying "Hey, I'm a compuls...
29 Huhti 202021min
Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
Chris deals with an important element of exposure therapy, technically called Habituation.
13 Huhti 202018min
