What's the Difference between Rational Thinking and Rumination?
Chris responds to a listener who requests clarity as to the difference between thinking "rationally" about obsessions for the purpose of disputing them, and ruminating about them. Great question; than...
12 Apr 202137min
This Makes A Behavior A Compulsion
Chris explains three important elements that, cumulatively, help to identify a behavior as a compulsion. Not every behavior is a compulsion; but compulsions often seem to be just another behavior. So ...
30 Mar 202129min
What Makes A Behavior A Compulsion?
Chris rambles about behaviors v. compulsions. If compulsions are always behaviors - and more than that, choices, then this opens a wide array of possibilities. How do we find compulsions in an ocean o...
29 Mar 202128min
Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A (Second) Case Discussion
Chris responds to a listener's questions about a specific symptom-dimension of OCD: anxiety relative to the possibility of speaking or behaving inappropriately on a public platform. Thank you to this ...
18 Mar 202129min
Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A Case Discussion
Chris reads, and responds to an email about a listener's symptoms, and OCD-system (with his/her permission). During this episode, we leave the discussion of theoretical strategies and techniques, and ...
12 Mar 202130min
OCD-101 vs. Advanced Techniques
Chris discusses the difference between two kinds of thoughts: obsessions and compulsions. It is an advanced skill to differentiate between intrusive thoughts and rumination - not easy, but often neces...
12 Mar 202114min
What Causes OCD?: The Theory That Will Never Die
Chris discusses old theories and new ones regarding why OCD happens - a (very) cursory history of OCD research. But the real question is not, Why does OCD happen? It's, What do we do when it does? Re...
4 Mar 202120min
Chasing Certainty
So often, OCD-sufferers speak of obsessions as being "irrational." Many have long-been told that. But are they? Chris discusses the irrationality of compulsions, centering this monologue on the realit...
3 Mar 202115min
