Getting Better Matters Less Than Learning How to Get Better
Chris discusses the art of identifying compulsive patterns. Safety behaviors aren't just turning on and off light switches. Compulsive patterns are different for everyone. The question is, What are yo...
10 Sep 202014min
I Feel Better; Therefore I ... Am Better?
Chris discusses the concept of therapeutic progress - how do we define it? If you are to judge the efficacy of your therapeutic work on the degree to which you make progress, then the next logical que...
22 Jul 202017min
How Do I Know When My Therapist Doesn't Know What They're Doing?
Chris answers the question, How do I know when my therapist doesn't really know how to treat an anxiety-related disorder? Bottom line is, if you've been in treatment for a little while and haven't mad...
11 Jul 202019min
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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 202019min
