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
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 Mai 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 Apr 202021min
Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
Chris deals with an important element of exposure therapy, technically called Habituation.
13 Apr 202018min
Cracking the Code
Chris discusses cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy with the exposure-component as treatment-modalities for the anxiety-related disorders. Tune in for this educational talk on symptoms an...
8 Apr 202013min
Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
Victor Meyer's 1966 study points us in the direction of the evidence-based protocol. Chris explains the basic symptom-dynamic and -functionality of the anxiety-related disorders.
2 Apr 202015min
