OCD Straight Talk
Episodes
How Do I Let Go of My Intrusive Thoughts? (Part 1)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris explains the nature of intrusive thoughts within OCD, and employs a technique that is used to begin to dismiss them, or let them go. This ...
How Do I Stop Ruminating?
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris distinguishes intrusive thoughts (also called obsessions) from rumination (mental compulsions, DSM-5). They're both cogni...
You're Not Doing Exposure Therapy If You're Also Doing Compulsions
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a simple, simple reality. OCD runs on compulsions. In this episode, Chris talks about habituation, and the difference between exposure therapy...
The Most Important Question in the Treatment of OCD
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses the most important question in the effective treatment of OCD: What are your compulsions and how do you find them? The skill of findin...
Getting Better Matters Less Than Learning How to Get Better
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses the art of identifying compulsive patterns. Safety behaviors aren't just turning on and off light switches. Compulsive patterns are di...
I Feel Better; Therefore I ... Am Better?
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How Do I Know When My Therapist Doesn't Know What They're Doing?
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 be...
Tomato, Tomahto: Is there a Real Difference between Anxiety-Related Disorders
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris gripes about the treatment-system, and thinks out-loud about the industry-implications of myriad treatment protocols across so many (apparently)...
The Big "Why?" Of All This
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris revisits the reasons and convictions behind the OCD Straight Talk podcast, and bears witness to a distinction between generalists and specialist...
The YBOCS Cheat Sheet
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses the specifics of how OCD and the anxiety related disorders function comparative to the YBOCS-II, a gold-standard psychometric for meas...
0% vs. 100%: Certainty is a Mirage
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses the ineffectiveness of striving after certainty in the context of intrusive thoughts and disordered anxiety.
Not So Certain about Being Certain
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses mental rituals and how to decipher between mental rituals and intrusive thinking.
Where's Waldo?
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris discusses not only the clinical importance of stopping all compulsions, but of finding them. Safety-behaviors (or compulsions) ...
Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris deals with an important element of exposure therapy, technically called Habituation.
Cracking the Code
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris discusses cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy with the exposure-component as treatment-modalities for the anxiety-related disorders...
Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Meyer's 1966 study points us in the direction of the evidence-based protocol. Chris explains the basic symptom-dynamic and -functionality of th...
Anxiety & OCD treatment specialist introduces a new podcast on a troubling theme.
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this brief podcast Intro, Chris mentions a treatment theme of individuals not making sufficient therapeutic progress by way of conventional treatme...