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OCD Straight Talk — 220 episodes
Christina Byington, LCSW
A History: The Biggest Challenge for OCDers Today
2 Tasks in Treating OCD
Does Stop Compulsions REALLY Mean Stop?
OCDSpace.com
Tolerance & Patience: Where OCD Goes to Die
How Do USE Uncertainty?
I Want to Arm You with Hope
It's Been a Minute. Welcome Back, Dawg
The Negative & Positive Symptoms of OCD
Are You Sure? How to STOP Seeking Reassurance
Jesus Is King
The ART of Exposure Therapy
When You Can't Win for Losing
Reprised: The Only 3 Tools You Need
The Top Subtypes to Explain OCD-Work to Everyone
Magical Thinking
"Trust the Process"
Intrusive Thoughts REQUIRE Assumptions
3 Challenges of ERP for OCD
Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 2
Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 1
A Tale of Two Patients
How Did ERP Come to Be?
What Makes an OCD Therapist A Good One?
How to CHEAT your OCD
Lindsay & Emily from PRESENTLY
Can You Tell Me Everything I Need to Know in 20 Minutes?
Will AI One Day Be My Therapist?
Should ALL Therapists be Trained as Specialists?
You Are OCD's Kryptonite
Skill-Growth Starts Where Your Need to be Great at This ENDS
What Would You Tomorrow Want You Today To Do?
A Case Conundrum: Why Is She NOT Getting Better?
If OCD Were A Stray Dog
What Is The True Gift of Therapy?
What is Your Biggest Obstacle to Getting Better?
I Got Dirt on Ya: Contamination OCD
I'm Not Sure It's Really Romance: Relationship-OCD
It Just Feels WRONG: Just-Right OCD
I'm Sick! And Nobody Knows It but Me
The Final Question & The One Piece of Advice
The Lens Grows Bigger
65.7% Threat Level before Compulsion. What after?
It's You Against YOU: OCD is a Closed System
Exposures Are Opportunities to Practice Skills
A Self-Perpetuating System of Symptoms: the Cognitive Model
Understanding OCD through Newton's First Law of Motion
Solving A Problem Starts with Understanding It
Bonus Episode: On Getting YOURSELF Better
Become Your Own Behavior Therapist
AI and the Future of OCD Treatment
Perfectionism: Allow Yourself to Make A Mistake
Keep Your Head When OCD Wants You to Lose Your Mind
When You Have No Idea That "That Thing" was OCD All Along
Increasing Your Quality of Life by Doing It "Backwards"
Make Yourself Impervious to Chronic Anxiety
Using Behavioral Techniques to Feel Better about Yourself
How Do I Spoil My Compulsion?
Get Started! How to Build My Hierarchy
OCD - the C = ERP
The Trifecta of Ingredients Yields the Right Result
MicroCompulsions: the Rituals You DON'T See
Pull the "C" out of the OCD
The Ultimate OCD Hack
OCD Straight Talk: The Backstory
Is It Objective Danger or OCD?
I Got Anxiety but Not OCD
What Causes A Relapse of OCD?
Do Intrusive Thoughts Show Up Differently for Some People?
How Can Family Members Help OCDers?
Obsession + Evidence + Possibility = Oh Sh*t?
How Do I "Get Rid" of My Thoughts?
What Exactly Is OCD?
Focus More; Ruminate Less - Here's How
The Versatility of Behavior-Change, Pillar 5
Pillar 4 is about Letting Go of Both Thoughts & Compulsions
What's So Wrong with Trying to Manage Risk?
Accepting Uncertainty Reduces Your Need for Compulsions, Pillar 3
"Practice Makes Perfect," Pillar 2
You Gotta Go to Therapy, Pillar 1
What is My Role in Getting Better?
When OCD Turns Itself Inside-Out and Backward
You Need Both Will and Strategy
Everybody's Pure-O ... Sometimes
Mistakes You're Probably Making in Exposure Therapy
Chris Conducts an Imaginal Exposure ... on Himself
The Four Bosom Buddies of Good Exposure Therapy
When OCD Says "This" Means "That"
Is My Anxiety Interfering with My Sex Life?
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT of Your Anxiety Toolkit
2 Rules of Thumb: the Difference between OCD and Skin Picking Disorder
The Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link
Manage Feelings; but F*** Anxiety
Talking Back to Thoughts in Hair-Pulling and Skin-Picking Disorders
You Play Offense for OCD. You Play Defense for Skin-Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders
Got Triggered? What Now?
What Do I Do When I Don't REALIZE I'm Doing Compulsions?
It's about Tolerating the Itch and Stopping the Scratching Response
Grit & Resilience in Your Fight Against OCD
It's Easier to Act Yourself into a New Way of Thinking Than It Is to Think Yourself into a New Way of Acting
Why Do I Have These Intrusive Thoughts?
What's the Difference between Facts and Fears?
Compulsions Make the Thoughts Real
Can You Imagine Anxiety-Producing Thoughts That Don't Produce Anxiety?
Introducing Dr. B: A Follow-Up on the System and Its Parts
The System is Made Up of Parts
Your Compulsions Hide in Your Assumptions about What is NOT a Compulsion
The 2 Primary Reasons OCDers Don't Tend to Make Much Progress
Mark McMinn, Ph.D.
What Does That Thought Mean?
To Panic or Not to Panic: That is the Question
Act Better First; Feel Better Next.
Focus on What You Can Control!
What Disorders Are Truly "Related" to OCD?
How Informal Is Too Informal in Exposure Therapy?
The Anxiety's A Good Indicator
Is It A Compulsion Or Just An Anxious Behavior?
"I Think It's More Nuanced Than That"
"Watch the Anxiety Manage Itself"
What's the Difference between Overthinking and Rumination
Take the Next Step with OCD Straight Talk
"Pure-O" & Mental Contamination
Is One Compulsion Better than Another?
After That, What Do I Do with My Thoughts?
Is Arguing with My Thoughts A Compulsion?
I Have Anxiety, Not OCD: What Do I Do?
"Just-Right OCD": Can't Stop This Feeling
How Do I Stop Ruminating?
The Fear behind the Fear: The Core of the OCD
You Can't or You Won't?
Just Trying Harder is a Step in the Right Direction
Kathleen Rupertus, Psy.D.
OCD - the "C" = EX/RP
Edna Foa, Ph.D.
You're Doing One at the Expense of the Other or the Other at the Expense of the One
The Banana Peel Effect
Heart and Skill is a Powerful Combination
Is It Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Or Is It OCD?
Is It Panic Disorder or Is It OCD?
An Overview of Skills in Successful Treatment
Two Cases, One Lesson
Thanatophobia and Meta-Cognitions within OCD
Real Event OCD
How Are Obsessions & Compulsions Interconnected?
Robert Hindman, Ph.D.
Uncertainty is Your Friend; I'll Prove It
Why Is My OCD Not Getting Better?
What's the Difference between CBT and Ex/RP?
Knowing is Half the Battle
David H. Barlow, Ph.D., ABPP
Jon Abramowitz, Ph.D., ABPP
The Mosquito Bite Analogy
Getting Started with Exposure Therapy
Jason Adams
Common Errors Made in Exposure Therapy for OCD
What is Exposure Therapy - Exactly?
Tell Me, "Do I Have OCD?"
Eric Storch, Ph.D.
What Do You Mean, Compulsions Drive Obsessions?
OCD & The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
The Difference between Rumination and Reflection
On Weakening the Connection between Thoughts, Behaviors, and Feelings
True or False: If You Think It's Your OCD, It Is
EMDR vs. Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Is Uncertainty Your Friend or Your Enemy?
What, Essentially, Is OCD?
Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions in Existential OCD
Macro-, and Micro-Compulsions: A Very Important Idea
Common Pitfalls on the Road to Therapeutic Progress
Another Technique for Letting Go of Intrusive Thoughts
A Discussion with Mr. Michael May, LPCC about ACT for OCD
More Details on Stopping Mental Compulsions: Another Episode by Popular Request
Why Does Psychotherapy for Clinically Significant Anxiety Sometimes Not Work?
A Discussion about PTSD with Dr. Joseph Birli
Is There a Connection between Obsessions and Outcomes - Association OCD
To Choose or Not to Choose: That is the Question
Gonna Tell You A Bit about Myself
When I'm Loving Someone with OCD
Weed-Smoking, Psychotropic Medications, and OCD
The Cognitive Model: How You Can Force Symptomatological Change
The Various Faces of Existential OCD
What's the Difference between Rational Thinking and Rumination?
This Makes A Behavior A Compulsion
What Makes A Behavior A Compulsion?
Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A (Second) Case Discussion
Here's My Situation, Tell Me What to Do: A Case Discussion
OCD-101 vs. Advanced Techniques
What Causes OCD?: The Theory That Will Never Die
Chasing Certainty
How Long Will It Take for Me to Get Better?
How Can I Better Find Compulsions?
When OCD Causes Depression
What Compulsions Go with Which Obsessional Themes?
How Do I Tell the Difference between Obsessions & Compulsions?
Compulsions Breed Compulsions
What Do I Do When I Can't Stop My Compulsions?
Relationship OCD, What is It?
POCD, What Is It?
Harm OCD, What Is It?
You're Why I Podcast
How Do I Let Go of My Intrusive Thoughts (Part 2)
How Do I Let Go of My Intrusive Thoughts? (Part 1)
How Do I Stop Ruminating?
You're Not Doing Exposure Therapy If You're Also Doing Compulsions
The Most Important Question in the Treatment of OCD
Getting Better Matters Less Than Learning How to Get Better
I Feel Better; Therefore I ... Am Better?
How Do I Know When My Therapist Doesn't Know What They're Doing?
Tomato, Tomahto: Is there a Real Difference between Anxiety-Related Disorders
The Big "Why?" Of All This
The YBOCS Cheat Sheet
0% vs. 100%: Certainty is a Mirage
Not So Certain about Being Certain
Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
Where's Waldo?
Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
Cracking the Code
Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
Anxiety & OCD treatment specialist introduces a new podcast on a troubling theme.