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OCD Straight Talk — 224 episodes · page 1 of 3

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All for An Audience of ONE
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For Those Whose Anxiety Isn't Falling

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Our Journey with Relationship OCD (and how loved ones can help)

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The #1 Problem Facing OCDers Worldwide

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Christina Byington, LCSW
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A History: The Biggest Challenge for OCDers Today

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2 Tasks in Treating OCD

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Does Stop Compulsions REALLY Mean Stop?

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OCDSpace.com

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Tolerance & Patience: Where OCD Goes to Die

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How Do USE Uncertainty?

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I Want to Arm You with Hope

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It's Been a Minute. Welcome Back, Dawg

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The Negative & Positive Symptoms of OCD

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Are You Sure? How to STOP Seeking Reassurance

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Jesus Is King
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The ART of Exposure Therapy

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When You Can't Win for Losing

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Reprised: The Only 3 Tools You Need

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The Top Subtypes to Explain OCD-Work to Everyone

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Magical Thinking

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"Trust the Process"

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Intrusive Thoughts REQUIRE Assumptions

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3 Challenges of ERP for OCD

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Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 2

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Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 1

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A Tale of Two Patients

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How Did ERP Come to Be?

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What Makes an OCD Therapist A Good One?

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How to CHEAT your OCD

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Lindsay & Emily from PRESENTLY

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Can You Tell Me Everything I Need to Know in 20 Minutes?

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Will AI One Day Be My Therapist?
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Should ALL Therapists be Trained as Specialists?

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You Are OCD's Kryptonite

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Skill-Growth Starts Where Your Need to be Great at This ENDS

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What Would You Tomorrow Want You Today To Do?

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A Case Conundrum: Why Is She NOT Getting Better?

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If OCD Were A Stray Dog

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What Is The True Gift of Therapy?

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What is Your Biggest Obstacle to Getting Better?
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I Got Dirt on Ya: Contamination OCD
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I'm Not Sure It's Really Romance: Relationship-OCD
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It Just Feels WRONG: Just-Right OCD

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I'm Sick! And Nobody Knows It but Me
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The Final Question & The One Piece of Advice
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The Lens Grows Bigger
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65.7% Threat Level before Compulsion. What after?
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It's You Against YOU: OCD is a Closed System
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Exposures Are Opportunities to Practice Skills
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A Self-Perpetuating System of Symptoms: the Cognitive Model
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Understanding OCD through Newton's First Law of Motion
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Solving A Problem Starts with Understanding It
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Bonus Episode: On Getting YOURSELF Better
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Become Your Own Behavior Therapist

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AI and the Future of OCD Treatment

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Perfectionism: Allow Yourself to Make A Mistake
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Keep Your Head When OCD Wants You to Lose Your Mind
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When You Have No Idea That "That Thing" was OCD All Along

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Increasing Your Quality of Life by Doing It "Backwards"
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Make Yourself Impervious to Chronic Anxiety

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Using Behavioral Techniques to Feel Better about Yourself

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How Do I Spoil My Compulsion?
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Get Started! How to Build My Hierarchy

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OCD - the C = ERP

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The Trifecta of Ingredients Yields the Right Result
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MicroCompulsions: the Rituals You DON'T See

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Pull the "C" out of the OCD

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The Ultimate OCD Hack
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OCD Straight Talk: The Backstory
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Is It Objective Danger or OCD?
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I Got Anxiety but Not OCD
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What Causes A Relapse of OCD?

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Do Intrusive Thoughts Show Up Differently for Some People?

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How Can Family Members Help OCDers?

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Obsession + Evidence + Possibility = Oh Sh*t?

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How Do I "Get Rid" of My Thoughts?
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What Exactly Is OCD?

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Focus More; Ruminate Less - Here's How
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The Versatility of Behavior-Change, Pillar 5
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Pillar 4 is about Letting Go of Both Thoughts & Compulsions

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What's So Wrong with Trying to Manage Risk?
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Accepting Uncertainty Reduces Your Need for Compulsions, Pillar 3

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"Practice Makes Perfect," Pillar 2

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You Gotta Go to Therapy, Pillar 1
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What is My Role in Getting Better?
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When OCD Turns Itself Inside-Out and Backward

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You Need Both Will and Strategy

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Everybody's Pure-O ... Sometimes
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Mistakes You're Probably Making in Exposure Therapy

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Chris Conducts an Imaginal Exposure ... on Himself

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The Four Bosom Buddies of Good Exposure Therapy

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When OCD Says "This" Means "That"
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Is My Anxiety Interfering with My Sex Life?

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Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT of Your Anxiety Toolkit

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2 Rules of Thumb: the Difference between OCD and Skin Picking Disorder

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The Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link
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Manage Feelings; but F*** Anxiety

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Talking Back to Thoughts in Hair-Pulling and Skin-Picking Disorders

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You Play Offense for OCD. You Play Defense for Skin-Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders

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