OCD Straight Talk

Chris discusses a phenomenon that he calls, The Banana Peel Effect that changes the power individuals report feeling over resisting and stopping compulsions. The idea is that the more individuals engage their compulsions, the less ability they feel they have to resist and stop them. Or, the more we engage the OCD, the more the power differential shifts to favor it. 

Chris discusses the idea of coupling your fight to get better with strategic no-how. Being determined to stop compulsions without the skill of identifying them is like swinging at the baseball with a blindfold on. 

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Chris discusses a central distinction between symptoms indicative of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD and those indicative of OCD. The punchline is: you can't have trauma without trauma; but you can have OCD. In other words, trauma is a past-oriented system of here-and-now symptoms, while OCD is very typically a future-oriented anxiety-construct. Beyond these distinctions, however, you might say that they actually have a lot in common - from their symptom-dynamics at 30,000 feet to the therapeutic models that are widely documented to treat them. 

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Chris discusses the differences in symptom-presentation and evidence-based intervention between two common, anxiety-related disorders: Panic Disorder and OCD. Fundamentally, you might say, they're the same thing. But be careful, you're only right to a certain point. Important differences characterize these conditions. 

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Chris puts several pieces together and discusses significant challenges in the process of treatment. A different life is possible; but you've got to fight for it.

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Chris shares two clinical experiences that he says helped shape him as an OCD therapist. Bottom line, "It's not my job to get you better," he says. He ties therapeutic skills and strategies to the empirical truth that control and responsibility cannot be separated; they travel together.

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Chris responds to a question about a so-called subtype of OCD known as Real Event OCD. This is a unique presentation among OCD symptoms in the sense that it emerges in the context of intact memories. 

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How you ever dissected your OCD to see how it works? In this episode, Chris discusses both the difference between, and the mutual connection of the symptom-dimensions of OCD. 

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Chris sits down with Dr. Robert Hindman, a trainer at the widely respected Beck Institute, and specialist in the treatment of clinically significant anxiety problems. Chris and Dr. Hindman discuss issues spanning from the concept of the Cognitive Model to the application of that model to beating your OCD-system. 

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