OCD Straight Talk

Chris discusses a study published in the early 1980s the results of which have gone on to confirm the most effective treatment available for OCD - Exposure with Response Prevention. Response prevention is the general topic of the podcast. But what is exposure therapy? 

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Chris administers the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-II (YBOCS-II) Severity Items on the podcast. Listeners can measure their own symptom-severity on this validated 0-50 scale. He then goes over the "YBOCS Cheat Sheet" to orient listeners to the most direct "route" to a subclinical score on YBOCS-II. Wanna a good score on YBOCS-II? The Cheat Sheet will help you get it.

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Chris responds to a listener's questions about whether he can confirm an OCD-diagnosis for a listener, commenting on presentation and history of symptoms. Further, he discusses the nature of compulsive patterns and good treatment for OCD. 

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Chris talks with Dr. Eric Storch, a leading OCD-treatment specialist, and one of the psychological scientists who developed the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (YBOCS), the gold-standard tool for assessing OCD-symptoms. Chris and Dr. Storch discuss the concept of the "YBOCS Cheat Sheet," along with some of the processes that collectively form the Exposure and Response Prevention protocol.

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Chris responds to a question about the link that connects, not obsessions and compulsions, but compulsions and obsessions. 

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Chris discusses the concepts of Trace Decay Theory (of psychology) and Entropy (of physics), explaining - without apology - the necessity of repeatedly explaining important strategies. He also describes the function of actually documenting identified compulsions, noting two groups in therapy. The question is, Which one fairs better?

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Thanks for the question - very good one. Chris responds to a listener and defines compulsions from a couple of vantage points. 

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Chris responds to a listener's question - A follow up on our series on uncertainty. So, true or false? Or, is it a trick question?

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Chris discusses the prevailing treatments for PTSD, and the weird animus that tends to stand between them.

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