The System is Made Up of Parts

OCD Straight Talk

English - April 27, 2023 00:20 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB
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Chris discusses the OCD-system, the pieces and parts that make up the whole. And he identifies the common reaction of making "feeling better" the end goal for most OCDers. But the minute we focus on feeling better as our primary aim, we instinctively seek to do something to achieve that goal. What that response is most liklely meets the definition of compulsion.