OCD Straight Talk
160 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago -Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/chris-leins/subscribe
An anxiety and OCD treatment-specialist explains how these debilitating conditions are effectively treated, why sometimes they're not, and how anxiety sufferers tend to keep themselves symptomatic. This podcast is designed both for those who suffer from anxiety disorders, and OCD and related disorders, and those who seek to treat this population with greater efficacy.
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Episodes
The Big "Why?" Of All This
June 04, 2020 17:25 - 18 minutes - 9.01 MBChris revisits the reasons and convictions behind the OCD Straight Talk podcast, and bears witness to a distinction between generalists and specialists in the field of psychotherapy.
The YBOCS Cheat Sheet
June 01, 2020 19:20 - 23 minutes - 11.6 MBChris discusses the specifics of how OCD and the anxiety related disorders function comparative to the YBOCS-II, a gold-standard psychometric for measuring OCD. It all hinges on forcibly stopping safety-behaviors.
0% vs. 100%: Certainty is a Mirage
May 27, 2020 20:48 - 13 minutes - 6.44 MBChris discusses the ineffectiveness of striving after certainty in the context of intrusive thoughts and disordered anxiety.
Not So Certain about Being Certain
May 26, 2020 15:51 - 19 minutes - 9.27 MBChris discusses certainty as a fact life with or without an anxiety related disorders. It's not our intrusive thoughts or worries that are irrational but the behaviors we engage to regulate them that are irrational.
Am I Doing the Thinking or is the Thinking Doing Me?
May 05, 2020 19:17 - 17 minutes - 8.69 MBChris discusses mental rituals and how to decipher between mental rituals and intrusive thinking.
Where's Waldo?
April 29, 2020 21:47 - 21 minutes - 10.7 MBIn this episode, Chris discusses not only the clinical importance of stopping all compulsions, but of finding them. Safety-behaviors (or compulsions) don't scream and shout, saying "Hey, I'm a compulsions. Stop me." They have something to be gained by not being stopped. "What?" you ask. Well, if you're not identifying them as compulsions, you're not stoppin' 'em; and of youre not stopping them, then your anxiety-related disorder will continue on and on.
Habituate, Don't Fluctuate
April 13, 2020 23:53 - 18 minutes - 9.14 MBChris deals with an important element of exposure therapy, technically called Habituation.
Cracking the Code
April 08, 2020 23:45 - 13 minutes - 6.55 MBChris discusses cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy with the exposure-component as treatment-modalities for the anxiety-related disorders. Tune in for this educational talk on symptoms and treatment.
Your Anxiety Disorder's Not Happening to You, but You're Happening to your Anxiety Disorder.
April 02, 2020 01:39 - 15 minutes - 7.47 MBVictor Meyer's 1966 study points us in the direction of the evidence-based protocol. Chris explains the basic symptom-dynamic and -functionality of the anxiety-related disorders.
Anxiety & OCD treatment specialist introduces a new podcast on a troubling theme.
March 13, 2020 21:34 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBIn this brief podcast Intro, Chris mentions a treatment theme of individuals not making sufficient therapeutic progress by way of conventional treatments, and launches a new podcast that seeks to inform listeners as to "good treatment" in the world of the anxiety, and OCD sufferer.