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Monday May 04, 2020
7. Compulsions Anyone?
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Learn all things OCD with the OCD Whisperer Podcast.
Today we are talking about Compulsions!
Themes of different compulsive behaviors:
- Avoidance
- Compulsive crying (other OCD influenced emotions)
- Self reassurance (sneaking them in sometimes)
- Decontamination
- Checking
- Magical compulsions
- Perfectionistic compulsions
- Counting
- Tracing
- Touching/ tapping
- Mental compulsions (there is an episode just on this)
- Protective compulsions
- Body focused
- Self-mutilating (cutting, burning)
- Hair pulling/ skin picking (this may or may not be due to OCD, it may be due to trichotillomania mean hair pulling or excoriation-means skin picking)
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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes. Though I am a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, this does not replace therapy.
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