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Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)

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The Importance of Magical Thinking

A person can increasingly demonstrate to their brain that they're not going to be fragile about the topics that the brain has infused with this distress signal that contradicts. So, you know, a person might have a hierarchy of being disrespectful to God. You know, or a person might having a hierarchy of placing objects in greater degrees of negative outcome positions. And once again, it's not that we're showing the person, oh, look, my son didn't catch a cold this week. Therefore, this isn't true. It's that, hey, I'm willing to activate the brain's distress signal or warning signal and demonstrate the irrelevance of that signal.

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