
Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)
The OCD Stories
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The Power of Guilt in OCD
The idea of taking one's identity or one's image can be just as manipulating as ridting one's cells of the physiological anxiety. The idea that if I don't perform the ritual that means I'm a bad person. If I have thoughts about harming my child that means I’m a bad people. Bad people have these thoughts. And so the idea of protecting one's sense of identity, you know, I want to hold a good person trophy.
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