#164 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with Dr Scott Blair-West
The GP Show
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Is It the Compulsion Element That's Causing the Overactivity of the Brain?
The compulsion element is what reinforces it and encourages the overactivity of that whereas if you have the obsession but able to hold space without acting on it that starts to reduce that activity. The problem with compulsions is that they're not very efficient at doing that so you might so say wash their hands and then they still won't feel clean enough so they wash their hands again. And oftentimes they'll keep doing the ritual repetitively for an often very lengthy period of time.
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