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Dr Jordan Levy & Dr Tatyana Mestechkina: What if this is not OCD?: Doubting the “Doubting Disease” (#338)

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I think the important thing to remember is like there's a reason why it's called the doubting disease and part of the therapy which however your journey looks like on a week to week basis. I really encourage patients not to as well our brain's mission is really to try to keep us safe and protect us but sometimes they become that kind of like overzealous friend or have not the accurate sources of information about what isn't dangerous. Thinking about all these like OCD traps is not an attack but really the brain's desperate way to try toKeep you safe might help decrease some of that hostility that people feel when they experience OCD. The real core of OCD is the intolerance of uncertainty and part

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