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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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The Psychological Avoidance of OCD

The term psychological avoidance is a little bit still not fully clear. We take someone who has a germophobe and they try to watch the hands, all the demons on. The fear makes them so uncomfortable that what did they do? They go wash their hands. Now when they're washing their hands momentarily feels much better. But anytime anything related to germs gets in there, they start to avoid more and more.

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