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Mark Freeman on his recovery from OCD

The OCD Stories

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How ERP Helped Me Recover From OCD

In the DSM, when they diagnosed OCD, that means those are basically, it requires you to be distressed by them. But what I noticed was that there were all of these other, what I would define as compulsions that didn't bother me. In fact, I liked them. And so they weren't things we tackled in ERP. And I thought that was really strange, but they weren't considered OCD. So I say the biggest benefit was tackling what I, now I'll always refer to them as normal compulsions. Because yeah, they're things that most people would consider normal. They probably don't stress you out. Normal is where you go before you get a diagnosis for

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