Dr. Jenny Yip on OCD, Anxiety, and Mental Health
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What Is OCD?
There are two parts to OCD. There's the obsession and there's the compulsion. The obsession is that nightmare. That nightmare can involve anything. It can involve whatever it is that you feel. And we as a society don't like to experience discomfort. So we engage in something called compulsions, the C in OCD. For compulsions, these are any type of behaviors or reactions that we engage in in order to reduce the distress,. In order to neutralize the discomfort.
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