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Mark Freeman on his recovery from OCD

The OCD Stories

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The Air Mattress Effect

The air mattress effect. Is this what you coined the, like the air mattress effect? Exactly. And we get frightened by that. But it's actually a sign that you're taking the right steps. So I was lucky in that way that I didn't naturally fall back on reassurance. It was just, I was ready to do anything. Like if somebody told me I had to like stand on the side of the street, like naked with like a funny hat on my head and sing, I would have an art at all. Yeah. The only, the, the thing that works kind of ties into being in that really low place.

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