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Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)

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Magical Thinking and OCD

People with OCD can co-opt and take over common forms of magical thinking. Like a superstitious thought, like if you break a mirror, something bad will happen. Another form of magical thinking is in the Asian practice of Feng Shui. People engage in placing objects sometime in their lucky spot or even in their lucky direction.

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