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166 – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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The Denial of Death

The author argues that we all throw ourselves into these big, grand projects to help us cope with the fear of death. But then eventually when there's a gap, that fear or the fear of loss rears its ugly head. And if our normal coping mechanism is just to numb ourselves with striving in performance and we can't or that's not available, then those things can bubble over.

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