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Dr Steven Phillipson: All spikes are created equal, however… (#375)

The OCD Stories

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The Effects of Ocd on the Brain

When ocd is first encountered by a person it's a very catastrophic event in a person's life many of my patients can identify the day and hour that their ocd kind of blew up on them. People you know are always looking at the possibility that their brain can bring them back to that point where things became extremely depressed or disrupted. So for a lot of people uh their their spike theme is the idea of even being depressedUh going back to that level of anxiety  and so i've worked with a number of people who you know um you know are spiked that maybe they're going to have dp dr which is depersonalization, derealization experiences.

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