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Dr Steven Phillipson: Brain Voice vs Gatekeeper Voice (#275)

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The Difference Between the Brain Voice and the Gatekeeper Voice in OCD

When I speak to patients about the nature of their OCD theme they most often almost entirely say you know I have thoughts such as X. So what it is is that their brain the machine is conjuring up these associations and sending them just like my own brainThese pairings of ideas but with OCD there is a bonding to a cataclysmic emotional distress signal. The person's life has to be disrupted or disturbed in a very very significant way by the condition.

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