
Dr Steven Phillipson: Brain Voice vs Gatekeeper Voice (#275)
The OCD Stories
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The Gatekeeper
As a kid my earliest sort of memory of intrusive thoughts which is the second memory was around sharks. Now I could see that there was nothing in this clear swimming pool you know the water was not murky and yeah I would jump in sort of freak out and get straight out the corner. And so that's exactly the problem because it wasn't you who had the thoughts. Your brain probably paired up being in a water environment with the potential that sharks might kind of come up through the drain perhaps or sharks might have jumped into the pool when no one was looking. Once again, observing the machine but go ahead. Okay. So what brings you to the mid-term and happen today? What did
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