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Jonny Say: Secondary spikes in OCD (#362)

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The Two-Tief Spike: How Recovery Fears Switch From Threat to Unhappiness

People get caught up around recovery fears like it moves from the core theme we've had to like, will I ever recover, will I be stuck with this, you know, always? The two-tail spike is what Stephen Phillips is called. People often start doubting their values when they're dealing with OCD. Another big one that I see often is it switches from the core fear of threat to theCore fear of unhappiness. A couple more really important ones resentment and sometimes that's a checking compulsion as well.

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