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Dr Steven Phillipson: The top 6 emotions of OCD (#359)

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OCD Is Not the Brain Attacking Itself - It's the Amygdala

The amygdala sending out an anxiety response is nothing more than a warning that we would get physiologically if we were in the forest and we stumbled across a poisonous snake, our brain would spike. OCD is kind of like a crazy best friend that's gone nuts trying to protect you by creating anxiety over things that it by its own design makes you feel threatened by.

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