
OCD Straight Talk
Hosted by Chris · Chris Leins, MA, NCC, LPCC-S
4.8from 182 ratings
- 223
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 182
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About OCD Straight Talk
https://linktr.ee/ocdstraighttalk Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/chris-leins/subscribe (https://anchor.fm/chris-leins/subscribe) An anxiety and OCD treatment-specialist explains how these debilitating conditions are effectively treated, why sometimes they're not, and how anxiety sufferers tend to keep themselves symptomatic. This podcast is designed both for those who suffer from anxiety disorders, and OCD and related disorders, and those who seek to treat this population with greater efficacy. Subscribe at: https://ancho
- Publisher
- Chris Leins, MA, NCC, LPCC-S
- Category
- health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
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Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And not just learned something, but learned something that you've taken away and that you've applied and that are today a part of your skill set or a part of your toolbox or a part of your repertoire, right? That you're using these ideas and you're practicing them and sharpening them and polishing them such that you have more hope today than you did before, such that your symptoms are a little bit less severe, maybe even a lot less severe because you understand the active ingredient of the treatment process, which is ritual prevention. And that's not always easy. And sometimes it requires studying your own behavior and seeing the compulsive nature of certain behaviors that you otherwise thought were just whatever, innocuous part of your everyday interacting with reality, but identifying them eventually as compulsive and working as best as you can to delay them and reduce them in terms of frequency to resist them harder and eventually to prevent most of them. […]
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- 4.7 / 5
- 82 ratings
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