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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Patrick McGrath, Chief Clinical Officer at NOCD and a leading expert in OCD treatment. We dive deep into understanding OCD, debunking common misconceptions, and exploring the most effective treatment approaches. Dr. McGrath shares practical advice for managing OCD and introduces an amazing new tool that’s helping people across the country manage OCD from the comfort of their own homes. Whether you're personally affected by OCD, know someone who is, or just want to learn more about mental health, this episode is packed with valuable insights and actionable tips.
Key Takeaways:
Misconceptions About OCD:
Effective Treatment Approaches:
Practical Advice for Managing OCD:
Introducing NOCD:
Personal Insights:
Be sure to check out NOCD at http://treatmyocd.com and send me a question or topic for a future episode of the show at http://duffthepsych.com/contact
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0:00.0 | I have to admit I was pretty surprised by this statement. |
0:03.0 | I stood for three hours at a train track with someone once with them behind me and their hands |
0:07.4 | on my shoulders and me yelling at them to push me into every train that came by because |
0:11.2 | they were so afraid that they would kill people on train tracks |
0:14.5 | by just pushing people all the way down the line onto the tracks and the train would just |
0:19.0 | run them over. |
0:20.0 | How does that compare to what you think of when you think of psychotherapy and why would |
0:23.8 | somebody do it this way let's listen now I will tell you Robert I was not |
0:29.4 | afraid and and I'd be more afraid of somebody without O. C. OCD behind me on a train track than I would be of somebody with OCD on a train track. |
0:38.0 | Because I know the person with OCD is going to do everything they possibly can to make sure that nothing bad will ever happen. |
0:43.6 | So who the heck is this guy yelling at people to push him onto the train tracks? |
0:47.5 | This is Dr. Patrick McGrath. |
0:49.2 | He's a renowned expert in obsessive compulsive disorder and he has well over 20 years of experience in the field. |
0:54.8 | What makes you good at working with OCD? |
0:58.0 | The best compliment I've ever received from a therapeutic kind of stance is I can't believe you don't have a |
1:04.3 | CD because you think like you do. Unfortunately many people still don't truly |
1:07.8 | understand a z a z a. But Dr. McGrath does and in this episode he shares his |
1:12.0 | passion and experience with you so that you can |
1:14.4 | too. We talk about trust your gut right if you feel it it it must be true but the |
1:19.3 | reality is is that OCD is the great manipulator and O. C. D manipulates your fight-flight or |
1:24.8 | freeze response, your feeling center. O. C. D is not a logical problem again |
1:28.8 | it's an emotional problem and and the location of O. C. D. And even in the |
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