ABA Therapy: Helpful or Harmful? | Honest Talk with Mary Barbera
IDIOT with Laura Clery
Laura Clery & Studio71
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quick thing before we dive in, if you've ever been going about your day, making lunch, scrolling |
| 0:04.0 | your phone, and then out of nowhere, absolutely nowhere, your brain hits you with something like, |
| 0:09.2 | what if I don't actually love the people I love? Or what if I'm secretly a terrible person? |
| 0:16.3 | Instead of just letting it go, your brain just latches on. And now you're spiraling and Googling it at 2 a.m. |
| 0:22.2 | And asking people around you if you're a monster or a narcissist, even though getting reassurance |
| 0:27.4 | never actually makes it better. Those sticky, unwanted, repetitive thoughts might be signs of |
| 0:34.3 | OCD. And I want to be clear. OCD is not just about organizing your closet by |
| 0:39.2 | color. Real OCD involves intrusive thoughts that cause intense anxiety and behaviors you feel |
| 0:46.0 | compelled to do just to get temporary relief, even though that relief never lasts. The good news, |
| 0:52.5 | OCD is highly treatable with the right specialized therapy, |
| 0:56.5 | specifically ERP, exposure and response prevention therapy, which is the most effective evidence-based |
| 1:02.7 | treatment. That's where no CD comes in. No CD, pronounced no CD, is the world's leading OCD treatment provider. |
| 1:14.4 | All of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP. |
| 1:17.8 | They do live face-to-face virtual sessions, and they help you take the power away from |
| 1:22.4 | intrusive thoughts so your energy can go back to doing the things that actually matter. |
| 1:27.1 | Therapy with no CD is covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans. |
| 1:32.7 | If any of this sounds like you or someone you love, don't wait, visit nocd.com to book a free call with their team and learn how they can help. |
| 1:39.5 | That's nocd.com. |
| 1:51.2 | What do you all think of ABA? |
| 1:57.2 | Applied behavior analysis, or is it applied behavioral analysis? |
| 2:05.9 | ABA is a very common therapy for kids on the spectrum. In fact, when my son was diagnosed just under two, they recommended that he did 40 hours a week of this therapy called |
| 2:12.3 | ABA. And I started it. We were scared. |
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