Hey guys, welcome to episode 151 of the O. C.D. Stories.

Hey guys, welcome to episode 151 of the OCD stories.com podcast podcast. Now it is my pleasure today to announce that I

interviewed Dr Russ Harris. Russ originally trained as a medical doctor but he is better known for his work within acceptance

and commitment therapy, having written several self-help books and many

practitioner guides too. Particularly the book you may know him from is The Happiness Trap.

Here's a book I read, gosh, four or five years ago now,

and it really kind of opened my mind to see thoughts as not necessarily factors

potentially just kind of noise within our heads. So it's great to finally get

him on and although Russ is a therapist he's not particularly an OCD therapist but I wanted to get him on because many of you

have said to me over the years how that book particularly the happiness trap has really

helped you, has given you new insight

into kind of what goes on in your mind and ways of dealing with it.

And also accepts current therapy is an area that I have research interest in, but it's worth

disclaiming that ERP is still the gold standard for treating a CD and the one I absolutely recommend

E. R.P. is part of cognitive behavioral therapy and it's been by far clinically

proven to be the most effective thing.

More and more therapists will you bring in ACP principles anyway

to do alongside ARP and I do think they compliment each other.

If you're interested in how the two merge a bit better,

listen to my interviews with Dr. John Abramowitz

who has done a fair amount of research

and is doing more inter merging the two,

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