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The OCD Stories

Dr Sally Winston - Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking (Ep203)

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In episode 203 of The OCD Stories podcast I chat with Dr Sally Winston. Sally co-founded The Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland in 1992. She is co-author of “Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts”, and co-author of the new book “Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking”.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/podcast/dr-sally-winston-compulsive-checking-and-reassurance-seeking

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Hey guys, I'm going to episode 203 of the Ocity stories.

0:03.0

And this episode I interview clinical psychologist

0:17.0

Dr Sally Winston.

0:19.0

Now you may have read her book Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Forts which she co-wrote of Dr. Marty Seif and I got on the

0:27.7

podcast to talk about her new book which she also co-wrote with Marty called Needing to Know

0:32.3

for Sure a CBT-based guide to overcoming

0:35.4

compulsive checking and reassurance seeking. Now reassurance seeking and checking

0:40.7

a common compulsions obviously within ICD so it was great to dedicate

0:45.7

and whole episode to these compulsions and in it I asked obviously about her story what got

0:52.0

her into treating ACD and writing these books.

0:55.8

We talk about wise reassurance seeking a trap, changing relationship with uncertainty,

1:01.3

reducing these compulsions, what it means to live in a world of maybe

1:05.8

being good enough, which is a phrase Sally and Martyr using their book, how families can

1:09.8

support people wanting to break O, reassurance-seeking cycles.

1:14.1

Sticking points to getting past these compulsions.

1:17.3

I really enjoy this episode.

1:18.6

I personally learn a lot from it.

1:20.8

I hope you will too. Yeah so without further ado here is Dr Sally Winston.

1:27.0

On the podcast today I have Dr Sally Winston.

1:30.0

Sally co-founded the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland in 1992.

1:35.9

She is the co-author of overcoming unwanted intrusive thoughts and co-author of the new book

1:41.9

Needing to Know for Sure, a CBT-based guide to overcoming

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