Hey guys and welcome to episode 182 the OCD stories

dot com podcast.

Now on this episode I got back on Dr Stephen Philipson.

Stephen is a licensed clinical psychologist based in New York

and if you've been a long time

listening to the show you've probably come across many of his episodes that I've

done with him. In this episode we go into another specific topic which is great

because we're trying to do more of those on the podcast.

So in this episode we talk about two-tail spikes.

Now this one is quite hard to explain.

Dr Stephen Philipson does a good job explaining it. A two-tail spike is when you feel

used expression damned if you do, damned if you don't or stuck between a rock and a hard place is another expression when OCD feels like it's trapped

whichever choice you try to make it feels like it's the wrong choice.

And OCD can do that sometimes for some people. So Dr. Stephen

Philipton wanted to address that and talk about it and go into detail what is the

two-tail spike. He gives several examples to bring it to life across different themes of OCD. It talks about a

solution to it, how making choices can help learning to not find the answer, how

perfection can play into this and affect it,

acceptance to the uncertainty and much, much more.

This is a wonderfully interesting topic.

It's something I was aware of, but not something I could ever put into

words so if this affects you I hope you find this useful. But as always thank you for

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