Hey guys and welcome to episode 160 of the Ocede stories. This episode 160 of the Ocede.com podcast. Now this episode is called Your

E. R.P. questions answered, part two. And the reason for that is because I did a

part one nearly two years ago with Veripist and

person with OCD Shala nicely.

And for some reason, looking back now, I didn't give that episode a number so I can't point you in the

direction but in the show notes of this episode I will link to part one with

Charlotte nicely and Charlotte kind of goes off you know what is ERP initially and then starts to

answer your questions so for those that don't remember this over two years ago

or two years ago I put out a questionnaire saying, you know, what ERP questions do you have?

Loads of you put in so many, so Charlotte asked the first, answered the first batch and now Dr Joan Davidson is going to answer the second batch.

So thank you for being patient and for waiting. It's definitely worth it.

Joan gives some brilliant answers on ERP and answers your questions.

So they're pretty much entirely this episode is made up of your questions as is part one.

So I do encourage you to go listen to part one with Charlotte because

obviously she goes into and sets up what is exposure and response prevention. But just a quick summary, ERP or exposure and response prevention is a

technique within cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT. And the reason why I title the episode your ERP questions answered and not your

CBT questions answered because CBT is a therapy that has many tools and

techniques within it. ERP is one of them and a core part of

OCD treatment is exposure response prevention. So I wanted to focus on that

but with your CBT therapist they probably will bring in other CBT techniques alongside

ARP. However, the core of the treatment is usually based around exposure response prevention

therapy because that is what's got the most research and is

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