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https://linktr.ee/ocdstraighttalk Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/chris-leins/subscribe An anxiety and OCD treatment-specialist explains how these debilitating conditions are effectively treated, why sometimes they're not, and how anxiety sufferers tend to keep themselves symptomatic. This podcast is designed both for those who suffer from anxiety disorders, and OCD and related disorders, and those who seek to treat this population with greater efficacy. Subscribe at: https://ancho

Does Stop Compulsions REALLY Mean Stop?

21 mins; March 20, 2026

OCDSpace.com

58 mins; March 02, 2026

Tolerance & Patience: Where OCD Goes to Die

15 mins; February 19, 2026

How Do USE Uncertainty?

17 mins; January 30, 2026

I Want to Arm You with Hope

24 mins; January 02, 2026

It's Been a Minute. Welcome Back, Dawg

27 mins; December 19, 2025

The Negative & Positive Symptoms of OCD

23 mins; November 14, 2025

Are You Sure? How to STOP Seeking Reassurance

21 mins; October 10, 2025

Jesus Is King

9 mins; September 16, 2025

The ART of Exposure Therapy

18 mins; September 12, 2025

When You Can't Win for Losing

23 mins; August 22, 2025

Reprised: The Only 3 Tools You Need

17 mins; August 01, 2025

The Top Subtypes to Explain OCD-Work to Everyone

20 mins; July 18, 2025

Magical Thinking

12 mins; July 04, 2025

"Trust the Process"

19 mins; June 13, 2025

Intrusive Thoughts REQUIRE Assumptions

15 mins; May 30, 2025

3 Challenges of ERP for OCD

15 mins; May 23, 2025

Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 2

20 mins; May 16, 2025

Help! My Loved One Just Won't Get Better, Pt. 1

19 mins; May 02, 2025

A Tale of Two Patients

21 mins; April 25, 2025

How Did ERP Come to Be?

20 mins; April 18, 2025

What Makes an OCD Therapist A Good One?

15 mins; April 11, 2025

How to CHEAT your OCD

19 mins; April 04, 2025

Lindsay & Emily from PRESENTLY

43 mins; March 28, 2025

Can You Tell Me Everything I Need to Know in 20 Minutes?

21 mins; March 21, 2025

Will AI One Day Be My Therapist?

19 mins; March 14, 2025

Should ALL Therapists be Trained as Specialists?

16 mins; February 21, 2025

You Are OCD's Kryptonite

16 mins; January 31, 2025

Skill-Growth Starts Where Your Need to be Great at This ENDS

22 mins; January 17, 2025

What Would You Tomorrow Want You Today To Do?

17 mins; January 03, 2025

A Case Conundrum: Why Is She NOT Getting Better?

17 mins; December 13, 2024

If OCD Were A Stray Dog

13 mins; December 06, 2024

What Is The True Gift of Therapy?

19 mins; November 29, 2024

What is Your Biggest Obstacle to Getting Better?

25 mins; November 22, 2024

I Got Dirt on Ya: Contamination OCD

27 mins; October 25, 2024

I'm Not Sure It's Really Romance: Relationship-OCD

23 mins; October 18, 2024

It Just Feels WRONG: Just-Right OCD

24 mins; October 11, 2024

I'm Sick! And Nobody Knows It but Me

20 mins; October 04, 2024

The Final Question & The One Piece of Advice

17 mins; September 27, 2024

The Lens Grows Bigger

21 mins; September 20, 2024

65.7% Threat Level before Compulsion. What after?

25 mins; September 13, 2024

It's You Against YOU: OCD is a Closed System

16 mins; September 06, 2024

Exposures Are Opportunities to Practice Skills

14 mins; August 30, 2024

A Self-Perpetuating System of Symptoms: the Cognitive Model

15 mins; August 23, 2024

Understanding OCD through Newton's First Law of Motion

11 mins; August 16, 2024

Solving A Problem Starts with Understanding It

11 mins; August 09, 2024

Bonus Episode: On Getting YOURSELF Better

20 mins; August 08, 2024

Become Your Own Behavior Therapist

28 mins; August 02, 2024

AI and the Future of OCD Treatment

18 mins; July 26, 2024

Perfectionism: Allow Yourself to Make A Mistake

13 mins; July 19, 2024

Keep Your Head When OCD Wants You to Lose Your Mind

27 mins; July 05, 2024

Increasing Your Quality of Life by Doing It "Backwards"

22 mins; June 28, 2024

When You Have No Idea That "That Thing" was OCD All Along

17 mins; June 28, 2024

Make Yourself Impervious to Chronic Anxiety

16 mins; June 21, 2024

Using Behavioral Techniques to Feel Better about Yourself

21 mins; June 14, 2024

How Do I Spoil My Compulsion?

17 mins; June 07, 2024

Get Started! How to Build My Hierarchy

21 mins; May 31, 2024

OCD - the C = ERP

21 mins; May 24, 2024

The Trifecta of Ingredients Yields the Right Result

16 mins; May 17, 2024

MicroCompulsions: the Rituals You DON'T See

14 mins; May 10, 2024

Pull the "C" out of the OCD

20 mins; May 03, 2024

The Ultimate OCD Hack

14 mins; April 26, 2024

OCD Straight Talk: The Backstory

24 mins; April 19, 2024

Is It Objective Danger or OCD?

17 mins; April 12, 2024

I Got Anxiety but Not OCD

23 mins; April 05, 2024

What Causes A Relapse of OCD?

17 mins; March 15, 2024

Do Intrusive Thoughts Show Up Differently for Some People?

23 mins; March 04, 2024

How Can Family Members Help OCDers?

16 mins; February 23, 2024

Obsession + Evidence + Possibility = Oh Sh*t?

12 mins; February 16, 2024

How Do I "Get Rid" of My Thoughts?

16 mins; February 09, 2024

What Exactly Is OCD?

11 mins; February 02, 2024

Focus More; Ruminate Less - Here's How

15 mins; January 27, 2024

The Versatility of Behavior-Change, Pillar 5

20 mins; January 22, 2024

Pillar 4 is about Letting Go of Both Thoughts & Compulsions

22 mins; January 09, 2024

What's So Wrong with Trying to Manage Risk?

11 mins; January 02, 2024

Accepting Uncertainty Reduces Your Need for Compulsions, Pillar 3

12 mins; December 20, 2023

"Practice Makes Perfect," Pillar 2

15 mins; December 14, 2023

You Gotta Go to Therapy, Pillar 1

18 mins; December 08, 2023

What is My Role in Getting Better?

14 mins; November 28, 2023

When OCD Turns Itself Inside-Out and Backward

16 mins; November 20, 2023

You Need Both Will and Strategy

13 mins; November 07, 2023

Everybody's Pure-O ... Sometimes

14 mins; October 27, 2023

Mistakes You're Probably Making in Exposure Therapy

16 mins; October 17, 2023

Chris Conducts an Imaginal Exposure ... on Himself

45 mins; October 12, 2023

The Four Bosom Buddies of Good Exposure Therapy

19 mins; October 02, 2023

When OCD Says "This" Means "That"

10 mins; September 22, 2023

Is My Anxiety Interfering with My Sex Life?

15 mins; September 18, 2023

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT of Your Anxiety Toolkit

32 mins; September 05, 2023

2 Rules of Thumb: the Difference between OCD and Skin Picking Disorder

11 mins; August 28, 2023

The Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link

16 mins; August 16, 2023

Manage Feelings; but F*** Anxiety

14 mins; August 09, 2023

Talking Back to Thoughts in Hair-Pulling and Skin-Picking Disorders

10 mins; August 04, 2023

You Play Offense for OCD. You Play Defense for Skin-Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders

24 mins; July 26, 2023

Got Triggered? What Now?

15 mins; July 19, 2023

What Do I Do When I Don't REALIZE I'm Doing Compulsions?

11 mins; July 12, 2023

It's about Tolerating the Itch and Stopping the Scratching Response

11 mins; July 05, 2023

Grit & Resilience in Your Fight Against OCD

6 mins; June 28, 2023

It's Easier to Act Yourself into a New Way of Thinking Than It Is to Think Yourself into a New Way of Acting

11 mins; June 20, 2023

Why Do I Have These Intrusive Thoughts?

10 mins; June 08, 2023

What's the Difference between Facts and Fears?

12 mins; June 01, 2023

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