Posted by 64Bowtie on January 19, 2004, at 10:48:48
In reply to subsets of OCD, posted by madison88 on January 18, 2004, at 22:24:32
I had an LCSW friend who wrote articles connecting OCD to phobias by what clients saw as being a distortion of what was happening around them. His contention was that both phobia and OCD clients were universally seeing and acting out something that had nothing to do with what was right there in front of them.
Phobics can be sitting on a couch in the living room of a California Ranch style house and be petrafied that they will be falling to their death from a high place any minute. That sounds sorta like a distorted perception if not a faulty belief. I've watched it happening more than once.
Lotsa work is still going on about phobias and OCD. Time will tell. Seems to me that a therapy "subset" is in order. A therapy called, "Look around and see where I am and what's really happening to me" therapy; a sort of "re-evaluation" therapy.
But that's just me....
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