Episode notes
It is a very human thing to, at times, worry, ruminate, to experience self-doubt: “did I lock the door, did I give anyone this darn cold, what if ______” (fill-in the blank with any one of thousands of thoughts)? In most cases these episodes are infrequent, centered around a specific incident or situation, and our rational minds step in to interrupt the pattern and alleviate the concern. However, if we are able, for a moment, to put ourselves in the worst possible moments of those fairly typical situations - the brief panic and dread followed by an uncontrollable impulse to immediately take action - and then extend that feeling, and experience it over and over again, we’ll have an idea of the trauma that Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, inflicts on those who suffer from it. It can be utterly debilitating for between two and three million Ameri ...