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Psychologists have identified three types of dysfunctional belief important in the development of OCD. The first is an inflated sense of threat and personal responsibility. The second is perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty. The third is a belief in the over-importance of thoughts and the need to control them.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Newport Institute, a young adult mental health inpatient treatment center, has recently begun recruiting people suffering from “brainrot.” On its website, the Institute encourages parents whose children suffer from “screen dependency” and “digital addiction” to consider treatment plans at one of its locations across the country.
Jessica Roy • If You Know What ‘Brainrot’ Means, You Might Already Have It
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy
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Attachment disorders are at their core a form of object impermanence. The insecurely attached babies experience their reliance on their caregiver as ephemeral. They do not trust it will continue. They do not trust she will return. They do not trust their needs will be met. When she leaves the room, she might as well cease to exist. Physical separat... See more
Small Wire • Romance plot
Obsessive-compulsions may take root as the detached person seeks comfort in superstition in order to gain a feeling of control over their environment. “If I click my teeth together in the correct spot exactly four times when I put on my pants, nothing bad will happen to me.”