A Ulysses Pact for OCD: Staying Committed to your Values Amid Second Thoughts and Difficult EmotionsLane Brooke Fahy, PsyDNeuroscience shows us that we make decisions based on both emotional and logical reasoning, and this is a good thing.1 We make better decisions this way.  The problem in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is that you, the sufferer, rely too much on [...]

Clinicians often use analogies, metaphors, thought experiments, and humor in strategic ways to aid in facilitating therapeutic change. I would like to share with you a simple analogy I often use with individuals and families. The analogy encapsulates some of the principles that you have already been teaching your patients. They are principles that patients regularly forget to use [...]