Treating Anxiety Like a Poison: An ER Doctor’s Approach to OCD
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- There is no morality in a ritual: Scott explains why he tells a child that washing three times and washing a thousand times are equally safe, and what opens up for that child once neither one is right or wrong.
- The brain is not broken, it is early: checking, rechecking and ritual are useful adult skills. Pilots and resuscitation teams run on them. Scott’s framing is that the timing is off, not the child.
- Why panic is a normal reaction at the wrong moment: the fight-or-flight response is doing exactly what it was built to do. Learn the question Scott asks himself before anything else, and the answer he says out loud.
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