7. Compulsions Anyone?

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Today we are talking about Compulsions!

Themes of different compulsive behaviors:

• Avoidance
• Compulsive crying (other OCD influenced emotions)
• Self reassurance (sneaking them in sometimes)
• Decontamination
• Checking
• Magical compulsions
• Perfectionistic compulsions
• Counting
• Tracing
• Touching/ tapping
• Mental compulsions (there is an episode just on this)
• Protective compulsions
• Body focused
• Self-mutilating (cutting, burning)
• Hair pulling/ skin picking (this may or may not be due to OCD, it may be due to trichotillomania mean hair pulling or excoriation-means skin picking)

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