Douglas Zimmerman

Sep 17
5 min

A New Chapter

9/17/23 A New Chapter This has been a long time coming, this blog. And this one will be different. Very. I suspect. For one, there will...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Oct 29, 2022
3 min

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

In the past several years, ketamine has been a hot topic. It’s one of the many psychedelics and alternative medicines currently being...

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Douglas Zimmerman

May 30, 2022
3 min

Detachment As a Defense

Detachment from a person, place, thing, or feeling is a defense – sometimes it is the appropriate defense, but at other times it is a...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Mar 15, 2022
3 min

Fight or Flight

Sometimes it’s good to take flight. If you are walking down the sidewalk and an automobile is swerving off the road headed in your...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Jan 21, 2022
2 min

When Doing ERP is Too Tough

There are patients who would like to do exposures and practice ritual prevention, but find the exposures are too tough, too...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Oct 27, 2021
3 min

Distinguishing Between OCD and OCPD

In basic terms, when a patient comes to see me with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), they are troubled by their own thoughts. Their...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Sep 24, 2021
2 min

Going for Broke: A Subjective/Intersubjective Approach

This is not an academic paper, so I will not dive formally into the citations from the various therapists who have spoken about the...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Aug 23, 2021
3 min

Pedophilia OCD

One of the most common OCD’s that I’m seeing lately is pedophilia OCD; or, as some call it, POCD. I prefer that people state the full...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Jul 16, 2021
1 min

Googling

"I googled OCD therapist or OCD specialist in NYC, I can’t remember? But I found you! So, in that sense isn’t googling, okay?” she asked...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Jun 25, 2021
2 min

OCD As An Anxiety Disorder

In 2013, OCD was removed from the DSM, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an anxiety disorder. What? Yes, in my mind, it’s very much an...

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Douglas Zimmerman

Jun 5, 2021
2 min

Pure O OCD

Is there such a thing as Pure O OCD or Pure OCD? I’m not so sure? Many people come to me complaining that they only obsess and it infuriates

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Douglas Zimmerman

May 3, 2021
2 min

Scrupulosity

What is it and how does it develop? It’s an overdeveloped sense of right or wrong, always questioning what is morally correct. Oft times,...

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