Douglas ZimmermanMay 303 minDetachment As a DefenseDetachment from a person, place, thing, or feeling is a defense – sometimes it is the appropriate defense, but at other times it is a...
Douglas ZimmermanMar 153 minFight or FlightSometimes it’s good to take flight. If you are walking down the sidewalk and an automobile is swerving off the road headed in your...
Douglas ZimmermanJan 212 minWhen Doing ERP is Too ToughThere are patients who would like to do exposures and practice ritual prevention, but find the exposures are too tough, too...
Douglas ZimmermanOct 27, 20213 minDistinguishing Between OCD and OCPDIn basic terms, when a patient comes to see me with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), they are troubled by their own thoughts. Their...
Douglas ZimmermanSep 24, 20212 minGoing for Broke: A Subjective/Intersubjective ApproachThis is not an academic paper, so I will not dive formally into the citations from the various therapists who have spoken about the...
Douglas ZimmermanAug 23, 20213 minPedophilia OCDOne 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...
Douglas ZimmermanJul 16, 20211 minGoogling"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...
Douglas ZimmermanJun 25, 20212 minOCD As An Anxiety DisorderIn 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...
Douglas ZimmermanJun 5, 20212 minPure O OCDIs 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
Douglas ZimmermanMay 3, 20212 minScrupulosityWhat is it and how does it develop? It’s an overdeveloped sense of right or wrong, always questioning what is morally correct. Oft times,...