Douglas Zimmerman
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
- 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
- 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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