Anxiety and OCD: The Strategy Mismatch Issue | EP 351
About this episode
This episode discusses how anxiety and OCD arise from a mismatch in problem-solving strategies used by the brain.
Anxiety disorders and OCD are what you get when a perfectly functioning brain applies its usual problem-solving strategies to the wrong problem. Your brain is good at solving things. The trouble is it keeps trying to solve something that isn't actually the problem, and that's what keeps you stuck in the loop: trigger, fix, feel better for a while, repeat. In this episode I want to introduce the concept of strategy mismatch. The things that seem to need fixing in anxiety and OCD (the intrusive...
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