Anxiety, OCD and the Cost of Negotiated Avoidance | EP 352
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of negotiated avoidance in relation to anxiety and OCD, highlighting the cumulative impact of seemingly small accommodations.
Every time you give in to an avoidance or a ritual, it seems reasonable. Skip one social event, spend a few extra minutes on a compulsion, take one "me day" instead of pushing through. In isolation, none of it feels like a big deal. What's the harm? That's the trap. Not the individual behaviors themselves, but what happens when you add them all up. In this episode I want to talk about what I call negotiated avoidance: the process by which each individual accommodation to anxiety or OCD feels ...
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