{"id":104,"date":"2014-07-10T20:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-07-10T20:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:48:54","slug":"take-some-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/take-some-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Take (some) Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote about Isaac and Sarah<\/a> as examples of a particular resistance that shows up in people who present with anxiety problems, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).\u00a0 By contrast, as I mentioned last week, I came across this posting on LinkedIn written by a man who had identified his own tendency to become obsessive as a way to combat anxiety (a \u201cphobia\u201d as you\u2019re read), and had confronted the problem head-on.\u00a0 You can see his posting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notice he mentions the fancy name given his problem:\u00a0 \u201cNomophobia, which is defined as \u2018the fear of being out of mobile phone contact\u2019\u201d.\u00a0 (Just what my field and the DSM need \u2013 another disorder!)\u00a0 But he did not dwell on programs to help his symptoms.\u00a0 He \u201cjust said no\u201d.\u00a0 As I mentioned last week, it is of course not so easy for everyone to do this.\u00a0 Some people need more guidance and support as offered by a therapist or a structured program like AA and by certain programs tailored to OCD symptoms.\u00a0 But in all of us there is the tendency to resist<\/a>,\u00a0as we see in many examples such as here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>; you can find further discussion and case examples in this blog by clicking on the “resistance” category to the right and a little below the text you’re now reading.\u00a0 \u00a0It has been my \u2013 and others\u2019 \u2013 experience that in OCD resistance is often particularly strong.\u00a0 If you\u2019re one of the anxiety sufferers, watch out for that resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote about Isaac and Sarah as examples of a particular resistance that shows up in people who present with anxiety problems, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).\u00a0 By contrast, as I mentioned last week, I came across this posting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}