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In this episode, I talked with Dr. Jesse Spiegel, a licensed clinical psychologist in California and New York who specializes in OCD, anxiety, and related conditions. Dr. Spiegel is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In this episode, we discuss.. […]

If you’re here, I’m glad it didn’t take you a day, week, month, or year longer, like it does for most people. The majority of individuals who have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) take an average of 10-17 years to get properly diagnosed and the right treatment (i.e., evidence based treatment, such as Exposure and Response Prevention). The fact that you’re here, Googling OCD and OCD symptoms, and looking at this blog, means that you now no longer have to be stuck in the black hole that is having no idea what’s going on inside your brain and feeling like you’re going “crazy”. Unfortunately, people stay stuck in that hole for far too long.