Podcast: OCD-The Real Deal with Barry Eichenbaum

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foreign preventative health podcast hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association we provide you with up-to-date information on health topics geared towards the Orthodox Jewish Community this podcast content is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for the medical advice as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician foreign to the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association or Joma podcast I'm your host Elisa Minkin I'm the general pediatrician and proud drama member and today I'm really really honored and really really excited to be interviewing Rabbi Dr Barry eichenbaum before I go into his bio I'm going to say as I've been doing a lot lately um please reach out to us at Health Isaac elkhanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University Rabbi Dr eichenbaum has extensive experience in providing exposure and response prevention Erp therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD in which he was trained under nationally renowned psychologist Dr Steven Phillipson he is also trained in Sex Therapy and gottman Method couples therapy his areas of clinical Focus are in OCD anxiety sexual dysfunction compulsive sexual behaviors and relationship difficulties it's important and I want to start with what is OCD because I think that everybody goes around saying oh I'm so obsessive I'm so obsessed with this oh I have OCD my OCD which is not really what we're talking about absolutely yeah OC is like one of those terms that people kind of just throw around you know thinking about you know clinically but if we're taking a clinical perspective so we have OCD obsessive call so sorry you have two major components like you see in the name you have the obsessions and those are those can be intrusive thoughts

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1. 0:00foreign preventative health podcast hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association we provide you with…
2. 5:34they maybe I'm making the wrong choice right you have it manifesting it's all there really…
3. 10:09not always easy to know is it a tick disorder is it OCD because sometimes a…
4. 14:43cognitively you know I'm not going to treat this as serious even though it seems so…
5. 19:16object to hurt someone maybe you'd use this object or maybe the OC will go to…
6. 23:53help you in that process right and I'm going to you know put a plug for…
7. 28:24know if it's within them and for doing the therapy and it's not going to contribute…
8. 32:59relationship of all which is your relationship with Hashem right I mean what are you thinking…
9. 37:34the person showing the person this is OCD showing how it's impact in your life helping…
10. 42:05deal with it but yeah of course there can be that sometimes there's a trauma there…

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