Chris presents a conversation he often has with patients at the beginning of treatment. Expectations are powerful things, including if they're unrealistic. So having healthy and reasonable expectations is important, especially when it what we should expect to get out of therapy.
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When OCD Turns Itself Inside-Out and Backward
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Everybody's Pure-O ... Sometimes
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