Locus of Control

by | May 13, 2020 | Coaching, General

Locus of Control (image courtesy – Min Thein, pexels.com) Years ago, when I was a child, a family friend had come over to visit us. He was supposedly a good chess player, and as mothers are wont to extol the talents of their children, my mom mentioned that I...

Work Stress!

by | May 13, 2020 | Coaching, General

Work stress! (Picture courtesy – www.pexels.com) “How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you...

What is Pure-O OCD?

by | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorised

Some people with OCD have visible compulsions. Like in contamination OCD, compulsions include washing hands repeatedly. Or ‘just right’ OCD will have the person repeating an activity till it feels ‘just right’ to him. However, there are manifestations of...

Distraction – compulsion or technique?

by | Oct 11, 2018 | Anxiety, OCD

Distraction is very poorly understood in the context of OCD or other anxiety disorders. Most books or literature on anxiety disorders tout distraction as a way of getting past intrusive thoughts. You get an intrusive thought? Distract yourself by thinking of something...