by Sunil Punjabi | May 13, 2020 | See Additional Resources
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | May 13, 2020 | See Additional Resources
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Oct 17, 2018 | See Additional Resources
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Oct 11, 2018 | See Additional Resources
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Oct 9, 2018 | See Additional Resources
One of the most damning symptoms of mental disorders like anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, etc is overthinking. While on the surface it seems like overthinking may help arrive at solutions on how to beat the problem, it rarely works that way in case of these disorders....
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