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I'm having a hard time breaking my ocd rituals? so much anxiety
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Burst: If you break all your rituals at once you're bound to have an anxiety burst before it begins to decrease. Have you tried cutting one behavior at a time vs all or nothing or trying to quarantine your cod behaviors to specific times of the day first? Some find a step down approach is easier while others need to engage in an all or nothing approach.
Answered 2/10/2016
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