Stop Anxiety and Panic Attacks

The goal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is to teach people with OCD to confront their fears and reduce the anxiety that often comes along with them causing them to repeat their routine behaviors. Learn how to live with OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, from a licensed social worker in this free health video.

Expert: Danielle Masuda
Bio: Danielle Masuda holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Social Work degree from New York University. She is a licensed social worker in the state of Maine.
Filmmaker: Dennis Lucius

Duration : 0:2:51

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This debilitating disorder has its source largely in trauma, sustained early in life. Critical, judgemental upbringings along with repetitive violent communication tend to traumatize people leaving their nervous systems overly sensitive. The person becomes hypervigilent and overly attuned to the outside voices. Their self esteem suffers and an inferiority complex may ensue. While understanding the sources of social anxiety is important, the reality is that the patterns and the neural pathways are already in place thus demanding a cognitive undoing of the condition.

Duration : 0:6:10

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