Reassurance is Poison, Sometimes.
Missing OCD and Reassurance Seeking Compulsions lead to problems in therapy.
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One of the problems with selling reassurance, which is a lot of what half-baked therapy is, is that in addition to being ineffective, it worsens the problem. Reassurance-seeking can be a compulsion. I've heard a lot of online therapy ads. None of them seem to be targeting issues that, as a therapist, I address.
Therapy is a powerful intervention. It is a neuromodulation, using the most fundamental tools humans possess, the ability to re-synchronize someone elelse'srain by being curious about it. However, not all therapy seeking finds the therapy that would be the most useful.
Let me introduce you to my friend, grudgingly, the brain circuitry that drives a disorder that we unfortunately call obsessive-compulsive disorder. I say unfortunate because it doesn't do a…