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- DictionaryCom·pul·sion/kəmˈpəlSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint: "the payment was made under compulsion"
- 2. an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one's conscious wishes: "he felt a compulsion to babble on about what had happened"
4 days ago · Select one ritual (typically a checking behavior) Slow down your thinking and physical movements during the ritual. Pause at several points to take a calming breath and let go of tensions. When ready, let go of the ritual completely and tolerate the distress that follows. There are two major benefits to this practice.
I feel like I’ve made great progress on my OCD but I keep getting mini relapses out of nowhere. The biggest issue is that I do the compulsion before I realize that it’s a compulsion. I’m having a really hard time differentiating between actually needing support and reassurance seeking. And then I get OCD and frustrated over doing the ...
3 days ago · Obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD is characterized by an obsessive, recurring thought that is usually alleviated by some sort of compulsion or action. For instance, germaphobia or the fear of germs is a form of contamination OCD, where a person has unreasonable thoughts of germs.
17 hours ago · How Does Washington Law Define the Crime of “Indecent Liberties”? RCW 9A.44.100 is the Washington statute that defines the crime of indecent liberties. Per this law, you commit an offense if you knowingly have sexual contact with another person and do so: By forcible compulsion,
1 day ago · Consciousness—The having of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings; awareness. The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible without a grasp of what consciousness means. Many fall into the trap of equating consciousness with self-consciousness—to be conscious it is only necessary to be aware of the external world ...
1 day ago · When it comes to compelling a student, Rudofsky noted that compulsion requires speech or actions such as a teacher threatening to grade on the basis of whether a student accepts or rejects a ...
1 day ago · A more recent example, in the context of medicine itself, illustrates this compulsion to categorize. A colleague, Richard Cheng at Ritter Spencer Cheng, PLLC in Texas, noted to me an interesting case in the Texas Supreme Court that resolved whether a second-year psychiatry resident qualified as a “psychiatrist” under the Texas Health and ...
