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Compulsive Liars - Articles
Are Compulsive Buyers Also Compulsive Hoarders?
by
Dr. Romeo V.
Posted
Thu 02 Oct 2008 6:16pm
A paper presented in the November 2007 issue of Behavior Research and Therapy follows up on previous research that has indicated that compulsive buyers often suffer from compulsive hoarding as well. The researchers examined 66 treatment-seeking compulsive buyers prior to their entry into a group therapy program for compulsive buying. The study ...
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Parkinson’s Patients Subject to Compulsive Disorders
by
Bill S.
Posted
Tue 11 May 2010 12:08pm
The fact that people with Parkinson’s disease are more likely to fall victim to compulsive behaviors is nothing new that story has been kicking around since 2005. But in a story released yesterday, the full scope becomes much more apparent.
While physicians have known about the link between Parkinson’s medication an ...
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The Cure for Compulsive Over Exercise
by
Charlotte H.
Posted
Thu 20 Aug 2009 10:31pm
This is what happens when you tell me you "have to go number 2" 10 minutes after we passed the last gas station for 100 miles.
My Summer Vacation
by Charlotte Andersen
I learned a lot of things on my summer vacation:
1. Not only do my kids not like audio books, it turns out my husband and I do not like them either. Narrators ...
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Compulsive Hoarding
by
Jennifer J.
Posted
Fri 05 Feb 2010 12:00am
3 Comments
'It's persecution', says man in backyard clutter scrap
City orders cleanup, owner cries foul
Signs of Hoarding
Firstly, there are 3 behaviours to Compulsive Hoarding*, which is an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
1. The acquisition of, and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to be useless or ...
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Doctor Blog--Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
by
Dr. Rima B.
Posted
Mon 07 Jul 2008 7:12pm
A teenager talking about his father found his dad's way of doing things rather
entertaining.
He pontificated that his father was soOCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
that his dad called the disorder CDO because that put the letters in alphabetical
order.
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Compulsivity never cured anything
by
Carrie A.
Posted
Sat 04 Sep 2010 8:56pm
At least, this is what I'm telling myself right now.
It seems to be the cure, because I'm always anxious about something. So if I do XYZ, then I won't have to worry about this one thing.
The problem is that the thing my brain is currently freaking out about (did I exercise enough? Did I ask the right question during the interview? Did the p ...
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