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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Roger Basseck.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Gillian Woodward. Spotlight uses a special English method
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  Speaker 2: of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no
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  Speaker 2: matter where in the world they live.
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  Speaker 1: The boy was afraid that creatures from another planet were
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  Speaker 1: going to take over his mind. He had been reading
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  Speaker 1: a book for older children called Animorphs. In the book,
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  Speaker 1: these creatures called yerks could climb into a person's ear.
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  Speaker 1: The yerks could control a person's movement, but the person
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  Speaker 1: would still be aware inside. He would watch as the
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  Speaker 1: yerks moved his body. He could not control his own
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  Speaker 1: body's movements.
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  Speaker 2: This idea was so troubling to the boy that he
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  Speaker 2: started to feel his ears for the creatures. He knew
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  Speaker 2: that yiks did not exist. He understood the difference between
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  Speaker 2: a story world and the real world, but he was afraid.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever he thought about the yeks. His fear went away
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  Speaker 2: only if he put his fingers in his ears to
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  Speaker 2: make sure the yorks were not there. As time went on,
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  Speaker 2: he had to check many times each day before the
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  Speaker 2: fear went away. Some days it got so bad his
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  Speaker 2: ears bled.
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  Speaker 1: This young boy had obsessive, compulsive disorder or OCD. OCD
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  Speaker 1: is a disease of the mind. It is characterized by looping,
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  Speaker 1: fearful thoughts, and repeated actions. Looping is a pattern of
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  Speaker 1: fearful thoughts. Sufferers often feel trapped. They feel caught in
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  Speaker 1: a repeating loop or series of thoughts and behaviors, But
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  Speaker 1: there is hope for people who have OCD. Today's spotlight
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  Speaker 1: is on obsessive compulsive disorder.
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  Speaker 2: When most people use the phrase OCD in English, they
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  Speaker 2: are not talking about the real obsessive compulsive disorder. When
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  Speaker 2: they say someone is OCD, they mean someone is neat
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  Speaker 2: or likes to clean. Often, a person called OCD may
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  Speaker 2: be embarrassed by particular actions, but this person does not
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  Speaker 2: truly have obsessive compulsive disorder. However, a person with a
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  Speaker 2: real OCD diagnosis may sometimes feel the need to be
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  Speaker 2: neat or clean.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is that OCD is a difficult disease to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. Each OCD sufferer has two different symptoms, obsessions
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  Speaker 1: and compulsions. An obsession is a thought or series of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts that a person with OCD cannot get rid of
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  Speaker 1: or stop thinking about. A compulsion is an action that
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  Speaker 1: person feels forced to do obsessions cause compulsions, and compulsions
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  Speaker 1: reinforce and continue obsessive behavior.
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  Speaker 2: OCD affects each individual in different ways. Like the boy
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  Speaker 2: from the introduction, an OCD sufferer may have the need
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  Speaker 2: to check something over and over again. He may clean
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  Speaker 2: obsessively because he fears the dirt will make him sick.
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  Speaker 2: He may avoid crowds because he is afraid he will
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  Speaker 2: hurt someone. He may pull his hair until the skin
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  Speaker 2: has turned red and clumps of hair are in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: He may visit his place of worship over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: afraid he has done something that will anger his God.
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  Speaker 2: He may do all of these things or only one
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  Speaker 2: of these, hour after hour after hour, day after day
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  Speaker 2: after day.
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  Speaker 1: These are outer signs of OCD behavior. This is what
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  Speaker 1: most people see, but the disorder is best described as
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  Speaker 1: a process that takes place in the mind.
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  Speaker 2: Each obsession starts with a random thought. Most people have
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  Speaker 2: thoughts like these. Strange ideas appear in the mind that
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  Speaker 2: might be troubling. Most people dismiss these thoughts without thinking
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  Speaker 2: about these too much, but a person with OCD is
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  Speaker 2: not able to forget these thoughts. These ideas cause fear.
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  Speaker 2: The more she tries to push the thoughts away. The
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  Speaker 2: more these thoughts will appear. She may think that there
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  Speaker 2: must be something wrong with her because she is having
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  Speaker 2: these thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: A compulsion is a way to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: fear of these thoughts. It is a way to do
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  Speaker 1: something to control in OCD sufferer's fears. But compulsions do
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  Speaker 1: not stop the fear from returning. Instead, acting to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the fear caused by the obsessive thought teaches
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  Speaker 1: the brain that there really is something to fear. When
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  Speaker 1: the thought comes back, the sufferer performs the compulsion again
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  Speaker 1: to make the fear go away, but over time he
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  Speaker 1: will need more compulsive actions before the fear goes away.
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  Speaker 1: The fearful thoughts keep coming back. The more he tries
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of them, the worse these thoughts become.
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  Speaker 2: Dr Christopher Pittinger is the director of the Yale School
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  Speaker 2: of Medicine's OCD Research Office. He told National Public Radio, all.
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  Speaker 3: Of us get thoughts like this, all of us do
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  Speaker 3: things to control our fears. OCD is when those get
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  Speaker 3: to such a point that they start to take over.
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  Speaker 3: It is there these thoughts get in the way of
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  Speaker 3: people's ability to live their lives.
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  Speaker 1: There are many different ways that OCD shows itself. It
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  Speaker 1: will be a little different for each person who suffers
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  Speaker 1: from it. One of the most common but often misunderstood
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  Speaker 1: OCD experiences is having obsessive thoughts about harm.
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  Speaker 2: Matt has OCD and suffers from this issue. When he
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  Speaker 2: was twelve, he saw a knife on the kitchen table.
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  Speaker 2: He wondered if he was going to use it to
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  Speaker 2: harm himself. He went to the train station, but he
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  Speaker 2: would avoid going near the train. He was afraid he
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  Speaker 2: would jump in front of the train. He told the conversation, I.
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  Speaker 3: Did not feel like I wanted to kill myself.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed my life.
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  Speaker 2: I just had an intense fear of doing something to
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  Speaker 2: hurt myself.
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  Speaker 1: Matt's thoughts are normal for someone's so from OCD. The
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  Speaker 1: fears he has often have little to do with reality,
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  Speaker 1: but the fear makes him question himself. He does not
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  Speaker 1: want to hurt himself, but what if there is something
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  Speaker 1: in him that does something out of his control. What
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  Speaker 1: if he reaches out and grabs the knife without knowing it.
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  Speaker 2: These obsessions can be truly destructive. Combined with untreated compulsions,
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  Speaker 2: the disorder can ruin a person's life. The World Health
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  Speaker 2: Organization lists OCD as one of the most disabling diseases
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  Speaker 2: in the world. OCD can also lead to other mental disorders,
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  Speaker 2: like depression.
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  Speaker 1: But having OCD is not the end. Many people have
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  Speaker 1: OCD and live successful lives. John Bunyan was an English writer.
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  Speaker 1: His obsessive compulsive disorder drove him to write the book
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  Speaker 1: The Pilgrim's Progress. This Christian book is one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest examples of English literature from the seventeenth century. It
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  Speaker 1: remains a favorite book of many readers today. David Beckham,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most decorated football players in the world,
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  Speaker 1: has OCD. He obsessively cleans and organizes his home while
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his family is asleep. American celebrities Katy
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  Speaker 1: Perry and Lena Dunham also suffer from the condition. The
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  Speaker 1: International OCD Foundation estimates that one hundred and fifty to
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  Speaker 1: two hundred million people worldwide suffer from OCD.
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  Speaker 2: The good news about OCD is that it is treatable.
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  Speaker 2: Different medications can reduce fears and obsessive behaviors. Mental health
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  Speaker 2: providers and therapists are trained to help reduce compulsions. One
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  Speaker 2: helpful resource for OCD is called exposure and response therapy
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  Speaker 2: or ERP. In ERP, a therapist exposes an OCD sufferer
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  Speaker 2: to situations that trigger obsessive thoughts. The OCD patient will
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  Speaker 2: want to react to perform the compulsion, but the patient
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  Speaker 2: should not. ERP means not reacting to fear until the
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  Speaker 2: fear goes away.
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  Speaker 1: ERP teaches that obsessions are just thoughts. These thoughts do
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  Speaker 1: not mean anything more than other thoughts. The fear that
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  Speaker 1: follows does not make those thoughts any more important. Not
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  Speaker 1: reacting to these fears teaches the body that the thought
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  Speaker 1: is not worth fearing. This is called response prevention. Tracy
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  Speaker 1: Ibraheim works with n OCD, a provider of OCD treatment.
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  Speaker 4: She said, the important thing about response prevention is not
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  Speaker 4: escaping the obsession. You are not trying to escape or act.
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  Speaker 4: Acting tends to be compulsive. Response prevention can be as
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  Speaker 4: simple as not doing anything. You just let the obsession live,
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  Speaker 4: see that it is there, and not judge it.
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  Speaker 2: OCD never really goes away. In moments of stress, a
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  Speaker 2: sufferer often falls back on acting compulsively, but she can
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  Speaker 2: learn to be better. She can know that the world
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  Speaker 2: of obsessions is not worth fearing.
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  Speaker 2: called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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