Margaret & Amy (EP6)
Résumé de l'épisode 6
Margaret, a young single mother of a terminally ill child, has become debilitated from extensive tapping compulsions and a fear of contamination from food. Margaret regularly eats a mere apple once every two days, which resulted in a recent heart attack. Through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, (CBT) widely described as the most effective treatment for OCD, Margaret will battle her fears around eating and her tapping compulsions in an attempt to become a mother healthy enough to regain custody of her child. (OCD Therapist Dr. Shana Doronn)Meanwhile, Amy, a recently engaged mother of a young child, is a perfectionist who's fear of the imperfect is so pervasive, that her cleaning rituals have led to her inability to read to her young son. Through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) widely described as the most effect treatment for OCD, Amy will attempt to take reign over her compulsions to make more time for her fianc e and young son.