Performance OCD
Obsessional preoccupation with physical performance ideals — how gym culture, supplementation rituals, and body-checking behaviours can become a vehicle for OCD that goes unrecognised for years.
Clinical writing
Articles.
On OCD, trauma, EMDR, and addiction — written for clinicians and for people who want to understand what's happening and why.
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What is OCD — the science
CSTC circuit dysfunction, four neurotransmitter systems, the double-damage genetic model, and subtype-specific neuroimaging findings. A clinical primer for referrers and practitioners.
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What is OCD — in plain language
What OCD actually feels like, why it works the way it does, and why willpower alone doesn't touch it. Written for people who are trying to understand what's happening to them.
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Treatment depth — beyond compulsion management
Rumination, metacognition as a mediating mechanism, core-fear-matched resourcing, and the argument for feared-self exposure as the more therapeutically efficient target.
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How EMDR works — and why it matters for OCD
The inhibitory learning model, the working memory debate, and what EMDR and Exposure and Response Prevention are actually doing mechanistically. Where the field is heading and why it changes how we treat trauma-adjacent presentations.
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OCD, development, and personality — a contested edge
The overlap between obsessional presentations, developmental instability, and personality dysfunction. A careful look at a complex space — and what it means clinically when they co-occur.