Sensorimotor OCD & Social Anxiety
Sometimes the symptoms of social anxiety and OCD can overlap. Because avoidance maintains fear, Steven Seay, PhD recommends high level exposures that involve “broadcasting” your symptoms in order to address anxiety-related cognitions. This is a CBT technique called intentional mistake practice.
Remember, the problem here is not the behavior per se… The problem is the fear-related attributions you make regarding the behavior (i.e., the possibility that the behavior might result in an unwanted outcome.)
