Posts Tagged ‘OCD’
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and “The Fear of Fear Itself.”
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR’s famous line from his first inaugural address used to strike me as a universal truth. He describes fear as “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” I…