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Nick soon begins to soothe his fears and heal his trauma with the compulsive ritual of solitary fishing.

Through ERP patients are helped to manage their anxiety by gradually being exposed to their fears, while preventing them from performing their usual compulsive behaviours.

The marketing method has been criticised for encouraging gambling-like behaviour and compulsive buying.

He’s a compulsive name-dropper, peppering his speeches with boring stories whose only point is to exaggerate his relationship to famous people.

She turned to compulsive eating “so my body could become so big it would never be broken again.”