Obsessions, doubts and worries

This week one of my patients, an obsessive-compulsive person with problems on the continuum (?) between OCD en extreme doubts/worries asked me how he could distinguish between obsessive thinking ( in his case about wether he had chosen the right profession) and normal doubts ( wether the profession he works in was the right choice).
I would be interested in some comments on this distinction and also on the question to what degree this distinction is useful, clinically speaking.
Thanks for any suggestions and ideas.

Replies:

Re:Obsessions, doubts and worries, by Jim Pretzer, 10/19/02 Re:Obsessions, doubts and worries, by Joop Meijers, 10/31/02 Re:Obsessions, doubts and worries, by Jim Pretzer, 11/01/02 Re:Obsessions, doubts and worries, by dave knight, 02/19/03 "Just right" OCD, by Carl Robbins, 10/19/02

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