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About Dr. Thomas Ballas
Dr. Thomas Ballas (@dr.thomasballas) is a Psychologist creator on Instagram, also filed under Healthcare. The account has 6,585 followers and 218 published posts. Recent posts average 637 likes and 6 comments, an engagement rate of 8.83%.
Dr. Thomas Ballas belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Set against 256 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 26 followers per account Dr. Thomas Ballas follows. Dr. Thomas Ballas is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Dr. Thomas Ballas under Psychologist, with Healthcare as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Dr. Thomas Ballas runs to 23 words across 4 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Dr. Thomas Ballas dates from October 2026.
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218 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Dr. Thomas Ballas, 5 are single images and 5 are carousels. No single format accounts for most of them. 218 published posts give Dr. Thomas Ballas a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 30 followers for each post published. Dr. Thomas Ballas also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 291 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include making, change, interested, educational and purposes. The captions tag #ocd, #ocdrecovery, #ocdawareness, #anxiety and #ocdsupport.
Questions like “Did I do something wrong?” “What if that thought says something about me?” or “How can I be certain I’m a good person?” can lead to repeated reviewing, confessing, reassurance seeking, praying, or trying to finally feel certain.
In my latest blog, I break down what moral and religious OCD can look like, why the compulsions can be especially difficult to recognize, and how treatment can help.
Read the full article via the link below or click the link in my bio.
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🌐 Therapy is available in 42 states, with in-person options in New York.
📅 Check out the link 🔗 in my bio to schedule a free consultation, sign up for my monthly update, or download your Anxiety Toolkit or go to:
⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment.
#ocd #ocdawareness #ocdrecovery #ocdhelp
When people have language for what they are experiencing, it becomes easier to recognize what is happening, talk about it openly, and seek the right kind of help. Better understanding can also help friends, partners, parents, and loved ones respond with more compassion and less judgment.
Many people with OCD spend a long time keeping their experiences to themselves because their thoughts can feel embarrassing, frightening, confusing, or completely out of character. Without a better understanding of OCD, it can be difficult to explain what is happening or even recognize that these experiences may be part of something treatable.
Awareness helps reduce some of that shame. It creates more room for someone to say, “I’m struggling with this,” without feeling like they have to hide it or suffer in silence.
Swipe through for a brief introduction to OCD, what it can actually look like, and the cycle that can keep it going.
And stay tuned throughout October, especially during OCD Awareness Week, October 11–17, for more posts focused on increasing understanding, challenging misinformation, and helping people have more informed and compassionate conversations about OCD.
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🌐 Therapy is available in 42 states, with in-person options in New York.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment
#ocd #ocdrecovery #ocdawareness #ocdhelp #mentalhealthawareness
Your heart rate changes. Your breathing shifts. Your chest or stomach may tighten. You may feel restless, shaky, hot, lightheaded, or suddenly very alert. These physical sensations become apparent fast
By being aware of these signs of anxiety, we can teach ourselves to respond in a way that puts us back in the driver seat, rather than just our bodily responses. Awareness helps to create a little more space between what your body is doing and how you choose to respond.
Instead of immediately treating the sensation like a problem that needs to be fixed, you can start to notice it for what it is: your body’s alarm system becoming activated.
It can help you catch the moment when you are about to avoid something, ask for reassurance, overthink, check, escape, or otherwise react simply because the discomfort feels urgent.
You do not have to pretend the feeling is pleasant. You also do not have to make it disappear before you keep going.
Sometimes the more useful response is simply recognizing, “My body is anxious right now,” and allowing the wave to move through while you stay present to what you actually want to do next.
Over time, that can make anxiety feel less like something that automatically controls your behavior and more like an experience you know how to ride out.
➡️ Swipe through for a closer look at what your body is doing when that alarm gets activated.
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#anxiety #ocd #ocdawareness #ocdrecovery #ocdsupport
❌ Anxiety often does decrease over time, but chasing that decrease can become another part of the OCD cycle.
You start watching your anxiety, checking whether an exposure “worked,” wondering why you still feel uncomfortable, or repeating the exercise until you feel better enough.
That keeps the focus on controlling the internal experience and “getting rid” of the emotion.
The more important work in ERP is what you do when anxiety, doubt, disgust, guilt, uncertainty, or an intrusive thought shows up.
Can you notice the urge to check, avoid, reassure yourself, analyze, review, confess, or escape and allow that urge to be there without automatically responding to it?
That is response prevention. Over time, you are practicing a different relationship with discomfort.
The goal becomes less about getting your brain to give you the feeling you want and more about increasing your ability to keep living while your brain is giving you something uncomfortable.
Some exposures will feel easier. Others may still create a lot of anxiety. Neither one tells you, by itself, whether you are making progress.
➡️ A better question is: Did I respond differently than OCD wanted me to?
🔑 That is where flexibility grows. And that is what gives you more room to choose where your attention, time, and energy actually go.
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📩 Interested in making a change? ⬇️
🌐 Therapy is available in 42 states, with in-person options in New York.
📅 Check out the link 🔗 in my bio to schedule a free consultation, sign up for my monthly update, or download your Anxiety Toolkit or go to:
⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment
#ocd #ocdrecovery #ocdawareness #ocdtreatment #exposureandresponseprevention
It isn’t about responding the “right” way… but instead it’s about having enough space to notice what is happening around you, take in the situation, and choose how you want to respond instead of automatically following the same emotions, thoughts, or urges the same every time.
Swipe through ➡️ to learn more about psychological flexibility and why it’s so important to overcoming anxiety.
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📩 Interested in making a change? ⬇️
🌐 Therapy is available in 42 states, with in-person options in New York.
📅 Check out the link 🔗 in my bio to schedule a free consultation, sign up for my monthly update, or download your Anxiety Toolkit or go to:
⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment.
#ocd #anxiety #acceptance #acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy #ocdrecovery
Once a feared outcome starts to feel important, urgent, and unacceptable, a lot of energy can go into trying to prevent it.
You replay conversations, check your work again, think through every possible scenario, ask for reassurance, avoid situations that feel risky, or keep trying to get to a point where you finally feel certain enough.
All of that can feel worth it because OCD has convinced you that you have to do something. If you don’t, something bad might happen and there will be a cost.
The irony is that the more time you spend trying to avoid what OCD tells you might happen, the more other parts of your life can start to pay the price.
You spend less time present with the people you care about. You may lose hours trying to think your way through something that cannot actually be solved. Sleep, health, hobbies, relationships, and the rest of your life start getting pushed aside while you try to prevent one particular possibility.
Often the problems you were trying so hard to avoid happen in a different way. Work suffers because you are overchecking and exhausted. Relationships get worse because you are distracted, reassurance-seeking, or unavailable. Your health declines because you give up your self-care.
Instead of only asking, “How do I prevent this outcome?” you also start asking, “What is it costing me to keep trying?”
That does not mean the feared outcome suddenly feels comfortable or that uncertainty disappears. It means learning to carry discomfort while still making choices that protect your time, your relationships, your health, and the life you actually want to be living.
Sometimes the bigger risk is how much of your life gets organized around trying to avoid the fears OCD creates.
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⚠️ Post is for educational purposes only.
#ocd #ocdreco
Perfectionism and overachieving can be difficult to recognize as a problem because they are often reinforced by the exact outcomes people want. You do well. People trust you. You get praised for being prepared, reliable, disciplined, and on top of things.
You work harder because it works. You double-check because it prevents mistakes. You stay later because the result is better. You keep raising the standard because you have learned that performing at a high level gets rewarded.
The problem is that “I want to do this well” becomes “I cannot afford to get this wrong” or “I have to do this well.”
That is where the cost of being “perfect” rises more than you’d expect.
❌ A mistake carries more weight.
❌ An average performance feels unacceptable.
❌ Rest feels earned instead of necessary.
❌ Delegating gets uncomfortable.
❌ Spending more time and energy on something than the situation requires.
When everyone around you is just seeing the successful outcome, it can be hard to notice just how much pressure is impacting you.
The real test comes when you try to be flexible and loosen the standard.
✅ Can you send the email without rereading it multiple times?
✅ Stop working when there is still more you ‘could’ do?
✅ Let someone else handle something without monitoring it? ✅ Allow a good-enough performance without immediately trying to make up for it?
🔑 Healthy ambition still leaves room for flexibility. You can have high standards without turning every outcome into a test of whether you are good enough.
📣 Success is valuable. But if maintaining it requires constant anxiety, overcontrol, and the feeling that you always have to get it right or it will all come crumbling down…the cost may be much higher than it looks from the outside.
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#perfectionism #anxiety #overachiever #progressoverperfection #anxietyrelief
Over the past few months, a lot of new people have found their way here, so I wanted to take a moment to reintroduce myself.
I’m Dr. Thomas Ballas, a Clinical Psychologist based in New York City specializing in OCD, anxiety disorders, and perfectionism. Early in my career, I saw how often OCD was overlooked or misunderstood, which led me to focus on helping people break out of fear-driven loops and build genuine psychological flexibility.
I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and spent five years as a Psychologist in the U.S. Army, supporting individuals in some of the highest-stress environments imaginable. That experience shaped my approach. One that is grounded, evidence-based, and centered on clarity, acceptance, and meaningful action.
Today, I run a private practice serving clients in New York, New Jersey, and more than 40 other states through PSYPACT via secure telehealth.
My practice is currently accepting new clients, either directly with me, or with one of the exceptional psychologists on my team. Our goal is to make high-quality OCD and anxiety treatment accessible wherever you are.
If you’re navigating OCD, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, or perfectionism, this space is here to offer practical tools, raise awareness, and provide education you can actually use in real-life.
Thanks for being here so far and I hope to continue to be able to provide helpful content! Please feel free to reach out if you’d like to learn more about therapy or to get started changing your life right away.
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🌐 Therapy is available in 42 states, with in-person options in New York.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment
#ocd #ocdrecovery #ocdawareness
💭 When people think of OCD, they picture what they can see like handwashing, checking locks, organizing.
❓But what about the compulsions you can’t see?
➡️ For many, OCD isn’t about visible rituals at all.
🗣️ It’s excessive and consistent mental loops — rumination, mental checking, replaying moments, or silently trying to feel “sure.” Unseen, but just as consuming.
The cycle is still the same:
🔁 Intrusive thought → Anxiety → Mental compulsion → Brief relief → More doubt.
And it can feel endless — until you learn to step out of it.
➡️ Swipe to learn more about the unseen, but very real type of OCD — “Pure O”
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📩 Interested in making a change? ⬇️
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment
#ocd #ocdtherapy #ocdawareness #ocdsupport #ocdrecovery
👉 The tricky part is how easily these behaviors spread. Compulsions don’t just stay in one corner of life—they creep into decisions, conversations, routines, and even when we try to rest.
Suddenly, OCD is shaping things like:
❌ how long it takes to leave the house because of “one more check”
❌ what topics feel safe to talk about (and which ones you avoid)
❌ whether you can trust a memory without replaying it again and again
❌ if you’re allowed to relax without first completing a ritual
🔁 On the surface, each behavior feels small—almost reasonable. But together, they begin to dictate the tempo of our daily life. What started as a quick reassurance or check can become a requirement of living.
✅ Here’s the shift: once you can recognize these behaviors for what they are—compulsions, not necessities—you create room to respond differently.
➡️ Awareness starts with labeling the pattern, and understanding the most common compulsions — this makes it easier to notice when OCD is at work.
🙌 Change doesn’t come from trying to erase thoughts, but from stepping out of the cycle—no longer letting urgency, fear, or the pull of temporary relief dictate your actions. That’s when genuine freedom begins to take shape.
👉 Which subtle but common compulsions have you noticed showing up in your day?
📲 For more tool and useful content for making change— follow
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Dr. Thomas Ballas's engagement rate on Instagram is 8.83%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 11 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 106 to 1, with 637 likes and 6 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Dr. Thomas Ballas (@dr.thomasballas) is a Psychologist creator on Instagram, also filed under Healthcare. Dr. Thomas Ballas is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Dr. Thomas Ballas runs to 23 words across 4 lines.
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Dr. Thomas Ballas has 6,585 followers on Instagram (6.6K). Set against 256 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 26 followers per account Dr. Thomas Ballas follows. 218 published posts give Dr. Thomas Ballas a moderate archive on Instagram.
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Dr. Thomas Ballas's engagement rate on Instagram is 8.83%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 11 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 106 to 1, with 637 likes and 6 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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