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Tamma Ford – Freedom from Compulsive Behaviors
How to manage anxiety
Mind can become paralysed in the struggle to control anxiety and emotional suffering. They will not give up if they feel they are controlling anxiety.
Obsessive compulsive disorder is driven by anxiety, and it’s also a faulty way of trying to deal with anxieties: “If I carry out the ritual, maybe my anxiety and emotional pain will leave me alone!” Obsessive compulsive disorder can make it difficult to live a normal lifestyle.
People with OCD feel that they are forced to succumb to their obsessive preoccupations. At first, obsessive compulsive thoughts or activities can be comforting. “If I do this or that enough something terrible can be averted.”
However, just like any repetitive behavior, habituation develops slowly. The more you do, you will get better at it. Fifty hand washes turns into seventy, turns into a hundred… and so on.
Obsessions and compulsions can be linked, but they are not the same thing. Most people obsess at least once in their lives. It is important to be able to relax about obsessive thoughts and observe the process objectively in order for obsessive thoughts not to become compulsive.
Common obsessive thought patterns include:
* Focus on orderliness and symmetry * Focus on dirt or contamination by germs * Imagining a mistake has been or might be made * Fear of ‘sinful’ or evil thoughts * Fear of doing or saying something inappropriate. * Getting mentally ‘stuck’ on certain ideas, numbers, words, and images that won’t go away
Common obsessive acts include:
* Collecting or hoarding objects * Repeated hand washing or bathing * Arranging the surroundings in a specific way * Repeating particular words or phrases * Performing tasks a certain number of times * Constant counting * Continually checking things, such as that doors are locked.
Why do people develop OCD?
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It is important to think about the needs that OCD may meet. Some people don’t enjoy their normal state of mind. Some people report feeling disassociated from You may feel difficult or overwhelmed. ‘tranced out’ During times when obsessive ritual is a common occurrence. When we go into a trance we can get out of it. from Our usual worries, fears, and pains.
A person’s most fundamental emotional need is to feel secure. OCD often begins with the idea. “If I do this, then that will (or won’t) happen!” You can avoid catastrophes and help prevent disasters. It is possible to control destiny. After a while, obsessive compulsive tendencies can begin to control the person who has them.
While we may all have occasional obsessive thoughts and actions, people who are suffering from OCD can find their entire life dominated by its unreasonable, tyrannical whipping.-Cracking the code.
OCD Healing
1. Find the root cause.
2. Focus on the positive things happening emotionally.
3. Ask OCD what it’s trying to do right now.
4. Listen to what it’s trying to do for you (such as trying to make you feel safe or in control).
5. Write down three ways that you might feel more in control or safer without the OCD.
6. What arguments does OCD use in trying to convince you that it is better to waste your time and exhaust yourself?
7. What are the persuasion methods it uses?
8. What promises does it make?
9. What lies could it possibly tell you?
Separating yourself from your condition is not an option from It is important to have a core identity. Externalization, also known as externalization, supports detached observation skills.
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