Really amazing ways to beat your obsessive compulsive disorder
Really amazing ways to beat your obsessive compulsive disorder
Article by Derek Soto
Time and time again I hear new ways and new methods as well as the old ones about how to beat obsessive compulsive disorder. However you rarely if ever read about the mind process behind it. What goes through our heads when we perform a ritual and in which parts of that process can we intervene and correct bad patterns and habits?
When you recognize that you are having an OCD thought, that is the beginning of stopping the OCD cycle. Simple enough right? We all know when our thoughts are OCD. Make sure that you are aware when you are having these thoughts. Don’t look for these thoughts or waste energy or time looking for them, just know when they pop into your mind.
The second part is to tag this thought as such. After you recognize a thought as being an OCD thought, then you must consciously say to yourself that this is an OCD thought and you will treat it as such.
Part three is once you have noticed that you have an OCD thought, tag. You treat it as such. Say to yourself, “this is an OCD thought, I will not empower this thought by reacting with fear, I can’t choose what pops into my mind, but I can choose how I react to it, and I choose to react to this thought as it’s silly and focus on more important things.”
The fourth part after shrugging off an OCD thought like someone who doesn’t have OCD is to think about something that you do love. You’ve got to assign the weight that you wanted to assign to that OCD thought to a productive thought. So think about something else important to you, like that test you took in school, or your job or living situation.
Think about a problem that you have, something you are concerned about. Then think about what you are grateful for. Count your blessings and name them one by one. You will find that these processes and these steps will greatly help your cause in beating OCD. Don’t give into the temptation of reacting to your OCD thoughts with fear. Ask yourself where you are giving into that fear.
Often you’ll see a smoker quit smoking by replacing that habit by chewing gum, you should do the same thing with your OCD. Then it will be easier to break the new habit. So instead of “quitting cold turkey” so to speak, you can switch from being addicted to OCD, to let’s say, chewing gum. Then it will be easier to quit chewing gum then quitting OCD. You can trick your brain by replacing your habit with something easier to quit!
See looking at it this way, by not focusing on something, you bypass all the resistance. Read this a few times if it doesn’t click the first time, it’s profound and very powerful.
About the Author
Derek Soto is an ex-sufferer of obsessive compulsive disorder who will show you how to become and stay OCD free. Find out more about how to become OCD free with his popular free OCD resources, available at: => http://www.ocd-gone-in-seven-days.com
