This means that OCD sufferers are often (inadvertently) adept at developing trance states – but the wrong kind of trance state. One of our goals intreating OCDis to teach them how to develop positive trance states that prevent them from falling into the OCD trance. So we will use hypnosis...
Compulsions are repetitive and ritualistic acts that are typically carried out primarily as a means to minimize the distress that obsessions trigger or to reduce the likelihood of a feared event (APA, 2013). Compulsions often include such behaviors as repeated and extensive hand washing, cleaning,...
Compulsions are attempts to find clarity by alternative means ("washing my hands ten times will make them clean enough"). To support their hypothesis, the authors cite research showing that people with OCD are less accurate in gauging their own experienced emotions and report difficulties in ...
In the context of OCD, intrusive thoughts may be constant and may involve thoughts of harming a loved one. Because they are involuntary, these thoughts may result in extreme emotional distress and OCD sufferers may resort to compulsive behaviors as a means of removing such thoughts. OCD ...
or ritualistic. The compulsive person may be driven to perform the act not as an end in itself but as a means to produce or prevent some other situation, although he is usually aware that the two bear no logical causal relation to each other. Most compulsive acts are rather simple—such ...
we used the well-established cognitive task known as the Stroop task. This task is featured among the most classical paradigms in experimental psychology as it is a simple yet robust measure of selective attention, cognitive flexibility, and processing speed. While not a direct measure of small-...
Best of luck in your recovery! Reply Danny / February 10, 2012 Thankyou so much for your advice Steve, it means alot!. Danny Reply Shannon / February 1, 2012 Dr. Seay, I am 39 and started having panic attacks when I was 19. That’s also when the pure O started. I feel emba...
They may even believe that if they have a thought (such as getting into a car crash or contracting a serious disease), it means the event will happen—unless they do something to prevent it. This is called thought-action fusion, and it is one reason that intrusive thoughts are more ...
A metaphorical approach can add more dimension to the understanding of your particular OCD. And it isn't as complicated as it sounds. Metaphorical just means that our psyche is capable of associating and connecting to a variety of different feelings and thoughts. Like a good poem, there are ...
“..two thirds of people are also hoarders, which means that they accumulate so many unneeded items that the junk gets in the way of living space.” From a personal experience, this seems to be very true. Not all patients are ,“neat and tidy” some are far from so. Also, doing a...