2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The classic problem within obsessive-compulsive disorder is the problem of confusion over your fears and your motives. This problem is most relevant with contrasting obsessions, when you have thoughts that you can harm someone, behave in an inappropriate (obscene) way, go crazy, commit suicide. After all, in theory, if you have a motive to do something like that, then it's terrible? So? Or is it not so?
Obsessive thoughts have nothing to do with motivation.
It is this message that I want to make out in this publication. After all, what is motivation? This is a complex of several parts:
Need + plan + specific steps + perseverance + correction of their behavior to achieve the desired result.
That is, if I want, for example, rob a bank, I need money for some, I need to make a plan for such an event, I need to go on reconnaissance (stock up on the robber's tools, put together a gang, etc.), I need to prepare for some time, I need to solve the difficulties that arise, I need to adapt to changing circumstances.
That is, motivation is not a thought, it is an organization of one's behavior, an organization of oneself. That is, you can think about anything, but you can talk about motivation only with your purposeful activity.
And here people with obsessive-compulsive disorder quickly cling to another idea - what if I do something spontaneously, thoughtlessly, if I lose control?
In this case, a comparison comes to mind with those people who suffer from affective attacks. Have you ever met such? Do you think these people often think that they might do something terrible? The correct answer is no, they generally think little about other people, about the consequences, they periodically break down on others, commit illegal actions. And all because the scope of their control has been reduced. But with obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is, on the contrary, increased. I.e:
The more you are afraid of losing control, the better you control yourself.
Actually, the main suffering of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder is precisely associated with an excess of control. And therefore the goal of psychocorrection in this case:
Decrease the amount of control, not increase it in any way!
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