2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
What will this article be about? About the treatment of OCD - Very Cool Disorder.
Why isn't OCD just about washing hands, cleaning, or checking?
How can OCD exist without compulsions at all?
And why don't all psychotherapy methods work with Awesome Tough Disorder?
The main feature of the obsessive-compulsive personality is the belief in the materiality of thoughts. This is recognized by the major psychotherapy schools dealing with OCD: psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, short-term strategic therapy, etc. But this belief in the materiality of thoughts is not just magical thinking!
How is simple magical thinking different from OCD?
Ordinary magical thinking is symbolic. Believing in superstitions, guessing on cards or creating affirmations, reading horoscopes are all too often symbols.
But the inner world of the obsessive-compulsive personality is literally material. The symbols are, of course, understandable to him, but not to his subconscious.
Thought is material ✔ stands by default
Thinking about killing a child is tantamount to killing a child, doubting your health is equal to illness, thinking about blasphemy is the same as saying it out loud.
This phenomenon is not a secret. But there are two common mistakes made by both mental health professionals and people with OCD.
The first mistake - no compulsions means no OCD. Taking into account the materiality of thoughts, any compulsive action can occur in the psyche. Like chess, it seems like a sport, but there is a minimum of action.
The concept of "pure O" - obsessive disorder without compulsions was introduced back in 1991 by the American clinical psychologist Stephen Phillipson.
The lack of visible compulsions, rituals does not mean that you do not have OCD. I would say that in the 21st century, when even sports and sex go into the virtual world, mental disorders will also become less attached to reality.
For diagnostics, it is better to contact a specialist or use Yale - Brown scale (The Yale – Brown Obsessive – Compulsive Scale).
Second mistake - Symbolic explanation obsessions. Unlike ordinary obsessive thoughts, obsessive is material.
That is, a knife in fantasy or in a dream for a neurotic can be a symbol of the phallus. But for the psyche of an obsessive compulsive personality, a knife will be just a knife. Symbolic interpretation of symptoms only confuses the cards.
The heartache of obsession is real, not symbolic
It is because of materiality OCD classical psychotherapy methods do not work. Behavioral directions show great effectiveness: Short-term strategic therapy and Cognitive-behavioral.
Insights don't work here!
The entire structure of obsessive-compulsive disorder can be easily discerned. The owner of OCD himself may know how and when the problem arose, remember the traumatic situation and the reason for the first rituals. But this will not ease his situation in any way.
For himself, a person with obsessions is not a dreamer or neurotic, but a real madman, murderer, blasphemer, pedophile, homosexual, cuckold. It all depends on the content of the obsession.
But obsessions are just thoughts, albeit very scary
To get rid of such Awesome Tough Disorder is going to take a lot of work! But, being imprisoned by the materiality of thoughts, it is dangerous, long and difficult to do it yourself. If you or a loved one is experiencing OCD, don't despair and look for a specialist who works with this particular problem.
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