Tag: ocd
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How To Identify and Act When OCD Hijacks Your Thoughts and Memories
In addition, it allows you to trust your brain’s ability to filter out the rubbish when constructing a narrative that will eventually make sense, as it does with other areas of your life.
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How an Evidence-Based Treatment Can Effectively Help With Obsessive Doubt and Uncertainty
Inference-based therapy can help break the cycle of inferential confusion associated with OCD. It is an evidence-based treatment, allowing people to reorient from the obsessional way of living to their authentic selves. Subsequently, they reconnect with their senses and common sense in the present moment and ultimately overcome OCD. Inference-based therapy is an effective stand-alone…
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Effective Tips To Help Students and Teachers Manage Anger Associated With Self-Doubt
As humans, we are wired to seek knowledge and understand the world around us constantly. So when we encounter a situation without knowing or understanding something, it can trigger anxiety, frustration and anger. Here are some reasons why:
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How Guilt Sensitivity Affects People with OCD and How to Overcome It
Guilt feels like a painful counterpart of OCD, but that’s the paradox of the disorder. What it wants you to believe is the opposite of your authentic self, but it lets you carry the guilt anyway.
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OCD: A Clear Explanation As To Why Obsessions Cannot Be Made Valid
An inference that sneaks into your obsession cannot render it valid. So, for example, suppose you have a contamination obsession. Imagine your fear is contracting a blood-related illness from dirty scissors and other sharp objects like razors. You might hear (inference) of something terrible happening to someone who visited their hairdresser. You then fear it…
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False Memory OCD: What If I Did A Terrible Thing But Can’t Remember?
First, since OCD is about irrational doubt, you have a critical choice. You can either prove or expel the doubt. When you do the latter, you flip it over to certainty. When you do the former, you enter OCD’s territory.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Three Powerful Steps to Help You See Uncertainty and ERP Differently
INTRODUCTION Are you struggling with intrusive thoughts associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Do you want to know how to make exposure and response prevention (ERP) work for you? Then, transform your mindset in 90 minutes when you commit to reading this book and welcoming uncertainty. Philosophy: It’s okay for me to live with risk. THIS BOOK…
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How To Manage Dissociation (exclusive content)
Includes Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder On and Off the Autism Spectrum Carol Edwards’ six-part tutorial discusses dissociative states, such as depersonalisation and derealisation. It also talks about dissociation unique to OCD (a defence mechanism) when faced with obsessions. It includes modified cognitive behavioural strategies for people on the autism spectrum. It is an informative document and is suitable…
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3 Crucial Reasons Why Exposure Therapy Fails In OCD That Isn’t Treatment Resistant
People who struggle with false desire in OCD usually think the solution is to work harder at preventing the feared outcome. In such cases, it can lead to a term known as absorption. Subsequently, these people conflict and become even more preoccupied with the obsession. In that case, the habituation process in ERP can be affected,…
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How Folding Your Arms Can Help You Power Through Peripheral Staring
There are different techniques you can use to suppress the urge to look in situations I’ve just described. I’ll share one involving competing responses where a specific discomfort must overpower the premonitory urge to stare. This technique addresses the tic, not an obsession and compulsion related to it.