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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.
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Staring OCD: Why You Need To Know Your Behaviours Just Before You Stare
I’ve lived with V-TOCD for many years, but I’m now in recovery. I realised to recover, you need to notice your behaviours immediately before you get the premonitory urge to stare.
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How The Brain Responds To Threat When Experiencing Intrusive Thoughts
People with OCD struggle with painful, intrusive thoughts. As a result, their brains get confused, leaving them feeling uncertain about their moral values. For example, consider Dave, who experiences conflict when he gets paedophile-intrusive thoughts (POCD) and feels sudden movement down there. He’s instantly terrified he’s a threat to children. But he needn’t be. And…
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False Memory OCD: Why Your Brain Gets It Wrong And How To Resolve It
Consider your brain’s unconscious mind when you find yourself obsessively worrying about a false memory. Previously, it will have picked up on something and triggered your brain’s amygdala to warn you of danger. As a result, it activates anxious feelings, so you do mental and physical checks to ensure things are safe, albeit unsuccessfully. Specifically,…
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Consider Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder And The Recovery Process
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD) has two essential characteristics: obsessions and compulsions. Intrusive thoughts, images, and urges come into one’s mind involuntarily. If you are vulnerable to developing OCD, these can be the trigger for obsessions. External stimuli, such as coming into contact with dirt, can also trigger obsessional fears. Compulsions are the behaviours people do to…
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Staring OCD: Ever Wondered Why People Sneak A Look At Others Privates?
Ever wondered why people stare at others privates? Have you asked yourself if it’s a tic, an obsession, a compulsive action or all three? Visual Tourettic OCD Staring OCD is also known as Visual or Ocular Tourettic OCD. That makes sense to me because the urge to stare feels like an involuntary eye movement is…
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How Molly Unravelled Doubt In The Here And Now And Survived OCD
Molly was forever yielding to rituals because she feared something terrible would happen if she didn’t. For example, it felt to Molly as though she had to obey the thoughts in her head as though they were from an inner being, making her choose almost everything she did. It included what to wear, what to…
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Relationship OCD: Why Groinal Response Doesn’t Make You A Cheat (Exclusive Content)
This article looks at an example of relationship OCD and the confusion of wanting and not wanting to be with a partner. In simple terms, it uses an example to discuss how groinal response happens biologically and what to do.
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OCD: Why Female Groinal Response And Persistent Genital Arousal Are Not The Same (Exclusive Content)
This article discusses how persistent genital arousal can get confused with unwanted groinal responses in females who have obsessive-compulsive disorder.