Break Free from OCD: Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with CBT

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Here is why. As a pioneer in psychoanalysis once said, “The patient needs an experience, not an education” (Fromm Reichmann). Intellectually convincing someone that their fear has little basis in reality seldom leads anyone to become fully relaxed and confident. This book offers an extensive and practical guide to overcoming OCD through cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Includes: detailed information on the many different manifestations of OCD; the differences between normal and obsessive worries; clear information on treating your individual problem; real-life case studies and examples; and advice and support for friends and family of OCD sufferers.

Breaking Free Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD Breaking Free Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD

Includes: detailed information on the many different manifestations of OCD; the differences between normal and obsessive worries; clear information on treating your individual problem; real-life case studies and examples; and advice and support for friends and family of OCD sufferers.

Five minutes sounds like forever when germs are crawling all over your hands, seeping into the pores of your skin and …” You stop yourself mid-thought. Unfortunately, by itself, it is unlikely to move the needle very far. A good start, but just not enough. Moreover, what needs to be performed with perfection is not necessarily something of intrinsic importance. It might be the way one enters a room, or grasps a door knob, or sets the dinner table, and so forth.

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In fact, that fear has been strengthened by his having performed the compulsive behavior. His brain has now been through one more training cycle that links relief from a fear of his wife dying, to the performance of a specific compulsion. The neuronal connections associated with these feelings, thoughts and behaviors have now grown stronger. Disrupted patterns lead to weaker connections between the neurons responsible for each part of the pattern. Weaker connections between neurons means the amygdala (fear center in the brain) is less activated. A less activated amygdala means less anxiety. Going to sleep at night can be delayed indefinitely when your nightly prayers need to be said with a pure heart…. And you always find some way in which your heart remains impure. This led him to be even more distressed and not surprisingly ushered in a period of acute insomnia. The fear that most hoarders have is that once they throw something away they will, sometime later, find that it was needed. An even more compelling reason many hoarders give for not throwing items away is that the object has sentimental value. The problem here is that hoarders become sentimental about many items. For example, a hoarder may keep the fast food bag that contained hamburgers from their junior prom date.

This is what makes the compulsions particularly maddening. If one felt such a need for perfection because brain surgery was being performed it would be understandable. But over how the laundry is folded, or the garage is swept?