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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Very amazing new ways to beat your obsessive compulsive behavior

Obsessive-compulsive disorder help!

There are so many things that I hear about beating your obsessive compulsive behavior. There are few times when you will read about how to get to the root of the origin of your OCD thoughts.

When you recognize that you are having an OCD thought, that is the beginning of stopping the OCD cycle. Simple enough right? We all know when our thoughts are OCD. Make sure that you are aware when you are having these thoughts. Don't look for OCD thoughts, just be able to recognize when they occur.

The second part is to tag this thought as such. After you recognize a thought as being an OCD thought, then you must consciously say to yourself that this is an OCD thought and you will treat it as such.

Part three is once you have noticed that you have an OCD thought, tag. You treat it as such. You cannot choose what kind of thoughts pop into your head but you can choose which ones to focus on."

The fourth part after shrugging off an OCD thought like someone who doesn't have OCD is to think about something that you do love. You've got to assign the weight that you wanted to assign to that OCD thought to a productive thought. So think about something else important to you, like that test you took in school, or your job or living situation.

Think about a problem that you have, something you are concerned about. Then think about what you are grateful for. When you think about your blessings, your thoughts are more productive and make you happy. You will find that these processes and these steps will greatly help your cause in beating OCD. Don't give into the temptation of reacting to your OCD thoughts with fear. Ask yourself where you are giving into that fear.

Often you'll see a smoker quit smoking by replacing that habit by chewing gum, you should do the same thing with your OCD. Then it will be easier to break the new habit. So instead of "quitting cold turkey" so to speak, you can switch from being addicted to OCD, to let's say, chewing gum. quitting OCD itself is harder than quitting chewing gum. You can trick your brain by replacing your habit with something easier to quit!

See looking at it this way, by not focusing on something, you bypass all the resistance. Read this a few times if it doesn't click the first time, it's profound and very powerful.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder help!