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Monday, February 8, 2010

Repetitive Thoughts

Repetitive thoughts can be a symptom generated by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, repetition is a common thing to experience when dealing with OCD, the severity of this depends on the person but even the less severe manifestations can be hard to deal with due to it's very nature. A person that suffers from OCD with this symptom experience a feeling like they are compelled to do a specific task multiple times, even if they are completely aware that they are doing so and that what they are doing isn't really doing anything for them whatsoever, even so they feel like they have to because their mind makes them feel that it needs to be done.

Repetitive thoughts as the name suggests cause a person to think thoughts repeatedly, the nature of said thoughts vary from person to person, it can be irritating naturally as one can imagine but it can become rather alarming in certain situations. If you have repetitive negative thoughts such as thoughts of violence for instance, this may naturally raise some flags in your mind. Luckily these irritating thoughts generally don't cause you to actually act on them, dwelling on them however does bring with it a fair amount of stress, especially if what you are dwelling on is offensive to you.

Repetitive thoughts as it is a part of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be treated with the various ways used to treat OCD, a short term solution to help you reduce and perhaps rid yourself altogether of your repeated thoughts is medication. Medication as an approach varies in efficiency from person to person, some will take to really easy and the effects will be profound, some find themselves naturally resistant to medication and may have a greater difficulty utilizing this approach than other people who are less resistant by nature.

Utilizing medication to treat your repetitive thoughts is a viable solution but it is a short term solution, attempting to use it long term is possible but that way you will be using meds for an unforeseen amount of time and your body can adjust to the drug so that it becomes inefficient after a while, in this way it is better to seek a long term solution while utilizing the short term one to keep you going in the present. Long term solutions include mental exercises as well as therapies. There are various methods that can be utilized to help you without the aid of medication.

Utilizing a natural means to treat a mental symptom will likely include you learning what you respond to and how to change the way you respond to things that you deal with, the way you view things and the way you react to a situation have a great impact on the way you will feel as a result of your actions. You may feel that if you fight your repetitive thoughts that you are going to be that much more miserable, perhaps in some cases that would be true but that would also be because of how you attempted to resist, if done right you can fight it while training yourself to resist it.

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Derek Soto is an ex-sufferer of OCD who teaches people how to overcome their OCD for good in a very short time using little known techniques which are usually ignored by the medical field altogether.

Derek Soto also mentors people on a wide range of subjects including how to control your thinking naturally, how to defeat anxiety, phobias and how to change your thought processes so that you will be happier and live a more fulfilling life, period.