This is where I blog about all the new OCD stuff that I learn about every day. I will provide you with my best and must up-to-date information on what I think is useful in becoming OCD free! Enjoy ;p

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Treatment For OCD - Enough is Enough With This Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!

Treatment For OCD - Enough is Enough With This OCD!

If you are like me, you are probably to the point where you gotta scream, "Enough is enough with this OCD!" As you can see, someone who has OCD or someone that has had it like me, understand these feelings. It's really hard to describe the kind of hell that OCD is even if you have it.

I just had to think, wow, Only when I started saying "enough is enough" did I actually started to see my OCD get smaller and smaller. I started to see that the treatment for OCD was actually deciding that you are done with it. When you get to the point where you just don't care anymore, that's when you start to see changes.

What people everywhere who suffer with OCD need to understand that OCD cannot be cured by reading a few articles. You don't know how important the understanding of this is. If that were the case, then why is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder becoming more and more of a problem? It's because there is a certain set of behaviors that you have to repeat on a daily basis in order to become free of it.

These steps are not just tiny little sentences in a sealed envelope somewhere as if it's the formula for nuclear fission or something. No, instead these steps must be matched with the specific person's own experience of the world. Most people think that when they learn a technique or trick that that is the cure. This is just not true.

The treatment for OCD is relearning how to react to your thoughts in a different way. This is a process and takes time. Don't expect that you are going to be able to just learn something and then be able to start out like a champ. All of us are green when we are new to something. Don't buy an OCD program and think for a second that it will be easy.

I really want you guys to understand this. There really is no magic pill! There is no magic formula! There are no big deep dark techniques that only a rocket scientist could understand. No, instead it's about learning basic principles and applying these basic principles in a repetitive and systematic fashion.

Back to the point that I was making earlier is that if you are content where you are and are not mad enough at your OCD, then how can you get rid of it? You have to feel a very strong need and motivation to get rid of OCD. If you are comfortable with it and are not bothered by it, then you need to make yourself motivated.

Think about the things that you could lose by not getting rid of your OCD. The treatment for OCD can be augmented by stirring a little bit of "fear of loss" into the mix. You see, the higher we can get your motivation to be, the quicker you will get over your OCD because you will become more desperate and will have the motivation to do what it takes no matter how you feel.

You always notice that those who are better at following directions and are doers actually get things done and are some of the most productive people in the world. When our desire and motivation is not high enough, we will look at a program someone made and have this inspector kind of mindset where we start looking for all the reasons why this program is not complete.

We have to put our pride away and become more strict with ourselves. We'll baby ourselves and try to wean off OCD ourselves. When you stop playing around and actually look at this as a life or death matter, that is when you'll start to see results.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Treatment For OCD - Where Did My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Come From?

Do you know how you even got Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

There are so many theories about where one gets their OCD and the treatment for OCD is also a debated subject. Meanwhile, you are sitting there wondering how it even all started arn't you?

Think back before you had OCD when you did those little quirky things. You see, OCD builds up over a long period of time. It's only when you feel like something is really wrong that you feel like you just got it from no where. You see, it was happening for a long time, you just didn't notice it.

I'm sure you can go back into your memory and think about in your times of stress if the quirky little things you did were a little more involved or even more quirky. You gotta understand that we learn things from repetition in our brains, if they are mundane, or very quickly if the thing we are learning is causing a lot of pleasure or pain to us in some way.

So when we explore our brains to search for the answers, we are lead through certain pathways in our head through our neurons. These are not the same things as nerves. Neurons create connections in our head, or pathways if you will where information is disbursed.

Think of a computer and how the information travels through the memory, the harddrive and the processor. In the brain, many different parts can do many different things at once, so instead of our processing power being limited by a bottleneck in the system, we can process information way faster.

When it comes to OCD, this is what makes the treatment of OCD harder than people think. However, if the person is willing to do what it takes to get rid of their OCD, they will get rid of it, following the right system, within a few months permanently. Using things like NLP and other techniques do not permanently cure OCD. The neurons have to be conditioned naturally in order to have lasting change.

Look at the past and all throughout history, there are even kings who have been shown to have OCD thoughts. The treatment for OCD back in those days was quite different. People believed in superstition more then they do now. What you should realize is that OCD comes from stress and from a habit of reacting with fear to your thoughts.

So it's obvious then that OCD is based totally on fear. Think about this, if you were not afraid of anything, would you have OCD? The answer is a solid no for sure! You have to learn how to change the way you react to your fear and you will be able to increase every good thing in your life.

What do I do now? Check out what I wrote below and see what that's all about. It's probably the best thing that you can do if you have OCD. The treatment for OCD is getting better and better all the time, but I really don't care about that and neither should you, as there has always been a cure and you should use that instead.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Finding the Right Person To Help You With Your OCD

Finding the Right Person To Help You With Your OCD
How to find someone to help you with your OCD.

Now normally, people all around the world who have OCD would just go through life worrying. Some will probably go to therapists who are using hundred year old tricks. Of course some of them work and most of them not so much.

We should really rethink how good therapists, counselors and phychologists reallty are and here is why. Now of course all of the above will hate me for this article, but that's how the game is played. First off, there are some good therapists out there, but they are few far and between.

It's not really a good idea to try to learn from someone who has learned everything they know from books. You see, it's all theory and no practice. You should work with someone who has experience and results in helping others with OCD.

The very best thing to do if you have OCD thoughts is to find someone else who has had OCD thoughts and then they'll be able to teach you from experience and not just what they've read or heard about.

Be weary of "professionals" who say that they sympathize with you! You gotta understand that there are far less people who really understand OCD than you think. The fact is, it is one of the most misunderstood mental issues in the world!

So how do we actually put a permanent stop to this thing we call OCD thoughts? We can go read books and listen to relaxation tapes, or we can find someone who has been through it themselves. When faced with these two options, I would choose the latter.

The absolute best thing that you can do is actually go out into the world and find someone who has actually beaten it and then you will really be getting the best advice that you can from someone's real experience with it. You see, knowing how OCD works and how it feels is vital in being the most effective at helping someone else to get rid of it.

I have found by working with a lot of clients that a good therapist will actually not baby the person who is babying themselves with their OCD. You cannot always do what you feel like doing. With OCD the opposite is almost always what you need to be doing.

Discipline when dealing with your OCD is your best bet by far! Do not let your OCD thoughts get the best of you! You want to stand up to them and you can simply do that by not giving into them. Don't always do what you feel like doing and always know what your goals are in trying to get rid of OCD. When do you want to get rid of it by?

Dont' think for a second that reading a few articles is going to help you get rid of OCD. You see articles are good for getting little chunks of information here and there, but you really need to go out there and find a system.

People are not just going to give away all their hard earned secrets for free. It actually makes no sense. Plus, if you pay for something, you appreciate it more and you will actually use it! I can't tell you how many "free" e-books I've gotten that I never read, simply because it was free. Percieved value is important. Plus if the content is really good and you paid for it, you will actually do it, this has been proven!


Also make sure that you don't pay too much either! Don't waste your time going to those places where they charge you twenty thousand dollars to live there! I had a client do this and they said it was a huge waste of money! So be careful and do your due diligence!

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Compulsive Disorder - Does It Mean That I'm Gay Or Bisexual Because I Have These Thoughts?

Compulsive Disorder - Does It Mean That I'm Gay Or Bisexual Because I Have These Thoughts?
Compulsive Disorder - I Have Gay Thoughts, Am I Gay Or Is It Just Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

You just don't know how many times I get this question. People that think aboutt these things are very worried about them.. Many people would have a thought like this and think that they are bisexual or gay. You don't have to worry, people that are bisexual or gay are not worried aboutt it, they are worried aboutt what others would think at first before they come out..

My own opinion is that the Lord speaks against homosexuality in the Bible and I feel that it is not the correct way to live. I think it's very clear by looking at our physiology that we are meant and designed to be straight or heterosexual.

There are examples of homosexuality in the animal kingdom like when a male dog tries to have sex with another male dog. Is this rock solid evidence stating that it's OK for us to be bisexual or gay? Not by any stretch of the imagination. There are several points of debate that people will always raise..

When people want to do something, they will use whatever argument they can to justify their desired actions in their mind and will try to convince others so they won't feel alone in their decision. As a race, we are very smart aboutt creating circumstances that help our points of view just like people who want marijuana to be legalized all across the globe, they have their evidences and points of view.

If you are fearing that you are gay or bisexual and have OCD you are probably not gay or bisexual at all. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder will often make you dwell and ruminate aboutt that which you do not want to think aboutt at all.

There are those of you that may feel that because you are thinking about hurting someone that you'd actually do it and that is not the case at all. People that are murderers do not fear that they are murderers, they just are. People that smoke do not fear that they are smokers, they just are and the same goes with homosexuality even thought all three of these examples are not even close to each other in comparison, you understand my point.

There is a lot of anxiety that is created in a person when they fear that they are going to do something that they don't want to do. The chances of you doing what you actually fear doing are slim and you don't have to worry aboutt it really. Just like a person that fears that they are going to hit someone with their car, they are the last person on earth that would ever hit a person with their car on purpose.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Compulsive Disorder - Something Very Strange About OCD





Compulsive Disorder - Something Very Strange About OCD

If you suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and you think that you're going crazy, don't fret yet. There is something very strange about OCD that makes you feel like you are going insane.

Have you ever noticed that your OCD morphs? Many of my clients tell me that the things that they used to fear are not a concern to them anymore and they don't have to do the same rituals anymore.

I have so many clients asking me why their Obsessive Compulsive Disorder morphs and changes on them?" This leads many people to believe that they have a special kind of OCD and that no one else suffers from what you do.

You are not that special. What I mean by that is that you are no better than other people who suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We are all equal in God's eyes. It's a great fact to know that you are not the only one who had to go through what you are going through now.

When you find a proven program that works for you, and there are many out there, you can and will get over your OCD for good! Really think about that, living a life without Compulsive Disorder!

I can think of all the times that I was miserable with OCD and I would spend long nights ruminating about really disturbing scenarios. I would wake my dad up at five in the morning crying because of my OCD.

I remember that I could not throw trash away in public trashcans without cleaning it first. Really odd and bizarre things that just made me feel like I was a lunatic!

Even if you really can't imagine there being an end to this thing we call OCD, believe it, because it's there it exists. That there is a way for you to get back on track and get your life back.

I remember thinking that I would always suffer with OCD for the rest of my life. I almost fell for it. I decided that what I really needed to do was the beat it. There really is no other choice as far as I'm concerned. That is no way to live by just allowing OCD to take over your life?

I believe that it is God's will for us to have a mind at peace. I believe that it is God's will for our souls to be at rest and for us not to worry. Many times you will see in the Bible where is commands us not to worry!" What are you going to do? Are you going to continue suffering or are you going to take action and beat your OCD?

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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Compulsive Disorder - How and Why Your Brain Forms Rituals

Compulsive Disorder - How and Why Your Brain Forms Rituals

Is there a way that we can help put a stop to the annoyingly strong desire to perform rituals?

You first have to realize where rituals come from and why they exist. The rituals that we conjure up are a response to a certain stimuli and then a subsequent belief and thought about that stimuli.

So we basically form rituals that help us cope with what is going on around us. If you look at a child who was just denied her request to have an ice cream, you can see that she responds in a manner that makes it obvious to you that she is not happy.

So we can see that how she reacted to this stimuli shows us that that this action of hers is just a response to the stimuli. Then if the mother were to hand her an ice cream cone, most likely her demeanor would be much more happy almost instantly.

This happens because the little girl tells herself that she cannot be happy until she gets what she wants, or in this case, an ice cream cone. We can see that she could have chosen to be content and happy during the whole event. It was in fact a choice.

You have a lot of power over Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when you learn of the fact that you can choose how you react to stimuli and in fact, choose how you feel.

The girl did have a choice to not have a tantrum when she did not get what she wanted? Was this possible? She could have responded any way she wanted to, but in this case, she threw a fit. When she was growing up, she learned that when she had a tantrum, she found that she usually got what she wanted.

Having developed this association in her head, she forms what appears to be a "natural reaction" to the stimulus of not getting her ice cream. In reality, this set of actions and behavior were learned. If when she was a baby, she only got what she wanted when she stopped crying, then that is how she would "naturally respond."

What If find really interesting about all this is the fact that a lot of us just want to be lazy and think, "I cannot control how I react, I just react naturally.So you can see from above that you don't really have a "natural reaction" but in fact that it was learned.

People in general do not act is the same exact way as each other, but rather, they have similarities in way that they act. People react similar to similar situations so we can see that there are trends that we can study. One of the most wonderful things about this is that once we realize how our behaviors are formed, we can use that information to create a system to cure many maladies and have most certainly with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.


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Friday, April 10, 2009

Compulsive Disorder - What is Pure O when it comes to OCD?

Compulsive Disorder - What is Pure O when it comes to OCD?

The people who we refer to as Pure O's are people who suffer from the feeling of having to perform mental rituals, repeat mantras, etc. They will basically feel a very strong urge to count objects, syllables, words,etc.

I would say that some people who are "pure o's" can and do physical rituals as well, but they mainly suffer from obsessions.

There is only one cure for all OCD so no matter what type of OCD that you have it does not matter.

Now there are many different programs that work for many different types but the basic premise of healing is underlying in each one.

No matter what therapy you use, this is what they all attempt to do. Some work better than others but here it is.

They all help you stop performing rituals and teach you how to think like a person without OCD. Do you know what will happen to your life if you learn to teach yourself how to think like someone that doesn't have OCD? You will no longer have OCD.

I know this sounds like a dream and to good to be true and all that. The only reason I know that what I am saying works is because I got rid of my OCD by following these principles.

When you see a technique that has worked for many people, you should not think that you are a special case and that it will not or could not work for you. You don't want to cut your own success short. You've got to decide for yourself if you have enough information and a system which to follow that will help you to get over OCD. Do not allow people to lecture you out of being successful by way of saying to you that these techniques won't work, they are just being negative. OCD should be taken very seriously and only you and not anybody else can tell you what will work for you. There are many important reasons why I write down so many techniques and each one has a purpose. They simply work. They didn't just work for me, but for thousands of people. I try to provide the best possible quality into all of the information that I give to you.

Take action: Take advice from someone who has had proven results and from someone who has been able to help other people with their same methods.

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