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

Monday, March 1, 2010

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Personality - What You Need to Do to Stop it Forever

Obsessive compulsive disorder personality can really put a damper on your life is you leave it unchecked. So what is it then that you can do so that this doesn't happen to you? I think one of the most important things that you can do is learn that you can make a choice in the matter. I want you to understand that you don't have to do what other people tell you to do and you most certainly don't have to think the way that other people tell you to think. I understand that it's not easy and that certain people that we perceive as expert have a propensity to make us feel that what they are saying is utter fact. As fascinating as this may be, we need to learn to think for ourselves if we really are going to have the best quality life we can. The fact of the matter is that no one else cares more about you then you!

I know that obsessive compulsive disorder personality is something that can make you very miserable and make you feel like you need to do things that you know make no sense. Sometimes we may feel that they are so strong that we don't even really have a choice in the matter but this is a lie. I need you to realize that not only do we have a choice to not be run by OCD but we can keep it away for the rest of our lives by learning to make the right decisions and we can do this by actually thinking about what that right decision may be before just reacting to something. You'll find that the studies that have shown that the worst part of OCD anxiety go away within thirty to sixty minutes. Most people simply give into their ritual right when they feel like doing it and never really give the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder related anxiety go away on its own.

If you have experienced an anxiety attack that comes from obsessive compulsive disorder personality then you'll know exactly what I'm about to say is true. You find that the whole world seems to not matter anymore and that all the matters is for the unpleasant anxiety to go away. You see the reason why you are feeling this way is because OCD is like an illusion that makes you think that there are real dangers when there really aren't. It's really faulty associations and misconceptions that you are reacting to as if they're real. The only problem is that when we act on something that is just in our minds, we tend to make it real. Maybe not the exact fear, but we end up unintentionally perpetuating our own OCD! Think about this for a second and think about your obsessive compulsive disorder personality. Some people just never really look at their OCD in a different way and they make the huge mistake of taking it for face value. If you can avoid doing this and start to really understand that OCD is just a seemingly tough set of habits then you'll be able to realize that there is something that you can do to stop it!

To get cutting edge techniques to beat OCD permanently click here: "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Personality"

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.

Friday, February 26, 2010

OCD Teen Help and How to Find it

OCD teen information you have read or heard about in, but not necessarily limited to books, magazines, and forums do not always provide you with long-term, big picture goals such as curing the unwanted thoughts and patterns altogether. Instead, many of the sources, even in some hospitals, tend to aim towards simply treating obsessive compulsive disorder for the short-term, suppressing and calming as opposed to removing outright. A notable reason for this is due to most practitioners, authors, etc not having OCD on a personal level, which is really a requirement for seriously dealing with the problems at hand.

A bit of information I can offer to help you along the way is to fully understand what obsessive compulsive disorder really is. It's not a sickness, or even an actual disorder. In reality, it's a strong mental habit, with a much more notable degree of influence over your everyday thought patterns and habits. The sooner you come to fully realize this, the better in shape your mind will be as you will now be in the proper mindset to begin countering it. OCD teen habits must be treated as they are, and not what people think they are.

What you need to understand if you are serious about overcoming your obsessive compulsive disorder is that this task will not be accomplished overnight. It is a real goal to work towards, and while I do have an excellent solution available which I offer to anyone who wishes to accept it, effort must be placed forward if you wish to MOVE forward. You must come to terms with the fact that there is no magic pill or some elixir that will instantaneously cure the problems that come with OCD teen thought patterns and habits, despite wanting one. If you really want to beat it, you must be willing to do your best!

Although reading and understanding all the above information will no doubt increase your awareness of the task at hand while putting you in a better stance to overcome OCD teen habits, you still need one more thing on your side. You need to focus hard on your goals! As much as you can, avoid the temptation to use multiple methods of treatment, visits to a counselor or practitioner's office, etc, until you have completely finished the program you agreed to partake in, be it mine or another individual.

Please keep in mind that although not every source of information you find on the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder is bad, not all of them are correct either. You need to check into the author and ensure that they too have undergone what you or a loved one has gone through, and thus have the means to truthfully provide you with real, excellent assistance. Remember that OCD is a habit, not a disease, and once you understand this you will be in a better state of mind to stand against it. Be patient, and know that although you will not be able to cure OCD teen symptoms over the course of a day, every day will move you closer to your goal.

I hope you accept the great information I have for you below!

To get cutting edge techniques to beat OCD permanently click here: Click here to get my OCD e-book for free: "OCD Teen Help"

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.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

OCD Forum - Changing Your Diet to Decrease OCD

Do you eat junk food all the time and call it food?

I used to.

McDonalds (tm) is not food. Tv dinners are not food. Chips are not food.

Organic Vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats ARE food.

Why organic? Because chemicals in other "foods" affect the brain and impair the ability of your cells to perform to their optimum level. Since your mind is made of cells, don't you think that they will be able to handle stress better if they are able to function better? It's a no-brainer, seriously.

Food is fuel that is put into your body, your cells work together to create your body, the vehicle.

If you put crappy fuel in your body, you'll get crappy performance from your cells and this includes your brain.

On the other hand, if you feed your body premium fuel, i.e. organic food, you'll get optimum performance out of your cells and guess what. This includes your brain!

So here are some tips that you can put in your pocket...

Go to the store and buy organic fruits and vegetables and meats. I don't think it's necessary to become a vegetarian and I wouldn't recommend it myself. I do however feel that meat is only good to eat if it's organic and not pumped with chemicals and preservatives which impair the ability of your cells to perform to their optimum level.

Drink organic drinks, not sugared down juices or juices from concentrate. Only drink "not from concentrate" organic juices and only drink distilled water or natural water, don't buy water that says "drinking water" on it! That is water that has been treated to be made safe to drink, which means it probably wasn't before. Distilled water is filtered by a process that almost guarantees purity, but a lot of the natural minerals, if not all of them, are gone. Natural organic water is the best because it has the trace minerals that are good for the body.

Did you know that natural organic foods like vegetables and fruits have chemical compounds in them that are good for the body that scientists don't understand yet. All we know is this, This is the best food and the best fuel you can put in your body period. So why settle for anything less than the very best?

Take action: By quality organic food only and I guarantee you'll see a difference in how you feel and how you're able to handle the stress of not doing rituals. I bet this will cut your time in half as far as getting over OCD and I'm dead serious!

For more instantly usable free information click: Click here to get my OCD e-book for free: "OCD Forum"

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.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

OCD Forum - Curing OCD For Good, Getting in the Right Direction

Getting started in the right direction in curing OCD is not that hard.

You've just got to realize that to cure OCD, you first have to know that you have OCD. Then you've got to believe that it can be cured.

That is a little tougher for most people cause they have preconceived ideas about what OCD and most people think it's something that you have to struggle with for life, but nothing could be farther from the truth!

Then what you should do is do some research on OCD to find out good programs that will help "cure" OCD, not "treat" it.

So now that you know what you are looking for, you can begin.

The next part is you've got to realize that if your OCD is hindering you from going to work and other places that are necessary that you may want to consider talking with your doctor and a therapist so that you can get medicine to help with major forms of OCD,

The next part whether you have to take medication or not is to start to deal with it. You've got to face the fear that is driving the anxiety, which is causing OCD. There are things that you must understand about OCD. Here's one thing: It's an addiction.

Why it is is beyond the scope of this article, but that's how you approach it, and basically, you've just got to "quit" performing rituals, and you will be well on your way to becoming OCD free for good, period.

Take action: Go and do research about OCD, find out about it. Don't do too much unless you want that to be another form of OCD. Just like 15-20 minutes a day. The more information you have on getting over it, the easier it will be. Don't study about OCD itself as much as studying how to get over it!

For more instantly usable free information click: Click here to get my OCD e-book for free: "OCD Forum"

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.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Intrusive Thoughts and How to Stop Them

Intrusive thoughts lead people to seek help from a multitude of sources. One such source is the use of heavy medications, oftentimes encouraged by hospital personnel. This unfortunate occurrence is because most medications are aimed towards simply treating and suppressing OCD-like thoughts and habits, as opposed to outright removing them. Long-term use of medications can lead to unwanted side effects, and when you decide to stop taking them, there is a chance that your unwanted thought processes and habits will become more powerful than they were before you started. In order to avoid this, you should seek solutions which utilize little to no drugs.

Many people say they wish to be rid of OCD, but nowhere near as many actually do what is necessary to complete that wish. You must be persistent, and be willing to put forth effort if you are serious about ridding the intrusive thoughts that plague your mind. Secure yourself a working, quality solution and stick with it until the entire course has been run, from start to finish. If you give up treatment after only partially completing it, you will benefit little to none, and your time will have been wasted. Focus is very important.

Another step you can take to locate a helpful and accurate source of treatment is to speak with someone who has already beaten OCD and has the personal experience needed in order to help another to do the same. I congratulate you on locating this article, because I have already overcome OCD and other intrusive thoughts. I now offer that assistance to you, and if you accept, you will be able to learn many tricks which can help bolster your efficiency in curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder.

What a large number of individuals do is leap from one treatment method to another, without completing the ones before. Little to no good can come of this, even if the right answer is amongst them. When you bombard your mind with a multitude of solutions, each one trying to provide your mind with a different means of curing intrusive thoughts, your brain does not understand which one to take, and becomes more and more confused. Focus is a key part of removing the influence that OCD holds over your daily life. Find a good, solid method of treatment, and stick with it from start to finish.

Medications should only be used when you fully understand their effects and in moderate amounts. You should use them to bolster your efficiency as opposed to rely on them completely. It is important that you find a working solution, with backing by an experienced author or form of practitioner who can help you develop your own personal method of treatment. Once this is done, you will be able to focus on the goal of curing your mind of intrusive thoughts, and be on the way to living a life with much more peace of mind.

I very much hope you accept and enjoy the cutting-edge information I have for you below!

To get cutting edge techniques to beat OCD permanently click here: Click here to get my OCD e-book for free: "Intrusive Thoughts"

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.

Friday, February 19, 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.

To get cutting edge techniques to beat OCD permanently click here: "Repetitive Thoughts"


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.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Stopping OCD - You Must Do This One Thing in Order to Be Successful in Stopping OCD!

Stopping OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not as easy as people make it out to be. How do I know this? Because I have OCD and I beat it. Stopping OCD takes dedication and effort. It takes a goal. I found out through trial and error that there is really only one thing that everyone with OCD must do, but most people don't.

What that one thing is is realizing that no matter how you go about it, you have to, at some point, stop doing your rituals. There is no getting around it. There is no magic pill or magic cure that will allow you to avoid the hardest part of the process, but if you forget about looking for a quick fix and actually start taking action now, you'll be OCD free way before someone who is looking for that magic bullet.

You have to be dedicated to the process. What do I mean by that? I mean that you must stick with a decision that you have made. Many people will go and buy a program that claims to help them in stopping OCD, but they never follow through. I have found this to be true, not only in OCD sufferers, but also in people of every kind of walk and problem. Don't just learn information, focus on how you can use this information.

So how can you use this information here? Well most people are under the impression that there is this big secret to stopping OCD that can be summarized in a sentence or two and if I tried to summarize it in a sentence, you would not have nearly enough information to do anything effective in regard to your OCD. Trust me, if you really want to be successful in stopping OCD, you'll have to take on a mindset that says that it is not instant and that to get lasting results, it will take time.

That is why people that become OCD by perfecting the art of stopping OCD, it's virtually impossible for them to suffer with it again because they know how to deal with it and on top of that, they know how to stop the thought process that traps and tricks so many people.

Are you one of those people? Are you one of the people who has fallen for OCD? Are you one of the people who suffers with it everyday and say to yourself and to God, "Why me?" I am here to remind you of the obvious, that you are going about it the wrong way, and that reading random articles about OCD does not cure it, if that were the case, why are you still looking for OCD information and why are you reading this article.

You really should consider how you are handling your OCD. The difference between someone with OCD and someone with out OCD is how they react to their thoughts. How do you react to your thoughts? How do you talk to yourself when you have OCD thoughts. Most people are saying the very things to themselves that are actually making their OCD worse. Stopping OCD is a process, if you want it to be real, if you want it to be permanent, know that this is what it will take. Check out what I have below for you below, you'll be glad you did!

Click here to get my OCD e-book for free: "Stopping OCD"


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.