What does Behavioural Therapy consist of in the treatment of OCD?!
Question: I am on waiting list to start it?
Answers: I am on waiting list to start it?
they will teach you how to ignore and reduce your symptoms.
i am 44 years old and i have suffered from OCD since i was 7.
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heres how i controlled my OCD, and it has caused me all sorts of problems in my life. i bacame an alcoholic for 14 years due to the anxiety from my OCD. i've been alcohol and drug free for 13 years now. don't drink or do drugs because this will only make your OCD worse. especially as you come down form substances because of the anxiety and stress that is associated with the comedown. coke and uppers will fuel your OCD severely and stay away from caffiene because this will also fuel your OCD. i am white knuckling it now as far as not taking any meds for my OCD, but i have learned to cut out stress in my life at a very good rate. don't get worked up about things. this will cause your stress and anxiety level to rise and severely impact your OCD symptoms. I should go on meds because when i took 100 milligrams of Luvox my OCD symptoms were reduced by 70%. i also learned to drink caffiene free teas at night and sometimes when i feel a bit anxious I will add cava cava or Valerian root to my tea. I will even at times take melatonin to help me relax at night. i even learned to practice ignoring my OCD when it demands that I perform rituals. It's hard to do at first, but when you ignore the obsessions by not giving in and performing these rituals, the OCD will greatly subside. over a few months time of ignoring rituals it will become easier and easier to not do this. Then it will become more of a maintainence for you to not do rituals. The strength of the OCD symptoms will now greatly reduce. I also learned to do rituals in my mind so I don't look funny to other people doing strange movements. you can learn to get a handle on this. as i got into my teens i was able to hide my symptoms from others by shifting focus of the rituals being performed in my mind. after you have shifted this focus then you realize that you can control, ignore and cut down on your symptoms. good luck.
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ocd is a really wild and wicked disorder, is it not? cut down on stress and work on ignoring your ocd, when you get the impulse to do a ritual like shake your hands or touch something, don't. and say to your ocd, "i know thats just you ocd and your not gonna disrupt my life" focus your mind elsewhere so you can shake the anxiety of not doing a ritual. it gets easier to ignore over short time.
This will be tailored to deal with you specific form of OCD. All agencies are going to what is called "person centered"...which is best because it focuses on you as an individual.
In most programs it will teach you (or try) to teach you to look at things with a different approach and how to change negative OCD behaviors into useful and productive ones...and the best part of it is....you go at your pace. With that, therapy and medication, I am now one chilled out chick.
(I think I was the only person THAT HATED the smell of smoke...BUT I AM A SMOKER....) I spent half the day smoking and the other half trying to get rid of the scent...lmaooooooooo...the brain is a complex thing.
Learning how to do full body relaxation. Relaxation tapes and taking yourself to a calm, happy place. it is called guided imagery. you have to "relearn" how to deal with stress and anxiety. it is very helpful. You can buy cd's on it and do it at home to a certain extent also. I bought my daughter one from Charlotte Reznick and I have done it with her. It is very calming.