How do you deal with your ocd rituals ?!


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Stopping One’s Obsessive Thoughts

Psychiatrists and psychologists have struggled for decades to figure out the best way to stop obsessive thinking. In the end, one must recognize that irrational thoughts are a part of the human brain. Learning to focus on rational thoughts and disregard the irrational ones is the key to stopping one’s obsessive thoughts.
This is easier said than done, of course. But there are a few methods which seem to work.
1. Confront your obsessions.

Doctors have found that confronting your obsession and desensitizing yourself to it is a good way to end your compulsive behavior. This is treating the cause and not the symptom.
People with OCD understand that their thoughts and actions are irrational. This is one of the distinctions between OCD and a number of other psychological maladies. But the immediate impulse of the person with OCD is to push aside irrational thoughts with equally irrational behavior. This allows them to refocus their mind away from one’s obsession.But if one instead faces one’s obsession, that person is able to think through the irrational thoughts and impulses. Once a person forcing himself or herself to confront these obsessions, a person tends to become desensitized to them.
In effect, if we can think rationally, an obsession loses its irrational power over us.
Note that it is best to target one’s obsession. But some people are unable to do this entirely. So it becomes a second best option to regulate one’s reaction to obsession.
If you can resist the need to behave compulsively, a person can begin to limit the effects of OCD. This is a half-measure, though.
2. Confront the anxiety over your obsession.

A person may come to believe they are not quite right. It is common for a sufferer of OCD to believe their obsession is degenerative, that it is leading to a dangerous behavior. Someone might have thoughts of doing violence to a loved one, and develop compulsive defense mechanisms in the hopes of avoiding these thoughts.
Anxiety might grow that the person will “give in to” these irrational impulses. This person must be reassured that these thoughts have never led to irrational behavior before. In this way, one can begin to realize that such anxiety is unwarranted.
3. Confront the cognitive process itself.

The human brain is complex. It produces plenty of rational thoughts which allow us to make decisions in life. But the brain also produces irrational thoughts.
It is natural to believe that all thoughts have meaning. This just isn’t the case. For a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it is common to give meaning to the our most irrational thoughts. The fact that a person finds obsessive thoughts distressing is actually a good sign, though they tend to think something dark and perhaps unforgivable is at work simply for having the thoughts in the first place.
Allowing our irrational thoughts and impulses to become an obsession is to over analyze oneself. It is quite similar to interpreting one’s dreams as having deep and dark meanings, as opposed to realizing it is the brain jumbling disparate and irrational thoughts with one another.
Our brain is not always trying to tell us something. Once we realize this, stopping one’s obsessive thoughts becomes possible.

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