OCD is an anxiety disorder that causes a person to suffer unwanted thoughts, urges, and feelings.
We all worry from time to time, have doubts, have or had superstitions at some stage during our life. If this becomes so excessive, such as spending hours washing hands, or driving a car along the same route to check if a person had not been knocked down or injured, can become devastating to that individual on a day to day basis.
Many of these people are blamed for being stupid or they have a "weak" or unstable personality.
Most people with OCD continue to suffer, despite years of ineffective psychotherapy. However, with better understood therapies, treatment can help most people with OCD. Therapy can create a complete recovery only in a few individuals, most people achieve a meaningful and long-term symptom relief with comprehensive treatment. The main aim of therapy is to allow the patient to be in control of their OCD, rather than OCD control them.
The goal is to provide an alternative in how they perceive their thought triggers and how they interpret their intrusive thought process. Risk will not be reduced without attending to consequence, which is responsibility related and in addition to probability.
Teaching them to use self-hypnosis prior to exposing themselves to the cues or triggers, allows them to reduce the need to ritualise, and with their voluntary more relaxed thought process is able to prevent that same response. The use of the ‘dial technique is significant and visualisation techniques, ‘seeing themselves’ going through the scenario in a positive way, generates a good outcome. -D. Kato [Lecture 2011]
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