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How do you Rise above your OCD Themes and dthoughts and why would that be important?
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And what does it mean to Rise above your OCD theme? And why would that be important?Have you ever noticed that your OCD theme changed? Maybe it used to be one thing when you were younger and then it changed? Or maybe you have several OCD themes? Your OCD theme is centered around your content, what bothers you, the specific subject matter of your obsessions and mental and/or physical compulsions.
It is very common for people to have several OCD themes and for some people to experience rapid change and cycling of themes.
So, why would I suggest that you rise above your OCD theme?
At the core of OCD are threats, something that scares you, that put you into a state of relentless doubt. Then, it manipulates and trains you to respond to it in specific ways. But OCD wants you to respond NOW, it has an urgency to it, doesn’t it?
But OCD doesn’t care about your themes or your content at all. OCD is a disorder. Everyone has slightly different content and slightly different fear triggers and things that bother them. OCD is a disorder; it doesn’t care what theme you have. It just wants to grab your attention and control you and convince you do something to make the anxiety go away.
When you respond to OCD, you are training your brain to make your OCD stronger. These compulsions are little made-up behavior experiments. And as soon as you notice your anxiety go down, your brain associates those rituals and compulsions with the reduction in your anxiety or discomfort. You never gave yourself the chance to learn that it would have gone down on its own anyway.
The specific theme doesn’t matter at all. OCD works the same way regardless of your specific content whether it be contamination, just right feeling, checking, relationship doubt, etc.
You may know this logically. That OCD is OCD. But you may still be stuck in your theme and not know how to get out of it.
There is an answer. First, you get unstuck from your theme and your content with ERP. Then, you gradually incorporate and shift to a more global treatment approach to OCD. Once you make this shift, your theme no longer has control over you.
I have a method for doing this. First, I will teach you how to do an easy to follow 3-Step process for ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) so that you can get unstuck from your content and your OCD theme. Then, you will gradually incorporate a more global treatment approach to OCD.
The I. A.M. method is a global approach, and it gives you a technique to use whenever OCD pops up, in any form. It doesn’t matter if the theme changes or not. You will always know what to do. The I. A.M. method separates you from the OCD, just by identifying the thought, image, or sensation as OCD. And it reminds you to not respond to it or attend to it. The I. A.M. method is a method of keeping you in response prevention.
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