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Why Me? - And Why The What Ifs?


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So often we come across people on the bulletin boards here bewailing the fact that they have OCD, and treating it like a life sentence. 

Well it's not a nice illness to have, that's true. But to answer the question, since around 1% of the population experience significant OCD at some time in their lives, then why shouldn't we only too easily be one of those?

So why not me? 

When we suffer from OCD we will very likely encounter "what if" questions. In fact, once we learn how OCD works in the cognitive side of OCD, we start to associate OCD as being behind those "what Ifs" and that helps us to see the issue as OCD - to "uncloak"  it. 

How do we get to grips with a what if question?  Simple. Once we recognise that it is signalling an OCD origin, we look for the OCD false exaggerated or revulsive core belief that underpins it. 

Then we open it up and show it to be the work of OCD - it won't escape the CBT approach applied to it. 

CBT turns a "what if?" question into a what is statement, with the guts of the OCD opened up and laid bare, like a dissection. 

OCD is not a life sentence - it is a common or garden mental illness affecting the masses - and modern clinical psychological methods can help us recover from , or at least manage, it. 

Edited by taurean
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