OCD
At the bottom of this page you
will find a list of OCD & Pure O articles, videos, audio files, tips and
tricks which will reassure and assist you during your recovery.
I have never, in tens of thousands of OCD cases, found one
case where medication has played a curative role in recovery...
that's the truth. There is only one true cure for OCD.
Put it this way, how many people with OCD are on medication?
How many of them can ultimately say "I've been on the meds X
weeks and I am cured!" If my new clients are anything to go by,
medication can't change the subconscious, anxious 'habit',
which causes and perpetuates OCD. I have to be careful here
though because I don't believe that OCD actually exists as a
stand-alone condition! Why? Firstly, the word disorder implies
illness... anxiety fueled obsessional behavior is not an
illness... secondly, it doesn't require a name at all because
it, just like a racing heart, upset stomach, chest tightness etc.
is simply another anxiety SYMPTOM and not a stand alone condition.
If you have OCD, you have 'high anxiety'... inappropriate,
yes, an illness, no! That high anxiety is causing a change in
thought and reasoning due to hormonal changes caused by the flight
or fight response. Is this mental illness? No... a perfectly
normal but massively embellished version of NORMAL thoughts.
If you felt happy all the time and went around laughing...
people would think you were a little odd perhaps, but ILL, NO!
So what's the difference? You have heightened fear... what's the
difference between that and heightened happiness? NOTHING.
They are both human emotions... both inappropriate and yet
happiness isn't feared, so the 'symptoms' are ignored or enjoyed.
Fear carries with it, unpleasant 'symptoms'... but why are they
any more 'serious' than the happy symptoms? See where I am going
with this?
When you fall in love... a natural and logical reaction, yes?
BUT, love is a form of what you would call OCD.. think about it!
Obsessive, yes, compulsive, yes... disorder, NO! But it carries
all the traits of OCD!
So are we mentally ill when we are in love? No, no more than
we are mentally or physically ill when we have obsessions and
compulsions. OCD - pleasant, no. Illness, no. Curable, yes.
With meds? NO!
Charles Linden