Cure OCD: NOHSEMPERLUX Guideline For OCD Recovery

Cure OCD

Most people with OCD know that they are having too much useless worries. The only problem is that to the patients, it is extremely difficult to dispose of such invasive thoughts. In this NOHSEMPERLUX guideline for OCD recovery, I am going to outline the steps that you can follow in order to get free from OCD. Be aware that the steps must be sufficiently repeated in order to achieve success.

 

Step 1: Identify Which Thoughts Are OCD

It can be difficult for the patients to differentiate between OCD thoughts and non-OCD thoughts. Fortunately, the principle is pretty simple. The most important fact is that whether a thought is OCD or not has nothing to do with the content of the thought. It doesn’t matter how realistic the content of the thought seems to be. A thought is OCD if it causes persistent anxiety that doesn’t readily go away. A thought is not OCD if it doesn’t cause significant anxiety.

 

In essence, presence of anxiety is the major characteristic of an OCD thought. Therefore, if you have a thought and you feel intense anxiety as a consequence, you can know for sure that you are having an OCD thought.

 

Step 2: Identify The Erroneous Premises

Many people with OCD construct wrong premises, which cause them to end up in wrong conclusions. For instance, if you are having an OCD thought that’s telling you that you will end up hitting someone with your car, and you are looking for the reasons why you are innocent, you are already locked up inside the wrong premise that will presumably lead you to wrong conclusions.

 

Identify the wrong premises and ignore them. For instance, in the aforementioned instance, you are already making a wrong premise that you are potentially doing something that is harmful to the society (hitting a person with the car). This premise will leave you pondering about whether you have actually hit someone with the car or not…… However, the correct solution is to entirely get rid of the premise itself, and the premise is that you have done something wrong. You should attack this premise by saying that you haven’t done anything wrong.

 

Step 3: Do Not Perform the Compulsions

Now that you have a clear idea of which of your thoughts are OCD and what kind of premises are confusing you, it is now time to not perform the compulsions. In order to avoid doing compulsions, you must remind yourself that doing the compulsions won’t do any good for you. Indeed, it is already known that compulsions strengthen the obsession, not mitigate it.

 

If you are confused, follow this simple principle: if you are not sure about whether you have done something wrong or not, you haven’t done anything wrong, so relax and spend time on more productive activities. If you really have done something wrong, you will know that you have done something wrong. If you are not sure about it, you are innocent.

 

In that case, OCD patients may ask, but what if I am tricking myself into believing that I am innocent, so that I can conceal the crime that I have committed? A very good point but relax, because if you are someone who will commit a crime and try to conceal it to avoid punishment, you can’t be an OCD patient.

 

Final Tip

Just like how moving our bodies around consumes energy, mainly in the form of ATP, normal functioning of human cognition requires energy. While the steps outlined above are good mental exercises for strengthening the muscles of your mind, you must know that extra energy sources are always beneficial. The extra sources are muscles of your body.

 

In many cases, doing the exercises aimed at strengthening your muscles will help with your journey to escape from OCD. Therefore, I would highly recommend you to regularly do exercises while following the steps introduced above.

 

Thanks for reading and see you later!