Depression and OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) have started affecting people from all walks of life. And it's not at all a good sign. If these two disorders are not treated early, it may result in serious damage to the individual. Depression is a mental disorder whereas OCD is an anxiety disorder. OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) is a dangerous anxiety disorder. It is not widely prevalent like depression. But it affects people of both the sexes equally. The cause behind OCD is unknown but it is a treatable disease and full recovery is possible.
OCD is caused by a fear, which causes anxiety, which causes OCD.
Compulsions and Obsessions are two types of symptoms involved in OCD.
OCD symptoms relating to Compulsions are:
1. Repeated washing of hands to such an extent that their hands turn raw.
2. They tend to repeatedly check the doors once locking them.
3. They pay constant visits to kitchen to check whether the stove is turned off.
4. They tend to confuse even simple things.
OCD symptoms relating to obsessions are:
1. People suffering from this problem fear shaking hands and they fear contamination by dirt.
2. Continuous feelings of guilt.
3. They develop a habit of pulling hairs resulting in baldness.
4. Asymmetrical things push them to extreme stress..
You can choose what you are going to focus on. So don't worry if you have OCD or not. Worrying is not productive. Your real thoughts should be, how can I channel this energy into doing a better job at my place of employment. Think in these terms remembering that you created your OCD in your mind and you can choose to apply that energy to anything that you want to. You want to change the focus of thoughts from OCD to doing a great job. Maybe get some medication at first from a doctor to help, but I think that you can do this without medication, it's just something that you are going to have to work really hard at until you get better at it.
Take action: This is what you can do right now to channel your OCD energy into work productivity. Your brain needs a release of that fear or a way to handle the fear that drives OCD, instead of performing rituals, tell yourself that doing your job will satisfy the the compulsion and it's not a ritual because it's your job so it's productive.
Relatively little is known about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and the range of Eating Disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia." More is known about the eating disorders but still they persist as a real problem for many people".
Just lately I've noticed an increase in the number of people asking him to help them with one of these conditions. Any of these can cause major disruption to the life of the sufferer, and that's just what they do...suffer. Some people find help with drug treatments or with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) but these approaches do not work for everyone. I got into this profession to help people, and so I have spent many long hours studying and searching out all that is known about these conditions and their treatments. I have been working with a young man with severe Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and found the therapy to be helping him to gradually strip away his feelings of being 'ugly' and 'disgusting to look at' and to form a new image of himself. It's early days yet, but so far results in all the above mentioned conditions are very encouraging.
BDD - Body dysmorphic disorder - is a term used to describe a condition which involves feeling bad about some aspect of the body, the way it looks, smells or sounds, BDD gives rise to, for example, 'my ears are too big', my nose is too small', my skin is too spotty', I sweat too much', 'my voice sounds silly' I just don't like the way I look, etc.
These 'bad feelings' generated by BDD can be very exaggerated and tend to give rise to a large range of coping mechanisms and 'safety behaviours', depending upon the intensity of the feelings.
For example, people with BDD will repeatedly check the way they look in the mirror or reflective surfaces such as shop windows, apply excessive makeup, or attempt to mask their appearance, constantly asking for reassurance from family, friends and sometimes even lesser known acquaintances.
To Stop the BDD, four basic techniques are used during treatment.
Firstly people who have suffered from body dysmorphic disorder are taught to relax and distress. This helps more than most people imagine. They are gently introduced to hypnosis and to the many therapeutic techniques that can be effectively employed to help them.
Secondly, a brief look at the feelings and emotions causing this challenge for a person are softened in a symbolic and non-threatening way (a bit like a pre-wash cycle on a washing machine)..
Third, people are taught how to get out of those obsessive loops of thought which have given rise to the feelings which have in turn given rise to the behaviours. This involves literally re-training the conscious mind how to think differently. And the Subconscious mind how to set up new, alternative, or better thought patterns. we use a range of hypnotherapeutic models to re-pattern the behaviours at a deeper unconscious level.
Fourth, people are helped to project themselves and their new positive and confident self image into the future.
The estimated number of sessions for the treatment of BDD is 6 - 10, and theses sessions will be weekly for sessions 1 - 4. Further sessions will normally be scheduled at two weekly intervals. The first session is 120 minutes and all following sessions are normally 60 - 90 minutes.
Alan is very happy to provide free consultations to anyone interested in finding out about his work and how this form of Clinical Hypnosis might help them. They can then make an informed discussion after perhaps checking back with their GP or consultant. Any Clinical Hypnotherapists not conversant with these conditions can also contact Alan for an update about his methods.
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