Apophenia, from what I can see, Pure-OCD sufferers are treated by teaching them to become passive or inured to whatever their doubts are by use of fatalism, ridicule and humor.
So if one is going into an anxiety breakdown over "I just looked at a guys crotch, am I gay?" (HOCD), the correct technique is to go "So what if it is? I have no reason to fear or be upset". Or to mock the fear. Or to be an Eeyore and say "That's just how it's going to be".
In other words, allowing them to answer their fears is the WRONG thing to do. Assuaging them is quite unhelpful -- they just poke holes in what you say.
I now understand why marijuana has been so critical to my current state of mind -- I use it to artificially decrease my anxiety and become inured to what makes me uncomfortable, which ranges from sexuality to mentoring young ents (pot smokers to be) and tracking them under the rationale of "they're my clan". I get incredibly controlling in things I am actively working in and get incredibly upset when I feel someone is daring to steal control.
Let alone when someone actually does.
Are Physical OCD types treated the same way? Told to mock their fears, to become classically trained out of it by decreasing the emotional "spike" (I call it an adrenal spike, because when I do begin to feel incredibly bad, it's almost invariably precipitated by that sudden shock-pulse in my chest and my heart speeding up like a runaway train)...
So if one is going into an anxiety breakdown over "I just looked at a guys crotch, am I gay?" (HOCD), the correct technique is to go "So what if it is? I have no reason to fear or be upset". Or to mock the fear. Or to be an Eeyore and say "That's just how it's going to be".
In other words, allowing them to answer their fears is the WRONG thing to do. Assuaging them is quite unhelpful -- they just poke holes in what you say.
I now understand why marijuana has been so critical to my current state of mind -- I use it to artificially decrease my anxiety and become inured to what makes me uncomfortable, which ranges from sexuality to mentoring young ents (pot smokers to be) and tracking them under the rationale of "they're my clan". I get incredibly controlling in things I am actively working in and get incredibly upset when I feel someone is daring to steal control.
Let alone when someone actually does.
Are Physical OCD types treated the same way? Told to mock their fears, to become classically trained out of it by decreasing the emotional "spike" (I call it an adrenal spike, because when I do begin to feel incredibly bad, it's almost invariably precipitated by that sudden shock-pulse in my chest and my heart speeding up like a runaway train)...
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
