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Compulsive Disorder - How and Why Your Brain Forms Rituals

By Derek Soto

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Published: 12Apr2009
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So how is it that we can stop the nagging need to do rituals?

You first have to realize where rituals come from and why they exist. The rituals that we conjure up are a response to a certain stimuli and then a subsequent belief and thought about that stimuli.

So we basically form rituals that help us cope with what is going on around us. If you look at a child who was just denied her request to have an ice cream, you can see that she responds in a manner that makes it obvious to you that she is not happy.

This reaction from her is her response to the stimulus of not getting the ice cream. Then if the mother were to hand her an ice cream cone, most likely her demeanor would be much more happy almost instantly.

This happens because the little girl tells herself that she cannot be happy until she gets what she wants, or in this case, an ice cream cone. What we can observer from this is the fact that she could have been happy the whole time. It was in fact a choice.

Once you realize that you actually have a choice to change the way that you react to stimuli, you will start to realize the power and control that you really have over your OCD.

When that little girl was denied her ice cream request, could she have not thrown a fit? Was this possible? She could have responded any way she wanted to, but in this case, she threw a fit. She learned from a young age that throwing a fit usually got her what she wanted.

Having developed this association in her head, she forms what appears to be a "natural reaction" to the stimulus of not getting her ice cream. In actuality, this was a learned behavior. If when she was a baby, she only got what she wanted when she stopped crying, then that is how she would "naturally respond."

What If find really interesting about all this is the fact that a lot of us just want to be lazy and think, "I cannot control how I react, I just react naturally." Now you can see as evidenced above that you are in fact giving into a learned behavior and that it is actually not a "natural reaction" at all.

People act similarly to each other, but not exactly as one another. There are trends in the way that people whether they have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, react. If we can identify these trends and how habits are formed, we can cure a massive amount of problems and have indeed with OCD.

http://www.ocd-gone-in-seven-days.com is where you can get your free OCD Q&A e-book where I answer your OCD questions. Derek J. Soto is an expert in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and having been an ex OCD sufferer himsel, will show you how to get rid of your OCD for good.

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