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3 slick tactics on how to curb your obsessive compulsive disorder

By Derek Soto

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The first slick tactic on how to curb your obsessive compulsive disorder is to recognize that you are having OCD thoughts. You'd be surprised at how many people that have OCD don't really know how many thoughts of theirs are actually OCD.

I get questions all the time from my clients who tell me that they are having OCD thoughts and when I listen to them, they are not. Fears are not OCD. OCD thoughts are only when you perform either mental or physical rituals. Taking an umbrella with you everywhere you go so that you don't get soaked is not OCD. Taking it everywhere you go because you think that something bad will happen if you get wet is OCD.

So how can we apply this? How can we use the tactic of recognition? When you are questioning whether a thought is an OCD thought, ask yourself this, "Do I feel like I have to perform a rituals because I feel like something bad will happen?" If you can answer yes, then it is OCD.

The second part to this is, what if you are having OCD thoughts and you are not even aware of their existence? You can ask yourself this, "Do I perform any rituals or do anything that most people don't do?" Odds are you may be able to isolate a few things that you did that you did not even think about and then you can start working on those things. These are the easiest things to work on because they don't disturb you as much. Getting little victories under your belt is very powerful in helping you to curb your OCD.

The second thing that you want to do is to plan times when you are going to attack these different OCD's. Work on one at a time. This is the most effective and it will help you to get the flow for how things should go as far as beating your OCD. You will learn valuable skills. Don't start with the hardest one, start with a more easy one and that way you can build up your strength and your bravery. You need to make yourself brave to face your OCD and you can easily do this by learning more information. The more information that you have, the more brave you are, period.

The third thing that you can do is to start to replace your obsessions with healthy ones. Like providing for your family, working on your hobby. Having something to replace that time that you used to spend on your OCD will help you to stay OCD free. It's very implortant to find things that you are passionate about and beating obsessive compulsive disorder will be much easier than you think!

Take action: Today what you want to do is to go over all of the things that we have talked about today in this article and realize that knowing something is useless unless you can use it. So now that you know this information, you need to teach yourself to use it and you will be on the road to becoming OCD free in no time!

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