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Originally Posted by ChrisB  Yes there are solutions to OCD. I'm currently overcoming my own. OCD usually comes with other minor mental disorders, but OCD tends to be the central one. There are two things you need to do to overcome OCD.
1) Exposure Therapy. Try to borrow a book from the library on OCD. It will most likely tell you about exposure therapy. In essence, it consists in exposing to you fears for at least one hour every day. I'm not going to go into details on how this works though.
2) Inositol The natural substance that works like an SSRI. I would never medicate, but eventually settled for Inositol. I'm trying it out. You must research it though, since you may experience withdrawal and other effects if you don't take the right amounts every day etc. You have to be committed and treat it like a drug.
I'm planning on writing a blog entry on OCD when I have time. I'll let you know when I write it. In the meantime, read up about what I told you.
I know you're more focused on your social problems, but I think fixing OCD kind of has a ripple effect in other areas of your life. Perfectionism is directly linked to OCD. And building the discipline to overcome your OCD through exposure therapy will make it easier to overcome social fears.
Good luck. Where are you from by the way? |
Thank you.
I know I have some form of OCD...it's weird, like I turn off the lights of the bathroom, I HAVE to go back in and touch the switch and count for a few seconds before I leave. If I don't do that, my mind tells me that something bad might happen ( because some kind of power will make it happen ). It's weird, and annoying. I wish it didn't happen, I want to get rid of OCD.
Also, I am from the USA.
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