Hypnotherapy for OCD

 

Hypnotherapy for OCD

OCD
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is a common mental health disorder. This disorder can at times be very chronic and long-lasting. It is basically an anxiety disorder in which people have recurring and unwanted thoughts that create an urge in them to do something repeatedly. A person gets obsessed with a few things which create an uncomfortable feeling in him and he tries to diminish this anxiety by practicing recurrent behaviors and acts. These behaviors and mental acts are termed as compulsions. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can start impacting not only adults but also children at a very early age. Mostly, this disorder starts developing in children and grows with them in other stages of lives as well. These behaviors and compulsions are not very simple. They are so devastating that they can hinder a person's ability to perform daily personal and social activities to a very great extent. The disease has basically two parts, "obsessions" and “compulsions". Obsessions are the unwanted thoughts and urge that make a person so uncomfortable and disturbed that they trigger a person to engage in particular activities termed as compulsions, to relieve stress and anxiety. This article is aimed at highlighting various facts about OCD and identifying solutions with the help of hypnotherapy.

Obsessions
Obsessions are the first part of the obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessions have various categories. A person might be one or a number of these categories. They include contamination obsessions, for example, fear of coming in contact with germs. Some obsessions are related to symmetry, a strong need to see things being arranged in a particular way and feeling distressed if they are arranged in any way opposite to that. Another fear is of accidentally harming oneself or others through carelessness. These obsessions or fears become so strong in a person that they affect his daily ways of functioning and performing various activities. Some of the OCD patients even understand that these thoughts are unreasonable but they fail to overcome them through logic.

Compulsions
Compulsions are the second part of this mental health disorder. They are the behaviors one engages in to overcome the obsessions and the associated urges. These are the repetitive acts a person feels driven to perform in response to a particular obsession. Performing these behaviors result in reduced anxiety or a feared situation. Some of the common compulsions one engages in to relieve anxiety and to temporarily feel better include excessive hand washing in the response to fear of catching germs or excessive time spent over showering or self-hygiene. Other compulsions also include keep on arranging things until a particular order is achieved or rereading and rewriting things to make sure there is no error. Theoretically, this might not look that problematic but the person suffering from this disorder goes through a lot. He puts excessive energy over things that don't require that much of attention, resulting in wastage of time, a lot of anxiety and disturbance in functioning in daily personal and social life.

What causes OCD?
The obsessive-compulsive disorder can influence children as well as adults. There is no as such evidence about what really trigger OCD in a person. However, there are some general factors that may induce such sort of behavior in a person. OCD can be inherited; it might be running down in the family. Your genes in combination with other factors like stress and anxiety can result in the disorder. Also, your environment and past experiences can cause OCD. For instance, if a child has gone through abuse or some other sort of major trauma, he has the potential to end up with this disorder as an adult.

Research is still underway to identify the root causes that end up as OCD in a person in order to make better diagnosis and treatment decisions.

Emotional and Physical Issues
Along with the emotional troubles that OCD creates for an individual like, extreme anger, anxiety, fear, shame or guilt there are some physical conditions attributed to it as well. The possible physical issues include racing heart, muscle tension, shortness of breath, dizziness, and headaches. These emotional and physical conditions together can adversely influence the life of the person who is suffering from the disorder.  It can end up as wastage of a lot of time ranging from one hour or maybe more, depending on the intensity of the disorder.

Treatments and Therapies
OCD is tried to be treated with medication in a person. Medication might be given alone or in combination with some therapy. Certain medications might even make the person feel better but as always medicines always come with some side effects. These side effects might be observed not in the short run, but in the longer run. Therefore, one should opt for ways that have maximum benefits but little long-term issues. One avenue for this purpose is therapy. Therapy can be of various forms. One of the very effective therapies to treat OCD is hypnotherapy.  This therapy relaxes the mind and neutralizes the anxiety of OCD patients. It can be an analysis or a suggestion therapy. In analysis therapy, the hypnotist can reach to the root cause of what triggered certain behavior in an individual. When the root cause is identified it is easy to manage the treatment. Suggestion therapy, however, taps into the part of the subconscious which responds to suggestion including that of behavioral changes. Both these techniques can work in combination to treat the issue in a more effective way. You can see a licensed therapist to help you out or you can explore some self-hypnosis techniques as well.  In even a very short span of sittings with a therapist, one would start feeling better. It won’t only treat the OCD, but also would boost a person’s self-esteem and confidence. A person would feel less anxious to engage in certain activities. He would start observing positive changes in his personal and social life and in his personality as a whole.

It is very important to keep a positive attitude towards the treatment and in general to help you get rid of the thoughts and compulsion associated with this disease.

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