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The trouble is your mind becomes fixated on something (anything) which is typically considered socially innapropriate. Whatever that "thing" is, it typically causes an individual guilt/distress/anxiety and due to this they try to force themselves to stop the action.
While this very much makes sense to most people, those who treat such individuals (or recovered individuals themselves) know better. You can't suppress the action, it will go out of control like a weed, the only way is to confront it by purposely doing it or letting it go (dont worry about it whatsoever).
As anxiety decreases your fixated mindset will shift from its current repetitious tendancies into much more normal "concerns". Although for me personally, i know for a fact that i've got be careful how much pressure i put on myself because i get close to relapses, otherwise.
I actually have studied a little on Sigmund Freud, what i interpret from his logic is people with strong neurosis issue's such as OCD, phobias and such have a lot of inhibited feelings which are held onto. Intense physicial activity may externalize these inhibited energies and gradually help you over time.
That is kinda where the idea of laying down talking to a therapist originated, from Freud's theory of releasing and externalizing previously held energies (but he kinda inappropriately attributed it to sexual libido as almost everything else, must of been a horny fella).
Please talk to your doctor, but understand that some may not know OCD symptoms properly themselves. In that case see a psychologist.
Edited by inverse_bloom, 30 September 2009 - 01:07 PM.
. I found something that works really well. Don't look them in the eyes look at the right above the noes between the eyes. It looks like your giving eye contact but it doesn't feel as awkward. At least for me.
