by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 2
The twelfth pillar of recovery is medicines. One section of people is averse to taking medicines because of the various side-effects. Plus, medicines do not cure OCD, they only treat OCD. So, there is a large chunk of people which does not want to take medicines. The...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 3
Sometimes it helps to give your ROCD a name (Prudovski, n.d.). That is, think of your ROCD as a separate person. You probably already think of your ROCD as another person because it seems to wield power over you and make you do things you know you should not. You seem...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 3
In this chapter, I am going to explain the critical distinction between the two states of being triggered and not being triggered. Sometimes people say distraction is important, and at other times they say distraction is a compulsion. Sometimes people talk about...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 3
When ROCD first hits, we do the compulsions because they seem like the right thing to do to help us out of our misery. But even when we get to know that the compulsions don’t help us but hold us back, we still continue to do them. At times, we do not even realize that...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 3
When you first start obsessing about your relationship, you don’t immediately recognize your ROCD like you would recognize a headache. By the time you do and discover you have ROCD, a lot of time is likely to have elapsed. In that time, you might end up developing...
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