by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
Obsessions are thoughts that cause anxiety, are intrusive and disturbing (Goodman et al., 2014). Obsessions in ROCD may take many forms. They may take the form of a thought. Thoughts could be in the form of doubts or questions. For example, ‘What if I don’t love my...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
What do you do when the obsessions seem real? According to the metacognitive model (Myers & Wells, 2005), people suffering from mental disorders like OCD consider having the thoughts as being equal to acting on the thoughts, due to the metacognitive belief called...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
We do not need to solve all the doubts our ROCD throws at us. But it seems like the mind will not find relief until we do. There is intolerance of uncertainty which could be both prospective (I would like to know all the answers) and inhibitory (I cannot function...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
Sometimes despite being told that our thoughts are untrue, we keep seeing evidence of our fears coming true. When you think that your partner has stopped loving you, you will begin to notice how her texts are not affectionate enough, how she spends more time away than...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 16, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 4
A self-fulfilling prophecy is the phenomenon where someone ‘predicts’ something bad, and ironically the person’s behavior to prevent the bad from happening results in causing the bad to happen, thereby making the ‘prediction’ come true....
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