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The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts by Lee Baer, Ph.D. The Treatment of Obsessions (Medicine) by Stanley Rachman. Oxford University Press, 2003. Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: A four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry by Jeffrey Schwartz and Beverly ...
Perseverative cognition [1] [2] is a collective term in psychology for continuous thinking about negative events [3] in the past or in the future (e.g. worry, rumination and brooding, but also mind wandering about negative topics [4] [5]).
Such thoughts are universal among humans, and have "almost certainly always been a part of the human condition." [10] When intrusive thoughts occur with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), patients are less able to ignore the unpleasant thoughts and may pay undue attention to them, causing the thoughts to become more frequent and distressing. [7]
Past memories can hit you like a ton of bricks. To learn more about how to stop past thoughts, researchers looked at three modes of eliminating memories. “Think of old thoughts as used dirty ...
Avoiding situations where they’ll encounter a subject of their obsessive thought. Performing mental rituals, like seeking reassurance, showering, or counting, to replace the thoughts ...
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function.
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[5] [6] In the book Schwartz claims that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a result of a bio-chemical imbalance that "locks" brain functions into an obsessive-compulsive pattern and that OCD can be self-treated by following four steps: [7] [8] Relabel the obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges as obsessions and compulsions, not as real ...