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Why Resisting Rituals is So Important When You Have OCD

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by Michael Parker, LCSW

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Trigger. Uncomfortable thought/feeing. Ritual. There’s the OCD cycle and the problem: the ritual didn’t remove the trigger, so...here it goes again!
Whether it’s scrubbing, or cleaning, or organizing, or mentally reviewing, or praying, or asking for reassurance...OCD gets rituals going and going and going but these rituals don’t solve the feeling/urge/thought the way OCD says they will. So it asks for more rituals.
Notice that OCD saw no visible dirt, nor can it tell you what the invisible contaminant is. OCD is going from a feeling, and getting you stuck in a cycle of sanitizing until it(OCD) says you feel right again.

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