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Obsessive Thinking Disorder – The Trap and Its Treatment

Obsessive thinking disorder is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder that lacks the compulsive actions. Instead, it focuses on the half of the anxiety disorder that focuses on the enslaving thoughts. Usually, you’d find yourself fretting more than the average person about irrational fears with this disorder and this disorder doesn’t choose just certain people like common diseases. It can fall on anyone regardless of their race or sex. Do you have it? Do you know someone who could possibly have it? What do you do with it?

The Phenomenon

Most of the time obsessive thinking disorder is actually a fear of not knowing, not being in control, or of uncertainty. Not knowing what you’re afraid of or worrying about is actually what separates anxiety from fear. Though worrying about the unknown is quite normal, you can always overdo it and that’s when it gets pretty bad.

With obsessive thinking disorder, the nasty habit can either lay its roots on you as a child, adolescent or in your early adult years. You think too much, your ideas come in an unstoppable gush, running over and over about different persons, situations or feelings. Some consider it as a coping mechanism for emotional stress but it is quite a destructive one as you just feed your anxiety and help it get further along within you. As you feed your anxiety, it will give birth to bad feelings and these bad feelings only feed your anxiety more. It becomes a destructive cycle that must be stopped.

Wouldn’t you get annoyed when you hear a nagging voice at your ear? This is the part where you may or may not fill the whole description of obsessive compulsive disorder because with the nagging voice, you may feel compelled to perform certain routines to help curb the exhausting thoughts. However, such actions can only do as much as curb and not free you from all the obsessive thinking. The delineating factor between normal anxiety and destructive cyclic anxiety isn’t hard to spot. When the thinking gets to a point where it gets in the way of you performing your day to day activities, then you need help. From excessive fear of making mistakes, rejection, and embarrassment to excessive doubt and paranoia, those are little warning signs that something might be up.

Treatment

When diagnosed with obsessive thinking disorder, if it’s severe it may require medication to help cope with the condition. Until the true cause of your detrimental thoughts is identified and confronted, it will help with the treatment. Such a disorder would not be cured overnight but is possible to resolve.

Medication is but an aid to make the treatment easier. It takes a commitment to break the cycle and form a new one that perpetuates a positive effect in its place. Defy the disorder. Know that you can.

Compulsive Thinking Disorder – Fight It!

It happens again and again and again. Your thoughts just seem to revolve around the same things time and time again. It’s consuming you, slowly. You try to sleep but you can’t. There’s a buzzing, a nagging, an annoying voice in your head that won’t give you peace. It haunts you. You can’t get anything done. You know it has to stop. This, my friend, is the manifestation of the compulsive thinking disorder.

I’ll Never Get over It

Getting over the compulsive thinking disorder is a task with difficulty that’s equivalent to its severity. A few worrisome thoughts are acceptable and very much normal. Having thoughts that seem to take over your life however, letting it stop you in your tracks instead of moving steadily forward is highly unhealthy. It’s really bad if you let it drag you to the past and keep you there.

If you really think about it, it would be easy to conquer this disorder. You just really have to want it and you must be willing to commit to beating it because there’s a simple solution that can pose to be very difficult if you go on about it with the ways of a compulsive thinking disorder. What is it? It’s just to focus on positive thoughts and believe in them. Try hard to bring yourself peace. But again, of course, everything’s easier said than done especially with a stubborn attitude born from this disorder.

Oh Yeah? So what’s the Plan?

The best plan you could have to defeat compulsive thinking disorder is to try to kill every negative thought as soon as it comes. When you notice that your thoughts are starting to get sour, go for a positive rebuttal. You can think, “I’m not going to have any fun at the party” then go “but then again my friends are there so it’ll be okay. In fact, it can be more than okay.” It may be hard to do at first from its sheer unfamiliarity and how it’s so opposite to what you’re used to, but like wit all skills, all you need is a bit of practice. Do yourself a favor and don’t lose heart with this one. The more you do it, the easier it gets and the more it’d seem like an automatic reflex.

Beating compulsive thinking disorder is your chance not just to better your mood or yourself as a person, but it can better your life in general. Soon you’d find things looking up your way and that you’re getting to places you want to be in life. Get out of the shadows, see life in a whole new light.

Is it truly possible to be the master of every thought that you chose to enter your mind or not, as the case may be? To be able to filter out all  unwanted and unproductive thoughts automatically without too much conscious thought so they pop in and pop right out again in the blink of an eye? Sounds like a tall order doesn’t it.

The mind seems to act like some restless creature that won’t lie still and be tamed sometimes, constantly on the go, flitting from one notion to the next at random. In fact most of our bodies functions are done without any real conscious thought from breathing and walking to heartbeat and blood flow around the body. So it is with the involutary nature of our thoughts. They are sometimes like unwanted guests, just coming in sitting down for a bit, making a mess, then waltzing off again.

Our minds cannot help but think about what ever it sees, analyzes,questions and reasons it, before it “rates” its importance. Your mind processes this information almost instantaneously and decides on this importance rating by using a “filtering” system. Everyone’s filters are different and account for why some people will attach such significance to one subject, while for someone else, that same subject will hold none whatsoever.

Our filter settings began to be set in, you’ve probably guessed it, our childhood years-and have been undergoing a process of fine-tuning ever since. Every thought, word, occurence or experience has an effect on our minds and conditions our thoughts. These thoughts are thus produced non-stop and we seemingly bath in a sea of them. This incessant flow of thought requires a lot of energy and can occupy a lot a time.

Unfortunately the thoughts produced are mostly fairly unuseful or negative thoughts, and in this scenario too many of them can feel like we are being overwhelmed by too much of this kind of thinking, and a sense that we are “drowning” in this sea of negative thoughts. This can lead to a sense of helplessness, that feeling of having little or no control over what thoughts enter our minds.

Being constantly dogged by unwanted and negative thoughts is a form of enslavement. These obsessional notions and mental mind games can begin to affect our health and lead to forms of mental illness such as anxiety and depression.

But this should not be. Why let our thoughts rule us when our minds should be their master? Why not be at liberty to enjoy only beneficial and desirable thoughts that will bestow inner peace rather than your mind bossing you with relentless and mostly futile work?  The state whereby you can chose which thoughts enter your mind and which don’t is true freedom.

Using the untamed animal analagy, you can train your mind using concentration exercises and meditation techniques to attain the self discipline and obedience required to “bring your mind to heel”,  and make it stop the flow of unecessary and negative thoughts from entering it. If you put in the effort to achieve this you can realise true mental mastery.