OCD symptoms can range from a…

plethora of things but some of them are high levels of stress, anxiety and fear. One of the things that you can do to help with your OCD symptoms is to learn some relaxation techniques to use when you are in the throes of OCD. So what do I mean when I say the throes of OCD? I mean that when it gets the worst and you may feel like the sky is falling and you may even feel like you are going to die. I know that I did when I had OCD. The problem with these thoughts is that they scare people, so people often freak out over them.

Another one of the OCD symptoms is when you may think that just because you thought something that it means that you’d actually do it. You should realize that thinking about doing something and actually doing something are two separate things that are worlds apart. Have you ever thought that you were going to do a big project like write a book or become an actor? Most people never act on most of the thoughts that they have. People definitely don’t do things that they are afraid to do and that go against their morality. It’s actually nearly impossible to get yourself or even someone else to do something that they don’t want to do, that they are scared to do and that which goes against their beliefs!

So you should not be afraid if you are experiencing OCD symptoms because…

they will not always be there. Most people simply don’t give the symptoms enough time to go away before they actually do. Studies have shown that the hardest part of anxiety goes away within 30-60 minutes, so you just need to give anxiety more time to dissipate. If you will allow anxiety this time to go away while not giving in to the ritual that you feel like you have to do, then you will be greatly increasing your resistance to OCD and saying no to rituals will get easier and easier until the point where you won’t feel like you have to do them anymore and then you eventually won’t even think about them anymore! I am telling you this from personal experience!

OCD symptoms are often…

talked about by the medication companies and the therapists. If I were you, I would stay very far away from them because they are not the quick fix that so many believe them to be. Here’s how they work from personal experience and the collective experience of the over 100 clients that I have personally worked with. When you first take an anxiety medication, it will feel like a miracle and you may even feel cured.

Then after several weeks, you’ll find that you still have the thoughts and then you’ll find that the pressure to give in to doing your rituals is still too much to the point that you give in even though you are taking the medication! So what are you taking it for now? When drug addicts first take a drug, they then keep taking it trying to chase that first high and feel it again, but they never can. People who continue to take OCD meds hope that they will feel the relief that they felt when they first took it, but it won’t ever happen and after a while it won’t even treat their OCD symptoms.