Spotlight on O.C.D by Greg Neville

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder People with O.C.D can experience their own unique type of symptoms, but their need to continually repeat a particular action is due their underlying belief (concern) that “you can never be sure enough, so I’d better recheck”. Particular situations have taken place in their life and left them convinced that ‘you can never be sure enough’. Further on down the track they find some particular tasks they believe now to be extremely important, must be checked and rechecked due to their underlying concern that ‘you can never be sure enough’. This of course is hinged upon the erroneous philosophy that ‘it was supposedly possible for them to have made a different decision or to have acted different at that moment in time when that particular event occurred in the past’. Once again the ridiculous philosophy that ‘freewill exists’ is the culprit at the seat of a psychological problem! In O.C.D.

I’m not saying the person must have at some time in the past been attempting the same type of task as they now have an obsession with, but rather that some particular situation took place in the past that left them with the belief that ‘you can never be sure enough’, and then one day further down the track the persons mind attached this ‘you can never be sure enough’ philosophy to a particular task that they now see as being very important. From now on this new task becomes an obsession.

Example: A female who several years ago was ripped off by her sister when having purchased a business off her, and since then believed that ‘you can never be sure enough’ now has to repeatedly go back and recheck all electrical appliances are turned off every time she attempts to leave her home. This is because she now wants to be able to adopt a child and believes that being able to keep a safe house (not leaving electrical appliances on) is something that she believes the adoption agency will be assessing her situation by and hence is very important to her. The ‘you can never be sure enough’ kicked in and she now has to repeatedly return to check if the appliances are turned off.

Lesson: O.C.D is no different than any other addiction and so the laws of addiction also apply to O.C.D. to cure O.C.D you have to cancel the underlying beliefs responsible for the cause of the addiction, which in this case is both the ‘belief’ that ‘you could have made a different decision or could have acted differently than they did (at that moment in the past) and the belief that ‘someone’s life could possibly progress down some incorrect path of events. Just like with any addiction the person can even come to understand that the addiction is threatening to jeopardize the type of future the person desires, but still cannot stop doing the addiction. This is because the persons mind believes that this particular future the person desires is actually dependant upon that particular state of mind that is responsible for causing obsession (that belief ‘you can never be sure enough so I must recheck).

So even though the person may wish to stop the obsession for certain reasons, he/she cannot because it is more important that he/she continues to recheck dure to certain reasons which are considered to be more important. To the persons mind it is actually more important to recheck than it is to stop rechecking.

To accomplish reversing the priorities you shall have to cancel this need to ‘recheck’ by cancelling the ‘belief’ that it was possible for the person to have made a different decision at that moment in the past. And then providing an education to reside under that ‘wisdom model for gauging personal development’ rather than the ‘achievement for measuring personal development and as such is then okay with accepting that he/she is only human and capable of making mistakes and still having things to learn, this will help to take away from that equation that priority of needing to recheck.