What Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

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Our mind says “That was awful. I’m never going to let that happen again.” And we become hyper-vigilant.

Parents’ divorce, betrayals, abandonments, and death of loved ones are events we cannot control.

The event and trauma no longer exist but the younger mind’s “solutions” are still in place.

Something happened. It didn’t feel right. And your mind — possibly your infant mind or adolescent mind — said, “That was awful. I’m never going to let that happen again.” Then it tried an array of potential solutions to ensure that that traumatic event never occurs again.

Now it is 10 or 20 or 30 years later and the problem is gone, but your younger mind’s solution still exists.

And that “solution” — those compulsive behaviors and obsessive thoughts — has been pathologized and given a name: it is now called Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It is a dis-order. Orderly minded people do not suffer from it. If your mind were ordered correctly, or correctly ordered, it would not operate like this.

We agree that there is no gene that causes people to check their stoves or the locks on their doors hundreds of times before leaving the house — correct? OCD is not something that anyone is born........

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