Episode 151 - OCD & Mental Checking - What It Is & How To Deal With It
The OCD & Anxiety Podcast
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Compulsions and Mental Checking in OCD
If you struggle with Pure O, then I'm sure you've experienced waking up in the morning to suddenly remember an obsession that perhaps you've been struggling with. Almost automatically, the brain slips into gear and before you know what's happening, you start to get lost in OCD. Well, what's actually happening in essence is that you're performing compulsions. You wake up and remember an obsession and this immediately gives you a sense of doom,. That horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach that anxiety can so easily create. But as we know, whatever we do to try and get rid of the feeling to reduce the anxiety is just a compulsion and will only make things worse.
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