{"id":968,"date":"2013-08-06T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2024-04-05T04:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:50:01","slug":"4-great-therapy-techniques-for-ocd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/4-great-therapy-techniques-for-ocd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Effective Therapy Techniques For Treating OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mark, why would anyone NEED to clean a spotless table six times a day?&#8221; Peter asked me wearily.<\/p>\n<p>He was calling to make a therapy appointment for his sister who suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).<\/p>\n<p>I understood Peter&#8217;s exhaustion. For an outsider, and sometimes even those with OCD themselves, the obsessive complusive behaviour is odd. Counting bathroom tiles, elaborate hand-washing routines, checking 40 times the oven is turned off, cleaning an already pristine house &#8211; why do it?<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I explained to Peter that OCD is essentially an <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/anxiety-treatment\/\">anxiety<\/a> driven condition. I told him compulsive behaviour can also be observed in animals if they are too narrowly confined and have elevated levels of stress hormone. <sup>(1)<\/sup><\/p>\n<h3>Prefer to watch instead?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0iN8_vqsM0?si=M3W9usnKDWh4xHC4&amp;rel=0\" title=\"Watch 4 Effective Therapy Techniques For Treating OCD\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But like all repetitive behaviours, the compulsion may start to function like any other <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/smoking-cessation\/\">addiction<\/a>. The OCD sufferer may feel they have to do increasingly more of their compulsive behaviour just to feel &#8216;normal&#8217; &#8211; just as the addict may need to take increasingly more of a substance to get the same hit.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"first-subheading\">OCD can be seen as an attempt to\u00a0<i>stave off<\/i>\u00a0anxiety<\/h3>\n<p>There is often a\u00a0superstitious\u00a0element to obsessive behaviour, with the sufferer feeling that their ceaseless checking or counting or cleaning will somehow &#8220;stop something bad happening&#8221;. Often it&#8217;s not at all clear what that &#8216;something&#8217; might be.<\/p>\n<p>OCD can be understood as a profound\u00a0<i>fear of not carrying out the activity\u00a0<\/i>(whether that&#8217;s a physical activity such as cleaning or a mental activity such as counting or checking). The fear of\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0giving in to the compulsion\u00a0<i>drives<\/i>\u00a0the compulsion.<\/p>\n<p>OCD often oscillates between being really bad, quite bad or barely noticeable. It tends to worsen when background stress levels are high, so it&#8217;s always a good idea to get a general sense of how your client deals with stress in their lives, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypnosisdownloads.com\/blog\/the-primal-human-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what Primal Human Needs your client isn&#8217;t meeting<\/a>, so you can help them there if need be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-share-wrapper style2\">\n<p class=\"shareimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/quote-on-ocd.png\" alt=\"Mark Tyrrell's quote\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"share-buttons-row\">\n<p class=\"share-txt\">Share this quote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-btn fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/quote-on-ocd.png\" data-layout=\"button\" data-size=\"large\" data-mobile-iframe=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"social-btn\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bottom-txt\">For more quotes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marktyrrellunk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow Mark on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>With that in mind, here are four handy interventions to help you help your obsessive compulsive clients put all that behind them.<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Use the Rewind Technique<\/h3>\n<p>If we ask our OCD clients straight out to imagine\u00a0<i>not doing<\/i>\u00a0their compulsion when they normally\u00a0<i>would<\/i>\u00a0do it, they are likely to get highly anxious at the very idea.<\/p>\n<p>Now I think that all psychotherapists should anyway be adept at using the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/rewind-technique-course\/\">Rewind Technique\u00a0<\/a>to help phobic or traumatized clients.<\/p>\n<p>But this same powerful fear-diminishing technique can be very effectively used for OCD sufferers to neutralize and calm the terrifying thought of\u00a0<i>not\u00a0<\/i>carrying out compulsion.<\/p>\n<p>When your client is\u00a0<i>relaxed about not engaging in their compulsion<\/i>, then the compulsion is as good as gone.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Separate the OCD from core identity<\/h3>\n<p>As with all emotional problems, OCD is\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0the person. OCD is more like a parasite that spoils a person&#8217;s life &#8211; and makes living much more difficult. The more separate &#8211; and even unfamiliar &#8211; a state of mind becomes, the easier it is to\u00a0<a title=\"detach from it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/conscious-and-unconscious-mind\/\">detach from it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than talking in terms of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>so\u00a0<b>you being OCD<\/b>\u00a0has made life quite difficult for you<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>we can talk about<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>so\u00a0<b>that OCD<\/b>\u00a0has made life quite difficult for you<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and rather than saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>you<\/b>\u00a0can&#8217;t help yourself<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>we can talk about &#8216;it&#8217;, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>it<\/b>\u00a0is always trying to manipulate you<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier to begin to stand up to something that feels separate from who you are.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Interrupt the pattern<\/h3>\n<p>Behaviours &#8211; especially compulsive behaviours &#8211; tend to become stereotypical. This means the behaviour tends toward becoming fixed in a narrow pattern with recognizable steps and repeated in order sequence. There is a specific hypnotic &#8216;scrambling&#8217; technique to first elicit the steps then hypnotically repeat them in the wrong order, but you can also prescribe scrambling to &#8216;loosen&#8217; such patterns.<\/p>\n\n<p>For example, you might ask someone who washes their hands 100 times after any given trigger (coming into contact with door handles, or whatever) to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>still wash their hands but wait 30 seconds before doing so<\/li>\n<li>wash their hands 90 times, then stop<\/li>\n<li>recite the alphabet, then wash their hands ten more times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this way you, the therapist, begin to &#8216;direct&#8217; the behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>This subtly demonstrates to your client that this behaviour is not as &#8216;fixed&#8217; and unchallengeable as it appears. Changing it\u00a0<i>in small ways<\/i>\u00a0is a positive prelude to\u00a0<i>removing it completely<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This feels much less threatening than trying to get rid of it all in one go.<\/p>\n<p>After the Rewind has been used then clients will often feel much less compelled to continue with their previous complusions anyway, and their activity will feel even more &#8216;pointless&#8221; when they are doing it.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Use hypnosis to fight hypnosis<\/h3>\n<p>OCD is anxiety driven but it is also hypnotic. Sufferers often report being &#8216;tranced out&#8217;, totally focussed on what they are doing and oblivious to the world around them. They may also experience hypnotic time distortion and be quite unaware of the length of time they have spent engaged in their activity.<\/p>\n<p>You can use hypnosis to get them to imagine performing their behaviour while constantly\u00a0<i>coming out of that obsessive trance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So you might suggest something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230; imagine touching that door handle&#8230; and noticing how that OCD goes into action&#8230; and starting to wash your hands&#8230; and\u00a0<b>coming right out of that obsessive trance<\/b>&#8230; with your hands still under the water&#8230; and looking out of the window&#8230; and noticing three things you can see out there&#8230; and as you wash those hands some more&#8230; you\u00a0<b>come right out of that obsessive trance<\/b>&#8230; and step back a little with your right foot&#8230; and then your left foot&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this way we use therapeutic hypnosis to &#8216;break&#8217; the negative trance of the OCD. At the same time, we are training them to loosen up the compulsivity of the activity.<\/p>\n<p>OCD sufferers (and their loved ones) often look terribly haunted and bowed down by their condition. In my opinion, there are few things more satisfying than helping them to free themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a related article: <a href=\"\/blog\/3-vital-cbt-techniques-for-ocd\/\">3 Vital CBT Techniques for OCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on using hypnosis to treat OCD, <a href=\"\/blog\/hypnosis-for-ocd-treatment\/\">see my article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><script async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four handy techniques to help you help your obsessive compulsive clients put all that behind 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