The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD by Patricia Zurita Ona Psy.D

Author:Patricia Zurita Ona, Psy.D
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781787750845
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2019-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Putting Your Obsessions into Action!

Do you like to watch movies by any chance? I personally absolutely love to watch movies of all types, except horror movies. But what comes to my mind about movies when writing this chapter is this: When a film is being shot, someone shouts “Scene 1, action” and then the actors start performing, doing anything from portraying someone in a sad scene, to singing, fighting, etc.

In this chapter, you’re going to be like a director of the movie of your obsessions and put them into action! In the end, obsessions can be like actors that will follow your lead!

Why not try directing your obsessions by picturing them as one of the following?

• Actors on stage that you, as a director, direct and watch from the audience

• Soccer players with t-shirts that have the obsessions printed on them and you’re watching them running in the field

• Ad banners on taxi cabs passing by that you watch from the street

• Guests dancing all over the floor

• Planes flying banners with obsessions that you can see moving in the sky.

For instance, Janine always carried a hand sanitizer in her backpack and reached to it as a compulsion every time she thought she touched something that may have had germs on it, like books or papers that were handed to her in class or at the library. Using this unhooking skill, Janine imagined her obsessions as clouds moving in the sky and each one of them had messages like “This is not clean enough. Who touched this? Did this person wash his hands before touching it? What if he didn’t? How many people have used this book before?”

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