Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Beverly Beyette

Author:Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Beverly Beyette
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

ELUDING OCD’S TRAP

In the context of the Four Steps, Revaluing can be understood as an accentuation of the Relabel and Reattribute steps. By refusing to take their symptoms at face value, people with OCD come to think of their bothersome feelings and urges as, in one person’s words, “toxic waste from my brain.” Doing so enables them to work around the thought or urge so quickly that the Relabel/Reattribute steps become virtually automatic. They no longer have to shift gears manually, gear by gear, to change to another behavior. They now recognize the OCD thought or feeling for what it is almost the moment it occurs. Ongoing self-treatment results in a decrease in the intensity of symptoms, which, in turn, enhances Revaluation by lessening the effort required to dismiss the OCD symptoms as the worthless rubbish they are and to Refocus on a positive behavior.

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