Stop Obsessing! by Edna B. Foa

Author:Edna B. Foa [Foa, Edna B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-57402-2
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2001-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Only through his personal experience did Vann learn this necessary lesson: He doesn’t have to ritualize to get rid of his anxiety

If I can control the first ten seconds of checking, and if I can stop it early, I’m fine. Two months ago when I practiced, I still had a desire two hours later to check that item. That desire is much less now.

I can remember in the past being stuck for two hours one afternoon in the office looking at that phone book, taking it in and out of the drawer thirty, forty, fifty times. Before I put it back in the drawer I had to keep looking at all the things about the phone book: checking the scratches on it, making sure all the pages weren’t crumpled up, and so forth. What I do now is pick the phone book up, close it, shove it into the drawer, and shut the drawer. I haven’t had too much of a problem doing that either. It really gave me a lot of confidence to accomplish that.

Vann’s primary technique now is to confront his fear of becoming stuck checking if he checks just once. Notice how he finds every opportunity he can to practice his skills. He is convinced, through his recent successes, that his best approach is frequent encounters with his fears.

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