Why can't anyone understand what's going on in my OCD mind? Here's hope for a new way in.
CBT should not try to constrict the OCD mind but instead learn to shift the focus of its spotlight.obsessive-compulsive
OCD advocate Catherine Benfield recently wowed me with the brilliance of the spotlight metaphor by OCD experts Jon Hershfield and Tom Corboy. The metaphor envisions the mind's eye as a spotlight and a bookcase as the potential thoughts illuminated and examined by the mind's eye. This model highlights something unspoken but known by those who live with OCD. There's more good stuff in there. A lot of OCD sufferers worry about admitting that as if it's going to glorify the bad stuff.
You can either be with someone with OCD, or you can be normal. While this is certainly understandable, given the most pressing desire of most OCD sufferers to get rid of their"Undesirable Fringe Thoughts," it betrays the full humanity of those with OCD. It loses sight of the full range of what the OCD mind and heart are capable of.
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