{"id":1884,"date":"2023-12-14T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T10:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damianruiz.eu\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:39:30","slug":"expanding-the-field-of-consciousness-in-the-treatment-of-ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damianruiz.eu\/en\/expanding-the-field-of-consciousness-in-the-treatment-of-ocd\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the field of consciousness in the treatment of OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damian Ruiz<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the main problems of people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder is that the motive or object of the obsession (cleanliness, sexual orientation, aggressiveness, etc.) can change even after therapy if the psychological aspects of inhibition, guilt and\/or fear are not released, transformed into spontaneity, self-esteem and security, to a sufficiently acceptable level to be able to live without obsessions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For this to happen, it is first necessary to identify any negative life experiences that may have occurred, especially in childhood and\/or adolescence, and to see how he\/she reacted to them, what the environment was, what the personality and characterological factors were.<\/span><\/p>\n

From there it is necessary to work on reconnecting with the vital desire and thus transforming these negative emotions into positive ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fundamental factor for anyone who wants to feel better about their life, and essential for those who suffer from OCD, is to expand the field of consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does this mean?<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people operate within very narrow cognitive (thinking) parameters, with limiting beliefs, some bordering on superstition.<\/span><\/p>\n

People, even with a scientific background, who combine facts in a rather illogical way, along the lines of “this is happening to me because I have not been good to…”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is that the psychic field in which we live is an element to be taken into account in order to improve or overcome this disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s think of someone whose whole world revolves around the family, or the relationship with parents or one of them, or the moral conventions of a small and ultra-conservative environment, or superstitious beliefs linked to some religion, with a preconceived idea of what he or she is like and little possibility of overcoming it, or with a continuity of behaviour in relation to what his or her predecessors did. We could add an infinite number of beliefs which alone, without any kind of mental illness, would cause a permanent state of unhappiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why one of the strategies to follow for the patient is to open up a world of possibilities that are connected to their personality, their essence and their potentiality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Living in a small universe without taking into account the possibilities offered by existence – different for each of us, but undoubtedly always greater than we think – is in a way a condemnation of the chronicity of what happens to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, instead of “picking over the same stone”, i.e. insisting on the symptom, the most important thing is to create a stimulating and extensive “inner space” in which the obsessive content can gradually lose weight and be diluted, for two fundamental reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n

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