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Name: Rewire Your Ocd Brain
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Author: Catherine M. Pittman, William H. Youngs

Catherine M. Pittman, William H. Youngs

Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears

4.6 (364 Bewertungen)

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Rewire Your OCD Brain by Catherine M. Pittman and William H. Youngs is a practical guide that helps readers understand the brain's mechanics behind OCD while offering evidence-based strategies to manage or reduce its symptoms.

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What’s in it for me? Learn how your brain works to gain control over your obsessive mind

Let’s begin this Blink with an example.

Manuel has been brilliant at work, but faced with the prospect of an upcoming presentation, he becomes anxious. As the day of the presentation draws closer, he starts to fret more and more about what he’s left out.

After going over his work several times, he starts to scrutinize sentences to make sure they’re well structured. The idea of standing in front of his bosses terrifies him so much that he finds himself sweating even at the thought of it.

Manuel is a classic case of an obsessive person. Every obsessive person has some behavior that has a hold over them and, in extreme cases, can seriously impair their lives and relationships.

Luckily, recent advances in neuroscience and brain imaging have now provided some answers to what’s going on in the brain when we worry, and with this knowledge, we can begin to reverse obsessive habits before they get out of hand. That’s the gift you’re about to unwrap in this Blink to Rewire Your OCD Brain by Catherine M. Pittman and William H. Youngs.

Worries, anxieties, and obsessions

What qualifies as an obsessive thought? To answer this, it’s important to first make the distinction among worries, anxieties, and the thoughts that come to dominate a person’s life.

When you worry, you’re thinking about what could go wrong. Unlike an obsessive thought, this changes from time to time, depending on the circumstances or the day. In this situation you move on once you get a result.

Anxieties tend to hang around longer, but usually also dissipate with time.

Obsessions, though, simply don’t go away. Let’s say you just had an interview for a job. You keep thinking about what happened, what might have happened, or what will happen once they start reviewing your file.

Then you pick up your certificates and start searching for the grades that might bring you down. From here you start stressing about that math class you hated in school – and it just goes on and on and on. That’s an obsessive behavior you’re likely to repeat even after you get the job.

Whether inherited or acquired through experience, these thoughts have one thing in common: they work in cycles. They lurk in the background and influence the way you live and the decisions you make.

For another person it might be the image of a violent scene that keeps popping up in their mind – maybe an accident or thoughts of an assault, and the fear that that generates.

An obsession might also take the form of an impulse. Someone might suddenly feel the urge to drive in front of a moving train, and then hold that thought to the point where the person starts obsessing about self-harm.

Obsessive thoughts take different forms, but they embody common themes – the fear of contamination, a strong desire to organize things and events in a particular order, violence and aggression, sexual violence and impulses, and the desire to avoid mistakes.

Religious obsessions can cripple people with guilt or embolden them with a conviction to act in the hope they’ll find relief. Every obsessive person will do something to find relief, repeatedly performing an act till it becomes a compulsion.

Do you find yourself going to check the door every ten minutes, or getting annoyed if your shoes are not in a particular order? Maybe you keep reading that email you’ve read 20 times already.

Compulsive behaviors provide relief, but it’s only temporary. Long-term solutions start with addressing the root cause of anxiety – and that’s what you’re going to learn next.

The amygdala’s role in anxiety and obsession

Now, imagine it’s a Friday and you’re driving to a neighboring town to catch up with some old friends. Suddenly, a car speeds into your lane as you drive down the freeway. Your reaction is instant. You swerve off the road and hit the brakes as you pull up on the grass.

You might think you made that call, but the decision was actually made before you became consciously aware of it.

How your cortex causes anxiety

You’ve learned how your amygdala activates an uncontrollable defense response when unprocessed information reaches it directly from the thalamus. But sometimes it’s not just your amygdala causing your anxiety – it’s you. This means you can control this.

Take Sheila, for example, who wakes up with a headache. Her thoughts soon drift to fears about a brain tumor as she contemplates the pain in her head. Sheila’s aware of these thoughts because they’re happening in her cortex, but her amygdala’s monitoring through connections it has with the cortex. It misreads the commotion and triggers a defense response, causing distress.

Managing obsessive behavior

By now you have a good understanding of your body’s defense response and how that leads to anxiety and fuels obsessions. So how do you use that knowledge to live a more fulfilling life?

First, it helps to review a situation when your internal alarm goes off. Remember, false signals can trigger a defense response. When the alarm goes off and you start to feel extreme anxiety, observe and acknowledge your body’s reaction and take note of the symptoms.

Rewiring your brain

Taming your brain’s natural defense mechanism is tough, but the brain has an intriguing property that makes it pretty malleable with consistent effort.

Spiders and barking dogs might scare a little kid, granted, but consider the case of kids eating at a McDonald’s with their parents. Not so scary, right? But if one of them – say, Tom – is yelled at for rubbing barbecue sauce on his face, his brain might later register barbecue sauce as a threat because of its association with yelling.

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Rewire Your OCD Brain (2021) presents compelling evidence behind the origins of anxiety, and explains how this knowledge can be combined with easy-to-apply hacks to manage obsessive behavior and regain control over your life.

Wer Rewire Your Ocd Brain lesen sollte

People dealing with anxiety, compulsive behaviors, or panic attacks
Anyone trying to understand family members or friends dealing with OCD
Therapists helping clients to manage their obsessions

Über den Autor

Catherine M. Pittman has taught psychology at Notre Dame University, Indiana, for over thirty years. During that time she’s written and published Rewire Your Anxious Brain, 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain, and Taming Your Amygdala.

Before his death in 2023, William H. Youngs ran a private practice in clinical neuropsychology. He had also worked as a neuropsychologist at a hospital for 25 years while teaching as a visiting assistant professor at Notre Dame University.

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