Issues Surrounding OCD and Various Ways of Dealing with OCD

  The way through the maze of OCD, starts with you, you have to help yourself and make the first steps, but what you shouldn’t do is numb yourself, taking drugs antidepressants or alcohol in my humble opinion only numbs your feelings or actions like a mask, not getting to the root of the issues. There’s a great saying, ‘From the root to the fruit!!!’ and this statements so true with a person and OCD, , to help deal with OCD, and manage your life, you start with the root the underlining causes, and starting here could be a simple action of taking a chance or talking to someone. Keep a diary as this can be used to monitor yourself, some people with OCD, worry that they have done something to someone, keeping a diary of your day to day life would enable you to look back and see that its just your mind playing tricks on you. Counselling is a great way to help cope with OCD, , there seems to be a stigma that if you go and see a therapist your crazy or you’ve failed, this is completely not true, this can be one of the most effective ways of dealing with OCD, , you may not want to go, or a loved one may even refuse to go, but please consider this, go with a friend or a partner if your nervous, this can help and even bring you closer. A friend of mine saw a councillor once a week and felt that it really helped, seeing a person who talks to you and doesn’t judge may be just what you need, a person with real training at dealing with what you’re going through. Recently OCD, seems to have finally come into the limelight and to the medias attention, which is about time, this attention we only benefit those with OCD, , new treatment and more research, however, at present there is some medication that you can but like taking alcohol this too me is only a way to mask your problems, so we need to get really to the depth of the issue, a direct way to help you face OCD, and manage it. There is one type of therapy that I do highly recommend, this is called ‘Cognitive Behaviour Therapy’ so I’m going to dedicate a whole chapter to this treatment.