OCD
But it turns out “awakening” is largely about waking up from being lost in compulsive thought.7 And the depth of it is determined by how thoroughly you’ve stopped trusting thought as your source of reality, and how much you trust the larger field of experience instead. When thinking relaxes its grip, so does the identity built on top of it. And... See more
Lately, or maybe always, I’m searching for religion. I’ll take whatever I can get, but usually I settle on some sort of vague and undefined spiritually. A devotion to hope but mixed with a little (a lot) of suffering, a bet on the future being worth it (though I’m not entirely convinced). My therapist asks me what keeps me up at night, I say... See more
The thought is distressing, and it plays over and over again, overpowering other thoughts, distracting me, sapping all of my energy.
Jason Adam Katzenstein • Everything Is an Emergency
It’s a loop that begins with a thought.
Jason Adam Katzenstein • Everything Is an Emergency
What we can call subclinical OCD is everywhere.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Psychologists have identified three types of dysfunctional belief important in the development of OCD. The first is an inflated sense of threat and personal responsibility. The second is perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty. The third is a belief in the over-importance of thoughts and the need to control them.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
When our error detection machinery goes into overdrive, we end up with the problem we mentioned earlier: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Our brain sends a constant, incorrect message that something is wrong, so we keep trying to fix what we think is the source of the problem (out there), but because it is the (internal) message itself that
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
Obsession has no regard for rational explanation. No pathology of thought can be solved with more thought.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.