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Video Notes: What is Pure OCD?

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Mag Nolia

  • In Standard OCD, people repeat a counterproductive or fruitless action with manic intensity
  • In Pure OCD, there is no outward physical action – the problem unfolds purely in the mind
  • The Pure OCD sufferer is tortured by thoughts that they want to do or have done some of the most abhorred acts in our society — acts that they themselves despise or fear at an intellectual level
  • They cannot shut out the idea that they may become or have already shown signs that they are a horrible person
  • Burdened by these thoughts they will fear things like going near a knife in a drawer, flooded with anxiety at a train station, having to think in these terms drains life of its pleasure
  • Pure OCD sufferer wakes up in the morning believing they might be one of the worst people to ever walk the earth
  • Psychiatrists tend to prescribe antidepressants to lift mood and thereby lessen the tendency to ruminate to the point of exhaustion
  • CBT psychologists will try to argue closely with the intrusive thoughts so sufferers can acknowledge they really have no attention of doing something obscene
  • Psychotherapists believe offering assurance on these points only legitimates a pattern of thinking that have no basis in reality
    • They think the person with Pure OCD has a first and foremost a problem with self-esteem and shame (note: see YT comments, many viewers don’t agree with this)
    • The person feels at some level utterly disgusting and beyond the pale 
  • Current thoughts are not the plans for the future – they are attempts by the mind to find a match between their basic sense of self and what would be needed by society to concur with it — they want the judgment of the world to fall in line with the judgment of the self.
  • Cases of Pure OCD are often diagnosed after sufferers achieve something successful in the eyes of others, things when there is need of celebration — but it simply feels unwarranted.
  • In societies that find religious transgression particularly abhorrent, Pure OCD sufferers will suffer feelings that they’ve offended God and are about to be outed as sinners.
  • Behind the Pure OCD is a need to find a reason to feel awful – it isn’t about this or that condemned act, as the definition of awful changes so does that content of intrusive thoughts.
  • The disease is rooted in self-loathing — what the Pure OCD sufferer needs above all else to to begin to repair self-loathing and shame — through repeated encounters with an outsider, they need to learn they’re not the worthless being they take themselves for.
  • These will start to lift once the afflicted learns the most vital of arts – being a friend to oneself.

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