Obsessive Complusive Disorder (OCD)

[Alina]

I have a friend who suffers from OCD. I had known the person for sometime before they felt they could confide in me and little by little I am starting to understand just how debilitating this condition is. The doctors offer anti-depressants or counselling. My friend is taking the tablets which have had only limited success but doesn't feel that counselling could help.

I've been watching Paul McKenna's programme and he seems to work miracles with all sorts of problems but I attended an NLP weekend and had to sign a form to say that I didn't have any mental health problems, as OCD is a mental illness does that mean that it could not be cured by NLP?

[Jay Budzynski]

“I attended an NLP weekend and had to sign a form to say that I didn't have any mental health problems.”


My assumed reason for you having to sign that form was to protect the trainers of that event, as you was there for training and not for therapy, then this form allows the trainers to get a fuller overview of the people intendance.

NLP works very well with ODC and having some experience of working with OCD, and then from a process and structure point of view, OCD is a lot easier to work with than smoking cessation.

All behaviors have a start-middle-and an end “a stimulus”/trigger/cause, that leads to an event/ effect/response that leads to and operation and a choice point ever to move on to do something else or to continue in a loop, the structure of OCD seems have a over zealous loop in the operational stage of the behavior prevent overwrites the first exit point which could leads to a host of ritualistic behavior patterns.

Any one who has done a good NLP practitioner would be able to work out the OCD strategy and change it in the most positive ways.

That is just one very basic way of looking at how OCD works, and one that I have notice seems to be common with OCD.

Jay 

[Alina]

Jay,

Thanks for that.

I will now have to find a good NLP Practictioner and convince my friend that it's worth a try. It's not going to be easy to convince them as they are rather stubborn, that said as the symptoms are getting worse they may be open to a different cure.

Thanks again for the advice

Alina