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I learned at McLean that the neurobiological smoking gun is the Amygdala . It senses fear incorrectly.
Basically as I understand it, the wordless fear center of the brain "amygdala" misfires and sends out a signal for fear/terror with all the physical symptoms that go with that. Then, the thinking brain tries to come up with a reason why there is this wordless terror, since it doesn't like to think that emotions are random or without purpose. I don't think we know which one comes first though, the thought or the terror.
I’d love to know the answer too
??wow that makes sense. For me it’s defo the terror, and then I have my go to obsession. When I’m not anxious my obsession is silly!
I broke my obsession last night I had the better of it and the relief was tremendous, best feeling ever, I was laughing and smiling and I thought, right let’s live life! I was so excited and this morning,boom! Back to square one! Crazy!
Personally I think mine developed into the way it does from traumatic experiences regarding being trapped in an abusive household my whole life that never changes so my brain developed to obsess over the same old and things I already know, replaying them over again and digging more into it.
i can relate to that... somedays i'm king of the world and other days i'm being dragged through the mud. I just try to continue forward in my life despite my feelings. Keep doing my hobbies and chores etc.
yeah it helps me to think of my brain as just another organ, and that helps me have more self-compassion and forgiveness for these thoughts that I "have" (more accurately they're just thoughts that appear and have nothing to do with me or what I value).
Me too. My brain is definitely trying to replay a traumatic incident trying to find the meaning. I have a million times! And it’s never good enough. The same thoughts and feelings occur as that night fueling the anxiety fire and my brain thinks the same outcome will happen. It never does, ever, because it’s not logical. It truly is an obsession. I hope to finally break it someday but I wonder will I ever be able to?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as the disease of doubt, has a very crippling effect on an individual's ability to function at its worst. This seems to happen especially when the individual's obsessive-compulsive disorder is thematically related to violence, sexually inappropriate thoughts or other taboo topics. When the vicious circle progresses far enough, a person no longer necessarily knows himself at all, is not sure of who they are or what they want. I believe that the background of obsessive-compulsive disorder, like the background of mental health problems in general, is a feeling of disgust and revulsion towards some thought, scenario or self. The way in which obsessive-compulsive disorder manifests itself, especially in the so-called "pure o" form, is very complex, because the individual disgust-inducing thematicity manifests itself not only in thoughts but also in the form of feelings, temptations and physical sensations. In some cases, however, this goes so far that the person's beliefs about his own integrity begin to decay and the feeling of hope and the meaning of life disappear. The idea can be clarified analogously to Nietzsche's thoughts on belief systems. As a result of obsessions and other repulsive thoughts, feelings and temptations, a person's belief system about his own integrity begins to collapse, but when the belief system collapses - the belief in that belief system itself collapses as well. When it no longer seems meaningful or possible to believe in the realization of a familiar and safe belief system, there is also no hope for anything better. So there is no longer even hope left for a meaningful whole of self, which drives a person to deep anxiety and depersonalization, which in turn begins to displace a person from social relationships and from all meaningful activities that a person is used to enjoying and creating meaning for his life based on his own complete self-concept, which is no longer felt to exist. Any thoughts or similar experiences on this?
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