coolpop
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- 4y
alexisrenataalexisrenata
- Date posted
- 4y
i'd like to know too
John2694John2694
- Date posted
- 4y
Shadow work is for your spiritual journey. OCD is a brain disorder, which varies greatly among people but has similar symptoms. You want to focus on retraining your brain, and dealing with the thoughts and creating a healthy mind body connection. So in that sense shadow work is helpful if it help you feel more love and gratitude and positive emotions. However it has nothing to do with the work we can do to help our ocd symptoms. There is currently no cure for ocd, only treatment, and it is very possible some go symptom free, but some will not, just like some people have tourette syndrome and always will to some degree, so will we, probably a few exceptions. But don't worry, do the work others have paved the way and see if that helps, two great teachers that really helped me are Dr Reid Wilson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_KcE8psww&t=103s And Jeffrey Schwartz author of Brain Lock. If you are feeling any guilt from your ocd please feel free to let that go anytime, it was never your fault, we just got the luck of the draw. Best of luck friend:)
coolpopcoolpop
- Date posted
- 4y
Thanks john. My compulsions are mental rumination and due to intrusive thoughts... and urges. It's very difficult to know what is what half the time as I'm sure your aware ocd likes to make you feel like you like your obsessions 😳 so it's almost impossible to know how the hell you feel at any given time cos you cant trust your emotions or yourself.... I've had therapy and erp... so I know how that works. I also know ocd isn't linked to anything as it's a disorder.... 🤦♂️ I was asking about shadow work as way to get to the "true" emotion that ocd likes to never show. Sorry that was long 🤦♂️
John2694John2694
- Date posted
- 4y
I think that's a good idea! I am not sure what erp is, I stick to a 4 approach method promoted by Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz mostly and the work of Reid Wilson. My spiritual work and awareness practice works hand in hand with that so I could see how someone's interest in shadow work would pair nicely with their ocd treatment. Let me know how it goes! Best of luck
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