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ADAA Blog: OCD Strategies—We Do Not Hang Out With Bullies

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"The same is true for the “bully” that is your OCD thoughts. These thoughts are not helpful things to consider in order to improve your life. This bully will only serve to make you fearful, intimidated, and immobilized. OCD holds out a promise of freedom and peace; while in reality, compulsions deliver only momentary relief followed by more obsessive thoughts, and increasingly intense compulsive urges," Dr. Latiolais says. " In therapy, our strategy shifts from examining thought content details to determining the pattern these thoughts take, and to learn to recognize that pattern for the bully it is."

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