Need to know OCD and its treatment without medicine
Need to know OCD is another common subtype under obsessive compulsive disorder umbrella, person with Need to know OCD have strong to try to know everything that comes in their head as thoughts. Person with Need to know OCD try to know each and everything that comes as a pop up thought for example person may try to recall their understanding about some science phenomena, some thing they have live up, something related with they know fully or partially as recalled memory. Person with Need to know OCD become obsessed to recall what they know about certain aspect and wish to complete their knowledge and information at absolute perfection manner, when they try to avoid to think about those thought they feel they are not doing justice with them and they should answer it. And as they try to answer on one subject they try to move from one subject to other subject. when person do not get their question answer they become sad, irritaed, worried, frustrated, confused, they question on their identity and inttellect.
What is Need to know OCD: need to know ocd is consider as presence in case a person is trying to get answer of those question at individual level which other in society and family is not bother and such thoughts and question is taking troll in person thought process and person is spending significant time of their life and are not able to move on instead keep trying to find answer on same question which are infact irrellevent to others but person suffering with need to know OCD is consider most valuable question and considering life question if not answering them then they consider they are not doing well, even if they try to answer they usually do not get answer even if they get answer they are not satisfied and it become constant surce of distress and such question and thought keep them lingering up through out of day.
Symptoms of Need to know OCD: Common symptoms are
- Having the same question each time
- Question answer is not giving them satisfaction
- Person usually start seek validation from other about their answer
- Try to validate their answer with different source family, friends, virtual world
- Person remain constant worried, anxious, unsatisfied, feel lonely, as not getting perfect answer
- Person start questioning on their intelligence and their memory and personality what if there is anything wrong
- Not able to enjoy those things which use to pleasurable in past
Causes of Need to Know OCD:
- Chasing perfection
- Being hight sensitive
- Over performer
- Lack of balance lifestyle
- High level of aspiration
- Poor emotional health
- Weak coping mechanism
Need to know OCD type:
Person with need to know OCD can be expressive like doing things at action level or mental level, major theme of need to know category belong to
- Science related fact and finding
- Past memory related questions
- Doubt on people intention and trying to get the answer what other might be thinking
- Doubting on try to validate on their own skill, talent and potential
- Revalidating on past incident
- Trying know if they have done certain thing or not even they are aware whether they have done or not
Case scenario 1
Example of Rita: Rita 28 years as a science student have obsessional thought about natural phenomena about body functioning how my brain is working how my mind is working, how my eyes is working and able to see in different direction, how I am able to walk, how I am able to talk, how I am able to differentiate different colours. In the area of colour, she has doubt and question how I am able to segregate the different colour and how I am recognizing, how particular things is considered in cm. Liter, inches, how watch to measure time is considering as 12 hours cycle, why not it is 13 or 15 instead of 12 and 24 hours. How I am able to sleep how do I know I have sleep enough. She has other questions like why night is considering night why day is considering day while is not its vice versa. So, because of such thoughts she is unable to focus on her academic priority not able to satisfied with life as doubting whatever she know is incomplete and she should focus on these questions answer first and in this was loosing the track of life. As she is trying to find all possible answer as she considers if she is not getting answer she is not living in real life and everything is fake as she does not have answer of those her normal enquiry.
Case scenario 2
Example of Nitin: Nitin 33 years as engineer having the obsessional thought pattern of Need to know as everything that happen in past in his life accurately and when he is not able to recalled he will start finding on internet like what was his first boss wife name, on which date particular movie released, what was the address of his dentist to whom he visited 4 years before, what was his sister in law college name, what was his friends wife name, what was his son first class teach name and principal name, how much % he score in each subject in high school. When nitin is getting these pop up thoughts his belief belong to questions on his intelligence and memory with his own logic like he should know all these aspect accurately and if he is not able to recalled this means he is not intelligent enough so to address this mindset he is not able to focus on work and keep checking things and fact of incidence on virtual world in social media and different whattsapp group and because of this he is spending hours and hours 24* 7 almost spending 12 to 14 hours so as a result he is not able to focus on his professional life and personal life, as a outcome when chasing these question answer he is crying getting sadness as he is not able to get all questions answer accurately and then chasing other with phone call what was the fact he forgot.
In both the case scenario on the treatment aspect both these client prefer not to go with medication further more after initial 6 to 8 months as choice as they try it opt as their Need to know OCD treatment under CBT and ERP and thematic counselling intervention. In initial phase comprehensive psychological assessment is done. OCD pattern and trends were documented and then CBT and ERP session was executed and each aspect of their question been start address during their recovery journey.
Learning by Rita during the Need to know OCD recovery journey of 5 months in online mode
Things that change the perspective as take home message and things help Rita to control and overcome urges to address Rita issue over her above questions related with her Need to Know OCD issues.
- Not to take this life lightly and waste it on useless things.
- All reasons I gave of previous failures of projects, were all defences to justify my behaviour of Need to know OCDand perfectionism. Whatever happened in the past is not the concern. Accepting and changing of my approach as not everything I do not need to know fact are facts and I need to accept these fact of life and science.
- on poor sleep aspect and questions on sleep its all about how I have trained my mind and body. not going sleep on time and raising question on sleep is not require instead sleeping needed to allow my body to sleep one must have a fix sleeping time not a wake up time, body automatically knows when it is rested and when I need to wakes up.
- I have understand and learn triple A formula of life during my Need to know OCDrecovery journey which is Acknowledgement, Assessment, Acceptance. Whatever good and improvement that has been achieved in my Need to know OCDjourney or any other sphere of life has to be acknowledged, things like monitoring and evaluation system of my OCD progress is actual status of my OCD progress, acceptance of things and natural phenomena gives the confidence raising question keep doubting Holding on to old beliefs and questions will make another way to hold myself back and keep victimising myself and remain afraid of the future.
- I can keep thinking any thought I want but the world will not stop because of that, the logical approach to do something will not change anything in world and in my life. I need to correct my thought process and make it more rational and aligned with my needs and purpose.
- If a thought is not important to the immediate purpose of my life then my goal should be I won’t die if I do not get answers of my thoughts. If the thought is not worth then spending time over. And over is Irrelevant questions which I need to overruled. I do not need to buy any thought at the COST of our mental health, I deserve the peace not trouble in my life because of these thoughts.
- If I myself don’t believe, I can get better then no god on heaven earth or anywhere else can help us recover back to our full potential. And if we have full trust on self I will achieve my OCD recovery. All you tube googling of OCD is not curable is not right, if we believe then truly we won’t reach to recovery, If not nothing can stop me from getting the fulfilling life I want.
- Satisfaction comes form giving sincere efforts in the process, and the purpose of life is anyway to do what is needed to make it easy. If we sincerely pursue food, shelter and clothes necessities then all aspects of satisfaction will be taken care by nature automatically so efforts on focusing life is important instead asking not needed question.
- comments of parents, I have already seen the effects of implementing parents ways on my life. If I repeat outcome will be same. I acknowledge their concern for me but doesn’t mean I have to entertain their all beliefs about myself and get impacted. Whatever they taught me has been mostly a wrong approach to life, so why should I waste my time. They can say what they wants. I can’t change them but I can change how I react to the scenario.
- Work ethic or any other thing in life has to be done in a balanced manner, not keep doing till we faint on the floor and spoil our health, mind, everything. If we don’t live a peaceful life then what is the point of unbalancing life, life principle is same for everyone and for me as well 8+8+8 or 8+10+6 rule has to be followed for my work life balance, I can not keep doing things related with work 24* 7 as always its literally a wrong perspective.
- I need to do what is required, delegate, seek feedback from others. More than doing something perfectly and wasting hours on it is not worthy, it is important we focus on completion within the given framework instead of chasing perfection.
- I need to use clarity and common sense in deciding how much I need to know on a subject to instead of keep asking same questions with self. And address same perceptive distortions in same manner is not wise.
- If I correct everything or not, no one in the world will have any effect on their lives, only my existence will be in trouble so I need to complete the process of my assign task. If I am dead or alive only person affected is me, no one else, so I need to avoid my perfection at any cost.
- I need to take my issues a bit lightly, learn to joke a little to see the positivity of my improvements.
- Only choice to have in my life is unwavering faith in myself so that anyone says anything, I don’t get affected at all. No one can play me like their own personal piano.
- Thoughts are like rubber ball, more i’ll push it, more it’ll be back. let it go or rationally deal with it instead of keep thinking and analysing.
- Let go of the fact that a certain way to do something is right other is wrong, no one told these things, I can change how I approach a problem.
- Have trust in God’s plan. It was his plan that my study turned out like that, i got health issue ocd, came to my OCD recovery to Emotion of Life, gone for residential care program for 2 weeks all these things are plan of god, I have only one choice to accept. I can do my efforts but outcome I can’t control.
- I do not discount my previous achievement and improvement when faced with current hard situation and get scared of new triggers and situations. I need to learn to self-evaluate how I have improved.
- Most important learning I need to allow myself to fail not everything mean to get succeed and correct in anyone life. Nothing will change if we don’t embrace this.
- My conclude learning, reach a decision. Letting stuff linger makes you worried. so decide, act and accept is key to living life.
- Only option is to have faith and put effort in life every sphere of life this is in my control putting my efforts in work not raising irrelevant questions.
- Rationalise things not keep fearing.
- Lack of knowledge does not mean we are incomplete or defective or worthless. I need to focus on what I can achieve and not what couldn’t be done. Life will change, theories will change. So make the best making forwards.
These are the some aspect Rita learn and executed in her need to know recovery process under CBT and ERP treatment those things use to be trouble as question, get to settle down at level of living live in Rita case recovering from need to ocd sub type take very sincere, committed and focus efforts by CBT therapist and by client and family members but as Rita could recovered from her long due Ocd issues anyone can get recovered in patience manner following recommendation and exposing self in situation one use to fear.
In case to in Nitin case during the journey of Need to know OCDrecovery Nitin understand the importance that knowing about all those things which is not priority in life does not make him less intelligent or not having those questions answer does not mean he is having memory issue, whatever is important and usable information he remember and that is enough, knowing about any music director name, movies release date, his colleague wife name, his dentist address and name is not his life present priority. Gradually Nitin understands his priority in life is family, his professional growth, his further higher education, living in present moment is important not getting those pop-up thought questions is real life and not getting past incidence correct knowledge can not be consider as memory issue what ever he suppose to remember as present life is already knowing.
Conclusion on Need to know OCD:
Things under Need to know OCD are different person to person situation and subject would be different and management of each client Need to know OCD will be different. Solution take time recovering from Need to know OCD take time when it reaches to the level of Need to know OCD,with consistent manner working on issue solve this complex Mistry in life. When we are goaling of normality like how others do in their life then we need to think how others react on similar questions once we set that pattern of thinking life is easy and we are able to come out from the Need to know OCD as trouble.
Treatment of need to know OCD: Major treatment area belongs to
- Cognitive behaviour therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Thematic counselling
- Peer support
- Life coaching on wellness aspect
- Mentoring on thematic subject as issue
Things and mindset that need to work on when struggling with need to know OCD:
- Focusing on life as goal
- What is priority that need to prioritize
- One need to do cognitive restructuring under CBT
- One need to get exposure of not trying to get answer instead of trying to get answer and observe and see what change in real life, the outcome will be nothing change in real life even if we are not giving answer.
- We get one life let make it worthy for self and other in our surrounding
- Focusing on healthy life style not on irrelevant and unproductive aspect of life
- Have good eco system of friend family habits and life goal
- Chasing your purpose of life not chasing un require question answer.
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