I have a little obsessive-compulsive disorder and some new symptoms recently. Please help me.

] Out of the quagmire of compulsion-Collection of Morita Therapy Guidance

Let nature take its course.

Morita therapy is a better method to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. "Let nature take its course" is the essence of Morita therapy, and how to correctly understand the word "let nature take its course" is a prerequisite for the effectiveness of the treatment.

In real life, many patients' friends don't have a deep understanding of "letting nature take its course" or are wrong, which causes Morita therapy to have no effect on their treatment, and even makes them doubt whether Morita therapy itself is effective. The reason is that they just literally understand its meaning, thinking that "letting nature take its course" means "letting nature take its course", which is caused by letting their own pain go on without controlling their own problems. For example, a patient with obsessive-compulsive concept may mistakenly think that "letting nature take its course" means to keep forcing himself.

to correctly understand "let nature take its course", we must first understand what "nature" is, that is, you must know what "laws of nature" are. For example, the cycle of day and night, sunny and rainy weather, these are the laws of nature, which can not be controlled by human beings. We must follow and accept these laws to be happy. If people complain about why there is night all day, or think that it should not rain, then they will violate the "natural law" and the result will definitely be asking for trouble.

And we ourselves have certain natural laws, such as emotions, which we can't control artificially, and it has a set of procedures from occurrence to extinction. You accept it, follow it, and it will soon go through its own procedures and end, and vice versa. For example, if you are about to take an important exam, you feel anxious and nervous. In fact, this is a very normal psychological reaction. If you don't take care of your emotions, it will soon disappear or turn into your motivation to review hard. If you think that you should not be nervous or anxious, then you will violate the "natural law" of emotions, and anxiety and nervousness will become more and more serious. Another example is a patient with social phobia, who is introverted and feels nervous and uncomfortable when talking to strangers. He felt that this should not be the case, and he had to be deliberately not nervous in front of strangers. As a result, he became more and more nervous, so that he began to be nervous when he saw acquaintances. The reason why he developed this symptom now is that he violated his own "laws of nature". His personality is introverted, and introverted people are characterized by shyness and shyness. When talking with strangers, there will definitely be nervous and uncomfortable psychological reactions. However, he himself does not accept his own "natural law" and confronts it, and the result will inevitably be like this.

There is also a natural phenomenon in human beings, which is bound to appear in strange, terrible and dirty thoughts. Here we will call it distracting thoughts for the time being, and distracting thoughts, like emotions, have their own process from occurrence to disappearance. If you accept its existence and know that it is meaningless "distracting thoughts" and ignore it, then it will not affect you and will soon disappear. On the contrary, you pay attention to it, you argue with it, and so on, then you will be bound by it. For example, a student with excellent academic performance suddenly had a distracting thought in his mind during class-I'm going to kill the teacher. This thought made him very afraid. He felt that he should not have such an idea. He felt that he was terrible, so he kept blaming himself and wondering why he had such an idea, thus forcing this idea. The reason why this student has this idea is actually very simple, because the teacher is very strict with learning at ordinary times, which has caused great psychological pressure on the students. The appearance of this idea is actually an outlet of the student's subconscious mind for pressure. Here, it is unrealistic for students to understand their subconscious process, but if the student understands that distractions are inevitable in advance, then he may not care so much about them, thus avoiding the formation of compulsive ideas.

the above is the meaning of the word "nature" in "let nature take its course". So what is the correct way to "let nature take its course"? In fact, it is also very simple, that is, on the premise of understanding "nature", don't care about those emotions or distractions with "natural laws". Give an image metaphor, for example, we compare the calm lake water to our thoughts, and compare the ripples caused by throwing stones into the lake water to affecting our emotions or distractions. So what do you think we can do to stop the ripples from happening? Should we continue to throw stones at the lake or ignore it at all to stop the ripples? The answer, of course, is to stop throwing stones and leave it alone. It doesn't matter at all. It's just "let nature take its course".

of course, in order to make "let nature take its course" have an effect on your problem, you must combine "do whatever you want". In other words, while you are "letting nature take its course", you have to pay attention to the objective reality. You should do the work, study when you should study, and chat when you should chat. Do what you should do. Of course, maybe at first, those ideas and distractions that confuse you still make you feel pain, but as long as you believe that they will disappear naturally sooner or later, and try your best to do what you should do in real life. Then, those distractions and emotions will disappear unconsciously in the process of doing things seriously.

Two reasons why obsessive-compulsive disorder is difficult to treat

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a kind of mental illness that is difficult to treat, and the pain it brings is hard for people who have not experienced it personally. In reality, many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are choosing Morita therapy to treat their obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the therapeutic effect is sometimes unsatisfactory. Of course, this is not because Morita therapy is not good, but because Morita's spirit is not correctly understood. I have written an article "Let nature take its course" before to illustrate the true meaning of "Let nature take its course". Here, I will analyze two other reasons why obsessive-compulsive disorder is difficult to treat except for not correctly understanding Morita's spirit.

1. Everyone has obsessive-compulsive tendency

The biggest wish of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may be that there will never be a trace of obsessive-compulsive concept in their minds again

. Although this idea is beautiful, it is also dangerous, because there is not a trace of compulsion that is a perfectionist idea, which will lay a hidden danger for you to get out of the vortex of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the future.

In real life, every one of us will encounter some setbacks, frustrations and things that need to be made. At this time, every one of us will be worried about it, and we will constantly think about how to deal with these things in our minds, especially when we are faced with major choices. It is possible that this kind of thinking will last longer. In fact, from another angle, this kind of thinking is a kind of compulsion, so in fact, every one of us is forced.

Therefore, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder should give up their perfectionist desire not to have a trace of obsessive-compulsive concept, because if you cling to it, these inevitable compulsions in life will combine with your obsessive-compulsive disorder to aggravate your symptoms, which is why obsessive-compulsive disorder is difficult to follow, because compulsion cannot be completely eradicated.

In fact, the biggest pain that OCD brings to us is not compulsive ideas or behaviors, but the anxiety, tension and anxiety that accompany these ideas and behaviors. If you don't think about it, if your mood is calm, even happy, then even if the symptoms of thinking about the problem persist, will you still be as painful as before? Therefore, if you want to treat compulsion, don't treat symptoms as enemies, but accept symptoms. Only in this way, you won't take symptoms so seriously. If symptoms are not important, your mood will calm down, and only when your mood is calm will the symptoms be alleviated and disappeared in turn.

2. Generalization of compulsion

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a characteristic that it is easy to generalize, that is to say, at first we forced only one idea, but later, there are more and more compulsive ideas, one after another, which may be forced at the same time or one by one. The reason of forced generalization must first be talked about with personality. Generally speaking, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are introverted, perfectionist, sensitive and stubborn. However, after suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, the sensitivity of the original personality components is sensitive due to symptoms, so it is generalized. Of course, from the perspective of behavior, it is because of the formation of a compulsive habit. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, generalization is actually a manifestation of the persistent unresolved psychological conflict.

so how can we prevent forced generalization? The answer is simple. First of all, we should be aware of the existence of generalization. When there is generalization, we don't have to pay attention to these ideas that make you think again and again, but do what we should do, so generalization will not affect you. Of course, sometimes these generalized concepts of compulsion are seemingly correct, giving people the feeling that it is impossible not to think about them, but you should remember that this is a trap. As long as you think about it, you will fall into a strange circle of compulsion again.

In order to make everyone understand the generalization clearly, I will give an example below: For example, does someone think that he is strange at first by repeatedly forcing others? Because the conflict of compulsion continues to be unresolved, he has forced other things. For example, when he was watching a film about human science and education, he suddenly had an idea that we should be divided into men and women, so he repeatedly thought about this problem. Then, After going out, he suddenly thought of whether the door was not locked properly, so he forced to think about this problem, and so on, and more and more things were forced, which were actually all caused by the generalization of coercion. If he knew in advance that compulsion would be generalized, he would be alert and realize that it was not these problems (why people are divided into men and women, etc.) that were meaningful, but the symptoms were generalized, so that his heart would have a bottom, his inner anxiety would be reduced a lot, and he also found a reason to let nature take its course and not care about these symptoms.

Morita therapy for insomnia

Insomnia is a common problem that puzzles modern people. There are two reasons for insomnia: physiological factors and psychological factors. Physiological factors refer to insomnia caused by physical discomfort, illness or trauma pain; Psychological factors refer to those insomnia caused by psychological confusion. In real life, due to the increasing social pressure, more and more people suffer from insomnia caused by psychological factors, which has become the main force of insomnia patients.

In the initial stage, people who suffer from insomnia caused by psychological factors are mainly troubled, worried and anxious about things that confuse them. As far as this stage is concerned, there is not much problem, because each of us will encounter something that puzzles us in our lives, and it is normal to lose sleep for it. Insomnia in this situation will generally improve within a week. However, if people don't understand the knowledge of sleep or adopt some wrong psychological coping methods at this time, insomnia will be further serious. At this time, the main reason for insomnia will no longer be the things that bothered him before, but become another problem: What if I can't sleep anymore? That is to say, the cause of insomnia has become insomnia because of worrying about insomnia itself. At this stage, people often have a fear of the night, and sometimes even have anxiety when they see the bed.

Here we will introduce how to use Morita therapy in Japan to treat insomnia caused by psychological factors.

1. First of all, we must have a correct understanding of insomnia itself: as mentioned earlier, each of us will encounter some confusing things in our lives to some extent, and it is normal for insomnia. So when insomnia appears, we shouldn't force ourselves to overcome it as soon as possible, because the harder you try to overcome it, the more concentrated your spirit will be, and the more excited you will be. How can you sleep when you are excited? Therefore, our correct attitude is to treat insomnia with a calm mind, accept insomnia, and even enjoy insomnia, not to think about it, not to care about it, not to take insomnia seriously, then insomnia will not become a problem that bothers you.

2. It is necessary to know the laws of sleep: sleep is a natural physiological phenomenon, and it has its own set of laws to make each of us fall asleep, so when you are upset and can't sleep, you don't have to worry about the problem of being unable to sleep at all, as long as you lie quietly in bed and close your eyes, sleep will naturally lead you to sleep. That's why I said at the end of the previous article, don't think about it, don't care about it. Of course, the length of time to fall asleep varies from person to person, but no matter how long or short it is, you just have to remember to ignore it and not think about it.

3. It is necessary to know what kind of influence the length of sleep will have on people, because we are often worried that the important reason why we can't sleep is that we are afraid that not sleeping well will have a bad influence on our work, study and our health tomorrow. In fact, as far as sleep time is concerned, the length varies from person to person. Some people need to sleep for 1 hours at night to be refreshed during the day, but some people only need 4 hours, or even 2 hours. However, after scientific research, an adult needs an average of five hours of sleep every day, so even if you don't sleep for five hours at night, it doesn't matter, because you can still have a lunch break at noon the next day. As for the impact on health, it can be summarized in one sentence: no one in this world has ever died of insomnia.

4, that is, it is best to sleep at a certain time. Don't sleep at 12 o'clock this evening, sleep at 2 o'clock tomorrow evening, and sleep at 9 o'clock the night after tomorrow. There is also the need to get up regularly in the morning. Don't lie in bed when you have nothing to do, especially during insomnia. Instead, you should work when you should work, study when you should study, and go to bed when you should sleep at night.

The above four points, if you can deeply understand and persist in using them, will definitely help your insomnia.

Should obsessive-compulsive disorder be treated with psychotherapy or medication

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a kind of neurosis, and its main symptom is characterized by the recurrence of certain ideas and behaviors. The cause of its onset is still a mystery, but what we can know now is that its occurrence is always closely related to people's personality characteristics, psychological trauma (especially sexual problems) and stress events.

At present, there are two main therapeutic tendencies in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. One is to advocate medication, and the other is to use psychotherapy. But which therapeutic tendency is more effective?

In the past, I have received some patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, they have been seeking medical treatment everywhere for a long time, but they have not been cured so far. The longest treatment history is 1 years. The main reason is that they used to treat them simply with drugs.

We know that the causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder are mainly psychological factors, such as individual perfectionism tendency, sensitive introversion and wrong thinking patterns or habits. Drug therapy mainly achieves the therapeutic effect by regulating the physiological mechanism of the brain, so the drug is not aimed at the source of obsessive-compulsive disorder, so it