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by YinYang » Sat Nov 30, 2013 3:09 pm
I was reading up on OCD and apparently OCD sufferers have black and white thinking
e.g. Either I am completely safe or I am not
Either my family is completely safe or not
I am either completely in love with my partner or completely ambivalent towards him
Does anyone else think this is true?
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by ocd44 » Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:38 am
Possibly. Considering I think in this form and seem to express these 2 sided views, and that I have PureO and physical manifesting OCD compulsions, I can tell you from experience, I think like this quite often and express my concerns or thoughts in this manner. Maybe it is a signature ''OCD trait''. I'm unsure.
Examples include: ''Do you love me or hate me?'' ''It's either good or bad'', ''Do you like it or hate dislike it?'', etc.
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by Lionchaser » Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:13 am
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that OCD *wants* everything to be black and white.
For example:
There is a chance that XYZ *could* happen to me, therefore I am unsafe until I am absolutely sure that I am safe.
There is a chance that i *could* have done something wrong, so now I am going to obsess over it until I am certain that I have not.
A mathematician named Kurt Godel once said that faith is the only logical response to reality (paraphrase); as opposed to having "absolute" proof
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