How I cured my OCD by going to happier environments overseas

Hi all,
I just want to share that instead of using drugs, a simple solution for dealing with mental disorder is simply by removing yourself from your insane environment. Yes, the problem and sickness is in your society, not in you.

But we've been conditioned to believe that society is never the problem. It's always with individuals.

As the Indian sage Jiddu Krishnamurti stated,

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society".

Author Eric Fromm noted:

"The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic." (Eric Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness)

Michael Tsarion, one of the most brilliant researchers in the world on occults and conspiracies, said in his lecture "Age of Manipulation":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjquqioRmZE

"Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment."

Brilliant and so true! Our society never looks at itself. Instead, it looks for victims to target and scapegoat.

Anyway, I'd like to share my own personal testimony about how removing myself from a persecutory environment as a teen, cured my OCD. I've posted it here:

http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Christian_Story.htm

The moral of this story is: "The problem is NOT you!" and I believe that's the first step to recovery.

Thanks for reading.

There are some things I don't like about society.
There are some things I love about society.

There's people I agree with, and some only partially agree with.
Or some not at all.


Bottom line is:

What's around you simply influences you. It doesn't control your actions.
When someone recognizes this their life changes. Especially if you have OCD.
You can choose what you want to be surrounded by, proving this statement.

If you can't because of limitations, you can still choose not to let things influence you (this takes a lot of willpower, I know firsthand)


It's also unbecoming to use quotes that clearly have deeper meanings!


Oh, my OCD has caused me to make some wacky choices that somehow all worked out in the long run! Guess I know myself better than someone else.

I moved to California to live with my friend - sleeping on a floor for 7 months. One time I almost went to the top of a hill to throw my computer down and my friend talked me out of it (luckily!). I've got many stories about my OCD .

In the past I would re arrange my room every 3 months or so. Throwing everything out that caused clutter. I was obsessed with practicing baseball, and when I had a rake...oh lets not go there. But I can rake like a champ

OCD causes you to do some weird stuff...But now I realize I control what influences me now, and nobody is taking that away from me.

I agree with you, and I love what you're doing.
What you choose to surround yourself with makes all the difference.
But, there's a little more to it that comes from within.


Thanks for sharing this with us!

Some people have things which they consider more important than personal well being, and are not inclined to just drop them.

gwilly wrote:Some people have things which they consider more important than personal well being, and are not inclined to just drop them.

This is true and I am one of those people. I continue to use my computer for most of my days even though I know it is not healthy for me. I am addicted to the computer but yet I refuse to give it up. I don't know why really. I guess because I am addicted.

Cloud09 wrote:

gwilly wrote:Some people have things which they consider more important than personal well being, and are not inclined to just drop them.

This is true and I am one of those people. I continue to use my computer for most of my days even though I know it is not healthy for me. I am addicted to the computer but yet I refuse to give it up. I don't know why really. I guess because I am addicted.

That's like me at times too but it's getting better lately. Relative to what it once was, anyway.

Thanks all for your responses.

I have a theory. Perhaps my soul or higher self wanted to evolve to a higher awareness level and when it was in the process of doing so, my physical brain had trouble adjusting to it, so it started misfiring and malfunctioning, which created those obsessions and behaviors. Perhaps that is the reason behind some mental illnesses. The reason I postulate this is because I recently read some articles about patients who recover from Schizophrenia and become better than before. They become smarter and more successful in life. I thought that my case was a fluke or a mystery, but when I learned that this happened in other cases too, it made me wonder whether going through a mental illness was in some way a path to transcendence of some form. What do you all think? In case you want to read the articles on the websites I mentioned, they are at:

http://www.successfulschizophrenia.com

What do you think? Know any similar cases?