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Obsessional States
Obsessional states are related to anxiety and personality type. (See also Anxiety Problems.) Each involves a recurrent preoccupation with one or other situation that the person perceives as threatening. The most common obsessional states are death, health concerns(hypochondria), and obsessional jealousy in relationships.
Sometimes obsessions are perceived as unwanted thoughts or images that keep intruding into your awareness no matter how much you dislike or try to stop them. Compulsions are repetitive behaviours and rituals some people develop to neutralise their obsessions. A simple example is someone who needs to recheck the front door lock more than several times before leaving the house each day.
Obsessional thoughts trigger anxiety (otherwise why try to stop them?) and this will become obvious if the sufferer is prevented from carrying out the ritual. When the symptoms are severe it is called obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD.
It is important to realise that, for some people, being obsessive is part of their nature; it cannot be eliminated entirely. However, by reducing anxiety, it can be greatly reduced. And the obsessional tendency can be positively channelled into achieving worthwhile goals.
I offer a programme that will help you reduce the anxiety that drives the obsessional state, proper understanding of your nature and personality, and how to positively channel the obsessive tendency into achieving the best from life.
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