When battling anxiety or depression it can be a common occurence to wonder what is wrong with you, or what is missing from your life. Asking the same questions every time you experience an episode is only going to perpetuate the feeling of hopelessness and despair.It can help to change the question you ask yourself, and this article explores that option.
Whereas we might not know the exact reasons that a 16-year-old boy is plagued with intrusive thoughts of his perfectly healthy mother dying unless he performs repetitive washing and checking rituals, we know why the fear persists. The very act of giving into the fear by performing these compulsions combined with his mother being alive serve to validate the obsessions. This knowledge can help a therapist to develop a treatment approach that weakens this loop.
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