Do you know what overvalued ideation is?

Do you know what ego-syntonic OCD is?

This is simply when the part of the brain that deals with anxiety has, in a way, joined with the reasoning part of the brain and this causes the person to no longer be able to see the irrationality in their OCD rituals. It may be possible that they never were able to see the irrationality in their rituals.

Most people with OCD can see that the rituals that they feel like they have to do make no sense. A person with a character-logical disorder like overvalued ideation, will not see this. Basically a character-logical disorder is when a person has a dysfunctional disposition in most if not all aspects of their functioning.

It’s really tough to be able to distinguish this in ourselves or in other people and it is better left to the professionals. If you feel like you may have something more deeper than OCD, get checked out by a doctor and a psychologist and see if you do, if you do, get the proper treatment. Non treatment may be worse for you and could cause your condition to get worse. If you find out, however, that you just have OCD, then consider this good news, because there is a cure for OCD.

That cure is to face the anxiety that is associated with the OCD and refuse to perform rituals, it’s going to feel like hell at first, but this is the most effective way in existence, period.

Take action: Seek medical advice for anything that you may feel is not OCD. As far as the OCD is concerned, get a good program that will help you get over your OCD and preferably talk to someone who has gotten over it because they can help you do what they have done usually with better success than someone who has never had it as long as they are able to describe what they did to get over it themselves.