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Obsession Versus Compulsion

By Ruben Castaneda — 2019

For people with OCD, the connection between obsessions and compulsive behavior is straightforward, McIngvale says.

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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Stephanie Marohn
2014
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Unhappy with Compulsions?

Are you unhappy with your compulsions? Sadhguru explains how that won’t help while trudging through the loads of Karma which grows more if you bury it.

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Sadhguru
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Compulsive Behaviors

Compulsive behaviors are actions that are engaged in repeatedly and consistently, despite the fact that they are experienced as aversive or troubling. Yet treatment can help to manage or overcome these difficult patterns.

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Psychology Today Staff
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The Difference Between Obsessions and Compulsions

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It involves intrusive and unwanted thoughts and the repetition of certain actions. Although people with OCD may understand their thoughts and actions are irrational, they cannot seem to stop them.

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Eileen Bailey
2018
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Compulsions Can Follow Trauma

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is usually treated as a stand-alone mental illness. A growing body of research is now finding that some cases of OCD may stem from trauma.

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Tori Rodriguez
2012
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The Difference Between an Addiction and a Compulsion

Sometimes people use the words addiction and compulsion interchangeably. However, they are not actually the same thing. What is the difference between the two?

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Elizabeth Hartney
2020
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Schizophrenia: Hallucinations and Delusions

Learn how to recognize the varying types of halluncinations and delusions that are among the most common symptoms of schizophrenia.

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Kathleen Smith
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