Absolute O" OCD: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Overcoming Compulsive Thinking

By Sarah S. Boyles

"Absolute O" OCD is characterized by intrusive thoughts, pictures, or impulses but no overt compulsive behavior. Instead, "hidden" compulsions such as reassurance seeking, avoidance, or complicated cognitive processes accompany excessive concern, regret, or uncertainty. This might cause you to make choices driven more by impulse than by your own convictions. Attempts to control or alter obsessive thinking simply increase worry and dread. How, therefore, can one stop engaging in this destructive pattern of behavior?

Efforts to ignore or regulate one's thoughts only serve to strengthen the fusion that leads to obsessive thinking, as described in "Absolute O" OCD. Labeling, letting go, acceptance, awareness, and advancing with purpose are the five techniques discussed in the book that will help you overcome the struggle, concern, and avoidance that have held you back up until now.

You may learn to react differently to anxious and obsessive thoughts by making decisions based on your own beliefs and moving confidently in the direction of a life that is true to who you are and what you care about.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C1HXZVH2
• ISBN13: 9798390289655
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"