People who are forced and anxious to change not only the elimination of symptoms, but also the more important and fundamental change of mentality.
A friend with obsessive-compulsive disorder came to consult, he used Morita therapy 5 years ago, and he recovered on his own at that time, and he did not relapse for several years, and the effect has continued. He carefully recalled the process of application, in fact, it was three words: "no matter". In other words, accept the existence of those symptoms, do what is in front of you, and do what you need to do, and then the symptoms will pass quickly. Therefore, he has lived a very comfortable life in the past five years, and basically forgot that there is still such a thing as symptoms, and in retrospect it seems to be cured.
His mother died of illness three months ago, he was very sad and depressed, worried and scared again, afraid that he would get sick, afraid that his wife and children would leave suddenly, afraid that the company would go bankrupt by mistake... The changes and stimuli in his life have evolved into a fuse, and he has the experience of "self-healing" and picks up the previous way of facing the symptoms: he feels the symptoms and ignores them. Annoyingly, the symptoms did not disappear because he "didn't care", no matter how he "didn't care", those symptoms still existed, and the more he tried to ignore them, the more severe the symptoms became.
And he wondered: What's going on? Why didn't Morita's therapy work? It didn't work?
When he came to me with this doubt, I told them that there was no problem with the direction, but there was a deviation in technique. In other words, Morita therapy will still be effective, depending on how to use it. The core of Morita therapy is "going with the flow" – not fixing. When you don't care, it's still there, just "follow" it's still there, but don't use previous experience to trap the current state. When you feel that you don't care about it, but the symptoms are still there, the mind begins to solidify, and it is fixed in the previous experience of "just ignore it and it will go away". To understand: everything is developing and changing, and to see the world and the symptoms with a dynamic mind.
In other words, when you feel like it's gone, it's still there, I want to ask: how do you know? How do you know that "you don't care, it's still there?" Why check? Why verify? You feel like, "You don't care, it's not supposed to be there." You're digging a hole for yourself! At this time, you're still "in charge" after all.
What is certain is that when you leave it alone and you can see the symptoms flowing around you, it means that Morita Therapy goes with the flow is suitable for you to self-adjust, and this method is useful and effective for you, and you should always keep this in mind. At present, if there is a deviation, solve the deviation, and do not give up when encountering obstacles in the application of partial generalizations, which is a major taboo for healing.
We say, here your recovery is actually halfway through, how do you go in the second half?
The second half of the healing focuses on attitude, openness and inclusiveness.
It doesn't matter if it disappears or not, if it doesn't disappear, you don't care, you go on living. With an open mind to allow everything to happen, an all-encompassing mentality, the "elephant" is colorful and strange, and the symptoms may be something you have encountered before or something you have not encountered before, be patient, and continue to be patient. No matter what, if it doesn't disappear or if you work towards a method, you won't continue to cling to the state that you have experienced in the past, your mind will be completely open, whether the symptoms are there or not, you can let go of it and move on with what is in front of you.
If you don't do it this time, you don't do it a few times, it doesn't matter, next time (it's a false word, again and again, next time and next time) you still work in this direction. If you go on like this, you will find that slowly, the symptom is gone, you start to become less concerned, and when you don't care, it may disappear completely. Of course, it's not the point whether it disappears or not, what is the point, whether it comes back or not, you don't care about it.
There are two stages of OCD anxiety treatment: the first is that you are comfortable with it, and the second is that you are comfortable with it regardless of whether it is comfortable or not. In the book "Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder", Mr. Li Hongfu also stops the law, through the mark of the present moment, let the mind settle in the present, especially in the second stage of recovery, "the same" focus on the present moment is the awareness without any judgment, which can quickly let you get out of discomfort and settle down. In this way, you will be able to get out of OCD completely!