It’s interesting someone explained that tracking can be internal for thoughts feelings memories. You trying to clean those away. So you tracking or checking those.
This is very helpful, thank you! One question: how would your advice apply in the case of contamination ocd mainly focused on fear of covid contamination? You can't "see" the virus but it could be present on surfaces, items, clothes etc. Hence the mental tracking. Thank you in advance for your input on this!
From an ICBT standpoint (much like other OCD treatments), we are looking to help individuals simply "do their best" with a difficult situation and accept that living inevitably includes some risk. These are the external facts of life that someone with OCD is completely capable of dealing with. The problem that arises with OCD is that there is a core lack of trust in oneself, one's senses, one's behavior, one's decisions, etc., and COVID becomes the latest proving ground to test out something about oneself. It is this reflecting on the self that becomes the obsession, and so treatment looks to restore one's trust. I hope that helps.
@@OCDspace412 yes, I think it's very important to work on restoring trust in oneself and even more crucial is risk acceptance, which is really a key element to start the path of recovery from contamination ocd: risk acceptance is really hard to put into practice but essential. 💪 Thank you so much for your helpful reply!
Very true. I have been doing this repeatedly.
It’s interesting someone explained that tracking can be internal for thoughts feelings memories. You trying to clean those away. So you tracking or checking those.
Good point. You can definitely track and search for what you're not seeing in a lot of different areas.
This is very helpful, thank you! One question: how would your advice apply in the case of contamination ocd mainly focused on fear of covid contamination? You can't "see" the virus but it could be present on surfaces, items, clothes etc. Hence the mental tracking. Thank you in advance for your input on this!
From an ICBT standpoint (much like other OCD treatments), we are looking to help individuals simply "do their best" with a difficult situation and accept that living inevitably includes some risk. These are the external facts of life that someone with OCD is completely capable of dealing with. The problem that arises with OCD is that there is a core lack of trust in oneself, one's senses, one's behavior, one's decisions, etc., and COVID becomes the latest proving ground to test out something about oneself. It is this reflecting on the self that becomes the obsession, and so treatment looks to restore one's trust. I hope that helps.
@@OCDspace412 yes, I think it's very important to work on restoring trust in oneself and even more crucial is risk acceptance, which is really a key element to start the path of recovery from contamination ocd: risk acceptance is really hard to put into practice but essential. 💪 Thank you so much for your helpful reply!