When the Student is Ready
by James Callner, MA, AFOCD President. James Callner is an award winning writer, filmmaker and speaker on mental illness. Excerpt from James Callner’s up coming book on OCD: “It’s a Matter of Trust – Spiritual Prescriptions for OCD”. (Note: Use of the word...LIKE our FB Page
Hey guys, Jim here. I have a question for you. Does anyone believe that this photo that I took at a beach near our house, is totally real? The keyword in my question is "believe". Well, the answer is yes and no. The photo of the ocean and the sunset is real. The bird is not, of course, and the bubble is computer-generated. Almost all semi-professional and professional photographers edit their pictures. That includes me. And, most people take it in as art and believe in some way that it's real, even though they know it's not. I think this is the same thing with OCD. We intuitively know our fears are not real but we have a hard time not believing them. We doubt our own intuition. So, the practice is to trust our intuition. If you doubt it, it's 99.9999% untrue or not real. And, what do I say to OCD when it's trying to make me believe? "Thanks for sharing, I'm not caring." JC <3
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What it's really like to have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
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Around three-quarters of a million people in the UK are thought to be living with severe, debilitati... 3 weeks ago
I can't tell you how crucial this is to get your OCD symptoms under control. JC <3
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