Psychological Therapies are Effective

Psychological Therapies are Effective

Psychological therapies are recognized by both researchers and healthcare providers as effective treatments for reducing the frequency and intensity of symptoms of OCD. Effective psychological treatments for OCD stress changes in behavior and/or thoughts (sometimes called cognitions). When appropriate, behavioral and cognitive treatments are combined alone or with medication to get the best result.
Behavior Therapy: Facing Your Worst Fears

Although there are a variety of behavioral therapies for treating OCD, almost all focus on exposing you to those things that you fear most such as contamination or the troubling content of an obsessional thought. This exposure provides you with an opportunity to gain new information in hopes of disconfirming your worst fears.

One of the most popular and effective forms of behavior therapy for OCD is exposure and response prevention or ERP. ERP involves exposing you to the anxiety that is provoked by your obsessions and then preventing the use of rituals to reduce your anxiety. This cycle of exposure and response prevention is repeated until you are no longer troubled by your obsessions and/or compulsions.

ERP usually involves 15 to 20 exposure sessions that last about 90 minutes. These sessions usually take place at the therapist’s office, although you are usually asked to practice ERP at home. While some therapists prefer to begin with exposure to the most feared stimuli (this is sometimes called flooding), others prefer to take a more gradual approach. For example, it is not uncommon to have people begin ERP by simply thinking about being exposed to the things they fear most.

Although behavior therapy is highly effective for about two-thirds of people who complete treatment, there are drawbacks.

* Behavior therapy involves facing your worst fears; many patients dropout before treatment is complete.

* Behavior therapy is hard work and requires completing homework in between sessions.

* Behavior therapy may not be that effective for people who experience primarily obsessions without compulsions.

* Behavior therapy can be expensive, although your insurance plan may cover all or part of the cost.

Cognitive Therapy: Opening Your Mind to New Possibilities

Cognitive therapy for OCD is based on the idea that distorted thoughts or cognitions cause and maintain harmful obsessions and compulsions. For example, although the majority of people report experiencing intrusive, and often bizarre, thoughts on a daily basis, if you have OCD you may over inflate the importance or danger associated with such thoughts. You may even believe that by having such thoughts, you increase the likelihood of the feared thought, event or action taking place or being true.

In another example, if you have OCD, you might dramatically overestimate the degree to which you are responsible for a catastrophic event taking place and feel you have to take actions to prevent it. For instance, you might experience an uncontrollable urge to count or order a particular object to prevent a plane crash. Of course, counting or ordering a particular object couldn’t possibly have any impact on whether a plane crashes or not. This illogical thought pattern is often called magical thinking.

Cognitive therapy involves examining these harmful thought patterns and coming up with plausible alternatives that are more realistic and less threatening. It is not uncommon for you to be unaware of some of the distortions that are present in your thinking and the therapist may help to point these out. Cognitive therapy often integrates elements of behavior therapy. For example, your therapist may have you test out some of the plausible alternatives you have come up with through exposure therapy.

Like ERP, cognitive therapy is usually done over the course of 15 to 20 sessions, although the cognitive therapy sessions are often shorter in duration, lasting 50 to 60 minutes. As with ERP, you are often asked to do homework, which usually comprises keeping a daily journal of your t

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Excerpt from an Eduardo Galeano interview.

He is always first when the end night approaches; silence is broken by the one out of tune . . .the bird who never tires, awakens the master-singers and before first light all the birds in the world begin their serenade at the window, sailing over the flowers and over the reflections. A few sing for love of the arts, other broadcast news or report gossip or tell jokes, or give speeches or proclaim the light. But all of them, but all of them, artists reporters, gossips, cranks, and crazies, join in single orchestral overture. Do birds announce the morning? Or by singing do they create it?

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- eduardo galeano | identity theory interview (view on Google Sidewiki)

Dont fuck...

This poem is for every pretentious and pious feminists...

Don’t fuck…

Don’t fuck that lady
She is infertile
A dead body sack

Forced humps, body gore
Hanger smiles, creaking cries

Pulled from the leg in bed
Pulled by the hair in bed
Punched in the eye in bed

Her disgruntle is loud enough
Your TV just booms louder
She goes on too much
Shove that dick in her mouth

City girl, city girl duh..da..da..duh
She eni mini miny moe’s the guy she fucks
She sneaks in with a key at 10
Emancipated, empowered and bold,

How easily she senses freedom?
How easily she feels hurt?

She keeps in the inaudible
The muffled cries in the pillow
She keeps in the blindsight
The battered cunt

Sexy mtv girl has to fight dirty in mud
She has to foam wash a car in white

Pious mild housewife hands bag to husband
Has to pick out colour-coordinated tie for him

She waves him off smiling,
Returns to the world of kids, vegetables and TV

Doctors chanced upon a hole, shouted “girl
You cried, dictation of life had begun.
Did you hear the booby trap snap?

Denounce the right to fuck
Till no guy says,
“all in all, every girl is the same”.

To be laid out plain in your lover’s eyes.

To be laid out plain in your lover’s eyes,
Is what truly is, being vulnerable.
Staring deep into the silhouette you form in her eyes,
And you know it means to have reflection.
Let her words fall upon your ears while you hold her,
And you know what it is to be mesmerized.

With every kiss she is born within you,
With every touch she will arouse in you.

To be held in loving arms is a retreat,
Away from the mad hustle,
Away from the crazy bustle.

The real profound of logic

There is a euphoria bursting within me.
I have unlocked the key,
I have solved the mystery.

Life is speaking a new language,
I can see an order that prevails within this world.


A world without God is a crazy place to live in.

I originate because,
One night,
One man one woman,
Got horny,
I call them my parents.

The world deconstructs itself in front of me,
There exists no mythical governing entity in this world.
There exists what you have before you.
In material presence. In touchable presence.


I feel like a Maverick,
No, not your tom cruise.
But one who sucks energy,
From freedom,
From thought.

My pen doesn’t talk no more

My pen doesn’t talk no more

May be capitalism has begun to erode my brain.

May be it’s a just a phase.

I am just scared,

To come out on paper.

And face myself on the other side.

A mind less compelled to struggle against others pains,

A mind more compelled to bargain and gain.

A mind that has struck a deal,

Between capitalism and communism.

To enjoy the perks of capitalism,

And the ideology of communism.

A mind who’s struck a deal to process limited info,

A tv, a tabloid, a poster ad,

Simple, cut and dry.

Ah I am screwed I know,

But I rather talk about who I screwed.

Crisis shimmering in cities of the world,

Fear breathing in the lungs of the people,

This world, this life, this stage.

I feel the misery in every sweat and pant.

A mind comfortable only when

Drunk and stoned

High and bored.