A New Approach to Treating Severe OCD

🔑 OCD lives in people who cannot tolerate uncertainty and seek to eliminate anxiety and preoccupations.

🔄 The approach to treating severe OCD involves shifting the relationship with OCD and embracing uncertainty.

💡 The key point of the video is to shift the mindset from wanting to get rid of anxiety to wanting to keep it and manage uncertainty.

🔄 The video suggests that rather than trying to eliminate uncertainty, it is beneficial to embrace it and be okay with not being certain.

🔑 A significant shift in perspective is required to treat severe OCD, focusing on accepting and managing anxiety instead of trying to eliminate it.

🔑 Treating severe OCD involves resisting the urge to get rid of intrusive thoughts and anxiety.

🔑 Externalizing and personifying OCD as a challenger is an important step in treatment.

🔑 The client is instructed to do the opposite of what OCD demands.