The Mental Emotional Health Blog

As I explained in a couple entries last week, I’ve been listening to The Secret on audio CD. Over the weekend, my mind shifted from just gathering the main message from the book to considering applications.

If a person’s thoughts attract things into their life, what about someone with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder whose thoughts tend to be repetitive? My guess is the author might say that the fear and anxiety a person with OCD experiences will magnify those feelings to the extent that they dominate functioning.  

Examples:   

Person “A.” feels the compulsion to clean the kitchen and will feel extremely anxious if she doesn’t clean the kitchen. By continuing to think, “I need to clean. I need to clean. I need to clean . . .”, she is feeding her own perceived need, and the anxieties that go along with it.

Person “B.” has an intense fear of germs, and he refuses to leave his home. If his thoughts are, “I’ll be contaminated if I go outside. I’ll be contaminated if I go outside . . .”, he may actually get physically sick if he leaves his home because he attracted sickness to himself.

These are only brief guesses at what author Rhonda Byrne might say about OCD. I am still getting through her book, and this is one of the ways I integrate what I read or hear into my thinking.