My main worry would be that someone with an OCD personality might become obsessed with avoiding “Threat Monitoring! Worrying! Ruminating!” as some kind of counter-obsession (I would go stronger and say that we should expect this as the default).
Which would almost certainly be a significant improvement. However, our brains did evolve these behaviours for a reason, so there’s reason to be wary.
A meta-awareness of metacognition itself: that affected me when I first began labeling my thoughts. I would wonder if a particular thought was disordered. But eventually, like the Pilates OCD therapist mentioned:
if you’re spending time wondering if a specific thought is OCD related, it probably is. I have found that to be true every time.
If someone with OCD was monitoring their thoughts and it gave them anxiety, then I would suggest non-judgmentally watching their thoughts. Dr. Bruce Tift’s book Already Free has some good suggestions for that.
Wow… this is a great post!
My main worry would be that someone with an OCD personality might become obsessed with avoiding “Threat Monitoring! Worrying! Ruminating!” as some kind of counter-obsession (I would go stronger and say that we should expect this as the default).
Which would almost certainly be a significant improvement. However, our brains did evolve these behaviours for a reason, so there’s reason to be wary.
A meta-awareness of metacognition itself: that affected me when I first began labeling my thoughts. I would wonder if a particular thought was disordered. But eventually, like the Pilates OCD therapist mentioned:
If someone with OCD was monitoring their thoughts and it gave them anxiety, then I would suggest non-judgmentally watching their thoughts. Dr. Bruce Tift’s book Already Free has some good suggestions for that.