OCD Rituals and Compulsions. How to COPE with Rituals. How to stop doing rituals.

Hello everyone, my name is Yulia. I am a consulting psychologist specializing in the correction of anxiety and phobic disorders, as well as an expert in emotional intelligence and stress resistance. The topic of today's video will be compulsions or rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. If this topic interests you, I recommend watching the previous videos on this subject and only then moving on to this video. This video is dedicated to people who have compulsions, who have compulsive obsessive behavior or rituals that they perform to relieve their anxiety in OCD. So, if this topic interests you, if you have compulsions and want to learn how to work with them independently, watch this video until the end. I will try my best to explain how you can independently try to understand what compulsions, or obsessive actions, or obsessive behavior, or rituals—as we also call them—are. These are actions a person performs to relieve their own anxiety. Remember that compulsions are only intended to relieve anxiety. People with OCD think that compulsions actually have some meaning, but that is their mistake, as people with OCD have cognitive errors such as dichotomous thinking and magical thinking. These cognitive distortions prevent them from understanding that this is the illogicality of their thinking. Their rituals are aimed only at relieving anxiety, so people who have compulsions must remember this: you do your compulsions not to prevent something truly terrible from happening. You are deceiving yourself in this way; you truly believe it yourself. In reality, your ritual is only aimed at relieving anxiety.