Rewiring your mind

obsessive-compulsive disorder

Author Name: Catherine Bateman - William Youngs

Rewiring Your OCD Mind: Effective Neuroscience-Based Skills to Free Yourself from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears We tend to think our minds are supremely high, focusing on everything we've accomplished, from building the pyramids to landing on the moon. But our minds also limit us by creating images, thoughts, and beliefs that torment us. Your mind can create doubts that cause you constant anxiety. It can dominate your focus with thoughts you can't stop thinking about. It can lead you to feel like you have to do something over and over again until you feel comfortable. It can prevent you from making even the simplest decisions by endlessly creating different scenarios, making it impossible to know what's right. How can you get rid of all those processes your mind produces? This may seem like a very difficult question to answer. In general, you live in the reality that your brain creates. Every sight you see is produced through the intertwined connections between your eyes and parts of your brain, which process and translate the information your eyes receive. If these connections are destroyed, you lose the ability to see, even if your eyes are completely healthy. Similarly, to hear a sound, you rely on your brain to translate the meaning of the sounds that shake your eardrum, from the ticking of a clock to the shouting of the word “freedom.” If the damage occurs in areas of the temporal lobe, the part that translates the meaning of words, your friends’ words will suddenly sound like gibberish or some strange foreign language to you. Your ears and parts of your brain process the sounds so that you can hear them, but all memories of the meaning of the sounds are lost due to the destruction of that part of the brain. Your brain is That gives meaning to the sounds you hear. Most of us don't think about how much we rely on our brains to perceive reality until we lose them. Our perceptions are shaped by the way our brains work, with many parts of the brain contributing to each perception. When Fran was hit by a car and her head hit the pavement, a specific area in the back of her brain called the fusiform gyrus was damaged. Suddenly, she found herself unable to recognize faces. She would see a person's face, but she couldn't tell if it was someone she knew or a stranger's. When a person spoke, she could usually detect whether it was someone she knew or not. But for the rest of her life, she had difficulty using faces to recognize people. She had to rely on other clues, such as their voices, the topics they were discussing, or specific features like curly red hair or dark eyebrows to help her. Most of us take it for granted that Our brain processes complex structures of faces and strong detailed memories of them so that we can recognize a familiar face, and we do not understand how the truth is formed in the brain.