Can OCD be Taught to a Child?

• Report from AABT by Jim Pretzer, 11/30/96
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    • Guilt vs Shame in OCD by Jim Pretzer, 4/26/97
      
      

I have vivd memories of things my mother used to tell me that used to terrorize me. Now, as an adult, these thoughts haunt me constantly. I know they are false thoughts, but I can't get them out of my mind. This causes me to do certain rituals. I have even stopped eating for over a week at a time (I am not making this up). All my thoughts are things that my mother used to tell me. Was OCD "taught" to me unwillingly? Can hypnotherapy help to erase these memories from my mind. There are times I want to just give up and lay down and die. I feel that death can't be worse than these feelings of terror, dispair, depression, guilt.....

• Learning from parents by Georg H. Eifert, Ph.D., 9/3/98