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How to Stop Obsessive Cleaning
Published 8 February, 2010 | Obsessive / Compulsive?
A woman joked to me once that she wished her husband could develop an addictive fascination with tidying! Could I, she wondered, help implant a “mania for cleanliness” in her husband using the dark arts of hypnosis?
Stop Impulse Buying Ruining Your Financial Future
Published 28 September, 2009 | Obsessive / Compulsive?
“It’s as if I’m hypnotized, sucked into the moment. I just forget everything: the mortgage, my kids. All I see is what I want and it’s as if getting it will make me happy! And it does…for a few moments.”
Overcome Obsessive Thoughts
Published 14 September, 2009 | Obsessive / Compulsive?
Obsessive thoughts breed compulsive actions. The mother who feels that unless she waves five times at her son as he goes to school something bad will happen to him, the anxious businessman who has to ‘avert disaster’ before boarding a plane by clearing his throat thirty times, or the young girl who can keep her parents safe by walking around her bed 50 times before sleeping. Obsessive thoughts often have this element of superstition about them.
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