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Originally Posted by sorter
Your OCD impulse is involuntary in that it comes to awareness automatically.
After that, you can react to it anyway you want.
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But, how can you claim that without knowing me, my mind, my reactions. You can't. The need to perform the action may be involuntary, but actually doing so, for me, is a decision I choose to make - thus, voluntary. I can feel the need without performing the action, sometimes. So, if my goal were to stop performing the action, that's a voluntary response. If my goal were to work on the need to perform the action, that might be classed involuntary.
If you need to define all emotional responses as involuntary, that's fine. I disagree, and I doubt any amount of debate will change that on either side.