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Old Jan 23, 2013, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by BlessedRhiannon View Post
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.
I'm not saying your reaction to feeling the need is involuntary. I'm saying
feeling the need is involuntary. If you can willfully turn off feeling the initial need,
then by definition you don't have OCD.