Study Finds Most People Have Obsessive Behaviors or Thoughts | Psych Central News

Everyone has obsessions and compulsions. It's just what we decide to do with these thoughts that differ.

Um... maybe it's not meant like that, but it feels like the whole pop-culture trend of "self help". That you choose your reactions.

I remember my own onset of OCD. The difference for me personally was not how I handled thoughts. I mean, I and most people had a life prior to OCD. Would our issue be a sudden loss of coping with normal obsessions? I think maybe the study fails to take in count that a loss of coping must suddenly happen if their theory is right. Because OCD usually doesn't start slowly growing as you exit the womb.

How normal people handle obsessions is touted as the cure. Just push the thoughts aside with a shrug.

Yet again.... when I got OCD I suddenly had a large number of obsessive thoughts. Drop that on anyone and I'll tell you it is quite hard just shrugging off. Also, have they even tried to measure the intensity of the emotion behind it? It's not just a thought flying by with no emotion attached to it. Not for me at least. It was always accompanied with a very strong emotion that I fail to see how I chose.

OCD is a real disorder and not just some bad habit. I mean at onset I had no prior history of worrying about things, the way the study suggests. It basically says you are already a worrier when the illness starts. Or it cannot get you. It really does not fit me. I was quite mentally healthy and I didn't dwell on things, the dwelling and obsessing came WITH the disorder.

Maybe I'm different and everyone else matches what the study found? I have no idea.