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I agree 100%, DeepSoul. It's disturbing, isn't it? The whole reason people, especially psychologists and the like buy into this form of "self help", is because it requires minimum to no work on their part, but actively shames a mentally ill person into believing a physical illness of the brain is their fault and that maybe we just need to see more rainbows and unicorns. All we have to do is try really, really hard!

insert endless eye rolls here.

As you said, changing a thought pattern may do little to nothing when someone has a brain that is disordered. Not enough hormones, too many hormones, frontal lobe dysfunction, temporal lobe dysfunction, traumatic events... the list goes on. Telling us, the mentally ill, that we are "really like everyone else!" is such a scum bag tactic made to guilt us into feeling like it's our own faults. Which is the farthest thing from the truth.

I know I seem really passionate about this and many may see it as an "overreaction", but this is something I've been dealing with for years now with friends, family, therapists, etc. And it's so harmful.

This study was done so poorly no proper scientist or doctor would see it as referential or even relevant.

If you ask fish if they swim the overwhelming answer would be "yes"

If you ask a human brain if they sometimes have thoughts that make them uncomfortable the overwhelming answer is going to be "yes".

That doesn't mean OCD is within a humans control. Or that a person without OCD can at ALL understand how daunting, draining and harmful this disease is.