OCD Elimination

A patient with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) came to see me. OCD has many flavours. In her case she was struggling with intrusive thoughts. At any unpredictable moment she would find herself unable to stop violent thoughts of herself experiencing terrible things. She felt strong negative emotions as it happened. She wasn’t even able to tell me about it without crying.

We embarked on the sort of deep hypnotherapy that we do at the Clinic where we zero in on the underlying source of the problem. In the hypnotic state her symptoms and feelings led us back to early childhood where she had been mistreated and abandoned by her mother. This left her feeling un-loved and un-wanted. 

That’s a terrible thing for a small child. This had etched in her brain the initial neural pathways that ultimately led to the OCD problem.  At first the initial neural pathways are weak, but each time she thought about it or re-experienced those feelings it strengthened the neural pathway. Over the years other events happened for which she felt similar feelings. These subsequent events were associated with the initial event by her associative mind, and thus these events also strengthened the neural pathways, until it eventually became her then-current OCD intrusive thoughts.

Following industry-leading protocols I guided her through the process of erasing those bad feelings. When we do that we want to eliminate the bad emotions associated with the event, but keep the memory itself and any lessons she may have learned from it. Once the emotions are gone, then the energy behind the problem is gone.

In a subsequent session we traced similar feelings back to feeling unwanted by her father as well. We carefully went through each of the relevant events. In the third session we applied the same approach to a related problem.  Anytime she would buy something nice for herself she would feel terrible afterwards.  Deep down she had feelings that she didn’t deserve what she bought. This stopped her from enjoying it.  

Several days later she wrote me a smiley face email saying that said she needs to set a budget for herself now because she is having no problem buying things for herself.

In the fourth and final session we took care of the remaining events associated to those bad feelings.  As we finished she felt good inside. She could feel that the work was now complete.

I contacted her about 4 months later and she emailed back that she “never even thinks about her former OCD anymore”.

- Wes Rupel, Director