I have started a course of CBT in the autistic clinic at the Maudsley Hospital.
Much of the work will focus on what is OCD and needs to be worked on and what is autism and warrents affirming and accepting.
It got me thinking about how I think.
A part of me is a very intense philisophical and critical thinker. But there is another part of me that does so much by routine and rote (mechanical thinking)
I would say that so much of my day is governed by routine and rote.
I process my thoughts a little like a vidi-printer on a TV........often enunciating each word unnder my breath until a complete stream of thought has been acheived. Then I process that stream of thought.
When I am stressed this process becomes intense and I become prone to OCD as a way of containing mysself.
I was interested to know if anyone else here has OCD and is attempting to discern what it helpful thinging and what is unhelpful thinking?
24 Oct 2010, 2:38 am
