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Obsessive compulsive disorder (view source)
Revision as of 19:26, July 3, 2016
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== Initial Choices ==
== Initial Choices ==
[[Addiction]]s and deeply embedded compulsive behavior patterns differ from true [[illness]]es in that their progressive alteration of the brain is directed by choices, especially ''initial choices''. They are therefore reinforced by ''the progressive erosion of the ability to choose differently''. The capacity for moral choice is gradually undermined as the compulsion tightens its grip.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=11 |pages=175–6 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=}}</ref>
[[Addiction]]s and deeply embedded compulsive behavior patterns differ from true [[illness]]es in that their progressive alteration of the brain is directed by choices, especially ''initial choices''. They are therefore reinforced by ''the progressive erosion of the ability to choose differently''. The capacity for moral choice is gradually undermined as the compulsion tightens its grip.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=11 |pages=175–6 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=}}</ref>
== Destroying effects of compulsive pursuits ==
An outcome not that different from the life- and relationship-destroying effects of many compulsive pursuits to which men are prey − [[chemical]], [[sexual]], and otherwise, can be illustrated by controlled [[experiment]] with ''lower animals''. The rats were given a to press that fed them simple water and cocaine. The rats press lever to the point of starvation, physical exhaustion, and death, ignoring huneger entirely. This demonstrates the incredible power of pleasure-related mechanisms in the brain. The brain has certain areas whose primary function is to create a feeling of "pleasure" only under specific circumstances. Although the mechanism whereby this occur is chemical, as a prime example, the pleasure areas of the brain are most intensely activated at the moment of sexual orgasm.<ref name="Satinover1996"/>
== The faded compulsions due to experience ==
The [[experience]] can both change the emotional patterns and shape the brain. People suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder can be treated with either the standard drug treatment or with [[behavioral therapy]]. The remarkable finding is that the latter one can gradually, through months of sessions involving experience in form of the systematic exposion to the object of obsession or compulsion without performing it, significantly decrease the activity of a key part of the emotional brain. The experience can change brain function and relieve symptoms as effectively as the medication.<ref name="EmoInt">{{cite book |title=Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ |author=Daniel Goleman |publisher=Bantam Books |year=1996 |pages=257-8 |isbn=978-05538-40070 |url=http://books.google.no/books?id=OgXxhmGiRB0C |quote=Note:URL is for later edition}}</ref>
== OCD and Pornography ==
== OCD and Pornography ==
Victor Cline, psychologist and psychotherapist, concluded, based on experience with treatment of ca 300 sex addicts, sex offenders, and victims of sexual abuse, that [[pornography]] consumption has a [[Cause and effect|causal]] effect leading to sexual obsessions and possibly even criminal acts. In this respect, he identifies a five step process:<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book
Victor Cline, psychologist and psychotherapist, concluded, based on experience with treatment of ca 300 sex addicts, sex offenders, and victims of sexual abuse, that [[pornography]] consumption has a [[Cause and effect|causal]] effect leading to sexual obsessions and possibly even criminal acts. In this respect, he identifies a five step process:<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book