Pure OCD and the feeling of dissociation
How Pure OCD turns a shift of awareness into a fear of derealisation, depersonalisation, freezing, or dissociating.
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When Pure OCD Feels Like Psychosis
When Pure OCD feels like psychosis, it is often the see-through mind-screen. You can see every version the unconscious ran. Dreams are inner reality. The street is outer reality.
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The Mind-Screen: Why Your Anxious Thoughts Feel So Real
We blame “the mind” as if it were one thing. It is not. Parts of you are feeding a mind-screen, and other parts are staring at it. Anxiety is often those parts being out of alignment.
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Who Is the Feeling of I? The Rider Can Be Calm When the Horse Is Anxious
You are not your anxious body or your looping thoughts. The feeling of I is the rider. The body is the horse. The rider can stay steady even when the horse is not. Video 13, in plain language.
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Right or Happy? Content, Personality and iStory ERP for OCD
Anxiety keeps you stuck, proving the latest fear is right. Learn how content, context and perspective, Warrior, Settler, Nomad personalities, and iStory ERP help you choose a happier life over winning the argument with your mind.
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Get Out of the Content: Context and Perspective in OCD
Anxiety and OCD keep you stuck in the content of the latest thought. Learn why moving to context and changing perspective is how you grow into someone the old loop cannot run.
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Your Senses Are Trickable. Retrain Them to Recover from Anxiety
You do not see the world as it is. You see your brain’s best guess. How your clumsy senses keep anxiety and OCD alive, and how iStory ERP, plus a new inner briefing, retrains what you do with those feelings.
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Overcome OCD: From Doubt and Fear to Trust and Courage
OCD runs on doubt, fear and pessimism. Lasting change comes from becoming someone who practises trust, courage, and optimism—and uses iStory ERP on the life they actually want, not just the latest feared thought.
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How Anxious Beliefs Filter Memory and Your RAS
Your beliefs decide what short-term memory becomes long-term memory — and what the Reticular Activating System lets you notice. Sleep clears the desk each night. The filing rules decide what you wake up believing.
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Positive Conscious Attitudes: The One Thing You Can Actually Choose
Happiness, forgiveness and courage are not moods you wait for. They are conscious attitudes you can choose and act on — so your inner reality improves even when the outer world does not. This is a common-sense way of living.
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OCD Sabotage and the Stories We Call Truth
Anxiety sometimes covers for missing practical life skills. Learn how underdeveloped abilities in communication, decision-making and self-assertion can quietly maintain anxiety — and what to do about it.
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Could Poor Life Skills Be Feeding Your Anxiety?
Anxiety sometimes covers for missing practical life skills. Learn how underdeveloped abilities in communication, decision-making and self-assertion can quietly maintain anxiety — and what to do about it.
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Becoming Someone New: The Real Work of Recovering from Anxiety and Pure O
Real recovery from anxiety and Pure O means becoming someone new, not returning to who you were. Stop the victim stance, take action, and build a stronger self. With the right guidance and lots of effort massive change is possible. Becoming Someone New: The Real Work of Recovering from Anxiety and Pure O Many people
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How Anxiety Keeps You Stuck in Preparation Mode
Long-term anxiety often trains people to live in constant preparation instead of actual living. Learn why this pattern develops and how stepping out of it rebuilds courage and presence.
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iStory ERP for Anxiety & OCD Recovery by John Glanvill
iStory ERP is a practical method for changing the internal stories that keep anxiety and Pure OCD going. Learn how this form of Exposure & Response Prevention rewires daily thinking patterns.
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Pure OCD: Why It Attacks What You Value Most
Pure OCD thrives by shocking you with thoughts that contradict who you really are. Learn why it is a system rather than a personal failing, and how stopping the mental rituals and applying ERP to real life can starve it of power. Pure OCD: Why It Attacks What You Value Most (This is a
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Guilt Is a Contract — And You Don’t Have to Sign It
Guilt explained in 3 minutes! Watch this video. The simplest way to understand guilt is as a contract between two people: the guilter, who tries to impose it, and the guiltee, who receives it.
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Why Anxiety Happens: Emotional Creatures Who Learned to Think
This is why you can’t think your way out of anxiety! It is doing ERP that changes anxiety, which is facing your fears and living your life.
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Life-changing advice would I give my younger self?
If I could go back in time and talk to my younger self, this is the life advice I would give him.
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Your Inner Reality Shapes Your Outer Reality | The Calmness in Mind Process
Only you are responsible for the experience of your life! A practical look at how your inner subjective reality influences your outer subjective reality and, thus, your life experience.
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Locus of Control – Where is Yours?
(LoC) describes how much a person believes they can control the events of their life. External: Out of Control. Internal: In Control and responsible (to the best of your ability) for what happens to you.
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Is avoiding discomfort a sensible strategy?
Avoiding fear keeps life small and fuels anxiety. Learn how to find more calmness, courage and optimism with common-sense teachings.
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List of all phobias – Which ERP (if done) Allows You to Overcome
The specific label of the phobia doesn’t matter – apply ERP to the life you desire and the person you wish to become. This is the practical approach explored in the five-part ERP Video 50 series.
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Emetophobia, Fear of vomiting
This fearful condition is a subset of OCD based in fear and control (fear of being out of control) and a repressed dominant nature.
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Chronic Fatigue, ME & Fibromyalgia
The painful truth is… These are based in anxiety, using energy unwisely, people-pleasing, being too nice and having a repressed dominance.
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Help for Disassociation, Depersonalisation, Derealisation Disorder DDD
Characterised by a sense of disconnection from reality, oneself, or the environment. But it is a trick (of anxiety/thinking), as we dissociate to fall asleep, lose ourselves in music, etc. And when we die, we dissociate from matter back to energy – our Soul.
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Esoteric (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCD focused on abstract, philosophical, spiritual, or existential themes. Often found in very clever, creative, but rigidly logical personality types. The OCD looks for answers to unanswerable questions; it is a trap/loop.
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Become the Lead Character in This, Your Game of Life!
Those who act, then think, then adjust, then react will always outperform those who sit and think (or worry)… Step up, take action, engage – play the game!
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Who do you wish to become & and desire for your life?
This video and workbook help you answer those questions and teach you how to program your brain in those directions.
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What life-changing advice would I give my younger self?
If I could go back to myself as a child, this is what I would tell him and hope to instil in my children (role model) through my behaviours as an adult.
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