Obsessions are a type of negative thinking, usually progressive, recurrent, and dangerous. We’ve all experienced this kind of cognition at some point in our lives, but the difference with people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (ODO) is that they haven’t conditioned our lives.
We let these thoughts go through our minds without thinking too much about them. Do we recognize that the function of the brain is to hinder your mind, whether in the form of phrases, images, sensations?And there’s no reason to give it any more importance.
- They mistakenly believe that having these thoughts implies that they are real.
- And if we stop to think coldly.
- One thing is the world in our heads and another is the real world.
The classic hypothesis tells us that the origin of this disorder is the genetic and biological predisposition to the disease, as well as the personal history of the individual, from childhood: education received, personality?
The disorder would continue through compulsions, which are nothing more than acts that can be motor (e. g. washing hands twenty times a day) or cognitive (mentally repeating the same idea for six hours). Compulsions neutralize the obsessions and also the anxiety they generate. , so that the person relaxes momentarily. At the same time, this momentary relief will act as a negative reinforcement, increasing the likelihood that compulsion will repeat in the future or even become widespread.
Positive reinforcements received from the environment can also maintain clutter, so it’s critical not to neglect them.
What we just discussed is the introduction of what we already know more or less about the disorder. Recently, Dr. Luis Rodrigo Sáez, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oviedo, Spain, specialized in neurological manifestations of celiac disease. Keep in mind that people with coeliac disease are gluten intolerant, a protein found in wheat flour and some cereals.
This doctor was able to check and confirm how gluten alone is able to inflame and injure certain areas of our brain, resulting in the onset of various neurological diseases ranging from ataxia, migraines, multiple sclerosis, polyneuropathy and epilepsy, to Tourette’s syndrome and ODO syndrome.
It’s not, of course, about blaming gluten, but researchers see that it could be one of the causes of the origin and permanence of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as other psychiatric and neurological diseases.
These rather significant discoveries open up a new path of hope for patients, a novelty to explore and that could first develop successfully without patients needing drug treatment.
Combining it with good psychotherapy, something that I think is essential to learn how to break dysfunctional habits and change thoughts, treatment would be based on the complete elimination of gluten from our diet.
The diet should be done throughout life and strictly; that is, it is not worth leaving gluten during the week and on weekends to abuse the consumption of sweets made from refined flour, once we have decided to give up gluten it is essential to continue the treatment if we want to benefit from its effects. .
It is a pride to be able to present the empirical results of other professionals so that, as mentioned above, science advances, but above all, it is great news that patients can have better natural alternatives with fewer side effects.
So, if you have any of the disorders mentioned here, I would encourage you to follow the new discoveries presented in this article. Personally, I suggest you remove gluten from your diet and analyze the results within a year. You’ll be surprised!