Are You Obsessed With Keeping A Clean Home?

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Are You Obsessed With Keeping A Clean Home?
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• Many of us like to keep a clean and tidy home,
  but there can be a difference between this, and
  obsessively keeping a home clean.
• If you have an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (or
  OCD) that revolves around cleaning your home, you
  doubtless recognize the fact but may not know how
  to help stop it. Here are a few tips and pointers
  that may help you to break the cycle of obsessive
  cleaning
• Try to relax before the compulsion to clean
• With any OCD, they thrive on anxiety and stress
  and when it takes over, the action involved is an
  attempt to pacify that stress.

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• Relaxing is one of the best ways of dissipating
  the stress and anxiety that youre feeling,
  instead of performing an action such as cleaning,
  but not everyone knows how to relax.
• Try listening to a relaxation CD before you begin
  feeling the need to alleviate your stress and
  anxiety through cleaning, and even if you still
  feel compelled to clean after youve finished
  relaxing, youll probably find that the intensity
  will be less.
• Break the obsessive routine
• While a cleaning habit is in no way the same as a
  drug habit, the two need to be challenged in a
  similar way.

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• Stopping cold turkey can be too much to cope
  with, so try to break the habit gradually. This
  could begin by you starting to clean later than
  you normally would, and then changing the order
  in which you clean, and so on.
• Look at your life as a whole
• It may be that your compulsion to clean is a
  symptom of some wider anxieties in your life, and
  it may be helpful to try and tackle those to help
  stop your obsessive cleaning cycle.
• Ask yourself if you have an irrational fear of
  contamination
• A fear of contamination from germs, bacteria and
  dirt can take over a persons life, and if you
  feel that this may be the case for you, then why
  not seek

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• professional help from a solution-focused
  therapist who may use hypnotherapy to help you
  overcome your fixation.
• What are you really afraid of?
• Often, our obsessions are fuelled by fear, and if
  the thought of not cleaning makes you anxious,
  try focusing intensely on what might happen or
  how you might feel, if you didnt clean for one
  day. Ask yourself what would realistically
  happen, and over time you should begin to realise
  that its your fear of not cleaning that is the
  driving force behind your obsession.
• Ending an obsessive disorder wont happen
  overnight, and for some, the process may take
  months and even years,

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• but every process has a beginning and taking the
  first steps towards living without such a
  disorder, could be the beginning of the rest of
  your life without fear and anxiety ruling you.
  Failing an effective remedy, simply hand over the
  reins to a professional cleaning service and let
  them keep your home clean for you.
• Getting over compulsive cleaning doesnt happen
  overnight (although it can do, on occasion). But
  when you find the doorway out of the compulsion
  (which is closer than you think), youll always
  be pleased you did.

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