How to deal with ADHD and OCD like symptoms causing issues during meditation?
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My suggestion is that you trained (meditation) under a competent teacher. If you do it your own make sure you have a full understanding of meditation methods. In that case, start your practice slowly. Seek professional help if you think that you are not well.
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If you think you got ADHD or OCD you should seek professional help. Even if it turns out you don't suffer from these disorders talking to an expert could help you with your problem.
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Firstly, you have to understand that Thoughts, Emotions and Behaviours are interconnected, meaning: If you change one of it, the other will usually follow.
Secondly, I would like to introduce to you to the ABC, where A stands for Adversity (either internally or externally), B stands for Beliefs, and C stands for Consequences (which are thinking, behaving and feeling consequences that are spawned from these underlying beliefs). Most people jump from A -> C and neglect their beliefs.
Without going too deep, if you have a belief about uncomfort you have to tell yourself that it's hard to tolerate, but you can tolerate it and it's in your best interest to do so.
It's always about tolerating discomfort as well as thinking and behaving in a helpful way.
If you want to reduce fear or uncomfort, one needs to rehearse helpful thoughts before, in the midst and after the adversity and act according to these thoughts. This ensures that you are in a rational frame of mind. This can be called uncomfort by acting
On the other hand, uncomfort by abstaining is a little bit different, but you still have to tolerate discomfort since you want to abstain from something because -again-it is in your best interest to do so.
Usually, OCD patients are provided with behavioral and acceptance methods. Debating with thoughts in a long-winded fashion will just re-activate unhelpful beliefs, and that's precisely the reason why once you have reharsed your helpful thoughts you should then switch to an acceptance based focus, where you don't try to get rid or engage in your thoughts. Behavioral methods can be precisely like mentioned above (uncomfort by abstaining if you ruminate a lot, for example, you ask yourself the question: Does my rumination really change anything? I'm here in my room right now and ruminating won't change a thing. If you rehearse such thinking and behave in line with these thoughts, with time your beliefs will change.
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