The Symptom No One Talks About

Below are some very common questions people struggling with a compulsive behaviour have: "When will I be free?" "Does this behaviour lead to my lack of focus or is it something else?" "Is there something wrong with me?" "When will these desires go away?"

"Is it engaging in this behaviour which is making me feel this way?" "Why can other people stop it, but I keep doing it?"

These thoughts result in people feeling confused, anxious, and often very helpless.

And the good news is - you don't need to find an answer to any of these questions. Our clients in BCA are trained to specifically disengage from these questions and use a script to think through what choice they are making for themself in the present moment. These questions are a symptom of struggling with a compulsive behaviour. Once you know exactly how to deal with your own mind in an effective way and you have practiced doing this repeatedly, you begin to feel more in control of yourself again. And as such, you can see these questions as tactics coming from the addicted part of the mind (APOTM). Or over time, you don't even have these questions anymore. Trying to answer unanswerable questions is futile. It only serves the APOTM. What matters is what choices you make for yourself, moment by moment.