The BrightLife Center for The Rapid Relief of OCD

Western (allopathic) medicine is generally of the belief that OCD is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing. Although this may or may not actually be the case, we've found that the "reason" the problem is there is of relatively trivial consequence in terms of its potential helpfulness in bringing about a solution. In other words, we've found that we really don't need to know why the problem is present in order to help you bring about a resolution to it — and perhaps more easily than you ever thought possible.

Why Is Treatment of OCD Using Standard Forms of Medical and/or Psychotherapeutic Intervention So Often Unsuccessful?

Most individuals who seek treatment for OCD-related symptoms first report their problems to their primary physician. Believing OCD to be a medical and/or mental disease or disorder, some of these physicians will quickly prescribe anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medications in an attempt to get the symptoms under control. Others will refer their patients for standard psychotherapy, and yet others will refer their patients to medical and/or psychological organizations that purport to specialize in treating OCD in its many possible expressions.

The "state-of-the-art" in traditional psychotherapy uses either cognitive-behavioral forms of therapy ("CBT"), psychopharmacology (psychoactive drugs or medications), or both. CBT most often takes the forms either of

1. Standard talk-based therapy — most often the case with relatively inexperienced therapists who just don't get that you can't "talk someone out of" an OCD problem, or
   
   
2. Graduated exposure therapy (also known as desensitization or — in its most excruciating from — flooding), in which the client is encouraged to endure ever longer periods of time in increasingly greater proximity to the disquieting stimulus.

While effective in some cases, both of these approaches seem to suffer from serious limitations.

To begin with, it's clear that you can't simply "talk someone out of" an OCD problem. After all, if that were possible, you'd have done it for yourself a long time ago, wouldn't you?

Standard talk-based therapy tends not to work in the area of OCD for one very good reason — OCD is not a consciously-driven problem. In fact, it's driven almost exclusively by totally subconscious processes. This is why, despite your best conscious efforts, you've been all but completely frustrated with all your conscious efforts to this point. It also explains why this problem has felt so far beyond your control.

Because both self-talk and standard talk therapy are very conscious processes, little or nothing changes at the subconscious level, the place you really need to go in order to successfully impact this problem. Attempting to use conscious processes to alter an almost totally subconsciously-driven problem is therefore almost always an exercise in futility — you're dealing with apples and oranges here. No wonder things don't change!

On the other hand, graduated exposure therapy calls for clients to endure — often over painfully protracted periods of time — direct exposure to whatever the client perceives as potentially dangerous: germs, food, alcohol, things "out of order", and so on. Although the logic behind this approach is understandable, the fact is, this is an unnecessarily painful way to cause a person decrease their sensitivity to whatever is so fearful — especially when there are a number of preferable options available that are both powerful and effective to help a person eliminate the unwanted symptoms they use as evidence for the presence of OCD in their life, or not.

At BrightLife, we feature some of the most powerful mental repatterning techniques available anywhere. While powerful, they are also amazingly straightforward in their application, and when applied conscientiously, virtually always effective — no matter how many other programs you may have tried and failed at in the past.

Just What is "The BrightLife Method"? — And How Can You Be So Sure Your Program Will Work For Me?

The fact is, obsessive-compulsive behaviors are anxiety-driven... Where there is no underlying anxiety, there is no compulsion to do what you generally already know is an irrational behavior. Thus, the objective of our work together is to quell the underlying anxiety that, until now, has served as the driving force behind the compulsive behavior.

To use an analogy, it's a little like what we might do if we were having difficulty turning off a malfunctioning machine because we can't find the "on-off" switch; regardless of whether or not you know where the OCD machine's on-off switch is, if you backtrack a bit and merely cut off the power to the machine instead, the machine can't help but shut down anyway. And you can hit the machine's "on-off" button all you want after that, but the machine will stay off because you've removed the source of the energy that drives it.

Our work is so effective, we have been featured on numerous local, national and even international radio and television programs, to include our appearance on the Discovery Health Channel's six-part television series, Things That Go Bump: Facing Our Fears. On that program, Dr. Robert Mantell assisted a client to eliminate an intense twenty-year phobia in just 15 minutes! See the video here!

How do we teach our clients to turn off the "power" to the OCD machine? The process is amazingly simple.

You see, it's not what's out there that causes, or "forces" a person to respond with anxiety to a given event, situation or circumstance. Rather, it's how we each mentally interpret what's out there — it's the meaning we each unconsciously assign to a given event that determines how we feel about it. When we teach you to change the meaning you unconsciously assign to a given anxiety-provoking "trigger" (e.g. "If I don't pick that up, somebody could get hurt, and then I'd have to feel real guilty"), you change how your brain perceives it. When you change how your brain perceives a particular trigger, you can't help but feel — and therefore respond — totally differently to it!

Thus, by showing a person how to think differently about whatever is so anxiety-provoking, the underlying anxiety that drives the OCD behaviors tends to dissipate, effectively snuffing out the energy that used to drive the unwanted behaviors in the first place. The compulsion disappears.

Eradicate the psychological energy driving the behavior, and the compulsion stops dead in its tracks — It's a revolutionary approach by a revolutionary company.

BrightLife Phobia & Anxiety Release Center can be contacted at:

2010 W. Avenue K, Suite 644
Lancaster, CA 93536

email: info@fearintopower.com TOLL-FREE: (866) LIFE-NOW

	BrightLife Phobia and Anxiety Release Center has been awarded the prestigious "AAA Rating" for outstanding Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction by the Southland Better Business Bureau!
	BrightLife's Founder and Executive Director Robert Mantell, Ph.D. is a member in good standing of the American Counseling Association (Membership #06162446).
	All coaches at BrightLife Phobia and Anxiety Release Center are members of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.

BrightLife's Founder and Executive Director Robert Mantell, Ph.D. is a member of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.

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