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Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior Review: A strategy guide for retraining your brain - Brain Lock is a book for those that would like an overhead view of their disorder. It helped me feel a detachment from the disease, not so much by encouraging me to dissociate myself from it, but rather by describing it as part of my brain whose opinions I should feel free to ignore. With OCD, you know it isn't normal to think how you do, but you feel like there will be consequences if you ignore your compulsions or distract yourself from your obsessions. And so, we either perform our nonsensical tasks, or we spend countless hours and valuable brain cycles going through the many reasons NOT to perform said tasks. One of the major revelations of Brain Lock is that BOTH of these responses play into the hands of the disorder. Either way, you are wasting your time and becoming unbelievably stressed out and not getting any closer to being rid of the problem. Only by looking at the thoughts as foreign and allowing yourself to move on to other business can you break yourself out of the cyclical thinking ("brain lock") that plagues us. I hope that you will find, as I have, that as the years progress, the brain lock subsides, and the real you emerges. It is not a cure, and there can be relapses. Despite this, it reminds me of exercising for years and getting injured. You are put out of your routine for a while, but once you are able to get back in the gym, you are not back where you were years ago. Your strength returns, and your progress resumes. 2010 Edit: Still doing well, but I wanted to join in with those recommending cognitive behavioral therapy (and ERP, and the rest of its friends). While this book was quite effective for me, it might be because I had/have a "pure obsession" type of OCD, where the compulsions are all performed mentally. These can include scrupulosity, health concerns, and counting. Exposure therapy is the gold standard for OCD (and phobias, and any disorder where there is an irrational anxiety/fear/disgust response that the brain fails to extinguish). This book has clearly worked for those with overt compulsions (checking, hoarding, cleaning), but I no longer consider it the first choice for such problems. This book does, indeed, recommend its own type of avoidance strategies. That said, the four steps encouraged me to refuse to engage in my mental rituals, accepting the concomitant distress as irrational and dismissible. In other words, this can be very effective exposure and acceptance therapy for pure obsession types of OCD. Review: This book should have been a pamphlet - Although overly simplistic and poorly written, this book has been incredibly helpful for me as a person who has suffered with OCD since childhood. I had never identified my OCD as such until college, although vaguely I always knew something was going awry in my mind (I guess I just thought everyone had these same struggles). A counselor recommended this book, so I skimmed through it and began trying the '4 steps' (summary later in the review). At first it was counterintuitive and seemed like I was leaving important thoughts behind. In time I began to realize those 'important thoughts' were my obsessions, and that constantly refocusing mitigated their power to depress or paralyze me. I joined a meditation group and have realized that the steps in this book are similar to what I learned there. Both are a conscious process of 1) Observing thoughts as they come to mind 2) Allowing those thoughts to be in the mind without judgement 3) Allowing oneself to refocus on the present. Mr. Schwartz showed that this process causes actual changes in brain chemistry over time, decreasing the frequency and intensity of intruding thoughts. This book has had the greatest effect on me of any book I have ever read. It may not work for all kinds of OCD, but it sure worked for me. Here's a summary of the steps: Step 1: RELABEL Recognize that the intrusive obsessive thought is a COMPULSIVE one. Recognize it by saying "There's that compulsive thought again." The goal is to control your responses to the thoughts, not to control the thoughts themselves. Step 2: REATTRIBUTE Realize that the intensity and intrusiveness of the thought is caused by its compulsive nature. You did not cause the thought to occur. It just is there. There is nothing you can do to make it go away immediately. Trying to make them go away will only pile stress on stress. Step 3: REFOCUS Just because the obsessive thought or compulsion intrudes, it does not mean you have to act on it. Work around the compulsive thought by focusing your attention on something else, at least for a few minutes: DO ANOTHER BEHAVIOR. You must train yourself in a new method of responding to the thoughts, redirecting your attention to something other than the compulsive thought. The goal is to stop responding to the compulsive thoughts while acknowledging that, for the short term, these uncomfortable feelings will continue to bother you. You learn that even though the compulsive thought is there, it doesn't have to control what you do. By REFOCUSING, you reclaim your decision-making power. The thoughts in your brain are no longer running the show. Refocusing isn't easy. It will take significant effort and even tolerance of some pain. But only by learning to resist the compulsions can you, in time, decrease the pain. The idea is to delay your response to an obsessive thought or to your urge to perform a compulsive behavior by letting some time elapse-preferably at least fifteen minutes-before you even consider acting on the urge or thought. In the beginning or when the urges are very intense, you may need to set a shorter waiting time, say five minutes, as your goal. Note: Sometimes the urge will be too strong, and you will perform the compulsion. This is not an invitation to beat yourself up. Step 4: REVALUE Do not take the compulsive thought at face value. It is not significant in itself. You do not have to act on the compulsive thought. After adequate training in the first three steps, you are able in time to place a much lower value on the compulsive thoughts and urges. Although in the short run, you can't change your feelings you can change your behavior. By changing your behavior, you find that your feelings also change in time. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #11,007 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Compulsive Behavior (Books) #4 in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder #215 in Personal Transformation Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,400 Reviews | ## Images ![Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817FnYVNxPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A strategy guide for retraining your brain *by I***H on June 8, 2006* Brain Lock is a book for those that would like an overhead view of their disorder. It helped me feel a detachment from the disease, not so much by encouraging me to dissociate myself from it, but rather by describing it as part of my brain whose opinions I should feel free to ignore. With OCD, you know it isn't normal to think how you do, but you feel like there will be consequences if you ignore your compulsions or distract yourself from your obsessions. And so, we either perform our nonsensical tasks, or we spend countless hours and valuable brain cycles going through the many reasons NOT to perform said tasks. One of the major revelations of Brain Lock is that BOTH of these responses play into the hands of the disorder. Either way, you are wasting your time and becoming unbelievably stressed out and not getting any closer to being rid of the problem. Only by looking at the thoughts as foreign and allowing yourself to move on to other business can you break yourself out of the cyclical thinking ("brain lock") that plagues us. I hope that you will find, as I have, that as the years progress, the brain lock subsides, and the real you emerges. It is not a cure, and there can be relapses. Despite this, it reminds me of exercising for years and getting injured. You are put out of your routine for a while, but once you are able to get back in the gym, you are not back where you were years ago. Your strength returns, and your progress resumes. 2010 Edit: Still doing well, but I wanted to join in with those recommending cognitive behavioral therapy (and ERP, and the rest of its friends). While this book was quite effective for me, it might be because I had/have a "pure obsession" type of OCD, where the compulsions are all performed mentally. These can include scrupulosity, health concerns, and counting. Exposure therapy is the gold standard for OCD (and phobias, and any disorder where there is an irrational anxiety/fear/disgust response that the brain fails to extinguish). This book has clearly worked for those with overt compulsions (checking, hoarding, cleaning), but I no longer consider it the first choice for such problems. This book does, indeed, recommend its own type of avoidance strategies. That said, the four steps encouraged me to refuse to engage in my mental rituals, accepting the concomitant distress as irrational and dismissible. In other words, this can be very effective exposure and acceptance therapy for pure obsession types of OCD. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book should have been a pamphlet *by J***N on July 13, 2012* Although overly simplistic and poorly written, this book has been incredibly helpful for me as a person who has suffered with OCD since childhood. I had never identified my OCD as such until college, although vaguely I always knew something was going awry in my mind (I guess I just thought everyone had these same struggles). A counselor recommended this book, so I skimmed through it and began trying the '4 steps' (summary later in the review). At first it was counterintuitive and seemed like I was leaving important thoughts behind. In time I began to realize those 'important thoughts' were my obsessions, and that constantly refocusing mitigated their power to depress or paralyze me. I joined a meditation group and have realized that the steps in this book are similar to what I learned there. Both are a conscious process of 1) Observing thoughts as they come to mind 2) Allowing those thoughts to be in the mind without judgement 3) Allowing oneself to refocus on the present. Mr. Schwartz showed that this process causes actual changes in brain chemistry over time, decreasing the frequency and intensity of intruding thoughts. This book has had the greatest effect on me of any book I have ever read. It may not work for all kinds of OCD, but it sure worked for me. Here's a summary of the steps: Step 1: RELABEL Recognize that the intrusive obsessive thought is a COMPULSIVE one. Recognize it by saying "There's that compulsive thought again." The goal is to control your responses to the thoughts, not to control the thoughts themselves. Step 2: REATTRIBUTE Realize that the intensity and intrusiveness of the thought is caused by its compulsive nature. You did not cause the thought to occur. It just is there. There is nothing you can do to make it go away immediately. Trying to make them go away will only pile stress on stress. Step 3: REFOCUS Just because the obsessive thought or compulsion intrudes, it does not mean you have to act on it. Work around the compulsive thought by focusing your attention on something else, at least for a few minutes: DO ANOTHER BEHAVIOR. You must train yourself in a new method of responding to the thoughts, redirecting your attention to something other than the compulsive thought. The goal is to stop responding to the compulsive thoughts while acknowledging that, for the short term, these uncomfortable feelings will continue to bother you. You learn that even though the compulsive thought is there, it doesn't have to control what you do. By REFOCUSING, you reclaim your decision-making power. The thoughts in your brain are no longer running the show. Refocusing isn't easy. It will take significant effort and even tolerance of some pain. But only by learning to resist the compulsions can you, in time, decrease the pain. The idea is to delay your response to an obsessive thought or to your urge to perform a compulsive behavior by letting some time elapse-preferably at least fifteen minutes-before you even consider acting on the urge or thought. In the beginning or when the urges are very intense, you may need to set a shorter waiting time, say five minutes, as your goal. Note: Sometimes the urge will be too strong, and you will perform the compulsion. This is not an invitation to beat yourself up. Step 4: REVALUE Do not take the compulsive thought at face value. It is not significant in itself. You do not have to act on the compulsive thought. After adequate training in the first three steps, you are able in time to place a much lower value on the compulsive thoughts and urges. Although in the short run, you can't change your feelings you can change your behavior. By changing your behavior, you find that your feelings also change in time. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book but don't but all your eggs in this basket *by D***M on September 11, 2015* This book has been very insightful. I haven't applied the four steps yet, but you don't have to finish the book to begin. Each step works alone, but only the four together will provide the actual self-treatment. I like how they focus so much on the science - it really validates the book and motivates the reader to understand that OCD is purely a chemical issue, it is not their fault, and there is hope for a better quality of life. I'm about half-way through the book. I bought it because I suffer from retroactive jealousy. I feel the worst is behind me because: I'm mindful that this problem is internal and is not anyone's fault, I sought out professional help in the form of weekly psychotherapy sessions (an experience that will be serendipitous for all that seek it), by studying these kinds of behaviors and really wanting my relationship to work out. It takes work, but you will grow personally because of it. Be patient. My favorite line from the book so far: "It's not what you feel that matters, but what you do." I would say don't expect this book to solve all your lives problem, but I would definitely recommend this book because it opens your eyes to so many things about OCD and life in general. 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