“瑞克”
怀疑是思想的绝望;绝望是人格的怀疑…
怀疑和绝望……属于完全不同的领域;灵魂的不同面被设定在运动中…
绝望是全部人格的表现,怀疑只是思想的表现。-
Søren克尔凯郭尔
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“瑞克”
我叫“里克”。我今年35岁,从我记事起就有强迫症。每一种强迫症形式最终都会被另一种形式所取代。早期的一种形式是祈祷。我会在晚上做祷告,犯了一个“错误”,再念一遍,犯一个“错误”,等等。这种情况会持续几个小时,然后我会睡着,然后醒来,必须弥补前一晚的不足。结果就是,当我和儿时的朋友在一起的时候,我会对自己说这个祈祷词,犯了一个错误,再重复一遍,等等。我每天大部分时间都在为自己做这些祷告。当这种形式最终消失时,取而代之的是另一种形式。
随着时间的推移,我经历了非常可怕的强迫症:
- 检查、再检查、再检查电灯开关、门、煤气炉等。
- 清洗(甚至把钱扔进马桶里,因为它被污染了)
- 对死亡的恐惧和对睡眠的极度恐惧
- 对汽车和火车尾气的恐惧,对中毒的恐惧(我上班时会随身携带一加仑水)等等。
强迫症让我失去了工作和婚姻。我从未寻求过帮助,直到我患上了严重的恐慌症——我在一次聚会上出现了一些奇怪的压力反应,然后事情就急转直下了。我到了不能工作,不能出门的地步。我同事的妻子是一名医生,她说服我去看一位心理学家,当她患上严重的产后抑郁症时,她去看了这位心理学家。那时(5年半前)我别无选择——我睡不着,不能出门,等等。我去他那里接受了认知行为治疗,药物治疗,还有非常重要的,冥想。冥想是关键。我在恐慌症最严重的时候开始冥想——从我读到的东西来看,我一直知道冥想对我有帮助,但我从来没有尝试过。当我开始的时候,我开始做藏传佛教和禅宗佛教的冥想。我也读过《奇迹课程》,这本书对我很有吸引力,因为它使用的是我从小到大接触过的术语(但它们的使用方式非常不同,与我的无神论/不可知论思想一致)。 Anyway, I felt that I had hit rock bottom and got into the meditation very strongly. I decided to use the Course in Miracles because I didn't have access to a Zen teacher and felt that its structure was good. I also stayed with the 100 mg Zoloft that the psychologist put me on. And I also used the cognitive behavior therapy stuff -- I would carry the notebook around with me and write whatever thoughts were going thru my mind. If they were distressful, I would write every single thing that was going on and continue until finding a resolution. I found that the writing helped me to become more aware of my thoughts which helped with the meditation. What was so helpful with the meditation was that it chipped away at my ego. I didn't ever want to go back to the panic disorder days so ... I would always make time for the meditation, writing and morning relaxation stuff (I bought these tapes on Panic Disorder from Pathway Systems). I also didn't care who knew (I had lived my life in fear of anyone knowing my weaknesses that I finally decided to be strong by not caring who knew). I made sure to always be open with people about things that I was feeling and, if I was having a problem with them, to help them help me to resolve it. The meditation stuff also helped me to forgive people -- very important for me because I held lots of stuff against people and would indulge many negative and victim-oriented perceptions. By looking at the ego (which is what Zen and any other similarly-based spirituality has you do), I also would b gentler with myself -- not feel guilty or like I failed if I had 'ego outbursts' or entertained negative perceptions of myself or others. I would, however, try and not let my mind go down the typical roads of negative thinking and negative fantasizing whenever I could. The meditation helped me not to lessen my attachments to people and things -- especially my perception of who I was.
结果非常好。我在我的工作中做得最好,我通过呆在当时的情况下,写下发生的一切和冥想来度过强迫症发作。我想要避免这种情况和/或仪式化,但我知道这没有用,所以……我会待在原地,使用工具。我度过了人生中最美好的几年。我还确保不把冥想变成强迫症发作。
我的心理医生不幸去世了。我又去了另一家医院,住了几个月,然后觉得自己没事。不幸的是,我变得有点懒惰和自满,让工具(冥想,写作)溜走了。我开始再次非常依恋我的自我概念,害怕失去它——冥想极大地帮助了这一点。当我回顾强迫症发作时,很多都涉及到与身份和自我丧失有关的难以置信的恐惧(这就是为什么我曾经经历了一段可怕的时间,被死亡的恐惧所吞噬)。我最近出现了一些强迫症的症状,在某种程度上,这与我害怕失去我认为的自己有关。我一直在使用一些技巧,比如“思维中断”,这很有帮助。我还在服用100毫克的左洛复,我认为这有助于我避免陷入看似无休止的强迫症思维循环。我知道认真运用冥想的东西是必要的,但我只参与了一部分。在我的脑海中浮现的是《禅宗三柱》一书中的思想,以及我去禅修所时一位禅师的思想。 The book describes people's enlightenment experiences -- after having had some minor experiences during meditation, I know that what they experienced is real and would be the end of suffering. The Zen teacher told us that we all think that we're this 'bag of skin' -- that we're this limited self identified by this ego consciousness, etc. And that an experience of what we are as we 'really are' would end suffering.
我看到整个世界都在受苦。当我最近开始把自己看作一个受害者,并思考为什么我不能有一个“正常”的头脑,能够不带强迫的想法专注于任务时,我想这可能是件好事。这让我更有同情心,让我看到了苦难的现实。它让我看到,人生中的遗憾又一次来自于我对自己的看法以及我所看重的东西。把自己依附在不会持久的事物上(身体、自我认同、能力等)会带来痛苦,这一点我能看得最清楚,因为强迫症迫使我看到了它。现在我希望我可以用这种理解来激励我去寻求别人已经寻求和发现的同样的启蒙经验。
所以,总的来说,我在“生活就是痛苦”中看到了很多真理。我认为强迫症让我看到了这个思维系统是如何运作的,比“正常”生活要好得多。然后我发现,如果我选择训练我的思维,就有一条结束痛苦的道路。最近,我害怕也不愿意做冥想,但我知道我会重新开始的。
我也发现自己倾向于把强迫症作为自己身份的一部分——当我想为某事找借口,或者感觉自己很特别,或者想引起女朋友的注意时,我就会用它。我并没有因此而自责——相反,我试着嘲笑我自我的愚蠢行为,试着看到别人的糟糕行为来自于同样的思维系统。
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