it. I suggest to my patients that they think of the use-it-or-lose-it principle. Each moment they spend thinking of the symptom—believing that germs are threatening them—they deepen the obsessive circuit. By bypassing it, they are on the road to losing it. With obsessions and compulsions, the more you do it, the more you want to do it; the less you do it, the less you want to do it.
hobbs/ hebbs axom to desensitize/forget certain disorders that are cause by fixation (OCD).
