therapy with acting?? - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Message Board

broadwaybaby614 · 02-22-2005, 09:41 PM

hi i just wanted people's opinions with this. I LOVE acting (well, all performing arts) and was recently in a show where one scene involved stuff to be completely asymetrical and "off"... and normally this would annoy me TO NO END... but it didnt. but then of course later that day it did, and it still does... but when I'm in character it doesnt. And that doesn't make much sense because even though Im playing a character who does not have OCD, i still do, and underneath the acting it is still me and my brain.. but for some reason the chararcter overrides that. or so it seems. i was just wondering if anyone has had anything similar; even purposely "pretending" you didnt have ocd and having it somehow just go away for that time... its really weird.

lachesis · 02-22-2005, 10:10 PM

for me when i act i seem to completely tap into someone else and loose myself. its really odd, but difinately nice because i'm not shy or anything when i perform. i've had the same experience with ocd, and i guess it somewhat has to deal with the fact that i'm occupying myself with something, which gives me less time to obsess, and in "becoming" someone else i sort of loose that part of myself. still, it is very bizarre.

jules1 · 02-26-2005, 07:51 PM

Pretending you don't have OCD might help train the brain... there is scientific evidence that you can teach your brain to do/not to do things with repetitive actions.