No problem, you are welcome. It's important to recognise that the 'doing' that is causing compulsive (unconscious) decision making, is invisible to the conscious self until the relevant emotional movement is allowed, which surfaces patterns and parts of self that are stuck, hiding, hidden, denied, blocked and/or forgotten.
E.g. Imagine the following scenario:
Person is traumatised or injured as a child in some way and they feel pain and fear that is overwhelming or just too much for their level of awareness to handle/integrate.
The person chooses to block out the pain and other feelings and/or disassociate from them. We can't ever truly disconnect 100%, but we can do it to the point where we no longer consciously remember the feelings, their causes or even that we have blocked them out.
Now the person tries to 'move on' and not let the past bother them, but the feelings were not processed and they can't just disappear. The impulses that the feelings and lost memories are producing can stimulate thoughts and behaviours in the conscious self, without the conscious self realising. If the signals reflect thoughts such as 'URGENT, NEED TO MOVE..' or 'I AM IN PAIN, FIX THIS' or something similar.. Then the resulting behaviours may reflect this in ways that seem odd but which make sense from the big picture position. Since the mind doesn't know how to calm the feelings down, an obsessive pattern can begin to try to cover up , repress and avoid the original cause of the dysfunctions.
This continues and other people come along throwing in their 2 cents about what causes such things, without the individual ever undoing the blocking out of painful memories and accepting their past, thus never recovering their parts that need to be felt into, understood, integrated and allowed to evolve. We often like simple, short and convenient answers and this is why we have so many millionaire 'therapists' and authors offering simple solutions (that don't really work long term, but work long enough for them to sell books or treatment sessions).
We can also imagine this if the underlying signals come from school, perhaps a fear of being beaten by teachers and a strong thought to 'look busy' / 'keep busy'.. And so the mind, in a panicked state is desperately prioritising 'keeping busy' to avoid more pain - but without doing so in full awareness of it's plight.
There are many other such scenarios, but they all follow the same kind of pattern: trauma -> denial -> denial of denial -> dysfunctional patterns that get stuck.
Ultimately, we are all unique and we all need to find what works for us in our own way - but I am just describing what is essentially a very common and universal pattern of dysfunction that once understood on the surface, can be dived into more deeply to allow holistic and lasting change.
Thanks for taking the time to type all that up. I appreciate it and I found it very interesting to read.
I agree with it like 99%, and I feel like some of it applies to how I handled OCD in the past and it sounds similar to this new treatment I mentioned, however... Maybe not all dysfunction is solved universally in the same way just like you mentioned how we are all unique and need to find what works for us in our own way.
In regard to my experience so far with this technique it has made my brain so much more peaceful it's almost like a miracle.
I don't expect it to work so easily for some of my major triggers and the lady in the video who said it worked for her when nothing else did claimed that it took her a while, so this may be something that takes a while to address... However, just the peace of mind I've received so far from not entertaining or giving further energy to so many of my OCD intrusive thoughts has been incredible.
I'm going to try to withhold my judgment until I experiment with this technique more and for longer, so far it has been amazing... But, it's too early to say much for certain other than in some cases and in some ways it can be extremely helpful for me to know how to not feed into certain kinds of compulsive attempts at problem solving a problem that may be impossible to solve or truly understand and maybe in this case the solution is to just "let it go" instead of to continually try to "figure it out" and "ruminate" and "obsess" over the details.