Lean OCD Фабрика: Как использовать принципы бережливого производства для сокращения или устранения ментальных потерь

What if you could treat your intrusive thoughts like an inefficient assembly line?My name is Michael, and I’ve been struggling with OCD since childhood. I also spent my career fixing factories and fulfillment centers using Lean Manufacturing principles. For years, I lived in a state of "high-alert," where a simple one-second handshake or a "scary" thought could trigger a mental funeral. I wasn't just living with anxiety; I was trapped in a repetitive, exhausting cycle of "mental waste" that consumed my time, my energy, and my “peace of mind”. One day I wondered: What if we treated our mind like a factory? What if we labeled some of our intrusive thoughts as mental waste? What if we define some of our compulsions as measurable inefficiencies? What if recovery could be viewed through the lens of a continuous process improvement engineer?