Thank you this is what I’ve always been told my whole life what OCD is in the people I meet who have OCD are just like that. They’re super neat and they throw like giant temper tantrums if it isn’t super neat.
It is all depend how much the Brain is inflamed, damaged .you cant stop it by itself..Brain needs help, that is why medicine can be Life saviour, and nutrition, so everyone is diffrent, and it is all depend in what kind of situation Person is and how much the stress they have in live Always find a help*
They can least aloong time, it is all depend how much the Brain is affected! The Person know it is pointless, but they cant stop, it is the Brain problem!! The Brain doesnt Just decide and saying ooo i Will sent another thought, that is why some People get huge relief when they take pills! I couldnt do anything when ocd was hard core
In my experience it's a dysfunctional escape from deeply felt, somatic, emotional discomfort. This prevented spiritual awakening many times as the intense awareness would immediately make the somatoemotional pain apparent. The only thing that's worked is moving attention to the body sensation with mindfulness and not going into thought and labeling.
What is the relationship between your prefrontal cortex going off line and rumination. My brain has been stuck in irrational thinking and rumination for a while. I feel stuck in a groove.
Thank you for posting this! I have anxiety and I stress out when things are messy. I clean my apartment once a week and I feel so much better when I do. This makes me a normal human who is responsible, but my anxiety has been telling I’m a weird for this
Very useful video. One suggestion to reduce over-thinking is to be careful what you feed your mind. Avoid comparing yourself with others, reduce watching negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. For a relaxed mind observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 10-15-20 minutes or more. You can sit or lay down on the bed--eyes closed--No deep breathing. Don’t fight your thoughts. With practice the mind will relax. Keep a reminder to observe your breath sensations throughout the day and night anywhere -anytime-- before sleep, at work, taking a walk, at home, when travelling etc with eyes open or closed. Like me make breath observing a lifetime habit to have a better life. Best wishes--Counsellor.
Experiencing the uncomfortable moment to do a mental compulsion (in my case) and not performing ANY compulsions. I believe that after a while not reacting to OCD the disorder will manipulate you to do minor compulsions which still keeps you stuck at this forever cycle of torture. Can anyone agree with me or add something to what i said ? I'm trying all i can to understand my disorder purely because it is not the "standard" OCD that most of the sufferers have. OCD is a very complex disorder and can come in forms you never ever imagined, i also think that how longer you suffer how difficult it will be because i am experiencing this it feels that my thinking patterns are heavily affected because of the OCD and my way of thinking and reacting to thoughts as a whole. Just letting go is so damn difficult.
Quick Motivational Procedure that you never heard of involving the management of positive emotions.(or a different way to stopping ruminating) Want to make popcorn taste better? Then eat popcorn while watching an exciting movie. We ‘know’ this non-consciously when we buy the stuff for the latest Tom Cruise movie. The reason? Opioid-dopamine interactions. Opioid and dopamine systems are comprised of clusters of brain cells or ‘nuclei’ in the mid-brain that adjoin each other. Opioids cause pleasure or ‘liking’ and are activated in sex, eating, resting, etc., and dopamine systems cause attentive arousal or ‘wanting’ and are activated by the perception or anticipation of novel and positive means-end expectancies, like that Tom Cruise movie. These two systems interact, thus if we do something pleasurable, we get attentive, and if we get attentive our pleasures increase. This also happens when we follow a resting protocol such as mindfulness, and alternate it with the anticipation and performance of meaningful behavior which may be defined by the virtual perception of novel and positive mean-end expectancies (writing your great novel or just making the bed). So just get rested and alternate with doing meaningful behavior, and you will have such ‘flow’ like experiences and find that motivation becomes pleasurable, and thus much easier. More on this on the web site of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan who thought much of this stuff up, all of whose research articles are available for download. A more formal explanation based on Berridge’s research (or a neurologically grounded theory of learning) is provided on pp. 5-6, and 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing Berridge Lab, University of Michigan sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
I have had OCD since I was 6 years old and I am 37 now. I is a terrible mental illness that is very misunderstood. I was on meds for years and it did not help much. Meds can help take the edge off but they will not cure you. The only way to be cured is go through the pain and torture of facing the obsessions and not doling the compulsions. You need to do this everyday no matter how scary it is. I am finally having success after 30 years. What keeps me going? The simple fact I want to be well for my kids and loved ones and I will do anything to make it happen. God bless everyone and good luck.
For me pills stop the ocd, and of course ocd alone can be a sign of unresolved trauma, it is all depend how much the Brain is inflamed, for me huge dose of pills where necessary that i can function properly :)
I've been trying to figure out if I did something wrong and going through the past 30 years. I keep remembering things that cause me stress still haven't figure out what I'm actually trying to figure out. It's been about 5 weeks now
I have this . I have PTSD. It’s no fun. Got it from a car accident. It’s draining trying to ignore the thoughts, can be madding at times. Thank you for your video
I've been ruminating since childhood and I'm now in my early 60's. I have had OCD and other disorders due to traumas left untreated. Therapy helped somewhat , but not with these areas. Thank you for your help and support .
I also been doing this since childhood...constantly going over conversations i should have not said or should have..over and over...or something i did. I am 62 and still consumes me. I never considered it as OCD. I just thought i was mental and worried a lot. My mind never shuts up or off.
@@tmills1722 One suggestion to reduce over-thinking is to be careful what you feed your mind. Avoid comparing yourself with others, reduce watching negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. For a relaxed mind observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 10-15-20 minutes or more. You can sit or lay down on the bed--eyes closed--No deep breathing. Don’t fight your thoughts. With practice the mind will relax. Keep a reminder to observe your breath sensations throughout the day and night anywhere -anytime-- before sleep, at work, taking a walk, at home, when travelling etc with eyes open or closed. Like me make breath observing a lifetime habit to have a better life. Best wishes--Counsellor.
@@tmills1722 i pray that you get over this, I know this may seem basic advice but try talking to a therapist. Try to find one you feel comfortable with. Man or woman?
I feel like a hamster on a wheel! What if this, what if that? Drains me every day. I’ve health anxiety and I keep thinking about my heart. Even when I think I’m not thinking about it I am!
Hello Dave. Thank u for such interest in this disease. My questions are why do these intrusive come as such. I wish I could just tell myself to stop all these ideas but this is what's difficult. I always tend to sabotage myself to inflict more país as if I'd thought that for some reason I deserved it!
Horacio, everyone gets intrusive thoughts ftom time to time. What's different with OCD sufferers is they pay attention to them and thrn go on to do compulsions. Doing compulsions causes more intrusive thoughts. Want less intrusive thoughts? Stop your compulsions.
I keep ruminating about evil things my mother in law did to me , I become irritated after I ruminate about those and I do not know how to deal with it ?
Very helpfull video thanks. I was told by my psychiatrist that my OCD is so severe that only medication helps me. I get 250mg sertraline everyday last 4 years but with little effect. sometimes my Ruminating lasting up to 1 year. triggered by narcissistic toxic people who verbally attack me with condescending words. It can also be triggered online in a chat people who write something false about me unfair toxic poeple. Are there others with the same trigger as me? from toxic narcissistic evil people ?
Narcissistic abuse is something I have dealt with. I know it caused me trauma. This is when my ruminating started. I feel stuck in a dysfunctional relationship that is better now but was bad before. I had all kinds of red flags that I ignored. I still have the feeling of wanting to leave but feel I do not have the strength or the ability to leave, So I ruminate a lot on why didn't I leave when I noticed the red flags, or when I was stronger. It's like my heart and logical brain are in conflict. I also think part of it is codependency. When you put other people's before your own. You don't want to hurt someone so you sacrifice your own feelings instead.
I'm ruminating about a choice that I took even if in that moment I had a very bad feeling about it. And indeed that choice ruin my life I was almost cure from dpdr and he come back like never before .This happened last year and now I ruminating about why I did in this way and I feel that I lost a lot of things by doing that and I can't believe that it's happening to me and now it's coming the funny part believe or not that true I dream in that day that this things gonna happen but when I wake up in that day I didn't give him any importance. Now I regret it
The technique all makes total sense, so thank you so much for bringing it to my attention. However, I'm still struggling with the first part, which is giving myself permission to stop ruminating. My OCD focuses on real events from my past and the guilt/shame is really hard to get over. It feels like I don't deserve to just ignore the thoughts. Because I'm ruminating on real mistakes/transgressions from my past, simply ignoring the significance of them feels like avoiding responsibility for my actions. Any advice?
I’ve been ruminating on things that stops me in my tracks and makes me question what I’m doing, everything I want to do something simple or something enjoyable, past thoughts make me unable to fully focus on the activity, I’m still trying to lessen the time I want to ruminate even if it’s really hard. Thank you for this video, I watched this because I’ve watched other videos about rumination, and I wanted to clarify if the tactics to stop ruminating worlds.
You’ve just explained something that I’ve been dealing with for as long as I can remember. I feel like this is going to change my life forever. Thank you
For the longest time I've been completely unable to explain this to anyone. I didn't know any words for it. I have aspergers and some bad stuff happened I won't go into that here- Simply put I've been doing this any moment I'm not distracted perfectly. I do this for literally any topic (irregardless of if it's bad or not) and can go on for up to six hours. However at any point in this my brain could switch topic and I could go on with that for the same amount of time. Being stuck in my mind entirely paralyzes my body and it's become so severe that It even stops me from being able to will myself to do common things like attend school. I don't know what to do. I don't know who to talk to. It's scary. Heck I'm doing it over some of the things I've typed in this comment. It's torture at times because I want to move and do other things but I can't. I just end up repeating to myself about how much I want to not repeat to myself and that doesn't get me anywhere. I seriously don't know anymore.
