You are a blessing. We can’t control what pops into our heads, but we CAN control our reactions to them by disregarding. This caused me anxiety at first but as I kept doing it, my anxiety started to decrease. You remind people that we have power over our reactions and applying this in life for things outside of this helps too. It really shifts your mindset into a powerful one. Thank you so much!
Great video, Ali. I did participate in the poll. I have the same question as Seamstress. I'm confused where that Oct. 27th video is. I understand my question probably won't be answered for that nonexistent video but someone asked a great question for that nonexistent video that you said you would answer that I would like you to spend time on because it's that important: how do we increase our tolerance of uncertainty? I've heard that this is a skill we can build on and I've got to believe this will help us push through on our way to recovery.
Not sure if im supposed to ask my question here but when i get my intrusive thoughts mostly i can handle ignoring them and treating them like any other thought but other times when they come i get really bad anxiety and ill have to go on RU-vid to watch videos and look for reassurance and make sure that ocd is really what i have and i'm not crazy or something. So is it normal if sometimes my intrusive thoughts bother me and sometimes i'm able to ignore them, Also when i have really bad anxiety from my thoughts what should i do in that moment?
Ali ,thanks for everything that you are doing , i want to ask a question that i had in my mind , is maladaptive daydreaming a part of ocd , whether u daydream about good things or bad things
Hi, again, Ali. I have a question. I know you believe in ERP in terms of not compulsing when obsessions strike. What I want to know is do you feel that exposure sessions will help where we PURPOSELY expose ourselves to what we fear by setting up actual situations (e.g., touching toilet seats) or, if not feasible or practical, setting up imaginary exposures where we imagine our fears happening (e.g., imagining being trapped in a car surrounded by flames). My guess is that this is a necessary step, albeit a painful one, because OCD is so powerful for those who have it severly like me that it needs to be attacked aggressively and this would help accelerate the recovery process. I would like your views on this. I mean if it's not necessary I'd rather not do it!
I've had O OCD (Ruminitions) for the past 7 years. It was intense for the first 4 years as far as also affecting me emotionally. I still ruminate almost daily and sometimes every now and then I'll have a week or so of no ruminating. I have kept this to myself. I have now decided to be open to getting professional help and actually researching and learning more. I want to know if this is something you get over 100% or something you learn to control throughout your life? And how to spot that you are now ruminating and your thought pattern is no longer healthy. Thank you
At times I find I’m doing things that my mind tells me to do and it’s almost like I want to do these things (regarding my ocd) but after I do something I feel bad and then start to worry that I meant to do this and wanted to because it felt like I wanted to do this and the urges and sexual feelings were involved. The result is feeling bad and wondering if this is still ocd? It’s a Groinal Response. I know this is a difficult to understand question and may be a trigger but I don’t know how to deal with these feelings
I feel the thoughts aren't coming in as much and I'm only on day 5 of disregarding. I will get them throughout the day n it's not very intense so that makes me worried that what if I'm doing it wrong. Or what if I'm actually avoiding instead of disregarding. Or maybe that's just a new theme. Which I'm disregarding that as well.
Thanks for the video. I have Pure O (sexual/harm) and I think I could possibly learn to quiet down the thoughts if I truly could trust my false memories were untrue. As I cannot possibly be 100% sure this leaves the door open for me to doubt wether it's OCD or reality. This makes me not allow myself to quiet the thoughts because "maybe I deserve them" (if I'm guilty) and "maybe I deserve to be punished even more". Do you get what I mean? Please reply if you have got any tips. I'm stuck. Best wishes.
@@aaroneymere2311 Thank you for asking! I'm doing a lot better after having tried CBT with ERP again and also taking medication (SSRI) for about a year. Just tapered off them to see if I'll manage without them. Honestly, the thoughts and doubts are still there, but somehow I feel better than I have in a long time. It's a bit odd thinking I'm still unsure, yet somehow it bothers me less, which seemed completely unthinkable before. There's definitely a way to live with this (evidently) and OCD can be managed, even though you feel like you're "faking it", especially at first. My problem is not unique, it just feels like it is. Like I'm the "exception to the rule" and really am what I fear I may be. But that's how OCD works, I know that now. That's OK.
@@honeykumar5448 Not at the moment, I'm going to see how it goes for some time without it, maybe 6 months or a year, not sure. If I find that I did better with it, I may reintroduce it. I did feel like I had a rather positive response overall with medication, so it's worth considering in my case. :)
@@honeykumar5448 from my point of view medicine will only help throughout you taking that medicines when you dont taking medicines you suffer again so if you want to recover from ocd than just tell your mind it will not happen never i am not believing in you ocd i am believing in reality like repeat this process day by day and you will found that you are feeling better
PLEASE, HELP ME!! 😭😭😭IS IT COMMON WHILE OCD RECOVERY IT'S STARTING TO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BEING ANGRY TOWARDS YOURSELF FOR TRYING TO GET RID OF OCD? I REALLY WANT TO GET RID OF IT, BUT THERE IS ONE MORE NEW THEME. LIKE I FEEL I DON'T WANNA GET RID OF IT AND I FEEL ANGER FOR MAKING ERP... BUT I REALLY WANT TI BE FREE, HOWEVER, MY BRAIN TELLS ME THE OPPPSITE...
It is same I have thought blocks and I can't talk sometimes it feels like I don't want to talk to my ownself but now I changed my mentality and knew that anything that. Is creating distress in my life is not what I want u should talk more positively and be with the anxieties it will eventually fade away
