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bro i literally cant, i know that it's my ocd but the thoughts are SO horrible i just cant ignore them, they're so bad ive literally stopped eating for 2 months

the most effective way to cure ocd is to ignore it altogether. the point is don't do something because of ocd and don't leave something because of it, think of him as a crazy person talking behind your back, and be like normal people in general, and believe that ocd won't harm you. do this continuously and be patient until you recover from it 😉😉

My OCD- do what I say or get bad luck

While I never had OCD, as a kid I used to have an array of "nervous behaviors", mainly forms fidgeting (without a fidget spinner) or moving side-to-side (like shaking my head, very similar to the "head bobble" used in India to indicate "yes" or agreement). My pediatrician assured my mother they would fade with age. Unfortunately, they persisted as I grew older, so I tried to reduce their visibility. While I could mask them easily enough while standing or walking, they were most visible while sitting. First, I consciously moved them to my legs, bouncing on the ball of my foot, like the seated "knee jiggle" some folks get from too much caffeine. As I entered adulthood, the jiggle also became disruptive, so I was able to further reduce it to rubbing my right big toe against the top of my shoe, making it totally invisible. But, boy, did I tear holes in lots of socks, and sometimes even the top of my shoe! Only when I reached my mid-50s did all such "nervous behaviors" finally fade. Not completely gone, but much less costly to my footwear. Sometimes, my shoes now wear out from the bottom! Looking back, I suspect they may have been responses to agitation, perhaps due to anxiety or emotional/social stress. Which may make them what today we'd call "self-soothing behaviors", rather than something in or related to my muscular nerves.

Me: *happily listens to the teacher of my favourite subject and takes notes* My OCD: You are just going to insult the teacher out loud. Me: W-what? Why da heck would I do that!? My OCD: Because you will. Me: *Shuts her mouth with her hand*

I never really thought of it this way genuinly thanks so much

Guys, good or bad thoughts they're just thoughts. Treat them like an object.

The "Ill do it later" used to work for me and now if i think that my brain makes me feel like i have to do it NOW so thats literally all i can think about.

Ignore / Delay the action when the thought come! Like asking you to press button or wash hand one more time you don't do that leave it and focus other things you will feel uneasy but its ok!

Wouldn't this be dwelling more and more into the obsessions?? (Listening 45 minutes, singing it, writing it) wouldn't this mean to exacerbate it even more?

The funny and sad thing about it is that the cure is so simple, ie Just don’t do the action, but at the same time so difficult.

Postponing it kind of helps me, when I catch myself in a compulsion, I am able to stop and think of picking it up later and sometimes I forget to so I don't do it later

Sounds like ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) This approach can be a helpful adjunct to standard CBT.

I understand this and it makes sense but the part that gets me and I struggle with is being able to distinguish intuition from fear based OCD thoughts. Like my mind will come up with these thoughts of “what if” but it feels like fate sometimes and like a “sign” to do that thing and then I’ll do it and then have thoughts and fear of “oh crap did I do it again? What if this was the wrong choice? But it feels like the right choice…I think” So it feels like I constantly can’t really trust myself with anything and that eventually my OCD will ruin things for me again, like relationships, jobs, family matters, life choices, etc

That’s a great tip to record myself because what I already do gets stale after a while.

ok i will try the writing down method the next time i get an unwanted compulsion 👍

Well, my OCD is harm I cannot say it out loud 😂

It actually a bit works like that. My compulsion to wash hands etc. I try to do a few things that are considered to get my hands dirty before rewashing my hands. It's difficult though.

Corrupt the OCD is how I beat it I used to do everything in 3 because of the OCD so I changed it to random numbers and I eventually beat it

It's almost physically impossible to not go back and repeat stuff it's almost physically impossible because the limbic system is so locked into it like it's life or death neurotransmitter wise

I so needed this thanks a million

My ocd was about tongue posture it is slowly going away😃

NAC helps slow them down.

What if the reason I always over thing king back and forth because my mind making this bad though and the only way that this bad thought will not happen is to "nod while saying the word plese leave my mind and my brain"and I whenever I'm doing that I din't realize that I been doing that for like whole day nodding lol and my parent notice it and find it abnormal It's like mannerism of mine but I can't stop it it like the bad thing that I'm thinking will not happen when I'm doing this and also I can't stop myself thingking bad thing I don't know, I'm trying but I keep thing bad thing in my mind maybe because of my. Addiction to cp and some bad thing I found in internet and I found it interesting and I'm coriuse about it and after I'm watching or watching those thing i overthink that the thing I watch will happen to me us so I do T know whether I have ocd or it just mannerism so... And if I had how to stop it it like my mind is flowing with worries. I know this is long my english is bad but please read it I don't know what to do...

THIS IS SELF DESTRUCTION! I NEED TO OVERCOME

Wow..great tips for people who hav Ocd...

I will try this method thank you

My thoughts are always bad things like people I love dying and worse

TDLR I have thoughts that I can’t control no matter how hard I try I have spiraling thoughts and I can’t control them, for example let’s say I am thinking of being on a balance beam and I try my hardest to think of making to the other side but I can’t stop falling off and as much as I think to make it across I can’t Or another example is like driving a kart but I can’t keep it going in to a straight line and I keep crashing for swerving away and as much as I try to think of it going straight it won’t Sorry that this is so long I just needed to tell someone because anyone I talk to has no idea and neither do I

Could you PLEASE do a similar video for people who have G.A.D..

When you think about it you really can see how delusional and pointless to think about or give any attention. I think it's a problem rooted emotionally and thus it requires you working on your emotions first and for most.

I don’t understand this guy I don’t understand what he means at all I’ve heard this audio 4 times trying to figure it out but I just don’t get what he means

I feel pretty, oh so pretty

What if my ocd is about bad thoughts about christianity

Thank yo so much❤😂

That’s good advice

But it is painful and constant explanation to these thought make them worse

Wait if we come terms with what if they become actual beliefs

I can't I want my ocd to stop is affecting my life

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Cbt

Telugu llo

Why not try this? Read 2 pages of quran everyday and see how it goes. Please let me know how it worked