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I wouldn't give a fuck even if I was beautiful. That is such bullshit

Thank you for being so genuine and caring in this video! I just recently learned that other people have intrusive thoughts besides just me. I wish I would have known this decades ago. I’ve not trusted myself, thought I was a terrible person, pushed relationships/friendships away, and avoided having or being around babies or young children. My life could have been so different. Plus I spent the vast majority of my adult life being scared a lot of the time. What you said around 8:40 made me cry. I hope we all continue on our road to find peace. ❤

Dear Michael! Your work is really wonderful. I have been suffering from breathing OCD since a Corona infection and at the moment feel totally lost in this. You help me accept what is and I appreciate what you do very much. Yesterday I read your article about Pure/somatic OCD, it is so great, I believe it is better than therapist sessions. Here in Germany there are very few good therapists who know about this topic. Please keep going, God bless you :)

What about swallowing? The choking sensation but don’t actually choke! As soon as a drink or food gets to the back my throat I feel like I’m gonna choke ? I’ve not been eating and losing weight like crazy please help… I know it’s anxiety symptoms. This this a new one for me…

@Mind On Majesty Thank you so much for this video. I took notes in my journal and will share them with my Primary, later this week. PS You're really cute. Mätthew (Boston, MA.)

5 years later, you’re amazing bro. So thankful you are discussing this

You are brave and wonderful. So many people would not not put other people’s welfare over their desire to preserve their privacy and possible judgment from others. God bless you for your courage and selflessness. ❤

Irrational just means based on emotion. So irrational thinking can still be logical if you look at it from a lens of emotion. So if somebody is sad, they cry. That's a logical series of events. But, maybe they're in the middle of their job and the sad feeling that they're having is attached to a memory and it has nothing to do with what's actually happening around them. So everyone else it doesn't make logical sense that the cashier just started crying. So that's why it's irrational. Because it doesn't really line up with the facts. It's an emotional thing. So that's why people have weird erratic Behavior sometimes it just doesn't make sense. Because it's tied to some kind of emotion in their subconscious or mid conscious.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Your videos on pure O really helped me, not many people understand this type of OCD. I know this comment is coming 10 months after when this is posted but hope you're doing ok.

Exactly what I've been going thru for 7 years. But it's with my breathing. To the point I can't breath normal any more to the point I cough all the time. It's hard to live this way.

Is anus sphincter reflexes is also a sensory hyper awareness? I think is my anxiety

Is sphincter clenching another hyper awareness? Maybe is stress and anxiety? Sorry if it sounds weird

I'm not certain if I have Pure-O, but this hyper awareness information really helped me tonight :) Thank you.

I would pay anything for you to be my therapist haha. I've watched many of your videos and the Christian background plus specific ways you explain this makes sense to me. I'm using your videos as best I can to use the tools you provided plus just reminding myself of that God created me and all of me. I'm just still getting stuck in certain situations and can't figure out why.

always had this

Thank you for your helpful video I’ve been having this on and off a few years a month ago it’s come back worse than ever and i feel I’ve lost control I just keep trying to tell myself that it’s not the end of the world

Thanks for the video. I've had Obsessive thoughts my whole life. The intrusive violent or sexual thoughts are especially troublesome. I've been in therapy for many years along with meds. It's such a hard journey and most of the time it feels like I'm so alone and defective. I'm still fighting it, but it just sucks so bad. It hurts to feel like such a messed up loser when I'm around people I'd like to be able to hang out with. As a child it completely tore me up.

does the same apply for when you are hyper aware of other people blinking too? Would i go about overcoming that with the same idea of exposure and acceptance? I just can’t seem to get myself to watch movies anymore because i’m scared i’ll focus on them blinking

I have this right now but I don’t think Andy has this issue so I’m a bit worried. I can’t stop thinking about my tongue, like idk where to put it and I’m scared my teeth are going to fall out for no reason, I can feel every sensation on my teeth. My gums have gone all red now as I keep licking my teeth... It’s horrible! I want it to stop.

I have missed you and sorry for your loss. Your videos always encourage me

Thank you for taking the time to help people overcome this challenge ☺️

It is so so good to see you posting again. I am so sorry for your loss. I’m so glad you took time off to recover. I can’t even begin to imagine how painful that must’ve been. I’m praying for you. I want you to know that one day, two years ago, I was dealing with horrible OCD/a bad reaction to a medication. I was scouting the internet for answers and reassurance, anything to make me feel better. Then I came across your first video. That video…it was everything I needed to hear. The comfort and hope I got from it as well as the beautiful reminder that God was forever with me and had a plan. It was the one time in which I truly felt some lasting peace and hope. I subscribed and watched many of your videos after that during that time…I can’t thank you enough for all that you’ve done for us struggling with ocd. Now, I’m on an AMAZING medication, and I am SO happy to say that my ocd is gone. God delivered me from my suffering, and I went through it for a reason- I would not be the person I am now without those trials. Praise God. I want to make mental health resources when I’m older, especially pertaining to Pure OCD. There is an escape, there is a wonderful light at the end of the tunnel, a wonderful life free from this illness. And I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much for your videos and support back then, and I am so happy to see you still doing them. But you made a difference to me. God bless you and I know you’ll do the same for many other people.❤️

I’m glad to see you’re making videos again! Sorry for your loss 💔 I have hope that better days are coming for all of us.

Good to see/hear from you! I still watch some of your videos on OCD and often reference the guide you gave me. How are you doing with OCD, BTW?

What triggers hyper body awareness

How do you stop controlling it?

Thank you for this! I started with the breathing but now it is the full focus awareness of when I breathe, how my stomach moves up and down. This is so random!

Hello, I'm 18 years old from Vietnam, because of the language difference, there are some places I don't understand very well, this disease is not popular in my place, so I hope you can explain it to me, I'm scared. When I was afraid of offending the gods, I had dirty and unhealthy thoughts about them, I also had a physical reaction to those images, at first I was very distressed, I even beat myself every time I saw the image. that picture appeared, later I struggled with it I was about to go along with those thoughts and then I feel so guilty, I often have to touch my genitals because I'm afraid it will react, and the fact that it reacts, I don't sleep well because I think about it all the time, I don't know if you read what I say, is this a symptom of a disease or am I really a sick person , you have sinned against the gods, will you go to hell

Hi, great channel for OCD sufferers. May I know whether you continue medication to remain on recovery? Thank you!

I believe this "anxiety" is the payment we make for being so creative. Nothing is free, everything comes from the same source so chaos is needed to propel something else forward. In this cae anxiety is our chaos, our fuel. Embrace it. Be grateful for it. For without it we would be lesser men.

Great that you brought this topic There is little to no content on youtube dealing with pure O Been suffering from the same thing since birth till today pure O.is extremely difficult.and dibilitating .. Yr videos are much appreciated Made me feel i ain t alone .. Cheeeers!

I have maladaptive daydreaming and intrusive thoughts. But, they are related to people who harm me in the past, that are somewhat bad with me now, but not so much because they grow old and now they are "adults" and on their own lifes i guess. My intrusive thoughts/daydreaming are about me standing up by myself in a random story the began in a random way, and i just imagine myself saying stuff, that land well, and you know, have my life straight up. things like that. About harming others, well. Only with people that harm me in the past and i believe they have moral debt with me. Is more of a revenge kind of thing. I have never have intrusive thoughts about harming strange people or random people.

Breathing ocd is a complete nightmare. Leads to a lot of panic attacks, it is a vicious cycle

Bro I am suffering from both breathing and blinking ocd at same time how should i cope up??

And does anyone of you shrugs his or her shoulders to get rid of depersonalization and to get emotions??

Does anyone get thoughts of that they are the most negative ,different and special person on Eart.. Like reaching a stage where they canot differentiate that they truly beileve in a thing or not.

I can truly say that this is something that has been driving me crazy. There is days where it’s nonstop for me. There’s days where I go all day and be like oh I didn’t think of my breathing today. And then there’s days where I don’t think of it at all. Just as I’m typing this I’m thinking about it and then not thinking about it. But I can truly say it’s debilitating. Of all things in the world I’m like why. Why me ? I drive around sometimes and I’m like I can gaurentee to you. Out of the 25 ppl in my site right Now. Not of them is going through what I’m going through. And then I feel alone. And trapped. Try explaining this to a family member and they think your nuts. I was going to try therapy but that can get expensive. I do find if I stay busy at work I don’t think about it as much. But there’s days when I’m off and I can’t stop. And then I feel as if I’m not breathing properly at all. I will watch more of your videos. Because just watching you video and seeing someone experiencing the EXACT same thing makes me feel not so alone

Could you focus more on what makes these thoughts so real? Why cant a person with OCD even though he knows the thoughts are irational and egodystonic swift focus while a person without a disorder can do this easilly and dismiss these thoughts ! Is it a biological problem in the brain? The brain stracture or what? Genetics?

I’ve become aware of how I’m walking automatically and not thinking of every step before I take it. Now I’m debilitated and it’s hard to walk. I just want my life back. I’m so afraid!

This happens to me while I walk. My legs feel so weird. I’m hyper focused on how I’m walking and I’m afraid I’m going to loose control and fall. It’s debilitating. I’m afraid to walk. Has anyone else felt like this? I feel like I’m so alone or I have something really wrong with me. I’m pretty sure this is what I have. Being I’m obsessed on how I’m walking and how my legs are moving without me telling them to to every step. I know it sounds so weird.

First i have tinnitus then after that somatic ocd(swallowing ocd) but i recovered from all this but now its been 2-3 days started noticing my floaters more but i noticed earlier but easily ignore it i don't know there is correlated with my ocd my floaters not increased But simply now i cant ignore it but earlier i can ignore 🥺😓

I love how you bring Jesus into this. Fear is the book of the devil. It's an illusion. I suffer and have been suffering for many years with this but no matter now impossible it seems. Even if you count every breath or every heart beat just trust in your creator and savior. Again I get STUCK on these things all the time bit you have to treat then as a gift and a blessing and things to feel so confident in that God would never take them away. As my late father always said a hero dies once and a coward dies a thousand deaths. It's really hard when you get stuck but just remember being stuck is the illusion. No.matter how hard you try if you focus in these sensations with all your might It's at best 50 percent of your obsessions and actually more like 25. Focus with all your might and you will get so bored you just have to remember that when it comes back. And it will. But it will always be nothing you can't handle. God bless to all of my fellow suffering from this. It will pass.

There are different themes to OCD but at its root is the creation of (FUD) fear, uncertainty, and doubt in what the individual values most. It occurs in individuals who are extremely hypersensitive to those things, where they must perform compulsions to relieve their anxiety. However these compulsions allow the irrational fear to grow more by reinforcing the fear. The best known way so far to overcome OCD is through (CBT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy more specifically Exposure Response Prevention (ERP). Some medications have been known to help with the intrusive thoughts too. To overcome the OCD, all individual eventually must have to face their fear. They also must learn to accept and live with uncertainty and doubt in their lives.

Become a good human being and the ocd will become weak.

Mine is with my hands! It's driving me crazy!

I’m 21 weeks pregnant and I’m loosing my mind from the breathing awareness. Every time I try to control my breathing and over breath which then makes me extremely anxious and then I cannot stop thinking of my breaths it’s driving me crazy idk what to do

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