Thank you, Matt. I really wish such information we're out there and widely available when I got hit with the first very debilitating symptoms as a teenager in the late 1980s. Intrusive, obsessive thoughts exactly as you describe. I only got a diagnosis in 2005. Before that, I was in the dark. I treated it primarily with medication and had major ups and downs. Symptoms have come back, as I am participating in a high stress project and I am very grateful to have found your videos. 55 years old and I'm still only learning the basics of the condition. Better late than never.
Thanks Matt fantastic episode I’m not particularly religious, but for some reason I’ve always had a dreadful fear of supernatural horror films etc. I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of why I have these devil thoughts about loved ones, sometimes if I just think the word devil whilst looking at a loved one I then have to do a compulsion sometimes mental sometimes physical. Then go and try and figure it all out by ruminating. I’ve spent years and years trying to sort it out!!!! And as you say it’s not the content of the thought that needs to be sorted out. It’s the behaviour. I guess I have to accept that recovery is to live with them to a certain extent it’s not that you will never think that stuff again. Would I be right in thinking that part of the disorder is that your own OCD tells you that yours isn’t OCD but something more sinister. I always seem to need reassurance that my problem is just an OCD disorder Cheers David
It's so frightening when inthrusive thought wakes you in the midlle of the night with anxiety and says your life have no purpose and it's not worth living it with all this anxiety. It is so hard, why our brains do this? It supose to help us and it seems to work against us.
God I've suffered and lost alot of years of my life because of intrusive thoughts never been on holiday as an adult can only work self employed I've hardly taken my children anywhere missing out on them growing up
The scariest part is you think “if I’m thinking it these thoughts must be true.. what if what it” Wow.. right after I typed this you almost said the exact same thing.
yes.the content absolutely means something. Its the opposite of your values. Its the opposite of you. Thatsy you fight them and they get stuck. The content is completely opposite of your nature. Thats all you need to know. Realize this and step off the content. Do not analyze or dwell in the content anymore.
Thank you, Matt. I really wish such information we're out there and widely available when I got hit with the first very debilitating symptoms as a teenager in the late 1980s. Intrusive, obsessive thoughts exactly as you describe. I only got a diagnosis in 2005. Before that, I was in the dark. I treated it primarily with medication and had major ups and downs. Symptoms have come back, as I am participating in a high stress project and I am very grateful to have found your videos. 55 years old and I'm still only learning the basics of the condition. Better late than never.
Thanks Matt fantastic episode
I’m not particularly religious, but for some reason I’ve always had a dreadful fear of supernatural horror films etc.
I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of why I have these devil thoughts about loved ones, sometimes if I just think the word devil whilst looking at a loved one I then have to do a compulsion sometimes mental sometimes physical. Then go and try and figure it all out by ruminating. I’ve spent years and years trying to sort it out!!!! And as you say it’s not the content of the thought that needs to be sorted out. It’s the behaviour.
I guess I have to accept that recovery is to live with them to a certain extent it’s not that you will never think that stuff again.
Would I be right in thinking that part of the disorder is that your own OCD tells you that yours isn’t OCD but something more sinister.
I always seem to need reassurance that my problem is just an OCD disorder
Cheers David
It's so frightening when inthrusive thought wakes you in the midlle of the night with anxiety and says your life have no purpose and it's not worth living it with all this anxiety. It is so hard, why our brains do this? It supose to help us and it seems to work against us.
God I've suffered and lost alot of years of my life because of intrusive thoughts never been on holiday as an adult can only work self employed I've hardly taken my children anywhere missing out on them growing up
The scariest part is you think “if I’m thinking it these thoughts must be true.. what if what it”
Wow.. right after I typed this you almost said the exact same thing.
thank you Matt
My pleasure!
Thanks for your words of wisdom .
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The content has to mean something Matt. Why that particular content?
yes.the content absolutely means something. Its the opposite of your values. Its the opposite of you. Thatsy you fight them and they get stuck. The content is completely opposite of your nature. Thats all you need to know. Realize this and step off the content. Do not analyze or dwell in the content anymore.