How to: Intrusive Thoughts
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2023
- If we're judging stuff in our heads as bad and wrong and dangerous, it's natural to experience feelings we don't like. That's not an anxiety disorder or OCD or a problem with intrusive thoughts. Everything is working perfectly normal! Judging brain stuff causes feelings like that. We can also not practice that unhelpful judging in our heads if we don't like the outcome of that practice.
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Such a beautiful and well-put illustration! 😊🥰
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I love this!! For me, I've always dealt with intrusive thoughts by just sort of pausing and taking a moment to allow my brain to move on. Then somewhere along the way I started treating my brain as if it was making choices and yelling at my brain. I don't know why I ever started doing that.
You get tired every now and again. It's okay. I'm trying to practice mindfulness and taking care of myself. A healthier body will hopefully mean a healthier mind.
Also, someone somewhere said that intrusive thoughts are egodystoic. Meaning you're having them because they go exactly against your character. You are unlikely to act on the thought or accept it. That really helps me in a way. Hope it helps you.
I literally found myself laughing at how easy it is and how much sense it makes 😂 thank you Mark for everything you do for your community
Thank you!
Stuck in a two-week pure-o loop and my theme is especially worrisome😢. I haven’t slept consistently well in a week.
That's why it'll be useful to cut out those compulsions around the thoughts. It could also help to expand how you're approaching this. I did see the edit you made to this comment. I would approach that as an example of an external compulsion and the same pattern of compulsions that fuels struggles with the theme you'd mentioned.
@@everybodyhasabrain I understand. My compulsions are mostly mental and sometimes muscle jerks. I edited my comment to avoid triggering someone else with my particular theme.
@Elle-hx8ji That's the pattern. Same as the theme you mentioned: The fear that your actions will cause a bad thing to happen.
@@everybodyhasabrain ahhhhhh. I didn’t even realize 😅.
@@everybodyhasabrain this hurts PHYSICALLY
I just love the way you explain with the help of cartoons.. This is more effective than just explaining verbally.. ❤❤.. Keep doing it more..
The two videos I released last week are with cartoons!
Thank you for this sometimes I feel stuck with my ocd and erp😅
That's a common feeling we can have!
OMG!! This is too cute! 🤭🤭🤭
Okay, so I *should* be feeling bad abt these things! Tysm!
If bad feelings are there, that's ok. If those feelings aren't there, that's ok, too!
I love this !!
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I eat my thoughts
Remember to marinate and season thoughts well before cooking them.
hahahaha so funny @@everybodyhasabrain
Thank you Mark, this is very wise and I will practice this. My question is, do we judge/label things and ideas in the world we perceive as bad and immoral to help form our values? And is the labeling and judgement of thoughts our attempt to prevent those bad and immoral actions from occurring in ourselves?
That's not how I would recommend forming values at all. The example I often use to explain this is baking cookies. You can list out all of the things that would make a cookie bad, and you can avoid all of them, but that wouldn't mean you'd baked a delicious cookie. Avoiding fears isn't the same as creating something wonderful. So I wouldn't start exploring values with a focus on the things you want to avoid. That'll just give a lot of time to things you don't like, and won't help you see the things you do like.
Hey there! I saw many of your videos on intrusive and unwanted thoughts. I have noticed that whenever someone says things like "I failed in a test today", I actually sympathize for them but my mind checks itself by saying "What if you're secretly happy for their failure?" Then i ruminate and keep on doing that.
Would you consider this an intrusive thought?
Please help
Whether you label it as an "intrusive thought" or I do isn't what I'd see as useful. There's nothing wrong with having a thought. The problems arise from us judging it as a problem and then spending time and energy on it. Debating the thought, checking online for reassurance, posting the same question on more than one video... It really helped me to recognize that's what fuels the thoughts. If we react to the stuff the brain throws up, it just throws up more stuff to react to. It's just doing normal brain stuff. And we can go and do the stuff we want to do.
@@everybodyhasabrain Thank you so much :))
I sometimes have urge to micromanage my thoughts
For eg : While walking i had a thought that I have to walk mindfully.
Then another thought comes that if you are walking mindfully how come you are having a thought in first place.
Then my mind questions what is the natural way i should be reacting to these things.
Is this part of compulsion or is this different thing altogether
I'd see it as the same pattern to check if it's a compulsion. Instead, we can just look at how we want to spend our time and energy in life. It doesn't need a special label as a compulsion. It can just be something you don't need to do if you don't want to do. Instead of spending time and energy micromanaging thoughts, what would you like to give your attention to instead?
what creates the me that sees and labels the thoughts? Maybe there is just thinking
and not a thinker and their thoughts
That's a lot of thoughts!
I dont get this. Are you saying judge your bad thoughts?
Thoughts aren't good or bad. They're just thoughts. But if you want to struggle with intrusive thoughts, then judging them as bad is a quick way to fuel that struggle
@@everybodyhasabrain so really in that video you are saying dont judge the thoughts. I'm confused, you have bad wrote in the thought cloud. Is that a bad thought or bad to judge a thought?
@StuSiney Checkout the image before BAD appears on the thought
@@everybodyhasabrain cool. I see it now. Don't judge.. i thought at first it meant it normal to judge a bad thought. See it now.
@@StuSiney Enjoy allowing those thoughts to be without the judgments!