What are you committed to?

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In this episode of 'The OCD and Anxiety Show,' we're exploring the idea of commitment. Specifically, we'll dive into the question: "What are you committed to?" This discussion is part of our broader exploration of commitment from our recent 3-day live intensive. Join us as we unpack this crucial concept and its relevance to managing OCD and anxiety.
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[@asalparikhani8150]

Thank you for all your help no one can changes life who has OCD as you can, , your precious book is necessary in this journey , your 12 week program also wonderful and helpful ,I'm grateful for that .

[@nicholegarcia7984]

As far as the "checking" once I wake up, how do I stop that? It's almost like muscle memory. I don't want to think about it but my mind automatically goes to those thoughts. I think sometimes I think things on purpose because I'm afraid that if I forget for a while that when it flares up again or triggers come up, I won't know how to handle it. Meanwhile, all I really want is to stop having these thoughts altogether.

[@ChandlerSci]

If all you really want is for the thoughts and feelings to go away, then they will keep coming back over and over. You have to be okay with accepting that you have that thought but NOT acting on whatever behavior that thought is telling you to do. For example, I have constant dizziness and was in the habit of "checking" each morning if I am dizzy again or not. Therefore reinforcing the thoughts. Now when I wake up I hear my mind telling me to do something and I accept that, but don't do the checking behavior - as hard as that is. It can be very uncomfortable at first.

[@pj5873]

You need to accept the thoughts as if they were true to feel the entirety of the emotion. Just agree with the thoughts (especially in the beginning stages) Later on just ignore and keep doing what you do while feeling the emtion go through your nervous system. For example, if a thought comes up like "what if I left to stove on“ just be like "ok" or to make even faster progress you can make the scenario worse by actively thinking "my whole house is burning down right now“. Of course you don‘t want this to happen but you need to look at OCD recovery as a game.