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This is something I’ve thought to myself, even early on with recovery. I saw the OCD and Anxiety as a scab, what happens when you keep picking a scab? It will start bleeding and the healing process starts again, and again, and again. So how does a scab heal? You leave it alone. How do you break free from this cycle of anxiety? You keep living. For me, this is easier said than done because for the past 4 months the recovery process has been my number 1 priority in life. And I guess that’s the paradox of OCD and anxiety, you want nothing more in life than to go back to your old life without this disorder but in the process you remain stuck because that’s what you are focused on.

If I can say something to comfort those of you who have intrusive thoughts/feelings around religious topics. The fact that your brain has chosen religion as it’s target this time is precisely because that’s what you least want it to. So your real wants and your real personality is as far from those intrusions as possible. To use myself as an example, I’m very not religious. So if I have a pop up thought about some religious figure or blasphemous action. That thought holds no value positive or negative for me. So I won’t get attached, and I won’t try to force it away either. And the result is that I don’t have these thoughts often. But I am struggling with intrusive thought/feelings in other areas about topics that my morality find very very important. And those are the thoughts my brain delivers to me in loop over and over. So in conclusion, the topic of our intrusions says nothing about our identity or wishes. Good luck to us all in getting free ❤

Thank you for taking your time and energy to help people with OCD ❤

Volunteer work helps you feel better.

I have intrusive thougts about others harming or wanting to harm me. Or that objects shall harm me, or that i harm myself on my surroundings. It is as if i self harm with only mind. I am fearful of all. Is this this the same category as intrusive thoughts according to psychology? It's to constant to be intrusive. And i do not relly mind or fear them. But they hurt in my body and i would like to replace them with trust.

I’ve been told “You just need to pray more and have more faith, then you’ll be healed “.

Spot on

Thank you Matt, this is really appreciated.

Whoa, I have been struggling to feel my feelings for a long time. It's really scrupulous the way my feelings evade me and I get alot of trapped emotions.

good video

Hi Matt! I have a question, when suffering from anxiety and OCD these feelings and their intensity is experienced in such an exaggerated way compared to when I didn't have the disorder, I'm always puzzled by why is the feelings and the sensitivity is at a full blown 10/10 over even minor perceived threats or worries. Do you have thoughts on this perhaps? I know a byproduct of recovery will also return sensitivity levels to a more normal state eventually, but whats causing this increased intensity of emotions to begin with? I heard some people say "general sensitization" is causing this, if it's true could you maybe elaborate on this concept in a future video?

I appreciate how you address the ROOTS of OCD in a very specific and detailed way.

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The last set of videos and this one have been really great stuff. I’m pretty much out of my ocd and anxiety but I still want to pick up your book.

Super clearly explaination. Iam gratefull for sharing❤

Thank you, VERY MUCH, for posting these. I really needed to hear this today.

Currently going through anxiety over probable future job loss. Joined this new company 3 weeks ago. The director is asking for a meet up in a different city for a week. At first I thought it was optional because we are a remote company and travelling to a different city and stying is quite expensive and I hardy know any of the new colleagues to travel so far for a team building event. Ll so I politely declined with my reasoning. He mentioned that this is something mandatory and cannot be skipped because we have critical upcoming quarters. He mentioned this in a bit stern tone and now I am feeling that I have started my work relationship on the wrong foot with my superior. And hence the anxiety.

I like this perspective. However it's still hard for me because, in my case, I don't really know how I ended up in this way of thinking. It's like one day I was having anxiety and wanted to forget about it, but then I put myself in a loop, which I've been in for months...

Ive never heard anyone explain EXACTLY what I am battling with. Compulsive prayer, expressing gratitude and asking for protection for me and my loved ones out of fear of "something bad" happening. Prayer and meditation were useful tools, until the claws of OCD took hold. Now a compulsion, with the facade of seeking "divine connection, etc", one becomes even more disconnected from self and loved ones as theres not enough hours in the day to perform every OCD behaviour AND particupate in daily life. I am so self aware that I use it against myself, as my brain deploys intrusive thoughts which manifest into destructive behaviours, attaching to every intricate detail beyond expression. Its paralysing.

“It’s possible to recover from OCD”. Thank you for those words of hope.

True dat. OCD is self martyrdom to recover. It is hell. But there is hope when we undergo exposures and start to become freed! Don’t lose hope people!

I struggle with this and reading Matthew chapter 6, specifically 6:27 always helps.

As a P OCD sufferer, I appreciate you handling this topic with sensitivity and compassion. There’s nothing worse than thinking you may be a p*do. This theme is truly a disturbing one to suffer with

I don’t know who I am without OCD. I have such resistance to believing that recovery is possible.

For me I went buy Minixodil back in 2016 and the guard told me she does not know what I am talking about so I picked up Biotin. My mom told me I only bought the Biotin but something tells me all of the time I bought the Minixodil and used it I don't know why it has also became an intrusive thought. Sometimes I dont know if I had bought it or not 😢

Great video! Fantastic insight. 🔥🤍

Thank you...😊

Thank you...😊

I have shortness of breath to a point of suffocation. 24/7. I don’t know anyone who has it 24/7. Have you encountered students who had that?

I constantly think Im going to hell and I think about satan alot. I have intrusive thoughts about satan. It freaks me out and scares me. Thank you for helping me.

Another absolutely expert discussion on this topic. Thank you!

This scrupulosity series is excellent. Detailed discussions by an expert who deeply understands the topic.

This video is life changing for me. I have to write down my prayers and wont go to bed until I have prayed for every person in my life. It takes A LOT of time praying individually for everyone I know. This is my sign that I am doing this out of fear and not in faith. My mind is totally blown. This helped me so much to have you put it this way.

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This is spot on...thank you

Are there any resources for caregivers? My son struggles on a daily basis and my husband and I are out of ideas of how to best help him.

Thank you

Thank you, I think that this video helped me on my way to overcome my own struggles. Keep up the good work!

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Too much education. Im losing my peace.

I pray God has mercy on me through this ocd time.

I pray God has mercy on me through this ocd time.

Alright, so im getting myself stuck and im not sure why im doing it. What can i do thats not compulsive? Matt thank you, this was a big eye opener.

I always thought my checking was a symptom of not being in control. I feel like I am helpless to a lot of things in my life but my checking is a way to control something. It has affected my relationship a lot so I want to stop. Do you have steps to stop checking? Mine are all safety related-doors, windows, oven, plugs.

Great video, my female boss is a jerk never know if I am coming or going depends on her mood!!!!!!!

In my mind i keep thinking my hearts going to stop how do i get rid of it

I wish to every homosexual, that he /she finds a loving same sex partner, marries and maybe raises kids in responsibility. Homosexuality is a healthy natural sexual orientation with an evolutionary meaning. If it was caused by psychological influences, it could be changed to heterosexual in a therapy, but it cant. Thats what we know for sure. So its innate. Why did it come up in evolution? There is a permanent share of 90-96% heterosexuals and 4-10% share of homosexuals in all living beings with sexuality since 385 million years. The reason is the evolutionary advance through several factors, for example: Same-sex sexuality evolved by natural selection because it created or strengthened male-male alliances and female-female alliances and mutual social benefit to all the animals in the tribe, better survive better defense, better social interaction. There are interesting studies about it.

There is a demon behind this condition, I have just been delivered after battling extreme blasphemous thoughts and anxiety for 1 year. The demons really tormented me to a point I became suicidal, I pray for anyone going through this situation, it is a very dark place to be in, may our Lord God deliver us from evil , Amen

The feeling of uncertainty is where fear comes into me most. I Thank Jesus for the good news.❤

Did that surrender take a few months?