3 Ways You Can React To An OCD Thought
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Yes! And not only throw sarcasm at it but taunt it, too. “Come on OCD, you know how awful I am, so tell it to me again! Bring it on, you silly fool!!”
J Warren exactly!
This made me laugh 😂
Yes
Just seeing all the people in the comments fighting their ocd and getting help from these videos makes me feel relieved. Sometimes ocd is so isolating. You're not alone! Don't give up, everyone! (Had a bad ocd day today myself. Onward and upward. ^_^;)
How are you now?
We’re all in this together!!
Taunting and egging on your OCD is one of the greatest methods to reach recovery. This girl is a genius.
ARE YOU RECOVERED NOW?..AND HOW LONG IT TOOK?
I am a fifteen years old highschool girl, with hocd it hits terrible you know ,those what if thoughts and people say they discovered themselves in their teens which made me panic and had high to low anxiety!! After watching ali s work and doing my self-help , I don't have anxiety anymore ,just responses and etc, trying to overcome this!!! Lets give our best
Darling I’ve been through the same as you when I was your age. Sending you lots of strength and courage, because you know you can do it. Follow Ali’s videos and work, don’t seek for reassurance, all of that. You can do it
How's your condition now sis?
Can you help me I'm a teenage girl and I used to have HOCD and now it's turned into BI-OCD and I'm having so much anxiouty
OMG YESS I CAN RELATE SO MUCH!!!! how are you now?
@@emily9889 felt never free ✨ im super good now !!! It feels like its not even there !! Just ignore thoughts!! Like never give them importance . Like just try ignoring them , exercise you'll grasp it ✨ you'll do it gurl ✨
You understand OCD mind very well. God bless u
She really does.
You deserve to be recognized! This has already helped me over just the weekend! And I have had intrusive thoughts for about a month now and this really helped in just two days! I mock my thoughts and sometimes even laugh and the anxiety definitely declines this is 100% effective
JayChanics hey buddy! I’ve had intrusive thoughts about the same time as you. How have you been?:)
Keep practicing to not notice them and stay busy I promise you you’ll get better I’m recovered about 80 percent in just 2 months 0 anxiety for about a month feels great!
JayChanics yes dude I’ve been doing really good this last week! I’ve been doing the same thing as you and the anxiety to my thoughts is still about like 15 percent. I have sexual orientation ocd and have been doing a lot of exposures! The thoughts like you said are still there but I do the same thing as you. I taunt my thoughts and sarcastically agree wirh them. What kind of ocd do you have?:)
Cameron David Maxwell Harris hello bro. I also have hocd and was wondering what sort of exposures have you been doing because I’m scared of the fact to do exposure because i feel like I’m getting better with just ignoring the thoughts. Please reply
11 month update??
This is it. A sarcastic response has to be it. I have been trying hard to disregard thoughts and ending up doing compulsions. It doesn't seem to be working. With even a small amount of sarcastic response I can feel a change. Thank you Ali.
Did u recover this way
@@freedomfighter9976 I'm really not sure. I feel so much more recovered now than ever, but if anxiety comes I still find it hard to resist compulsions. For me, it has been helpful to try and find out where the anxiety is coming from in the first place, as I believe the thoughts (whatever they are) will attach themselves to the anxiety that is present in the body. Caffeine is one source of anxiety for me, but there are a myriad of things. OCD started for me when I went through some very difficult life situations. If the body is at peace I believe the mind will follow.
This really helped me. Im struggling really bad.. I feel like a demon has possessed me n im feeding into with my fear.. Causing it to become more aggressive.. I cry everyday cuz it scares me.. i realize now that by reacting negatively to it.. I'm feeding it more.. So from now on im going to do the aggressive approach n im going to get rid of this monster
Has this helped you going through the same thing I have kids so my thoughts are about my kids it scares the crap out of me and the what ifs are terrifying as well.
@@priscillamunoz9105 yes it is so scary and the urges I used to get with it.. Was the worst part cuz i was like what the hell is wrong with me but yes .. it's really helped.. I've gone over a week without anxiety , fear, urges, crying , the thoughts come in, maybe 3/4 days apart now.. i react sarcastically to it like ali says too and i feel better and it doesn't bother me anymore.. I think part of the thought coming back is me.. Cuz I'll be like oh wow I haven't had the thought in so many days and then all of sudden.. Here's the thought .. But its okay cuz the more exposure i can do on to help the throught go away and show my brain u don't fear it no more.
The real demon is ocd
@@savennarose3713 hlo dear now u recover or not
Ali..only u understand the OCD mind in this World. Thanks.
Thank you for this one, Ali. I had a horrible day filled with compulsions, and I think the sarcastic response way will be the way I take the power back, no matter how real my thoughts feel.
Love the third strategy, sarcastic response!! Yes.!!
Ali, You are really good at helping people, you have no clue, you are saving so many people from this suffering!! Love you for this!!
First time listening to you and already feeling a lot better, the fact that someone finally understands what goes on in my head!
How are you doing now?
@@samia6888 much better! Thank you for asking :)
@@heysultanacured ?
@@danielsbrissa3288Yes 🙏🏼
My response was not sarcastic, but rather "yes, maybe I am a bad person, who knows". Just accepting the possibility
Better response can be - yes, maybe I am a bad person, who cares (instead of knows)
@@umanggupta4769 its about what u do not what u say that's the problem with ocd we feel like we need to do or say something right. Your reaction is what matters
I try to accept to a degree that we may have inherit good and bad qualities just like everyone else, but ocd makes us focus more on those bad qualities. OCD can help us find where we may have inherit immoral attributes and what is just extra fluff and anxiety. This can be a blessing in disguise. By acknowledging and accepting the worst part of ourselves, we can use it as a tool to actually behave and live how we feel we actually want, which most people strive to live life as a good person. I'm referring mostly to Carl Jung's concept of integrating the shadow.
I didn't want to admit that an intelligent woman like me has been suffering from this for a long time.
God bless you mam with more knowledge so that many who are in troubles may use u God for their redemption from these ocd devil.
I'm getting my thoughts like once in a couple of months, but the worst thing is that I'm forgetting to disregard them right, not always but sometimes, and then I'm ending up in a relapse for a couple of days. It's usually that I'm most stressed at night and I can't fall asleep, becouse I don't have a panic attack, but It's more like linear stress that doesn't want to go away.
I’m back. I had another relapse. I was doing really well. I was not needing to do ERP and health OCD snuck up on me. I did have a small health issue but it turned into the worst thing ever and I started obsessing over every little bodily thing. Have done this before. I realized. This is OCD. So back on doing ERP.. For me symptom checking is my compulsion when I get health anxiety. Argh. Thanks for being here Ali and all for the support!
Ann Hershey I have same compulsions checking my body
Same bro
Same!!!
How are you doing?
Hey I’ve been doing this for about a couple of days and I see a lot of progress thx Ali
how bout nowww
My old therapist called it the " what if " disease
Ali you are pure gold, I'm so happy I found you
From this day on, im not doing any compulsions ever again, thanks for this video.
What about the times when you dont exactly get the 'OCD thoughts' but feel stuck with anxiety at the back of your mind. Its worse than having the OCDthoughts becuase you dont even know what to ignore here coz anxiety does not go away when ignored but continues to debilitate you,how to deal with that?
NEONABSENCE I’m not sure if you ever got an answer, but incase you didn’t, the thing you have to do is label this as anxiety and refocus. Anxiety that comes without the thoughts is something I deal with a lot. Or I will have my obsession triggered somehow and instead of engaging I just let it go and am left with this horrible feeling that something is wrong and needs to be dealt with. But that baseless anxious feeling you’re talking about is from chemicals in your brain going wild. It’s a terrible, scary feeling, but as Ali says you need to walk parallel to it and not engage. There’s a 99.9% chance that it will go away if you label it for what it is and just keep pushing. Your brain can’t stay in that state forever, the anxiety will go down as you move on. It doesn’t feel like it will, but it will.
Jacqueline DeWitt That’s great! Just to add because I have exactly the same issue, is that I found placing awareness on the anxiety rather than wishing it away sometimes helps. We all want it to go but that’s the backhanded trick, it’s less likely to go until you truly allow it to be there. Really feel it! Rupert Spira is a meditation advocate who talks in depth on this, very deep! I also like Tolle and Mooji, who also make you realize you are not your thoughts or feelings, but it takes some effort at first to it be controlled by both.
@@JacquelineDeWitt12 it will disappear after a while,just feeling and trying to enjoy anxious feeling helped me
@@JacquelineDeWitt12 so what should i do in this case?
@@Nihalshanu22 hi bro
Just hearing for the first time some of your videos. I'm am going to try to be sarcastic with my ocd thoughts. Just go along with the accusations!
I am 55 years old and so exhausted with this disease!
You are a blessed person Ali. You understand ocd as few people.
It’s hard when it’s about health and it always picks potential risks and you don’t know what is real and what is not especially soooo hard when it comes to your kids health.
omg
i used to have a very specific theme and i used the sarcastic response thing without even knowing (this was months before i found your channel) and IT ACTUALLY STOPPED THEM
It's little by little just like weight loss and body conditioning. I use exercise to cope with OCD....gives me that good feeling that exercise does. Nothing good happens fast😊
Thank you Ali. God Bless you. I really liked the idea of sarcastic response. I have been suffering from this dreadful OCD for more than 3.5 years and its like some part of my brain has been busy with these thoughts always for this period 😢
But am going to start with the sarcastic response method from today and will get out of OCD in a month i.e. 21st Jan 👍☺
Did it work? :)
@@karinawojtenko6769 Thanks for checking. I have been using a combination of this method and a few other methods described in Ali's other videos as well as videos by other therapists. Glad that the severity has reduced significantly and shows promises that it will over soon 👍☺ fingers crossed ☺
Prashant B Naik glad to hear :)
@@prashantnaik19 hlo sir now u recover or not
@@honeykumar5448 Thank you for checking Honey sir. Thankfully I am out of OCD since Jan/Feb on this year. One thing I would certainly like to advise and hopefully it will help others is, one of the most important things you need to get out of OCD is to be absolutely firm and tell yourself "I am not going to do this compulsion, no matter what. Let that urge to do the compulsion be with me no longer how long it wants to, but am just not going to do it. And am not doing a single compulsion from now on, not even one." The urge to do any compulsion fades away faster than you think. Just ensure you are firm on not doing the compulsion at all. Honestly i think this is probably the most important thing in recovery from OCD. No matter how much external help you seek, ultimately its you who has to do it and trust me its a lot lot easier than we think. Just that we need to be rock firm "I am simply not doing it. To hell with whatever obsessively thoughts i get. They are just thoughts, they don't mean anything for sure". Follow this and OCD will not bother you. OCD is like people teasing someone who gets irritated. The moment you stop getting irritated, people don't want to tease you any longer as there is no fun. OCD is same. Ignore it, it will go away on its own. Don't try to make it go, it will feel special and will stay. Just ignore it. Good luck to all in need, God Bless :)
Thanks for all you do Ali, you’re helping me to recover.
So cool to find out about the sarcastic response. I cant wait to see if it helps
Comment vas tu maintenant ? :)
Personally, I externalise the thoughts/compulsions by actually narrating them in my head. When I do that all my compulsions start to sound like ridiculous ideas for an activity. For example: "Yes, I'm going to spend my free evening with distraction/worrying. Or: Yes, I"m going to look at myself in the mirror and judge myself for not liking my appearance, then spend the rest of the day feeling insecure and worrying about other people judging me.
I find that aggresive sarcasm also bring a level of emotion and heavyness with it and it doesn't work for me. Its just not how my inner dialogue works. Any thoughts?
thank you Ali for the video you made everyday ! its really help me 🙏🙏
Madam thank u very much for this video & knowledge
Another amazing phrase - Walk Parallel
Thanks Ali 👏
thank you for existing
Sometimes it feels like I want to have the intrusive thoughts and when I try to sarcastically respond to it, I feel like I’m being too hard on myself.
My Anxiety and OCd easily triggered by what i heard, about aneurysm thing mak3s me scared so much,😭
What if the OCD is attached to a pain syndrome? The chronic pain is there already and OCD worsens the pain unless you obey its compulsions.
Bless u lady!
Great video with a different idea
I like the idea of the sarcastic response but I find it hard to apply it to my obsessive thoughts which may actually be true - for example, having made a mistake in my work, my biggest obsession. I guess my point is, for an obsession about hurting people it's easier to say 'sure I'm going to hurt someone, lots of people etc) because that's very unlikely, but there's a REALLY good chance I DID make a mistake in my work and it's going to have consequences. How do I handle that?
Laugh at your OCD for thinking you'd make the same mistake
Laugh at your OCD for saying you're unable to learn your lesson
Sure, i made the mistake, fuck it, I'll probably do it again!
Thank you! This is the real deal.
Thank you, yes, really it is.
I appreciate you so much Ali. So much. Love from South Africa
Thanks it really helped me.
Thank you for sharing this video.. It really helps...
You are very welcome!
May God bless your soul ali! Thankyou
Very helpful!!!😀
“Parallel to it” that’s deep!!
Great advice
Hi Ali I can't handle the thought! Im having contamination OCD! The fear is too strong!
I'm going to try the "one up" response! I've never tried that approach before!!!
So I have HIV OCD, and it started with me not trusting nurses n doctors and it went to accusing me of having sex with people I never met whom I only saw their pics on dating site. So now when OCD say I have had sex, I sarcastically agree, I even say n it was great n it was raw. 🤣. Sometimes I choose someone from dating site and voluntarily trigger the thoughts that OCD brings at me and the respond to those thoughts sarcastically
am laughing at this comment while disregarding thanks for making me lsugh 😅
Im having hard time, i always have ritual, tapping because i believe if i didnt do it bad things happen.. 😪😓
Love it!!!!!
Thank you!
Hey, the aggressive option is what i liked the most but wont work with religious ocd, sadly! When i see an image of god having sex , i cant say yes they are! Or if i see any diety with a fatal disease, i cant say she they do suffer! That is why religious ocd is the worst!
Kindly suggest some way out!!!
I have religious ocd as well, I find myself thinking that same concept with the aggressive options! Hopefully you can get through it! God bless!
Hey I don't usually write, but I'm stuck where my obsessions is 'if you don't do this compulsions until it feels right your not sleeping tonight' it's health ocd and I know that. But I've been done the rabbit hole now for 4 days trying to get the compulsions too 'feel right' and of course. It. Never. Does. 😢😂 I think this time it's 'different' and that it won't go away until I get my compulsion perfect. Exhausting 😢
Sarcastic response is really working :)
Wow I love this video
Yeah i mock my thoughts plus u have to fake laugh at the thoughts at same time even if u have extreme panic attack, my ocd has literally stopped occuring after few days.
i feel like giving up i’ve been having rocd for almost 10 months and it’s gotten so bad. it’s very painful to feel part of me wants to leave my relationship and part of me wants to stay but it’s painful.
This resonates!
Thank you
Does this include the constant fear of someone harming your child is that also an ocd?
yes
if it’s obsessive it is ocd
Hey ali,
How do you distinguish between compulsions and normal thoughts?
As example i m suffering from hocd and in the past i used thoughts about woman as reassurance
Now that i m recovering i get those thoughts normally but dont know if i m allowed to engage in them because i dont know if it s a compulsion or not
Isn't the sarcastic reply to OCD a compulsion, because you are checking if the thought is true???
god blessed america
What should i do if i’m in fear of OCD it’s self ?
tell your thoughts "yeah okay i have OCD, no problem"
Hi Ali, can you advise me? My sister has OCD of fear of feces contamination and when she bathes, she spends lots of time washing her buttocks and keeps forgetting if she already washed even after doing so.
Her mind keeps threatening her that she might have missed a spot. She also washes whatever she touches (e.g. water tap, shower head) fearing that she had passed feces from her hands to them and the same forgetful episodes occur.
If my sister were to use the aggressive approach, does she play along with the intrusive thought and proceed with the excessive washing while keeping calm and chill about it?
Thank u madam..
Ruthtan Ruthtan I’m happy to help!
You gotta book on body fluids/cleanliness ocd
Do you think writing down the intrusive thoughts will help too? To see how crazy they really look when you write it on paper?
Yes but what if the problem is the physical symptom anxiety produces. My anxiety is all centred around breathing. I have weeks where I feel I can’t breath and Iam constantly hyperventilating I know it’s anxiety but it’s also a physical uncomfortable symptom also.!! I know Iam over analysing and constantly watching my breath but it’s really hard as you have to breath to live. I hope that makes sender.
Thankyou
But I did exposure before and something bad really happened. I fell down and had a bruise and saw bedbugs, and had a gaarbage hole in my garbage bag leaking out contents and also snapped and broke my curtain. How shall I counter this OCD thoughts?
Ali mam you are great
Ali but what if I'm reacting with sarcasm and agree with the thought and then I will really convince myself of what I'm agreeing with? If I continue to say like yes I'm a bad person, I can end believe it? I don't know if it's really ocd or depression (which I'm really scared of) so they have 2 different mode to recovery like if I'm really depressed I don't think that say to my self yes I'm a bad person will be good in this case so how do I know what to do? How do I know if it's ocd telling me or depression?
I have an OCD that whenever I sit on the study desk I think what is the use of studying as many people became successful without studying.....and how could I react aggressively to it ,if I say that Oh YES STUDYING IS NOT USEFUL AT ALL AND bla bla then I just think if studying has not got any use so why I am studying .Ali please help me
does the aggressive method consider a mental compulsion?
I struggle with real event ocd I'm 19 x and basically this is gonna sound so disturbing but when I was like 10 or 9 I used to pee on the floor in my bedroom and yeah I know it was there ages and kept doing it etc idk why I did it, I It was because at the time that bedroom was my attic and I was worried about going all the way downstairs. maybe it was secretly my ocd because later I then developed contamination ocd wierd right
anyway had many themes up to now didn't realise it was ocd until I was 17 or so.
I just worry that all that stuff I did when i was 10 or 9 my mother did clean it all the best she could.
and then we moved out long time ago not because of the just wanted to move. but I worry because of the next family who lived there or at the time how i lived in that way when i was 10 what if I got someone ill and yeah
somehow gave them mental health idk x or killed somone if I gave them a infection I know it was stupid and I was only a kid looking back the room stinked badly and for obvious reasons🤣 just yeah worries me at times.
I like the last one and I deal with hocd and I can do it without really feeling anxious but I still have a tight chest and a little pit in my stomach but right after my brain wants to say I’m the straightest person on earth so I shouldn’t allow my brain to do the second part
And my brain wants to keep saying i am the straightest person on earth is that a compulsion?? And I’m married with two kids and I’ve had a phobia since I was a teenager because I had a girl in my 6th grade class ask me if I liked boys and I said no not yet which was a lie cause I had a crush on one in the previous year but he got picked on because of me, and so when I said that she asked me why are you gay and I had this huge shock come over me and I said no.
What happens when you obsess over one word? That word keeps coming in all day everyday , how do you get rid of that? You just obsess over one word that you’re afraid off. I can’t find any information anywhere about that. I would appreciate anyone s advice that have dealt with this and knows about it.
Did you find out the solution of this problem ?
I beat this by saying Im not interested in exploring that whenever it came up, i still am dealing with other OCDs cause it always changes but that helped me
Same tip goes for SCRUPULOSITY AND RELIGIOUS OCD ???
Yes
Am i scarred by ocd for life?
Can u do this with ocd imagery?
hi ali ,now i am not getting that much thoughts but i still feel anxious whenever i see women (hocd), men,anything related women and couples whether they are straight or lesbians. can u tell me why??
whenever those thoughts appear just laugh in ur mind, laugh at each and every kind of these ruminations trust me it will stop.
@@rahulkukreja4537 thankyou, i will definitely try this
I'm doing my ERP and Watching this video daily for feeling I'm going in a right track is that is wrong
I am also doing ERP and I think the answer is no. The video provides reassurance that you are doing the right thing by doing ERP. It also helps you stay on track with the ERP. Personally for me these videos are very refreshing and helps me stay on track.
I tell my thoughts F**k off which helps me not to ruminate or analyze them. Is that ok? Or is that actually a compulsion? It does keep me from ruminating, but is it also forcing my thoughts out at the same time? Please help
That sounds like disregarding , it's better to pull out the thought, hold it by the collar , and be like "yes , that is true, and it doesn't matter" (sarcastically)
Better off doing a sarcastic comment, like yeah sure, okay sweet, yep cheers ocd etc
Does simply ignoring the thoughts works?
Do i have to respond to every single thought I'm kind of lazy for that😅
Awesome advice! The only problem is: how can I implement it on intrusive thoughts that are blasphemous, like when my mind is cursing God. I can't sarcastically agree with it! This would be blasphemous and just add to my fears. Any ideas on how to go about such blasphemous thoughts? They make me feel terrible and make me repeat my prayers over and over.
I agree I as well have scrupulosity and fear giving away my soul or loved ones into the hands of evil. So of course, I cannot agree, even sarcastically, just as you cannot agree with a blasphemous thought.
It may be a fake response... But do you know what is a hundred times faker? The OCD thought!
3 ways, 1st: the neutral one, 2nd: the aggressive one, and what the 3rd??
The compulsion, which will make the OCD worse. So, it is not the correct way to react.
Its best idea to beat ocd
You can't respone aggressive when you have religious ocd and hocd
What do you mean by this because I have hocd too.
Are you going to be aggressive response when hocd tell you that you are bi...
*No* we have to do neutral response in which we said its just ocd i am not what my ocd is telling me
So me being sarcastic with the thought is my ERP reaction
Hold ok the third option is genius But For HOCD And being 14 Telling myself “oh yeah I’m gay Im so gay Like the gayest man ever” Probably will work But it’s ganna make it Worse because you have give It ocd an evidence Because it thinks your admitting to it
Did you try to see if it worked. It’s been 6 months since you commented I’m wanting to know if you have recovered yet
Rivsy I did try for me it made it worse I learned that everyone’s ocd Is different I just Try to accept the thoughts I haven’t full recovered But I can’t say I know for sure since the quarantine
Remo _xl Yeah I’ve seen that you shouldn’t accept the thought with hocd and just disregard the thoughts. That’s what I’m going to start doing from now. Also how did you tell your parents about this because I don’t know what to say
Rivsy uhhh they kinda found out Because all of the stress and Anxiety affected me Physical as well but I would say If you know Fully that you have hocd than just tell them How It started how it affects you how you want help. Just relax and Take a breathe
Remo _xl my dad knows something’s wrong with me but I just say I’m fine. I’m 100% sure I have hocd but haven’t been diagnosed by a doctor
💓💯
How you doing HOCD🤣
metaphysical ocd is the worst cause you can't prove it in the real world 😭
What is metaphysical ocd?