If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

He certainly has helped me and I've been looking for answers for years (I'm 68 nearly!)

A thousand times yes. 1 in 100 people are estimated to have Pure O, and I reckon that statistic is significantly lower than what it should be because Pure O is criminally underdiagnosed due to misdiagnosis and people feeling too ashamed of their thoughts to seek help. 58,000 people watched this video, which means that *at least* 580 people have just found out what is wrong with them. That is 580 people who will now have access to a diagnosis and the clarity, community, treatment, resources, education and so much more that comes along with it. 580 people who will live a little easier knowing that there is hope. 580 people who feel represented. 580 people who might seek therapy. And, because unfortunately those with OCD are 10 times more likely to off themselves then the general population, 580 people who might choose to live another day; 580 families who will keep their loved one. 580 people who might help to spread awareness of the condition themselves, like a game of infection tag as a child where those who are tagged tag other people, who tag others, who tag others. Bless anyone who works to spread awareness about Pure O.

@@marilynstarkie7321 im glad he helped!! I’m also a sufferer. Ive never been diagnosed but there came a point where there was no explanation why I had to do all these things and why it took up so much of my time. I hope you’re doing alright and if you ever wanna talk about it or about anything, feel free to !

That's exactly right

Bang on Alina!

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

Exactly 💗

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

YES! People say not to self-diagnose, but the moment I found out about Pure O was so amazing. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, I'm sooo OCD because I like to organize my colored pencils in rainbow order. It was like, no one ever talked about anything remotely similar to what I was feeling. And then, after 1 1/2 years from the time of onset (which is unfortunately an extremely short amount of time compared to other sufferers), I heard about Pure O and it was such a moment of clarity, like I didn't need to keep searching anymore. I just knew what I had.

It’s true how much of a difference it really is to finally find out it’s a mental illness and that you aren’t some kind of pervert or evil person. Luckily my mother is the one who researched what it was and told me because I was sleeping my days away because when I slept I wouldn’t have to deal with the thoughts.

Can you get over this then ? Have you had it ? Many thanks

​@@jamesjohnstone1224 Yes you can. The same methods apply to mental compulsions as physical compulsions. Refrain from engaging in the thoughts, do not perform the compulsions that you feel you need to do to feel safe, and accept everything you feel and accept the fear of not doing the compulsion. This with practice teaches the brain that it's not a real danger that warrants a fear reaction

Sounds like torture. I have physical compulsions and its so hard to cope with it

Exactly right

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

I suffer from pure ocd myself. I didn't realise until my 20s that what I had was intrusive thoughts. CBT has really helped me though :) hope it gets more awareness x

@@robertnettleship5467 I feel like I got kind of lucky, I have ocd, mine mostly occurs in my thought process. It's always intrusive but I went to CBT since I was 12. I'm 17 now, its helped a lot.

@@Eden68161 I hope by CBT, you both mean ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy). Regular CBT usually makes OCD worse, not better, because it provides reassurance and encourages mental compulsions like thought suppression and thought neutralization.

@@gymnasticsgirlie0647 It actually doesn't erp is literally the most common method amongst cbt therapists to treat ocd, as it's a literal form of cbt. bro-

Yeah same I have it too it pushed me to start making music I guess thats only thing in grateful for

Thank you so much for this comment, I look forward to practicing meditation. I struggle with intrusive thoughts so I wonder if it'll be difficult

As a person who was currently completely stuck in my own thoughts, I found this video randomly by looking up stuff about Ezra. Reading this comment was something I really needed to hear to shake me out of what's going on inside my head and that these are just that. Thoughts. They don't have control over me and everything will be just fine. So thank you, kind stranger. 😊

Man thanks for commenting things like that you're really helping people

I can see you wrote this comment awhile ago, everything you said is 100 per cent, if people apply what you say they will recover and you could potentially help hundreds of people, where ever you are, God bless you xx

I would like to add the idea that the part of the personality that comes up with the OCD thinking really isn’t bad or evil, it thinks that being vigilant to these worst case scenarios/ideas will help prevent bad stuff happening, but it happens to be so completely off the mark, so wrong in every single way, it’s an inevitable downward spiral, so you do everything this lovely soul recommends in these comments. That is, detach and be the observer. The true self, the wiser self - who you really are, and have always been. The other parts came about in response to earlier adversities experienced when younger. It’s not useful to judge these parts, which are weirdly enough just trying to help- this judgemental attitude only creates internal conflict and stress, and self judgement, which feeds the spiralling downwards. Accepting that the intention of this part is not bad, but so very misguided and strategically destructive, breaks the downward spiralling. We need to be calm and wise, and take leadership from this position of true self, as we would with a struggling and desperate child, or younger person taking a wrong path, and help them find a helpful path. It really is an attitude of kindness and love, self love, for all the parts that is the ultimate answer. I find this in meditation and mindfulness, as well as gratitude etc. Mantra is great. Chanting is my godsend (Krishna Das is a New Yorker with beautiful music and his own amazing journey). These ideas about the Self are from Internal Family Systems Therapy (Dr Richard Schwartz). He has written a book No Bad Parts. I hope this makes sense, and is helpful for someone. I love this thread! Thank you George for opening up this conversation. Very best to you all 🥰

Nice, how has the meditation gone? Still helping?

What medication do you take

@@Bigdogstusks I took SSRI's. for me I didn't feel good until I understood myself. which came from intense introspecition and self love. SSRI's helped but wasn't the fix. I wish you luck in you journey :)

@@Moose808 helping but meditation and introspection helps the most.

Imagine being lucky enough to make your yt name your actual name

Yes I feel very sorry for him

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@JOSH Regan they are both awful to deal with

especially with this form as it is not talked about much and many people haven't even heard about it.

the irony is that awareness (mindfulness) is actually the cure to ocd lol

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@@Alina-xu7nn If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

Yes pure o thoughts externally are ridiculous

If u have OCD it’s a brain “blip” you are born with but may only experience it when u are older

I wish you and yours well.

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@@feelsokayman3959 jeez tysm I will try

How are you doing now may I ask ? Many thanks

@@jamesjohnstone1224 I am feeling very good I managed to defeat it .. with the help of ERP , one spoon of honey every morning and exercising I am at my best

@@fy2398 that’s great news I’m so glad for you, can I just clarify then, acceptance is really key here right? Just try and do everything you would normally do with acceptance

@@jamesjohnstone1224 yes you have to accept everything OCD tells you and remember OCD won’t tell you nice things it always capitalise on your worst of fears so be prepared to accept your worst of fears

@@fy2398 it’s going to be difficult, so just carry on with normal things and accept the thoughts as ocd ?

No he has ocd not everyone has it. Everyone has bad thoughts and worry and sadness but not everyone has ocd!

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

@@feelsokayman3959 Thank you very much.

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

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@@BBCSounds I suggest releasing the full thing on KZfaq with a still image, like some people do for podcasts or albums or the like. Thank you for this interesting interview!

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

Because GAD and OCD are different disorders. GAD is more common than OCD, with estimates that 1 in 3 people have it. OCD is thought to be present in 1 in 40 adults, and the subset of OCD that George (and I) have, called Pure O, is even rarer at 1 in 100 by some estimates. The main difference between the disorders is that those with OCD feel they have to perform physical or mental behaviors to rid themselves of the anxiety their intrusive thoughts cause, while those with GAD don't do this. These behaviors are also called compulsions, which is the C in OCD.

If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

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If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤

Um, no. OCD intrusive thoughts are by definition ego-dystonic, meaning that they do not align with the sufferer's true self or identity. Scientists believe that they are actually your brain reminding you of what NOT to do, not giving you advice on what to do. And spreading awareness about this condition is not "sensationalizing" it, it is providing literally life-saving education about this terminally terrifying and AWFUL thing to go through on a daily basis. I know that you're probably not aware, but those with Religious OCD and / or religious trauma could go into a spiral seeing this comment. OCD already convinces us through cognitive distortions that our thoughts come from our true self, and we really don't need people who have no experience, training, or education on the disease to spread false information about it. Lastly, I don't think G-d would want you to use His name to shame people. Have a good day.