Right? Most people don’t understand what intrusive thoughts are like.

Beautiful words for THE best comedian ever.

you, 3 years ago, put my two decades of inextinguishable love of Ms Bamford into the most accurate words.

That's the thing. I'm having these thoughts and that's making me upset. If I weren't upset with these thoughts, it'd be a freaking problem.

+rogaface It seems that all my favorite comedians are ardent fans of hers.

Great minds think alike. :)

Maria Bamford and Doug Stanhope seem to be the most little known comedians that all comedians adore

Church God is really different from what God really is like, so much so that some people have lost faith in him and actually concluded that an all powerful entity that has so many seeming failings can't exist. It's really sad. Sure God wants us to become better people, but he understands our difficulties better than even we do and he's always willing to help us, not because he hates us for our sins, hut because he loves us and wants us to become better so that we'll be happy. Leading a good life is actually good for us, whoddathought. Sure, it's painful getting there. sometimes you have to face some ugly truths about yourself, but the second you admit them and you're sorry they are gone.

Church God is really different from what God really is like, so much so that some people have lost faith in him and actually concluded that an all powerful entity that has so many seeming failings can't exist. It's really sad. Sure God wants us to become better people, but he understands our difficulties better than even we do and he's always willing to help us, not because he hates us for our sins, hut because he loves us and wants us to become better so that we'll be happy. Leading a good life is actually good for us, whoddathought. Sure, it's painful getting there. sometimes you have to face some ugly truths about yourself, but the second you admit them and you're sorry they are gone.

Keep humming a tune...wont turn gay...hmm hmm hmm hmmm hmm hmm hmmmmmm

+mightyworker me 3

+mightyworker She would have been awesome on Strangers With Candy. If only...

Maria should make love to him

+mightyworker I love your beautiful comment!!!

+YarrBr0 Yep it was way too short :(

She surely is. A gift we all get to share.

+Lin B drink whiskey it goes away

So basically what every comedian does

She has 4 albums on Spotify. Funniest stuff I've ever listened to. Start with Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome and you'll be laughing your ass of for a solid hour.

emanon2086 Thanks! I'm going to check her out. Love her so much already.

+Erick Briceño Chávez Your picture made me smile, Erick. Thank-you!

*genius

She said that what helped her work through it is that she recorded all her unwanted thoughts and played them back to herself on repeat until her brain finally got bored of them. She finally became unfazed, and all her anxiety and irrational fear receded.

+anon If I'm not mistaken, her anxiety song is a joke about a certain kind of therapist she had. If you read up on Maria, she actually had to go through several therapists, including one that reported her because she expressed an unwanted thought of molesting someone mentally handicapped, before she found one that actually recognized unwanted thought syndrome as a kind of OCD and helped her.

There is no such thing as "only the obsessive side of ocd". If you have OCD you have compulsions of some sort, which keep feeding the obsessions.

@@FernandoVazquez-ro1nw hey Fernando, I just thought I'd say but not all OCD comes with physical compulsions. I have a similar form to Maria in the video and all my compulsions were mental based and caused the same amount of stress. This is by no means me saying you're wrong, just a little bit of further knowledge on the subject for ya 👊👍

@@FernandoVazquez-ro1nw Since writing this comment five years ago, I don't often have the horrible intrusive thoughts that would make me feel like a terrible person anymore. I kept telling myself that the thoughts were not who I am as a person and eventually they quelled. Now my OCD manifests in a fear of choking (I have asthma & LPR). I definitely have noticed some compulsions like constant pulse checking, pacing, and sometimes humming when it's really bad. But five years ago it was strictly the obsessions. Look up "Pure O".

This is SO true! I'm actually working on an article about comedians and mental health issues, and Maria really helped destigmatize the concept of mental health awareness in the comedy community. Now everyone is talking about it-Bo Burnham in Make Happy and Inside, Jerrod Carmichael in Rothaniel, and Neal Brennan in 3 Mics and Blocks to name a few. I was recently in a psych ward after being suicidal, and Maria absolutely nails the experience. I will now do anything I can to never go back, but it was definitely the break I needed to sort out why my job in marketing was literally killing me.