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Hi, everyone. I'm Alec Grayman. Today I wanted to talk about urgency and ocd. This symptom is actually a very, very common symptom, and pretty much everybody, everybody experiences it. When OCD thoughts come in and the anxiety comes in with them or an urge to do a compulsion comes in, it always will come in with a feeling of urgency. That's just another way for you to tell that this is an OCD thought. It's. It feels like you have to put everything else aside and focus only on this. You can't wait. You have to sol. Solve it now. You have to do the compulsion now. You have to deal with it right now. And if you don't deal with it right now, everything is going to go bad. It's. It feels just like I said, it feels very, very urgent, you know, so if you're getting those feelings, all you have to do is just wait it out. You know, don't fall for what OCD is telling you, because what's going to happen is when you feel the urgency and it feels like you have to do this, okay, whatever this is, right? Something for ocd, you choose not to, and the anxiety will rise and rise and rise, and then it will hit a peak. And if you still choose not to do it, when you feel like just, it's like life or death, I can't hold on anymore. And you just hold on through that. And that peak will last maybe half hour at most, you know, but you're very strong. You're choosing not to react. You're choosing to view the thoughts just as an OCD thought. This is just one of my many OCD thoughts. I'm not taking it seriously. I. I'm not giving in. It will start to go down. It can't go any higher than its top. Basically, it will hit, hit, hit, hit a peak and then will start to go down. You just have to wait it out without doing anything, without ruminating, without reacting. And then for next time when you're doing that, you know, this is a correct way to do the erp that when you do this next time, the anxiety is going to come in, but it's going to come in less. It's not going to be as intense. It might be, actually. It might take a few times for it not to come in less because maybe the brain will try another one just to get you back into reaction. But it. You will see within next few times, it will start to go down, especially in the exact same situation, you know, and just be very, very strong. Yep. Okay. I can feel my anxiety rising. Okay, I'll just wait it out, you know, so you're. You're kind of staying one step ahead of the game, understanding how the game is played, not giving in, you know, because the one thing about OCD is OCD always works the same, no matter really what theme, what situation, how long the person has had it, none of it really matters. It will always kind of follow the same playbook, just with, like, a different theme, but pretty much works the same way for everybody. So just choose to refuse view it as another OCD thought. You know, I've been doing this for nine years. I've been helping people for nine years, which, you know, it's. I can't even believe how long it's been. You know, it's been a long time. And, you know, I've never seen a person be wrong. You know, I've never seen a person say, oh, it's ocd, and actually turned out to be a real thing. I've never seen that happen. You know, so it's always ocd. You're not gonna be like the world. World record. Guinness World record of ocd, you know, Your case is not gonna be that one case. That was true, believe me. In nine years, I talk to people every day, including weekends, you know, so it's not real. It's never gonna be real. Just stay strong. Let the urgency come in. Let the urgency pass. And the fact that you're getting urgency, right? The fact that you have such a pull to do something right now to figure it out, to solve it, to do compulsion, you know, that already tells you that that's ocd, so. So allow it to give you power to push forward.