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I'm Ali Graymond. I'm an expert in OCD recovery because for the last 19 years I've been.
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Helping people fully recover from OCD.
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If you would like to do personal coaching with me, all the information is on younhubocd.com you can sign up from there.
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Let's talk about how to detach from an OCD thought. So when you are already stuck in an OCD thought situation, it seems all consuming. It seems like you will not be able to live your life without understanding this, without figuring it out. And what need to do is you need to pull yourself back. So the more you analyze is the more you zoom in further, the more you zoom in, the more intense it will feel, the more the anxiety grows. What you need to do is pull back. So if you need to give yourself activities, things to do, occupy your mind to the best of your ability, you will not be able to occupy it completely. But if you reduce 10% of the attention that you're giving now to OCD. So let's say still 90% of the attention is in OCD, but you're also doing something else, or maybe 50, 50 hopefully, right? That attention that you're taking away from OCD takes also the power back from ocd. So you start to zoom out a little bit and you're going to see a more full picture that you know how, when. And I'm not telling you to do reassurance, but you've done probably reassurance in the past. And whenever you tell people what you're worried about, they're like, I would never worry about this. But you are worried about it because you're so zoomed in. So in order to be like them, you need to zoom out. And you will not be able to zoom out until you stop doing behaviors that keep you zoomed in, such as reassurance seeking, online research, especially guys, especially online research. It is so damaging. Don't do it. So allow the thoughts to be how they are. Try to pull your energy back and you'll start to see. Not that I want you to look over your shoulder because that's another thing that happens. You start to look over your shoulder like, is the thought still here? And then it becomes kind of a meta ocd and then you're bringing it back to life again. So it doesn't matter. I'm choosing to view it as ocd, right? I'm choosing to view it as ocd. And from that choice I'm gonna go focus on something else that needs to be how you're operating throughout the day, you do this and little by little you will start to detach if the thought is really bad. If you had it for a long time, it might take a few days, a week, but you will start to see gradual progress. And again, guys, do the tracking. I'm not telling you to do the tracking because it's mine or whatever it's. I'm telling you because it works. I guarantee you that if you do the tracking, you'll recover at least 50% faster than you would without it. Because it's accountability. Just like if you count calories, you'll lose weight faster than if you have no idea about calories or you'll save money more if you count them than if you don't. So it's that thing of making the right choices all the time. I hope you find this helpful and I hope you do the work, because that's all it is. If you're zoomed in, zoom out. And the more you zoom out, the more the anxiety will start to go away.