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Hi everyone, I'm Alec Raymond. For over a decade now, I've been helping people recover from ocd. I've myself suffered and fully recovered from severe ocd, as have my clients.
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Today I wanted to talk to you about how exactly to refuse reaction when you have ocd, these feelings, thoughts, urges, sensations, images can feel very loud in your mind. So how do you disregard that? Well, imagine if your OCD is standing in the middle of the room yelling at you, which is pretty much what's happening, and you are going about living your life. So you're continuing your life as if you're not hearing it, putting on full ignore mode. So it's yelling at you, it's telling you things, it's trying to pull you into a reaction. Yelling, you are ignoring. But while you are ignoring, you won't feel good, you won't feel the relief right in the moment when you ignore. So you shouldn't be expecting it. Instead you need to be prepared that this is a battle. So going into the battle, not obsessively prepare, right? Because if you start to worry and stress out about it, you're actually making it more important, right? So you want to passively go into it knowing that if it is going to be a battle, it is going to be yelling at you, right? So if you're getting OCD first thing in the morning, as is common, you wake up, you're ready for the battle, you get out of bed right away, you don't lay around and ruminate, you don't sit down and ruminate, you just continue with the day. And no matter what it says, don't get into the dialogue. So, yeah, I hear it. That's nice. I'm disregarding. And that again goes towards thoughts, feelings, emotions, urges, images, dreams, whatever it comes up with. Your response is the same. I'm not taking this seriously, I'm not paying. So you're not trying to achieve the feeling that you don't care. Instead you're viewing it as you're choosing not to care. You're coming from a place of choice rather than from a place of, of trying to achieve a feeling. I hope this clears it up for you. Thank you so much for listening. If you would like to do recovery program with me, all the information is on. You have ocd dot com. I'll see you tomorrow.