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Ali. I'm Ali Graymond. I'm an expert in OCD recovery because for the last 19 years, I've been helping people fully recover from OCD. If you would like to do personal coaching with me, all the information is on younhubocd.com you can sign up from there. Let's talk about waking up with OCD thoughts. This is something I've dealt with personally. And I mean, I remember that specific hell where you wake up, you didn't even open your eyes yet and you already have a thought and you, you need to figure it out and you're spinning and it's so bad and you, by the time you do get up, you have no energy. And I think that this is, if you are experiencing this, the, not the positive side, but the silver lining, let's call it, is that if you switch this one behavior, it can make the biggest impact on the rest of your day. So it can actually really propel you forward in recovery. So what you're going to do is you're going to wake up, you're getting the thoughts, everything is terrible right away, get out of bed, get out of there. Like, pretend you're a firefighter. You got the call, you got to get up like it should be eyes open right away, up like seconds. And it doesn't matter if it tells you to solve it, to figure it out. No, you're not going on your phone. No, you're not trying to think things through. You're going, and you're starting the day actively. So that means going, going into, let's say, whatever productivity you need to be doing. I'd say the, the one kind of thing you should watch out for, that if you start to go into the shower and places where you're kind of isolated will give you more time to think. So maybe going from the bed where you're isolated into the shower where you're also isolated is not the best idea because then it will get you there as well. But try to do something that's more interactive. Get your mind busy and focused at least to some extent on something else. It won't be able, you won't be able to switch it entirely, but you'll switch it enough to pull some of the power out away from ocd. Also, you have to understand that in the morning your cortisol is at an all time high from the entire day. So your body in that sense is kind of working against you. And so I used to kind of give myself this talk of, well, I always feel worse in the morning and half the time, by the time afternoon comes, I don't care about this nearly as much. So this is just the morning OCD high. So I'm not going to react and I'm not going to take it seriously. Also based on the fact that cortisol right now is out of control. But regard so you can say that to yourself. But regardless, no online research in the morning, no chat GPT, no asking for reassurance. Get busy with stuff that's not about mental health, not about ocd, not about any of that. Don't scroll through OCD videos, you know what I mean? Like this is all not the best idea. Like you can watch a video just to kind of for motivation but. But then that's it. It can't be hours of just sitting there. Show your brain that this is not important. We have other things that are important to that we need to take care of. So we're going to take care of those other things. That's how you need to be functioning. Thank you for listening. If you have not subscribed, please subscribe. If you would like to do private coaching with me, please sign up through you have ocd dot com. I'll see you tomorrow.