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Hi, everyone, I'm Ali Graymond. Today I wanted to talk to you about different ways OCD thoughts can come in. So OCD thoughts can come in as thoughts, urges, feelings, physical sensations, images. It can come in with anxiety, it can come without anxiety. And then you worry, why did it come without anxiety? It can be very precise. It can also be vague. It can focus on a very specific situation. It could be very general. So there's a lot of different variations of is all okay, it is all normal. Think about it this way. Your mind controls everything. And if your mind understand or thinks things, not really thinks, but views these thoughts as valid, it creates feelings that go along with the thoughts on Autopilot that makes you feel that this is valid to push you into rumination or doing compulsions. Why does your mind do this? Because when it sent it to you at first, you reacted with a lot of fear. And it's been proven in studies over and over again that people with OCD and people without OCD have exactly the same thoughts. So that initial thought was a thought that anybody could get, but for some reason, in that moment, the person reacted with a lot of fear. So the brain took notice, and then it sent a thought again and again. The person reacted with a lot of fear, and it became this ongoing thing. So now we have to undo this. And in order to undo this, you have to disregard the thoughts, however they come in, so they can come in again with anxiety. Without anxiety. It can be a thought, it can be something else, such as an urge or an image or whatever. It doesn't matter. Try to take it very broadly. If it's about your OCD theme or your OCD themes or about the process of recovery generally. What if I never recover? I feel like I'm not recovering those kinds of things. Right. That's also very, very common. Anything to do with this is OCD anything to do with this? You are choosing to disregard. Actively stop ruminating on these topics. Because the more you ruminate, you're literally making yourself worse. Every moment, every minute you're ruminating. If you're ruminating right now, please listen to what I'm saying. You're making yourself worse. You need to stop rumination. Even if you delay for, say, half an hour, for next half hour, I'm not going to ruminate and then kind of go another half hour, just step by step like this. But you need to start cutting it down. Don't obsess over. My OCD comes in differently than what I think I. Other people's OCD comes as I've been doing this for over 10 years, helping people recover from OCD. It can come in in any way, believe me. And it all comes down to the same thing, that the person is trying to figure it out. And the more they figure it out, the more real it feels, the deeper they get if they end up figuring out thought A, thought B, thought C comes in and it just. It loops. It loops in the brain. So look at it as you can continue this game of going from thought to thought, or you can just say, you know what, anything to do with this theme, I'm done. As I said in previous videos, slam your fist on the table and say, you know what? I'm done now. I can't do this anymore. And let that anger at everything that OCD has taken away from you push you through to full recovery. That how many times you've ruminated, how many times you took these thoughts seriously and it always ended up being nothing. So why am I doing this over and over and over again? Say that to yourself. I'm not doing this anymore. And find power within that anger. Thank you for watching. I hope you find my videos helpful. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, please subscribe. If you would like to do one on one recovery program with me, all the information is on youhoveocd. Com. Thank you for watching. I'll see you tomorrow.