Owning Your Intrusive Thoughts - Are they true?

How do you know if your thoughts are true or not? Do you own them or do they own you!?
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[BreannaMartin-nbyd]

What bothers me the most is when I feel like I’m not having a big enough reaction to the thoughts! So in my mind it’s like “well maybe you want to do it” “you’re not panicking so maybe it’s just you” “you want to do it” “it’s just you now”

[alexanderjs]

Intrusive thoughts come from a lack of mental stimuli. When you have too much idle time, your mind will tend to veer off into random thoughts thus creating thoughts that can be "intrusive". This is why the old saying "an idle mind is the Devil's playground" holds so much truth.

[danielaradosevic]

I so agree!!! Ocd thoughts can sometimes become dangerous, or at least so I believe. For me, it sometimes gets hard because I can't tell if the thought is mine or not. And pretty, soon I start to question whether or not I believe this thought, which all sends me into a spiralling downfall of compulsions and doubt. It's hard, believe me, but with Jesus and God and the beautiful Holy Spirit's help, I believe I can eventually overcome this! God Bless You All!!!

[arabservices]

Great video, for people that have ocd i want you to know that the healing is possible, living a happy life is possible, no matter how bad sometimes the ocd attacks but you no longer suffers like the beginning because now you know exactly how it works, it won't be easy for ocd to trick you like before, stay strong 🙏

[justmadeit]

Weirdly by trying to think back on a thought to make sense of what it was you thought, you end up creating another one and then feel more disturbed

[drake__xx]

Can we just congratulate this man on how humble he is regarding our mental health, really hats off man 👏👏

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One problem I have is an intrusive thought, something I find disgusted about then an image I didn’t want to see. So I’ve kept analysing them wondering “does this mean something? Why did I think that? What’s wrong with me?”. I’ve tortured myself multiple times constantly asking myself if I truly think like that. I’ve tried to stop but it’s in the background waiting for me to slip up. Until I realised that they don’t have a meaning. A scare that I shouldn’t worry about. Thank you so much for all of these videos, they’ve helped me through so much already

[Blessednesting]

What’s difficult is when they sucker punch you. For instance right after my 4th baby I saw briefly a documentary on Casey Anthony in the hospital room and the thought came to me, “what if I harm my baby?” It freaked me out and I spiraled for months on it.

[you_ok]

The worst part of my ocd is the negative & disgusting thoughts are becoming real, I am unable to sleep at night for almost 4 years, My financial state is not good enough to have a house in which the bathrooms will not trigger my ocd, its getting worse day by day. None is there to help me.

[AMejia-gcyu]

This video helps a lot. I see a lot of so called "phycologists" making claims that our thoughts and dreams are absolutely valid and true. Which if you're a normal person you can easily dismiss this because we all know how bizarre and weird our thoughts can be especially dreams. But since I have OCD I believed these people and it caused me to dissect these thoughts and dreams and it was no good. I appreciate you clarifying this Nathan. It reminds me of this Proverb- "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely shall be delivered." Proverbs 28:26

[keithphillips]

He has many many videos! But this one hits home, hits hard!! One of his best videos ever!! Now to replay it many times over to make it sink in!

[cleverhandle]

That urge to figure it out. That feeling is so strong, it’s my clue to use what I learned in ERP.

[Libbylg]

Needed to of heard this last week, convinced myself something terrible was happening to me which introduced many many intrusive thoughts which I believed was true.
If you find yourself thinking “what if?” That is an intrusive thought, become aware of this if you feel these thoughts and reassure yourself it’s only a thought and thinking it doesn’t mean it will happen

[emach]

This helped SO much!! I knew a lot of this but my son has really been struggling and just today finally shared it with me so I did some searching on YT and found a bunch which also relieved him seeing he wasn't the only one. Thank you!

[darrenjames]

All of this information is absolutely valuable, However as soon as the video ends my intrusive thoughts and anxiety starts, and it's bad too!

[AbhishekBhatnagar-qyxu]

What to do when the intrusive thought is really disturbing

[richardenglish]

I've really been struggling with intrusive thoughts this past couple of weeks, and these videos are really helping me to put them in perspective. Thank you for being there.

[noleyfresh]

Exposure therapy was some of the worst anxiety I’ve ever felt in my life but it really did help.

Actions speak louder than words, and a thought does not do either on its own.

Great video!

[anthonycubing]

I just want to tell you that you saved me. youre just a wonderful human being.

[silliestdolly]

i have ocd, and i cannot control my thoughts. i always overthink every thought even if i know this thought isnt the reality. it can be extremely frustrating and i just cant stop thinking about it, but at the same time it disturbs me. im trying to find a way to control these thoughts and realize its all my head and my brain is trying to make me believe it. thanks for this video, this helped♡