Ep. 93: How to WANT Anxiety with Dr. Reid Wilson

[@inigoke2753]

Dr Reid is like a God for me, i have OCD (Pure Ocd) but discovered this man and his approach to anxieties disorders was a life changing for me (i bought his book Stopping the noise in your head) This system works like a charm simply as that. BUT you have to want it from the bottom of your heart, when i am in the middle of a spike, with my heart racing, with my head filled of doubt, when my fear seems real AF at the same time i am enjoying all of this cause i am fighting like a warrior, i know i am on the right path embracing the uncertainty and taking the risk....i know i am hitting OCD like a hammer where it hurts more....I SWEAR TO GOD that if the genious of the lamp in the middle of a spike would offer a pill to make dissapear the doubt i wont take it. One month of this protocol has worked infinitely better than a life of relaxation techniques and traditional therapy. Thanks to you too for your great labor and help to all people with anxieties problems :) Sorry for my english and thanks from Spain

[@souravsharma2328]

I'm also suffering from pure -O religious OCD, and I'm so afraid that it feels like if I take risk then my fear might come true, how to take a risk and embrace uncertainty?

[@Zgembo121]

inigoke 27 i agree, I must have heard like 100s of talks about ocd and dr reid resonates so well with me. I will buy the book as well. His analogy about houng hard and fast to fix the boulder on the highways is great. We must fight this hard and fast. Dr reid gives me hope

[@Justfor2day10]

@@souravsharma2328I had pure O about religion and many other themes. I don’t have any of it now thanks to Dr Wilson. I also stepped away from religion which was one of the bear things I’ve ever done.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

I don’t think that people don’t want to do it. It’s more like I want to but I’m scared.

[@lancedunbar8020]

Completely agree! I think it’s about attempting to get to the point where you want that fear (as bad as it is) in order to change the neurological response to anxiety and in turn to overcome it and change your relationship with it, maybe I’m wrong but that’s whats helped me a lot. Hope this helps in some way and wishing you all the best🙏

[@dorrellsmith495]

What can I do about checking my doors 15 times per nigh

[@terenarosa4790]

I think that's moreso OCD

[@bengrant1201]

I just never get better. Even when I try to feel better I always end up feeling worse

[@Justfor2day10]

Don’t try to get better, get better at sitting with the anxiety over and over without using tools to run from it. You’ve got to get mad sometimes and tell anxiety to LETS GO MFKR!!!

[@isladeansiedad]

Hello Kimberley, I have a few questions: --- It's not all about uncertainty, Is it? Reid says we should want even more thoughts and sensations, correct?

[@cemyvarnali]

As long as you escape from uncertainty, fear, anxiety or whatever you call the emotion which you don't like; it will chase you because it's self created. Most effective way is to expose yourself to the emotion which you fear. Main point here is to do it willingly, because when you do it willingly , fear is diminishing. Despite of damning anxiety, you'd better welcome it. Paradoxical yee but working excellent. Underlining again "willingly" to be done. You will want to have panic attack, ocd,anxiety then it will go away for good.

[@Andreylarin1]

It all sounds great. But there are two problems in Mr. Wilson’s theories. First, he doesn’t say what to do with rumination which is one of the main sources of OCD. Second, he hasn’t showed any evidence that his strategy is working or anyone whom he treated successfully and who fully recovered. Nor he ever had OCD. Therefore what he’s saying is very speculative