How Mindfulness Based CBT Can Help You Move Past Intrusive Thought OCD | Mental Health Webinar

Intrusive thoughts can create intense anxiety and lead to rumination for those who suffer from them, but mindfulness can help you understand and manage them. Drs. Kissen & Greene share tips and tools to apply mindfulness to these thoughts.
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[@flambojr.4235]

Good guide! There is a lot of psychology behind intrusive thoughts. First, they don't come out of nowhere, the reason they show up is because they are completely the opposite of what you want. Emotional/physical pain brings them, it's trauma. Second, when a thought shows up, right away we have the impulse of controlling the situation by getting rid of the thought. Third, when we see the thoughts not going away, we realize we don't have control. In our minds not having control means not having things your way, which means something bad will happen and you will feel pain. Those are the wrong assumptions. Break the cycle by letting go of control and by being confident in yourself. The pain won't break you. 👍

[@marquellwitten7885]

Wow! Yes! Thank you

[@hueso5071]

Thank you. My intrusive thoughts come and go, I’m going thru an episode right now and the adrenaline of anxiety is overwhelming. I don’t understand why I’m like this, never dealt with any of this growing up or even when I got older. Up until I got depressed is when all this intrusive thoughts started popping up in my head. It’s horrible. 😔

[@motivate_k3766]

thanks 🌹

[@flambojr.4235]

@L16M sure thing! We're all warriors inside and we're stronger than what we think. We just gotta see it in ourselves and prove it's true. Ocd will only feel permanent if we don't change what's hurting us, wrong mentality & diet. In my case, I just suffered a huge anxiety attack yesterday after eating some oatmeal. I had full control but everything got ruined with one mistake. The things you don't suspect to be a problem end up being your biggest enemy. I could leave a list foods that trigger me if you like. I've done countless tests on myself so it's pretty trustworthy. Ocd persists if we don't change things.

[@antonwimmer1316]

Thank you, i really needed to hear this

[@4455matthew]

I feel that the important issue for ocd is not so much how to bring yourself back to focus after noticing an intrusive thought, feeling, etc, but how to stay focused while letting the thought happen. the former is usually emphasised, and while correct and helpful, in my experience the issue is moreso how to let the thought happen *while* I stay focused on something else.

[@alizaghimire743]

Thankyou for this informative webinar .

[@MasterNinjaXz]

So I know the ERP is the big most impactful method, and most useful, but when you guys focus on thoughts of killing your dogs and shit doesn’t that make you scared too? Flooding your mind with those images? For like 30 seconds straight? Like I want to try that but it just seems like if I do that then my OCD is gonna try and tell me that I believe that stuff or something.

[@tinycatfriend]

thank you for supplying this to the public! i had OCD as a kid and early intervention worked great, but i'm having a bad flare up of intrusive thoughts and this was an excellent refresher. the added mindfulness helps too, as my focus before this episode was on my DBT skills. this fits in perfectly with that framework. the skills i learned as a kid involved thinking of my OCD as an antagonistic force, which doesn't fit DBT at all. it worked when i was 10, but i'm an adult now and i know it's more complicated than that!

[@ziruzadat]

This was really usefull for me. Thanks a lot.

[@kayleigh1991]

Thank you ❤️ I'm waiting to see a therapist but waiting lists. I'm so miserable because of all this.

[@jeffreyzie]

Thanks for this. When’s the next webinar?

[@redbloomings7523]

Rlly good ^^💜

[@yuyingren3493]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video! Just a quick question- what is the difference between mindfulness based CBT and exposure and prevention ERP ? Thank you!

[@DeadbeatGamer]

mindfulness cbt is acknowledging thoughts. ERB is learning to deal with the triggers for thoughts.

[@gomathysubramanian6534]

Can I do this without a therapist?

[@luh4682]

insomnia big part of it too

[@mary_syl]

"I really hope I don't jump outta this window" "Cool!" Uhhhh 🙈

[@mike1young]

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