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😅 my answer was just drink then ill be certain with everything.

This is one of your answers from IG that I think back to often. Very helpful! I'm glad you posted it on UA-cam as well, so more people can hear it.

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Babe wake up, the goat dropped a nuke of a short

Are you in a relationship?

Someone knows why my legs fall asleep ?

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Agreed <3 Also, learning to exspand oneself into projects, passions and having the reasoning in the mind that this problem will never get fixed no matter how much I try -- As Estine mentions we can't fix the same problem from the same mindset and trust these problems will "fix" over time helps.. e.g. I used to struggle with OCD reassurance e.g. in a romantic relationship of "do they love me" or "cheat on me" which evidently happened anyway and realizing no matter how much I suffer and ask for reassurance and they give it doesn't mean that wouldn't change and its a them problem as much as us. Though, I do still struggle with that but less so ish now

I don’t know,some thoughts are so scary they trigger anxiety and panic attacks😢

Is there any video where u talk about overcoming fear of schiz/psychosis ?

Hi Mark! Great video. Wondering - if we experience rejection or a negative outcome from our workout plans, how do we move forward and not retreat back to our compulsions?

Namaste

My biggest take away from this live stream was that, it seems like what we spend alot of time doing in our heads, and how we interact with experiences, just becomes a fully automated program eventually as the brain becomes more efficient at that. And sometimes we install unhelpful programs by accident, maybe they were needed before but they longer serve us now - yet they keep running against our will. For example maybe there was a time where we were in "survival" mode and stressing alot because of circumstances + lack of awareness about better coping ways, but after that stressful long period ended we kept being in a "survival" mode and still feeling stressed out, it just became the default way of being and living. Or the example that you gave about interacting with small uncertainties and ruminating usually, then we just learn to be good at ruminating and the content is really irrelevant by this point - it's just how the brain processes any uncertainty now with this program, by ruminating. It makes alot of sense, hopefully I understood it correctly, If I did then would you say it would be correct to assume that we can all choose to be aware of our unhelpful "programs" and choose to install different ones, and with enough practice this will be our new default mode - eventually completely overriding the previous one?

Mark please help me i am really struggling. I am wondering if i am using acceptance as a compulsion. I dont get the difference between using acceptance as a compulsion and practicing acceptance properly. What should i do about this. It just gets to overwhelming for me

oh i get it, the baggage is the suit case. i see what you did there.

Haha, heard your comment on no pests in the garden, listening to this while killing hundreds of slugs

Catching the replay

The discussion around rumination/compulsions you *like* is very interesting. 🤔 One of my hobbies is creative writing. I’ve always been susceptible to daydreaming. Finding a balance of thinking about stories as a kind of planning rather than a form of brain entertainment that keeps me from doing the things I actually want to do is difficult. It’s very true that creating those habits of staying in my head can add to other compulsions as well. I wonder if other writers have this challenge.

I think one of the things I’ve realized which is incredibly important is not looking at recovery/treatment/having instructive thoughts as a problem that needs to be solved. So when I look at this, i feel a bit compelled to really dive into treatment and almost compulsively want to get better immediately, I’m glad I’m mindful to recognize this, so I guess the real fuel I should be using is to have these thoughts to recognize what I truly Value and persue that, while feeling uncomfortable feelings

I feel like I'm being watched all the time by people I know sometimes by people that I don't know in person like celebrities and whatnot I have those ideas since I was 13 It's killing me it's stopping me from being a better person sometimes I can't even study or work or even talk to my family I even feel it now as I'm writing this comment I don't know if I'm paranoid or what I just want this to stop

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Right I suppose any coping tells our brain we can't handle this experience, it is a bad thought / experience.

I feel migrain and sharp pain in vein

Mark make a topic how to go through all these in a pressure exam or job ..because its way to difficult..when we did nothing the ocd haunts less for me...but in pressure and stress anxiety flares up...and how to be successful in life with all these..

You are the best ocd youtuber

These videos are so helpful. Thank you so much.

You are always so helpful Mark 😊 Thank you! When will have your next live?

oh lord did I need this mini-video breakdown.. Yes you are right ahah this would create another paradox within itself of categorising as either "good thoughts, feelings" versus "bad thought and feelings must be mental illness thoughts and feelings" creating some sort of personal hell along with spitting off parts of ourselves known as alienation and demonising those parts which evidently makes it worse even though those parts were at times protecting us but also hurting us .. yeah you are right this an ocean and doesn't mean it is us as a whole -- Lets keep going my fellow OCD Survivors we can do it <3

Love your content. Do you think this practice can also be applied to ROCD?

Great stuff ♥️

When you described this moment with the leaves and the silence. I remember a moment while riding my bike and I felt the happiest I have ever felt, it was sunny and nice. Serene. Then it went downhill with compulsions (and I in fact also went downhill on my bike hahaha). Thank you for this wonderful insight! And your amazing book!

Anxiety disorders share the same symptoms and the same intrusive thoughts

hi mark! do you have a video on body dysmorphia or on self loathing in general?

Mark i am really obsessing about whether i am using acceptance as a compulsion or not. I am wondering if i am doing recovery as a compulsion and whether im dojng things right, should i just accept the uncertainty as to whether im using acceptance as a compulsion or not? Thanks

I remember years ago, I told my friends I had ocd, and then the next day they saw 80 tabs open on my computer and looked at me and said "You can't have OCD. you're too disorganized" To which I explained to them that the reason I have all the tabs open is partly due to OCD. I have this constant fear that I'm going to forget what I searched so I can't close anything, I also constantly crave new information and wnat to know every detail of everything so I end up opening 80 different articles and videos of the same thing out of fear. And I can't close any of the tabs due to fear of them being important and I forget what they were. I also have a very bad hoarding problem linked to OCD. I'm sick of people thinking OCD is just contamination related when its not. I am messy and disorganized, I constantly have all my tabs open and my room is untidy and messy. I still have OCD.

It’s just so much easier w/o that pesky shame but I will thanks mark

This video is amazing! Thank you. It covers so many useful topics, and your answers are so insightful. I would love if you do more videos like this in the future. If any workshop participants are reading this, thank you for giving Mark those great questions!

i get thoughts like intrusive thoughts but about past memories that tell me i should have done bad and disgusting things instead of what my reactions where in the memory

Awesome jacket! ❤

Mark what do you think of mantra meditation? Is jt good for cutting rumination?

Hi thank you mark.

Nice - like it ❤

Not gonna lie, when I watch your videos (which are always very insightful, educational, inspiring!) I feel a short relief of reassurance and a urge afterwards to comment a burning question I have, and I usually do. It is always with the intent of getting some instant relief hoping you will reply something that will make everything "click" for me and i'll be instantly cured from the current experience i'm struggling with or even from ALL mental related struggles from some huge "AHA!" moment hopefully, I understand how silly this is and how i'm chasing a unicorn fart, yet I fall for this every time. Actually, I was just typing away another question about anxiety and symptoms but I stopped, deleted it, and wrote this instead. This time I think I prefer to use this opportunity to do something different, I want to just sit with myself, my uncertainty and anxiety, and give my uncertainty tolerance muscle a much needed workout instead :D

Omg this clip my guy. This is the vibe. I’m struggling again and I needed to hear this

Absolutely

The 🌿 end up dying... And for what? Fighting with things we will never get answers to and don't matter

I watched this video a few months ago but I think now I really WATCHED it because I have been on this recovery journey for a year and always wondering why my anxiety is still high and why old cumpolsions come up when I stopped doing them for so long but now thanks to you I realize it’s okay to not do the right thing because there isn’t a right thing to do and anxiety isn’t a bad thing and I can either have it or not without it ruining anything.

is it necessary we tell about our mental health problems to everyone we meet? I feel like i can’t share this stuff with my parents etc. because they will chastise me and i will feel worse after telling them about my ocd , anxiety and depression

Thank you

This is so true!