Why You Should Step AWAY from Your Worries

Of course, your phobia or obsession or anxious worry is about something specific that frightens you. But in order to treat the anxiety disorders and OCD, you have to learn to rise above the specific topic that you fear so that you can treat the disorder itself. You’re going to hear about Mary, who worried about suffocating on a plane or having a heart attack or being crushed by the ceiling of a parking garage. If she wants to recover from her claustrophobia, then she has to downgrade those specific worries. She needs to decide that even though she feels as though she is going to suffocate, her job is to turn away from that specific fear. In the same way, work to make your content - your specific worry, your topic - irrelevant. Your job? It is to face a generic sense of doubt and a generic sense of distress.

[@arbenkrasniqi9271]

You are a great therapist, thanks God for you. I'm privileged to live in this era so i can learn from you. Thank for everything!

[@nikita2560]

This is so helpful thank you "the content has been taken over by the disorder"

[@gavinduggan199]

This is brilliant and so helpful to sufferers.

[@Earth098]

The very nature of OCD is the constant doubt whether your obsessive thoughts are valid or invalid. So how do you work on the content to make it invalid??? Isn't that counterproductive??

[@alexsam9288]

well i guess most of OCDians know that their content is irrelevant and this is a decision or choice one has to make for once .. at the time of spikes one might feel that the theme or content is highly Valid but that is just anxious thinking...
no matter how hard one tries to collect evidence one can't certainly make content absolutely invalid.. there is no better evidence one can have than how one feels about something, but in OCD or other anxiety disorders the same are defective and not trustworthy.. one can't and shouldn't trust his feelings if he / she wants to tackle this monster...

[@Earth098]

@@alexsam9288 Exactly!!

[@anthonygreico9735]

"The very nature of OCD" is vicious relentlessness. With my OCD, I have begun to think that nothing less than some sort of neurostimulation treatment (as an example, TMS) will be able to fix it in the long run. A lot of my OCD/depression is related to existential obsessions/fixations. Do either of you know what I mean by this? Please check out my OCD/depression channel and please comment/leave feedback on a video or two. I want to see if anything I experience is relatable to others and reach out to others who need help.

[@Earth098]

@@anthonygreico9735 So is the channel you are refereeing to is the one you are commenting as?

[@anthonygreico9735]

@@Earth098 Yes

[@atteeklof4879]

3:00 if i thought that way my mind tells me im a narcist. So i just gotta deal with that?

[@daraalt]

Can you do a video on what really happens physically to our bodies during a panic attack?