4 Things You Need to Know About Your Intrusive Thoughts
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- What is going on with these intrusive thoughts I am having? They seem to come out of nowhere and are very disturbing? Why are they showing up and what do I do about it?
In this broadcast, I want to share with you 4 things you need to know about intrusive thoughts, so that you can walk into new directions that empower you and help you overcome.
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You are God's gift. My OCD tendencies stemmed from my childhood and I found that they were fed by my perfectionistic and controlling tendencies to make things perfect. So now whenever these thoughts rise up, I say: I have nothing to prove and I let go of the performance. Please, let go and let God and always remember that you are not your thoughts, you are what you do. Recenter yourself in the present moment. Love and compassion to everybody who is dealing with this 💞
I was attacked by intrusive thoughts since January and I am still in recovery mode. Thank you so much for your ministry
It’s honestly 24/7 for me non stop intrusive scary thoughts, pls pray for me.. thanks , love yall
I'm right there with you fam ❤
Pray for Me too please.
I get that 100%, give it to Christ every single time even if it's tiring. It'll get better 🙏🏻
Also pray 2. Corinthians 10,5 over yourself 🙌🏼
7:15 toooooootally been there….
Face the fear and learn to walk through the storm knowing God is with me! Thank you and God bless you Mark!
Easier said then done brother.
@@Nightwalker25-m3u I know my brother! I've been suffering for over a year with every blasphemous and vile thought you can think of and it's only getting worse! God knows it's not us thinking these thoughts! He knows it's an affliction and i believe once we give Him the complete control of the thoughts/spinning/spiraling, and when we don't keep the thoughts alive any longer and ignore them completely and don't feed the thoughts anymore (easier said than done, I know😥then He will heal and deliver us from this terrifying trial and dark storm in His perfect timing.I pray for you bro! Keep me posted on how you are fairing brother. God bless you and keep you, in the most PRECIOUS name of Jesus I pray. Amen.🙏👑🕇🕊🕊❤❤
The problem is, is I keep praying to God that I won't argue with the bad thoughts anymore, but then I end up arguing with them when my head starts spinning lol
God bless you Mark, I've been years on this journey and patience is what the Lord told me to have the other day.
God bless everyone going through this.
It's gets better. ❤
Instead of “God remove” say “God help me respond too” I like that idea.
I’ve tried to take it captive in doing so it came back twice as hard as it passes. Devil really is crafty. Thanks Mark happy new year! 🎆
Can't thank you enough Mark for how this video was helpful for me, especially in recent days! Feel so blessed to find you! God bless you and stay always well!
Thank you mark. This struggle started late October and I am still recovering. I found your channel to be God-given help last month.
Same here. It started late October for me as well. Coincidence?
Thank you Mark. The Lord sees and knows everything including our thoughts so we aren't hiding anything from Him. We need to fall into His grace, love and acceptance.
It’s a Journey. Practice. Practice. Practice.
Hey Mark!! As the wife of someone who is sometimes debilitated by OCD I want to thank you. My husband has been reading and watching your content for I’d say about 18 months. He has learned so much from you and has put a lot of it into practice. I have noticed a great change in him recently. It’s been awful at times but
he is certainly on a healing journey and so am I! 🙌🏻 It has been very important as his wife to learn about OCD and the struggle with it. I’ve been seeking help on how to be the most helpful in his walk through the OCD battles. Praise the Lord!!
Praise God! He'll be healed completely.. by God's grace. Amen. Appreciate you for being such a supportive partner.
This is so incredibly helpful! I am overjoyed to have found your channel. At last, concrete help from a Christian perspective-thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you Mark. God really put you in the journey of my life and recovery. You’ve helped me feel so much better!!! I went from begging God to take this away to accepting this invitation to healing my broken heart and finding my true identity as a son of Christ. Thank you for showing me the light 🙌🏽
PS: did a great exposure today and resisted compulsions and I haven’t felt better. Feels like we’re getting there!
My intrusive thoughts are arguments in my head with people. It is always those who cause me distress. So, my thoughts are rational. I don't get irrational thoughts. I can see me having those arguments in real life. But, they cause me so much problems. In fact, I'm having a really hard time today and having to call it a sick day, because it is like I'm sick today (because of the intrusive thoughts). But, one thing I do to TRY to help myself. I understand not all can do this. But, I get to a place where I just tell God, "Know my heart". He knows what's going on and He knows I don't receive those wrong thoughts and that I don't want them, and He knows they are intrusive. I, even, get where I don't say anything to Him, at all (about the intrusive thoughts). I just "let" Him know my heart. If I say something, even small, it makes it harder. So, I try to not say anything and be quiet, and just let Him know my heart, and go on doing things I need to do. I do it by faith. That seems to help me more than anything else. That doesn't mean the thoughts go away and it doesn't mean I don't have big distress from the thoughts. It just gives me a little more peace as I go through it and helps me to deal with it better.
Oh my gosh this video helped me so much man I have been like terrorized with intrusive thoughts
It’s hard to not give things meaning, specially when you don’t know the future and what will happen and you so afraid that because of you praying something or thinking or saying , it can happen.
I talk with God all the time in my head and it feels like he’s going to answer those horrible things I think and it scares me of it happening.
Amen bro thank you so much for this
Thank you so much for this video!! 💗
Good stuff brother 👍🙏🙏
God bless Mark. Thank you for this video.
This is wonderful! Thank you!
Thank you Mark, you help me a lot.
Thank you mark you really help me out
Oh my goodness. I love your content, it’s extremely helpful!!
Thank you mark you help me a lot
God bless you brother from another mother!🙏😇💐
Happy new years 🎉
Very insightful thank you so much !
SO HELPFUL!!!!!!! Thank you 🎉 T.U.L.A.❤
Thank you Mark. So practical and insightful. God bless you and your sweet family.
Thankyou mark for going through everything you had to go through in order to gain this equipping that you’ve used to love others, you’ve been a huge help in my life
This was incredible. I have been having bad thoughts since a surgery I had that ramped up yesterday. I really appreciate you discussing this topic that isn't talked about in church & definitely not to this extent. God bless you & your wife for the work you do.
This was awesome! Can totally relate! God bless you Mark! I hope and pray that this channel skyrockets 😄
People need this 😌
Yo Adrian, i mean Mark. Thank you for binging more content to everyone. Happy new year, here in Japan i got super panicky because of the earthquake i felt under my feet. Soo scary for me. I really missed your broadcasts.
Mark Dejesus, Thank You! for Your vedios, not only for the invaluable information provided that can add information, comfort and Hope but also for Your excellent presentational skill...and when some humor is added appropriately in context it is very very much appreciated!
So may GOD BLESS you! and " everyone" on this channel as well as all of "Us" who suffer from this: incredibly deceptive, grossly manipulative, exceedingly sad and time wasting de-cease.
Thanks again! PTL!!!!
Amen brother, maybe do a video on how our spouse can help our healing journey by showing us the love of the father through them
Mark, thank you so much for your work. I wish I could remember the first video I watched in which you covered how intrusive thoughts attack what you value the most. The Lord used that realization to give me so much freedom already. My thoughts attack three key areas: my relationship to God, to my husband, and to my precious baby (and you are exactly right in other videos, the OCD tendencies sky rocketed with her birth: a major (and wonderful) life change)). You have been such a blessing to me and my family. Excited to get a copy of the OCD Healing Journey soon. God bless you, brother!
You’re describing me perfectly 😮
Hi Mark. I, by the grace of God, I came across your website when googling why I was struggling with intrusive harmful thoughts again after almost 10 years of what I thought was healing. Back then my harmful thoughts were towards my husband. Now, I am a mother of 3 and my thoughts of harm turn to them. I cannot tell you how much of a blessing your healing journey book has been to my life as well as this channel. Watching this video, and you immediately talking about being in the kitchen and stabbing a loved one brought me to tears. It is those thoughts that completely derail me and leave me questioning all the good that I know it within me. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned. Thank you, as your book states, for using the hell you’ve experienced to bless someone else. You are certainly doing that. I look forward to reading your other material, especially your book on loving myself and God.
I've been having intrusive thoughts since I was young. But, they got worse after Covid and losing 3 close family members within two years. I've been attacked by exisential intrusive thoughts often, sometimes daily. And out of everyone, including counselors, church, etc, this has mad the MOST sense to me and has actually help build my relationship with God. Thank you.
GOD Bless
Wonderful to see you again, Mark. Thank you so much for putting out this content.
I’ve been battling anxiety that has really crippled me for a while now. What you mentioned about the thoughts targeting what you value, that really resonated with me. For a long, long time, I’ve always loved being alone. But with a recent health scare and series of awful panic attacks, my thinking has completely flipped around. Now
I’m TERRIFIED of being left alone. I’m an adult, but I currently still live with my mother for various reasons. Whenever she leaves the house or even goes to bed, I often notice an extremely depressing and scary feeling of being left alone forever, “what if I die while she’s gone?” “What if SHE dies in a freak accident on the road?” “How am I gonna handle my anxiety while I’m by myself right now?” This fear has completely baffled me. It’s always accompanied by a very dark, depressing feeling, like black clouds over my head.
Plus I’ve developed heart anxiety because I went to the hospital for a racing heart/panic attack. And now I’ve also developed an obsession with checking my pulse and being hyper-aware of my heart rate.
I literally feel like I can’t do or enjoy ANYTHING anymore because of this fear. I’m vacationing right now, and just walking up a flight of stairs has made my heart race with anxiety. I’ve had blood work done - most of it was okay, except that I had high cortisol levels. I’ve had my heart checked out too, and there isn’t really anything wrong with it.
I’ve been trying so hard to remind myself that it’s just anxiety, that it’s just a feeling that will pass. Sometimes it helps, but most of the time my mind just doesn’t believe it. I can’t go anywhere without feeling like I’m on the verge of a panic attack. I just had one today in a Hollywood gift shop because it was too hot there, and there was too much noise and too many people.
I’m having more tests done soon to rule out whatever other problems I may have. I need to get in touch with a new therapist, but even just the thought of meeting them makes me anxious and dreadful. I really don’t know what to do at this point. I’m just existing nowadays. My depression has gotten very bad. The tiniest things make me scared out of my mind. I could sob just thinking about it.
I apologize for such a long comment. I just feel really alone right now.
This is a document I wrote to help folks with ocd like me, might help.
docs.google.com/document/d/1J-GCKDwnVntT3fdx6QKDwoARH-9OPuJTAKRhP5wOeGE/edit?usp=drivesdk
God bless you.
Praying for you
@@TheOfficeChristian Aw, thank you. 🙏
I'm currently off work for all the same things you're going through. I've just spent 3 years trying to find solutions to my own heart problems and nothing is showing up either. I was CONVINCED it's real, to the point I struggle to get up stairs or even sleep on my left side anymore. If you ever want to share stories or experience, feel free to get in touch. In the mean time, prayers. It has to get better. I'm too pragmatic to believe we can't get better.
@@jyk4439 Oh, I’m so sorry you’re going through that. I’ve had issues going up stairs and even just walking around.
Thank you very much. Prayers for you as well. 💙
Yasmine:
Thank you so much as well. I copied your comment and I going to try it out. I'll let ya know.
Thanks again!
Thank you Mark for all your hard work and never letting go of jesus in the hard times. He truly is our light. Youve led me to believe yes I am saved i just struggle with thoughts and emotions. If God be for us who can be against us?
I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you think about tracking sobriety. Is that a good method? Healthy? A better way to look at it?
I’m wondering and have prayed about how to tell the difference between what is maybe OCD and what is something the Holy Spirit is trying to tell me. Do you think you can make a video on this?
Hi, I was watching your video about ocd, and all of that brought me comfort, but then I got scared because the terapist says I have anxiety and no ocd altough I rumerate and fight evil thoguhts or blaming, shame and guilty feelings. So i got scared of what if I have this awful feeling and thoguhts and is not ocd, then what does it say about me? I know it sounds silly but could you help? I know I have anxiety but I think I have ocd as well.
I'm having thought about like it saying you love him but i know i don't becouse i love someone else but still these thoughts are coming saying you love him ,and giving me fake namorie , and it is hurting me making me hurt my body to get ride of these thoughts because I don't want to loose my love because that thought
Is this journey supposed to get worse before it gets better? Now that the anxiety is being faced, I find it so much harder and out happening so much more often
Hello Mark. Is it possible to feel so guilty about some sins that you have not done in the past that this feeling becomes so real and true to you? Please help
It absolutely is. There's really no limit to what this parasite can attach itself to, soon as it senses the slightest fear, that's where the lies begin. We need to come to terms with the fact that it is completely out of our control and find our way to leave it in the hands Almighty ❤✝️🙏
You know in your heart you have nothing to be guilty about. You have not committed any sins, these are literally just intrusive thoughts follwed by intrusive emotions, you can let it go ❤
Yes i am dealing with this right now! Its called false memory OCD! OCD can switch any events in the past and make it seem like you did or liked anything..its really scary!
been dealing with blasphemous sick satanic ungodly intrusive thoughts since last year to the point im deep in depression and my soul is downcast and also disconnected in my emotions and I keep wondering if I need to repent and I keep rebuking the thoughts over and over and I have gotten to the point where i'm scared ill become evil and like God has given up on me , I even self diagnosis myself and wonder if ill ever have a real relationship with God cause I just feel like hiding
@beautifulsoul6135 I've been struggling as well with unwanted, blasphemous, vile and disqusting thoughts and swears. NEVER give up!!!!! God is with you! I've been suffering also for over a year. It seems like if you keep giving the thoughts attention, They get worse and go through your mind much faster! You need to STARVE the thoughts and compulsions to get through the storm. TRUST that Jesus will pull you out of the storm in His perfect timing! It seems like we can't pray it away, so instead, ignore the thoughts, no matter how uncomfortable and terrifying they seem to be. Pretend like the thoughts are not even there. God knows they are NOT your thoughts! Do NOT give it power or feed into them. Think of pleasant thoughts and give it to God. Let it run it's course. Don't acknowledge the thoughts, just let them go through and the spinning and spiraling will slow down eventually and be gone. Just rebuke it Every once in awhile in Jesus's name. You Will get through this! ERP also helps, if you can find a good therapist. God knows these thoughts are against your will. I find practicing Psalm 23 or Psalm 91 in my mind helpful. May God bless you abundantly in Jesus' precious name. Amen🙏👑🕇🕊🕊❤❤
P.s. I watch youtube videos of Mark DeJesus and he REALLY puts things into context! He has tons of videos that could help you! Check them out if you get a chance! They can be life-changing! God bless you and keep you, in Jesus's mighty name. Amen🙏❤
Learn to renew your mind. You can make a list from scripture about who Jesus is and go over it in your mind when you struggle.
Jesus is your savior, refuge, high priest, victory, comforter, redeemer, lover of your soul.
It’s like a spiritual muscle you can grow stronger with practice. Pretty soon you’ll start preaching to your own self about the victory you have in Christ
@@tatianaG I'm so happy to hear you are doing much better! I'm struggling terribly still. It's only gotten worse. I will take your advice! Thank you so, so very much! God bless you and I pray that you keep pushing through your infirmity and affliction in the mighty name of Jesus I pray. Amen🙏👑🕇🕊🕊❤❤
P.s. Please keep me updated on how you are doing. Have a blessed day! 🙏❤
I struggle with OCD deeply and I am think I love Jesus. But I honestly wonder if my faith based practices are because of faith or my OCD. Do I pray because of OCD? Do I read the word because I want to or because of OCD? Do I believe in god because I truly do or because my OCD tells me I do? Any clarity on this from anyone or Mark?
I can relate to you because I'm facing the same exact thing. God bless you, in Jesus' precious name. Amen🙏
That’s a good question! If you like writing , I would suggest sitting down and talking to God about this and writing down anything you think you’re afraid of. Also knowing that God loves you and that you are fully forgiven because of what Jesus did- so he is not evaluating you by your good or bad behavior. You are completely loved and approved of by him if you have accepted him as Savior!
Hey bro, do you still experience any of these thoughts still? Or are you free from them?
What if feelings accompany these intrusive thoughts?? I don’t want these thoughts but it almost feels like the feelings that sometimes accompany these thoughts give validation to these thoughts.
Feelings always accompany intrusive thoughts that are disturbing.
Can you explain what you mean by that? Because the feelings I get aren’t feelings I want. Are these feelings real?
I feel like when I get these intrusive thoughts that I’m actively trying to avoid a feeling that would validate these thoughts.
Can you have intrusive dreams, too? I had a very unsettling dream that I woke up feeling bad about.
Yes, you can! God has freed me from depression, anxiety and intrusive thoughts after 7 months of going through it. I had just gotten saved. Recently, I got this really creepy dream after having a great day. Talk about intrusive, right? The devil likes to attack out of no where which is why we must stay vigilant. May the Lord bring you comfort and peace as your rest through the night and may he provide you with the sense of security your soul needs to sleep peacefully. In Jesus' Name, AMEN :)