🧠 Your Scary OCD Thoughts Are Not Unique

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Your OCD thoughts are not unique.

[00:00:03]What you are experiencing thousands, if not I don't know, millions of other people are experiencing. This is not a unique situation.

[00:00:15]I'm telling you, I've done recovery work with clients for 20 year 20 years.

[00:00:20]I'm 42 at the time of this video.

[00:00:24]So, it's there's nothing special about these thoughts or these feelings or how they come in. Stop putting them on a pedestal. Like, "Oh my god, I had this thought. Oh my god, I had this feeling.

[00:00:38]This is so important. I got to figure this out." No, you don't. This is just nonsense that ran through your mind.

[00:00:44]People get 70,000 thoughts a day. You got a thought, you got a feeling. Who cares? Treat it like that. That is the correct way.

[00:00:51]As soon as you start to show your brain that a thought is important, it sure it starts to flag it, and then it will send you more of the same thought. It doesn't matter how uh silly, unrealistic it is, it will send it to you because you keep flagging it. So, stop flagging this content.

[00:01:08]It came Let's say harm OCD. Came something scary came in. It felt very real. It feel felt like you wanted to do. It felt like you were going to do Okay, whatever.

[00:01:17]Who cares? Ignore.

[00:01:19]Treat it like that. You need to adopt this attitude even if you don't feel like you don't embody that, you don't feel it in the moment, act like it. And the more you act like it, the more the anxiety will drop, and eventually it will feel like that.

[00:01:34]But, the only caveat, this is very technical, that when you act like you're disregarding like how I was just acting, don't afterwards look back to see, "Oh, did the thought go away?"

[00:01:49]Because if you look back to try to see how you feel after disregarding, that again makes the thought important and feeds it. So, we're disregarding, we don't care, and we're going forward in the day. We have things to do. We're doing that.

[00:02:03]We don't need to look back, and we don't need to think about full recovery, and we don't need to think about anything recovery-related meta OCD. The best thing you can do is focus on interests, hobbies, things that you need to do.

[00:02:15]That's real life. Show your brain real life. I'm Ali Greymond. I'm an expert in OCD recovery because I've been working with clients for the last 20 years, and I can tell you, anybody can fully recover. If you need help, the link is below.