Tip for intrusive thoughts! How to get better #intrusivethoughts #anxiety #ocd #mentalhealth

Try this out! When we fight intrusive thoughts they stay longer. If we try to replace them, it takes a lot of work and they stay longer. And not to mention the amount of efforts that takes.

When we have intrusive thoughts we get scared of them because we think that it must say something about us.

But what if I told you thoughts don’t say anything about you? The fact that these thoughts are scary to you means that you’re not actually wanting them. They say nothing about you or who you are or your values!

When we learn to let them be, accept them as thoughts and go back to what we were doing over and over and over again, our brain gets bored with it and these thoughts tend to naturally decrease.

This takes time though, so don’t go into it with the intent of them going away. Go into it with the intent to remind yourself that thoughts are not facts

I was thinking about melons, and it worked.

My mind always tell me i should either do SH or kill myself. .. im sticking for SH for now

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Thanks for that..

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My intrusive thoughts isnt about me it's about how disgusting other ppl are and its factual so quite literally hard to get out of my head

Dorsnt work... struggling for YEARS... tried this for years...

Whatever happens, I won’t think about your large nose… I mean your nose…. I mean your nose…. I mean….

Thank you so much ❤️🙏

So the common sense is that I must control my thoughts, but what is the origin of the 'I' that must control? Is there a thinker and their thoughts or is there just thinking?

Haha ❤thank you

I wish you could have told me this 40 yrs ago your script is spot on thank you I will share this xx

Good point thank you xxx

I wanna hurt this person so bad bruh I feel gay ass hell

I was thinking about you first not the pink elephant. Did I fail? 😂

Fix your audio

I can't stop smiling at your smile 😊

Sometimes I scroll on yt shorts and sad or distressing things on there make their way to me and then it makes me feel like I'm having that problem even though I'm not I'm glad I'm not alone ❤️‍🩹

I said: Pink.. MuthaFkn Dollar store.. the dollar store.. yuup there’s always something there I can buy 😂

I have been using that for about 15yrs as a random joking phrase, so my brain didn’t know what else to think about but dollar store was always close by lol

If you are what u...put on adequate garment ..this itself is distracting and has i ntrusive thoughts ..

i realize one thing i had to face fear to get freedom from these thoughts

lmao while watching you i even forget about pink elephant now i know what i need i need wife like you

Green elegants lol

She is fine

I honestly listen to my intrusive thoughts so much I bought a lipstick taser 😄

my intrusive thoughts are so weird, it telling me to shave my eyebrows and hair 💀

You my future wife

Love you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This didn’t help

I was thinking of a blue elephant

This isn’t a great example. It’s more like a pink elephant that causes you massive anxiety that might become a pink elephant or kill a pink elephant or do something that is ego dystonic

I get these thoughts sometimes but I'm at a point of not wanting them. Sometimes I would engange in them which made it worse or sinful. Hoping for change in this.❤

I was trying ti think about red balloons. I got stuck with pink elephants holding pink and red ballons.

Oh, thank you so much for the tips! I needed to know this urgently. 🥺

Don’t think of pink elephants
Me: pink kangaroo

Why do all these videos suck

I started thinking about blue elephants but the pink one still kept popping in 😂

Why do we have to fight with are brain when we are in control? So we are in a dream thinking we are awake? So confusing. I just know we have no control of anything that goes on. That why we cant comprehend Eternity and space and how all this came about!

really

With time the best thing i learn is to replace that thought with thoughts that make you happy instead. It has worked for me

it becomes worse during my period :(

Guys it is actually working we all are having intrusive thought it means the thoughts are completely irrational and infact the opposite of the intrusive thought is the reality. When we truly understand this the anxiety that we get by these intrusive thoughts slowly fades away they can still be back after sometime but dont give af about them just dont mind them. We can have positive thought, negative thought and intrusive thought and it is very normal. The problem actually starts when we start to belive in these intrusive thoughts we just have to realise these thoughts are not real. I am having these thoughts from childhood when i turned 22 it struck so badly and i had to live with these anxiety caused by believing in intrusive thoughts for 3years and after 3years i automatically found the reality i still get anxious of these thoughts just dont mind them and just believe in reality and believe the fact that intrusive thoughts are not real.

I do this, but it doesn’t work.

I don't mean this in a bad way but this example has been done to death. Would you have another example to share? Personally, this one is quite general and doesn't click with me. Many thanks.

But I thought the pink elephant exploded, got smashed into a building in the building slowed it

I didn't even think

But that is self-reassurance which is a compulsion…

I've had this debilitating disorder all my life and the anti depressant Sertraline helps me, but a tip that does help is when i have intrusive thoughts about those I love the most, I tell myself that that is the very reason it's about them because I love them so much and that's how the disorder works and distresses you, I also remind myself the reason I never have them about my dad is that, because he's a horrible person and because I don't love him in the same way, I don't get the intrusive thoughts about him. In other words, when you have a vile thought about the ones you love more than anything,it stands to reason it's because really, you love them so much. A bit of a mental way of putting two fingers up to OCD. Hope this kind of makes sense. I really feel for you all,I've despaired myself, but it can get more manageable, or better, so please never give up on trying to live a happy life. A peaceful mind to you all❤

My brain already knows its intrusive... This was not helpful, but thanks for trying. I think the only thing that helps is to try and find something to replace that thought or takeup most of my mental space, that for me is staying busy and being around people.