Owning Your Intrusive Thoughts - Are they true?

What do your thoughts tell you? 🧠

Please pray for me since i get these ocd thoughts always. It’s distressing and difficult. If you could I would appreciate this.

Thé prblm is when you have known about manifestation i rather not known about it at 1st it was so cool but then it becames négatif and have fear about what if that manifest in my life i'm not abeleiver anymore but i have a thid thoughts on what if ...

thanks for this :) your gentle delivery of the message is really soothing

Are having these everyday normal?

I've really been struggling with intrusive thoughts this past couple of weeks, and these videos are really helping me to put them in perspective. Thank you for being there.

Thoughts are Just product of the Brain, but sometimes my intrusive thoughts showed me i didnt express Anger on some behaviour that People where doing to me, and i couldnt function before pills, function i Mean i couldnt read, speak, because of severity of them..
Always find a help..
It is Brain disorder

Thank you Nate!! Your videos has been helping me a lot go through my health anxiety!

Every time he says it's a trap. I think of Star Wars. You know princess Leia

Thanks!

Thank you...

To anyone willing to answer:

Welcoming the thoughts and 'acting' as if they don't have any meaning feels like acting to me, still. The first reaction, subconsciously perhaps, is often still one of disgust or
'not wanting'. Does acting as if the thoughts have no meaning for me, even if I feel like they do touch or hurt me, actually help?

Can you please talk about ocd spiraling. You ignore one thought and then another one comes then another then another, all to make you do the compulsion. Major doubts

Thanks for all your help bless you I cant afford ur class or id take it you have helped me tho bless u

Thank u

How can I tell if the thoughts are intrusive?

Thank you, your videos are really funny and informative 😊

Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.

i actually feel a little better

I just want to tell you that you saved me. youre just a wonderful human being.

When I watch these video I feel good but after some time it's same I have to rewatch these videos

I have exams coming up this june and around may 1st week some event triggered my old panic attacks ....help me with this please someone

Thank you very much. I still fighting but this help.

i have ocd, and i cannot control my thoughts. i always overthink every thought even if i know this thought isnt the reality. it can be extremely frustrating and i just cant stop thinking about it, but at the same time it disturbs me. im trying to find a way to control these thoughts and realize its all my head and my brain is trying to make me believe it. thanks for this video, this helped♡

Thank you so much!

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One problem I have is an intrusive thought, something I find disgusted about then an image I didn’t want to see. So I’ve kept analysing them wondering “does this mean something? Why did I think that? What’s wrong with me?”. I’ve tortured myself multiple times constantly asking myself if I truly think like that. I’ve tried to stop but it’s in the background waiting for me to slip up. Until I realised that they don’t have a meaning. A scare that I shouldn’t worry about. Thank you so much for all of these videos, they’ve helped me through so much already

So for the past two weeks or so, I have been not feeling myself because of something some one said to me. I keep replaying what they said and wonder why they said it, re-analyzing everything from my past to come up with logical answers… this is gotten me no where but having head aches all day, anxiety, acting weird at home/work. How could something so small effect my life like this. I am researching techniques to get back on track and this one has helped for sure! For a few hours today, I had an “who cares” attitude and I was actually at peace. I will continue to work on me!

what about images? i always feel guilty bc i image things that i don’t really want but it seems that i wanna have that image in my mind so bad

This let's me know I need help!!

This video helps a lot. I see a lot of so called "phycologists" making claims that our thoughts and dreams are absolutely valid and true. Which if you're a normal person you can easily dismiss this because we all know how bizarre and weird our thoughts can be especially dreams. But since I have OCD I believed these people and it caused me to dissect these thoughts and dreams and it was no good. I appreciate you clarifying this Nathan. It reminds me of this Proverb- "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely shall be delivered." Proverbs 28:26

Keep watching these videos, they will give you strength and courage

i have intrusive thoughts of parallel worlds that i went inside a wormhole like bruh so wierd

Thank you for this, recently my intrusive thoughts have been on a continuous loop. And it’s not restricted to recent events, according to my brain I’ve been messing up since I can remember. I found it quite debilitating and it’s taking me to some very dark places.. I’m going to try the strategy described in this video. Fingers crossed I’ll start to feel better soon. Thank you again. X

2AM And still awake by my thoughts

Thanxx sir I was suffering from continues thoughts and my health and studies is also affecting but I will practice it and also doing good life style.

OCD and Anxiety my thoughts definitely own me…. My mind is so active due to the attention given to my thoughts. I can’t get control of them, the hardest part is trying to hide my ocd whilst in the workplace. It’s a huge reason that my home life is one of isolation. I feel I have to hide myself away, to protect people from my compulsions. Thinking that I wouldn’t want to put this type behaviour onto others. It’s exhausting to me, so I would carry an enormous amount of guilt that my compulsions would impact others happiness.

I suffer with pure OCD it's awful but I hope I get the help I need for it

Thank you for this wonderful video. God bless you, and anyone else reading this, with a truly blessed holiday season.

Hello! I wanted to message you but have no means of doing so as I’m not on any of the social media sites! But I want to let you know that you have been an active part in changing my life for the better 😊You deserve every success with your business and thank you so much for everything you do. I believe you are one of the few channels who genuinely help people. You have explained intrusive thoughts, helped me to see how behaviours and thoughts are linked and how to identify and stop them. This was massive for me. You must be helping so many people with their struggles. Unfortunately I can’t thank you enough 😅please keep doing what you’re doing and good luck!

I like this! It’s not good feeling at all I have failed a lot of people by trying to prove I can get better but it feels impossible I tried committing suicide multiple times because being afraid.

I so agree!!! Ocd thoughts can sometimes become dangerous, or at least so I believe. For me, it sometimes gets hard because I can't tell if the thought is mine or not. And pretty, soon I start to question whether or not I believe this thought, which all sends me into a spiralling downfall of compulsions and doubt. It's hard, believe me, but with Jesus and God and the beautiful Holy Spirit's help, I believe I can eventually overcome this! God Bless You All!!!

You are a life saving person man

I am having thoughts my gf can have s*x with anyone .....i know that's not true but i am getting thoughts anyway....is this OCD 🤔🤔🤔

Can anxiety cause horrible stuff in your sleep ? Not only the horrible intrusive thoughts kick started the anxiety to get worse but I started having weird stuff in my sleep not knowing if I’m dreaming or sleeping or thinking then I’d pop up is that my phone who’s phone was that ? I don’t understand what’s happening nor help with last two counselors .. someone mentioned ocd to me and I have no idea

You help me so much with my clients. Thank you

Do you have a podcast?

This is a heavy one, Nate! I hate those days of wanting to "take a break" from my body due to overwhelming anxiety of discomfort. It's days like that you gotta go for a run, or exhaust yourself with a workout and something other than being face to face with a pixelated screen. It can be, personally, really terrifying having a day of depersonalization. Someone commented below about having thoughts about being real- I, too, think about how I'm experiencing the world (stimuli) through my eyes and brain and get sorta freaked out, like that's a "do not pass here" sorta thought. "Do not enter", or "wrong way" street sign. lol. I also find engaging with a friend or coworker on those days through conversation very helpful, since we're social animals. Thanks, Nate!

Can i act on my intrusive thoughts?

i struggle with this along with existential ocd. i go back and forth between not feeling real & then being freaked that i am real.