HOW I GOT RID OF (Obsessive Anxious Thinking & Painful Rumination)
Summary
TLDRNoah comparte su lucha contra el pensamiento obsesivo y la rumiación, un ciclo de pensamientos y emociones que se repiten sin resolución, causando angustia. Expone cómo la aceptación de que no podemos controlar nuestros pensamientos y que no definen quiénes somos, fue el cambio de juego en su vida. Esta comprensión, junto con la práctica de la atención plena y la educación sobre el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC), le ayudó a liberarse de los ciclos de pensamiento obsesivo, ofreciendo esperanza y estrategias para otros que enfrentan esta lucha.
Takeaways
- 🔄 La obsesión y la rumiación son procesos mentales que involucran pensamientos y emociones repetitivos y sin resolución.
- 🤯 La ansiedad y la obsesión pueden ser una tortura emocional y mental que afecta la vida diaria.
- 🧐 La búsqueda de validación y reaseguros constantemente puede reforzar ciclos obsesivos y no es una solución efectiva.
- 💡 La clave para liberarse de la obsesión y la rumiación es aceptar que no puedes controlar tus pensamientos y que son aleatorios.
- 💭 Los pensamientos no definen quién eres, sino las acciones son las que realmente importan.
- 🤔 La rumiación y la obsesión pueden llevar a cuestionarse la propia identidad y la realidad.
- 😖 La lucha contra pensamientos y emociones negativos puede ser inútil y aumentar el sufrimiento.
- 😌 La aceptación y el desprendimiento de los pensamientos y emociones es un paso importante para la liberación.
- 📚 La educación y el aprendizaje sobre la mindfulness y el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC) pueden ser útiles para manejar estos problemas.
- 🚫 Evitar buscar validación en todo momento y en todas partes, ya que esto puede alimentar la obsesión.
- 🙏 La gratitud y el aprecio por la comprensión de que los pensamientos no son reales y no definen a una persona pueden traer alivio.
Q & A
¿Qué es la rumiación obsesiva y cómo afecta a Noah?
-La rumiación obsesiva es el proceso de pensar en pensamientos, sentimientos e ideas una y otra vez sin sentir una conclusión o alivio, causando una tortura emocional. Noah describe que esto le ha afectado profundamente, plagándolo y causandole un ciclo de pensamientos obsesivos y preocupaciones que lo mantienen en un estado de ansiedad constante.
¿Por qué buscaba Noah validación y guía de otras personas?
-Noah buscaba validación y guía de otras personas porque sentía una necesidad urgente de saber si sus pensamientos eran normales y si estaba perdiendo la cordura. Esta búsqueda de aprobación era una forma de enfrentar y tratar de controlar sus pensamientos obsesivos.
¿Qué es el punto clave que Noah comparte para liberarse de la rumiación obsesiva?
-El punto clave que Noah comparte es la realización de que no puedes controlar tus pensamientos y, por lo tanto, no hay necesidad de preocuparse por lo que estás pensando. Esta comprensión le ayudó a desligar sus pensamientos de su sentido de identidad y a aceptar que son solo pensamientos que no definen quién es.
¿Cómo ayudó la aceptación de la falta de control sobre los pensamientos a Noah?
-La aceptación de que no podía controlar sus pensamientos ayudó a Noah a detener la rumiación y la obsesión. Al entender que los pensamientos son aleatorios y no tienen que ver con él, dejó de tomarlos personalmente y dejando que los pensamientos pasaran sin importar su contenido.
¿Qué es la OCD y cómo se relaciona con la rumiación y la ansiedad?
-La OCD, o trastorno de estrés obsesivo-compulsivo, es un trastorno psicológico caracterizado por pensamientos obsesivos y comportamientos compulsivos. Se relaciona con la rumiación y la ansiedad porque estos pensamientos obsesivos pueden causar un ciclo de preocupación y miedo que perpetúa la ansiedad y la rumiación.
¿Por qué es importante educarse sobre la rumiación y la OCD según Noah?
-Es importante educarse sobre la rumiación y la OCD porque entender la naturaleza de estos trastornos ayuda a desmitificar los pensamientos y a no tomarlos tan personalmente. Esto puede ser crucial para romper el ciclo de rumiación y para manejar eficazmente estos trastornos.
¿Cómo describe Noah el cambio en su vida después de aceptar que no puede controlar sus pensamientos?
-Después de aceptar que no puede controlar sus pensamientos, Noah describe que sus episodios de obsesión y rumiación se han vuelto menos frecuentes y menos intensos. Ha aprendido a dejar ir los pensamientos y a no alimentar su ansiedad con más rumiación o búsqueda de validación.
¿Qué otras técnicas de mindfulness o estrategias ha encontrado Noah útiles para manejar la rumiación?
-Noah no menciona explícitamente otras técnicas de mindfulness, pero sugiere que la práctica de la atención plena y la educación en la OCD son herramientas útiles para manejar la rumiación. La atención plena le ayudó a centrarse en el presente y a aceptar sus pensamientos sin juzgarlos ni darles más poder de lo que merecen.
¿Cómo ha sido la experiencia de Noah con la rumiación y la obsesión en su vida diaria?
-La experiencia de Noah con la rumiación y la obsesión ha sido abrumadora y ha afectado su vida diaria, causandole estrés, ansiedad y afectando su sueño. Sin embargo, ha aprendido a manejar estos sentimientos y a no dejar que dominen su vida.
¿Qué consejo le daría Noah a alguien que está luchando con pensamientos obsesivos y rumiación?
-Noah aconseja a aquellos que luchan con pensamientos obsesivos y rumiación que aprendan a aceptar que no pueden controlar sus pensamientos, practiquen la atención plena y se eduquen sobre la OCD y la rumiación para entender mejor estos trastornos y cómo manejarlos.
¿Cómo describe Noah el impacto emocional de la rumiación y la obsesión en su vida?
-Noah describe el impacto emocional de la rumiación y la obsesión como devastador, llegando al punto de considerar la posibilidad de suicidio debido al sufrimiento que le causaba. Sin embargo, al aceptar que no podía controlar sus pensamientos, encontró alivio y mejora en su bienestar emocional.
Outlines
🔄 Lucha contra el pensamiento obsesivo y la rumiación
Noah comparte su experiencia con pensamientos obsesivos, la rumiación y la ansiedad, describiendo cómo estos pueden ser un ciclo constante y plagante. Expone la interconexión con nuestros pensamientos y la búsqueda de significado detrás de ellos, así como el deseo de no pensar o sentir ciertas cosas. Noah menciona su propia lucha y cómo la rumiación y la obsesión pueden ser una tortura, afectando su estado emocional y su vida diaria. Señala la importancia de no buscar validación y la necesidad de aceptar que no podemos controlar nuestros pensamientos, lo cual fue un gran alivio para él y puede ser un cambio de juego para otros.
😅 Aceptar la naturaleza aleatoria de los pensamientos
Continúa Noah explicando cómo la aceptación de que no tenemos control sobre nuestros pensamientos y que son aleatorios y no definen quiénes somos, fue crucial para liberarse de la obsesión y la rumiación. Comparte su proceso personal de aprendizaje y cómo la educación y la práctica de la mindfulness le ayudaron a entender que los pensamientos no reales no deben afectar su realidad. Destaca la importancia de no ceder ante los pensamientos obsesivos y cómo la práctica de la aceptación y el distanciamiento de estos puede conducir a una vida más libre y menos estresante.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Obsesión
💡Rumia
💡Ciclo
💡Anhelo de validación
💡Mindfulness
💡Identificación
💡Acción
💡Libertad
💡Educación
💡Ansiedad
💡Práctica
Highlights
Noah discusses the struggle with obsessive thinking, rumination, and the feeling of being trapped in a loop of thoughts and emotions.
Mentions working with someone who is currently struggling with these issues, indicating the commonality of such problems.
Explains the deep interconnection people have with their thoughts, the desire to find meaning and understanding behind them.
Describes the negative self-judgment and self-punishment that can occur as a result of rumination and obsessive thoughts.
Noah shares his personal experience of being held captive by obsessive cycles and ruminations for months.
Talks about seeking validation, reassurance, and guidance from others and researching issues excessively as a coping mechanism.
Introduces the key to overcoming obsessive thinking: accepting the lack of control over one's thoughts.
Emphasizes that thoughts are random and do not define a person, which was a life-changing realization for Noah.
Advises that taking thoughts personally or caring about them is unnecessary once one understands they are uncontrollable.
Shares the insight that feelings and thoughts should not be judged or controlled, as they just 'are'.
Noah explains how accepting the uncontrollability of thoughts can lead to a decrease in rumination and obsession.
Discusses the trickery of the brain in creating thoughts that scare us into questioning our reality and identity.
Advises not to feed into obsessive thoughts by not researching or seeking validation for them.
Suggests that educating oneself about mindfulness and OCD can help in understanding and dealing with obsessive thoughts.
Noah reflects on his own minor relapses and how he worked through them with the understanding of his condition.
Encourages letting go of expectations and separating oneself from thoughts and feelings to achieve freedom.
Ends with a message of hope and gratitude for the insights gained, and an invitation for viewers to share their thoughts on the topic.
Transcripts
what's going on guys my name is Noah
today I want to talk about obsessive
thinking rumination race brain spinning
anxiety and everything that comes with
looping thoughts feelings and ideas over
and over again with no sense of
completion no sense of resolution and
and just a torture that can come with
that it's something that has been pretty
consistent and plaguing and I think it's
a word but it has plagued me the cycle
of rumination pure obsession OCD stuff
like that and I'm working with someone
right now who is really struggling with
that it's a very common common thing to
struggle with a deep deep
interconnection to your every thought
wanting to find meaning behind it
wanting to understand why you're
thinking and feeling a certain way
wishing you weren't thinking or feeling
certain things judging yourself
punishing yourself and it is maddening
you guys it is absolutely maddening to
be in that space I've had obsessive
cycles and ruminations hold on to me for
months and months and months to where
every waking moment of every single day
and was stuck in the same loop and
something I used to do is just feel this
dire need to one seek validation
reassurance and guidance from everyone
and anyone and to I would research my my
issues I would research my thoughts I'd
research whatever I was cycling on
ruminating on freaking out about for
lack of better words to no end on Google
for example I just had to know if it was
normal I had to know if I was going
crazy I had to know if I was I don't
know I had to know I'm just obsessed so
I want to share with you guys the
biggest key to getting me freeze of
obsessive thinking and rumination the
single greatest most relieving thing
that ever happened to me - changed
everything it's an absolute game changer
it's simple and I want you to take it to
heart because it's powerful and this is
someone who's done this for years and
years and I won't trust me if anyone
knows the the insidious nature of
obsessive loops and relations it is more
ok it's made me want to kill myself
quite frankly because you just need to
stop
the moment I fully here it is the moment
I fully internalized and completely
accepted and believed that I could not
control what I was thinking at all zero
control over my thoughts that it was
completely random and had no reflection
on me
did not define me they were just
thoughts
it never was as bad to the point that
all of these things I was trying not to
think suddenly just fizzled off in the
background because I realized with all
certainty there wasn't any of my
business what I was thinking it's my
business when I do my reactions but I
can't control my thoughts I can't
control my thinking I can't control my
feelings they just are they just are and
when I took that power away from them
when I fully fully fully fully and
completely beyond a shadow of a doubt
internalized the fact that they're
separate from me I just random and they
had nothing to do with me I stopped I
stopped taking it personal I stopped
caring eventually I stopped ruminating
and obsessing after after sometimes
month-long or more bouts with severe
obsession I just it just became easier
and same goes with feelings the moment I
stopped putting judgement and
requirements and expectations on my
feelings and all my thoughts it was easy
just to let him go
I am responsible for my actions
absolutely my actions defined me far
more than my thoughts and it sounds so
simple and it's a mindfulness thing and
it took me forever to click with this
because I had people trying to bring
this up to me bring this to my attention
and I just couldn't buy into it it's
just seemed too hokey too simple -
woowoo
that's it guys that's it it's right
there the secret to your freedom from
your rumination or at least one of the
big secrets to your freedom your
rumination
your loops your cycles your pure
obsession is that you can't control your
thoughts so there's no reason to care
what you're thinking no reason at all
now see the tricky thing about
rumination the tricky thing about pure
OCD anxiety is we think things and feel
things that cause us to question who we
are and that's the magic in the torture
your brain wants to scare you into
thinking that your reality is obscured
or that you are who you really think you
are I wants you to question things and
so these we latch on to terrible
thoughts sometimes some of my peerless
80 thoughts could be like driving down
the road and suddenly I imagine myself
turning the wheel really hard and
killing someone hitting someone with my
car I used to have those thoughts once
in a while and then I would stress and
punish myself and ruminate and freak out
for weeks why did I think that what's
wrong with me
I'm going crazy only a psychopath would
do that no that's just a random thought
in my head literally designed and
propped up by the way my brain works to
scare me freaked me out and caused me
pain now when I have those thoughts I
just laugh I just laughed because
there's nothing to do with me it's not
based in my reality it's just my anxiety
my pure OCD trying to scare me it's not
real and educating myself helped
verifying that this is a real thing this
mindfulness thing and how this works and
the way pure all works and rumination
works it's a trick it's a [ __ ] trick
it's not real it doesn't mean you have
to like how you feel doesn't mean you
have to sign on to what you're thinking
but you certainly can remove yourself
from it you've got no choice you've got
no control just is the moment you really
soak that in guys it just is so you can
go about your day go about your life
think whatever you think they're just
thoughts you can't control them so
prisoner it's like watching people walk
through a park is sitting on the bench
eating some popcorn there hmm there they
go
it's got nothing to do with me it's got
nothing to do with you this is the
single greatest key to letting go and
moving past this now do you sometimes do
it wrong do I sometimes still
minor relapse is an obsessive thinking
yeah earlier in the summer this past
late June I got stuck in a two-week
cycle of pure OCD I knew what was
happening and I worked through it pretty
carefully it was the shortest bout of
obsession and rumination I've ever had
but am I constantly berated and taken
out taken hostage by these things
anymore no almost never because I know
what's going on and I'll find it I
accept it it's okay it's completely okay
so I hope that helps I hope you know
this is one of the most important topics
ever for me is the topic of rumination
obsession paranoia spinning racing
spinning racing poor sleep or thoughts
stress stress stress anxiety anxiety
depression depression it's a loop just
remember next time you have a shitty
thought or a shitty feeling don't be
like I wish I wasn't thinking this mmm I
wish I didn't feel this way let go of
expectations separate yourself from and
just be like oh there it is it's kind of
nothing to do with me nothing you are
not your thoughts they just are in since
we're here's the magic
since you cannot control them you cannot
control your thoughts they're going to
happen no matter what the more you try
to control the worst it will be so since
you can't control them you can't wipe my
hands because my hands holding the phone
but wipe your hands of it you're done
you're free you're good and move on plus
you fight it less often they happen the
easier it gets work on this practice
this learn about mindfulness read up on
PR OCD educate yourself and don't feed
into it for me not feeding into it was
not researching don't ask for validation
every everywhere you turn maybe here and
there with confidence but in general no
amount of research was ever gonna
satisfy these obsessive thoughts it was
just an endless loop and it's how I fed
them I empowered them that's my message
for today I hope it offers you some
relief that information was finally when
I finally soaked that into my core it
offered me so much relief and I'm
grateful so so very grateful every day
that pure obsession massive rumination
all these things are a crippling normal
part of my day
we've got a lot to work on we've got a
lot to deal with and laughs a lot to
think about and this is one thing you
could do without it could help you you
can free up some time and space for you
to work on becoming the you you really
want to be and it's not perfect like I
said but you can practice this
mindfulness tell yourself this isn't
real these thoughts have nothing to do
with me
my name is Noah thank you so much for
watching this channel thank you for your
support
I appreciate each and every one of you
can't wait to hear or read your comments
below what you guys think about this
topic do you agree with me do you
disagree what are some other things you
can offer I'd love to learn appreciate
you and we'll see you guys in the next
video adios amigos
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