Breaking Free from Fear & Anxiety with Matt Codde

Welcome to OCD Awareness Week!

Most of OCD awareness is geared towards helping the general public become more aware of OCD and the struggle of living day to day with OCD. And while I support this mission completely, I want to focus this episode on the importance of becoming more aware as individuals. Many people compartmentalize our struggle with OCD into boxes we feel comfortable addressing, and then avoid the areas of our mental health we don’t want to discuss. The reality is if we want other people to be aware of OCD and Anxiety, the best way we can do that is by first becoming more aware of all the ways it impacts and manifests in our own lives. Then we can begin to challenge our fears, grow as individuals, and evolve into better versions of ourselves. This will create a natural attraction that draws people to you and will ultimately inspire them to start looking at themselves on a deeper level and go on their own journey of transformation.

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In this episode, I want to open up a broader discussion about mental health awareness. I know next week is officially OCD awareness week, but I wanted to start up the conversation early because there is simply too much to discuss to get it all don't in one week. And while it is great that we live in a time where these discussions are reaching broad audiences.

Today I actually want to talk about the importance of self-awareness and how that is truly the best starting point to address mental health. Enjoy the show!

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To put it very simply, the real problem with OCD and Anxiety is that our primal alarm system is going off when nothing is actually wrong. It is being set off by intrusive thoughts or “what if scenarios” about the past and future. The point is that your alarm system is trying to move you into survival mode when there is no danger. And the harder we try to resolve this possible threat, the more we indirectly validate it causing the OCD and Anxiety Loop to start spinning.

However, by changing the way we respond to our thoughts and feelings we can actually reprogram the alarm system. In this episode, I want to share a simple metaphor that can help with that.

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To put it very simply, the real problem with OCD and Anxiety is that our primal alarm system is going off when nothing is actually wrong. It is being set off by intrusive thoughts or “what if scenarios” about the past and future. The point is that your alarm system is trying to move you into survival mode when there is no danger. And the harder we try to resolve this possible threat, the more we indirectly validate it causing the OCD and Anxiety Loop to start spinning.

However, by changing the way we respond to our thoughts and feelings we can actually reprogram the alarm system. In this episode, I want to share a simple metaphor that can help with that.

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In this episode, I want to talk about labels and why I believe they are dangerous. This is going to be an episode that branches into the broader concept of mental health and general well-being. We live in a strange time right now where people are carelessly labeling each other and more importantly dehumanizing one another, which is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. In this episode, I just want to share a few thoughts with the hope of bringing about some new perspective and unity amongst the many that are divided.

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When going through OCD & Anxiety Treatment it is so important to understand how we misinterpret intrusive thoughts and paradoxically give them power over our lives.  When we have intrusive thoughts we often feel compelled to solve them or try to get rid of them. But when we do that we indirectly validate them as a "real" problem which paradoxically makes our brain keep producing them.

Once we begin to understand that intrusive thoughts are just thoughts and by changing the way respond to them is the key to our success it can dramatically change our relationship with them and ultimately help our recovery.

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When it comes to OCD Treatment one of the things we have to learn to navigate is the voice of the mind. I often like to use the concept of Propaganda with my clients when describing the voice of the mind. The definition of Propaganda is "communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented."   

Once we begin to see the voice of the mind through the lens of propaganda it can dramatically change our relationship with it and ultimately help our recovery.

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In this series, I am discussing how to do ERP for Pure O OCD. Pure OCD or Purely obsessional OCD is a subtype of OCD where the individual struggles primarily with intrusive thoughts. In this episode, I am going to discuss some common mistakes people make and how to avoid them.

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In this series, I am discussing common fears and obsessions that people with OCD experience. In this episode, I am going to discuss the fear of having obsessions or intrusive thoughts pop up, along with the fear of getting anxious and getting stuck in OCD. This is a common fear where the individual experiences unwanted intrusive thoughts related to regressing or falling back into the OCD loop.

So in this episode, I am going to talk about some common thoughts people experience, common compulsions that are performed, and what to do if this ever pops up for you. As always I hope you find this helpful and please watch out for more upcoming live videos on our YouTube and Facebook channels!

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In this episode, I am going to discuss how to overcome HOCD, homosexual OCD, or Gay OCD. This is a common form of OCD where the individual experiences unwanted intrusive thoughts related to their sexual orientation. In this episode, I am going to define HOCD and discuss the recovery process.

We hope that this video has aided you significantly. Watch out for more upcoming live videos in our YouTube and Facebook channels!

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