523 How Do You Experience Joy When Having Such Horrible Thoughts?

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  If you're someone who experiences really strong, unwanted, repetitive, heinous, intrusive thoughts, you're not alone.

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  It sucks.

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  I'm with you.

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  But I want to share something with you that may be life-changing for you in your recovery,

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  in your life, in your existence.

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  And that is how to experience joy.

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  While you're having intrusive thoughts.

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  My name is Kimberly Quinlan.

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  I'm an anxiety and OCD specialist.

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  I'm on a mission to help you have a more joyous life,

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  whether those pesky intrusive thoughts are coming along for the ride or not.

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  And I really loved this specific question.

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  One of my followers on Instagram asked me this question and I was like, we need an episode on this ASAP.

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  So let's do it today.

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  The biggest error I see people making who have intrusive thoughts

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  or OCD is they think that they have to get rid of their intrusive thoughts before they'll be able to experience joy.

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  And that is the biggest error in thinking you can have.

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  OCD will often tell you, you have to put your life on hold until you figure out these thoughts

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  and you figure out why you're having them and you make them go away.

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  Often we're doing compulsions all day, every day, mental ones as well, not just physical ones,

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