These are my personal opinions. Always take a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Thanks for joining me today. I'm going to get right into a subject that came up today, the day I'm recording which is Saturday. I'm recording the day before this actually airs. So it is Saturday the 24th of August, 2024.

And I don't normally do this. I don't normally have such a quick turnaround on a message I received,

but you sent it to me right when I hit record.

Right when I was hitting record, this person sent me this message.

I said, you know, I'll talk about this.

Okay, I'll address it.

I'll give you my insights and opinions on what's going on.

This person wrote, can you recommend an episode to help me

stop obsessing over something I have no control over? I've talked about

obsession probably a good three times in the last 10 years because it is one of the most difficult

thought processes to get over. It's one of the most insanely difficult things to get over and to stop doing.

When you're obsessive, you can't stop thinking about it and no matter what anybody says to you, nothing changes.

They can say, well look at it this way and nothing changes. Well, they're going to find somebody new and you're going to find somebody new and everyone's going to be happy at the end.

It doesn't change. Doesn't matter.

If it's a breakup, then you're going through their social media and

trying to see if they're happy now, or if they're sad. And maybe if they're sad sad you can feel better because maybe they're sad about you and

maybe that gives you the possibility of reconciling with them and getting back together and this is how obsession works.

It just continues to flood your mind with hope and anger and sometimes regret. Obsessive thoughts just continue to permeate your mind and they never stop and most people can't help you stop them.

I mean therapy sure.

Maybe a friend or somebody in your family can say that one thing that changes everything.

Or maybe you'll listen to my show and you'll hear something that does finally stop the obsessive thoughts and I had to really consider, I don't think this episode is going to be about obsession today, but I wanted to address this question. I had to really consider what it takes to overcome obsession. It took me months to figure out many years ago. And I've been through it myself. I used to, I sort of still do, but I used to have an obsessive personality, not a disorder, but I used to have an obsessive personality,

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