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OCD Space
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OCD Space is a channel covering all things OCD. Michael Parker, LCSW is the co-director at The Center for OCD and Anxiety in Pittsburgh, PA, a mental health practice providing specialized outpatient therapy for individuals living with OCD and other related disorders.
Selectivity of the Doubt (Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / ICBT)
This video presents the concept of Selectivity of the Doubt. This is a characteristic of the OCD experience where one doubts things in some areas of life but not others, and this is dictated by where one feels vulnerable. Understanding this concept can provide further insight into how OCD logic works, and how it can be unraveled in treatment. This concept come to us from the perspective of Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT).
I'm Michael Parker, LCSW, co-director at The Center for OCD and Anxiety in Pittsburgh, PA.
You can check out my self-help book, The OCD Travel Guide, which is available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1736409131. This self-guided treatment manual is based on ACT and ERP approaches to OCD.
You can visit the website for The Center for OCD and Anxiety in Pittsburgh, PA: pittsburghocdtreatment.com/
For general resources for OCD treatment, visit the International OCD Foundation website: iocdf.org/
For I-CBT specific resources, you can visit: icbt.online/
Intro Music Credits:
Big Bird's Date Night by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: www.twinmusicom.org/
I'm Michael Parker, LCSW, co-director at The Center for OCD and Anxiety in Pittsburgh, PA.
You can check out my self-help book, The OCD Travel Guide, which is available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1736409131. This self-guided treatment manual is based on ACT and ERP approaches to OCD.
You can visit the website for The Center for OCD and Anxiety in Pittsburgh, PA: pittsburghocdtreatment.com/
For general resources for OCD treatment, visit the International OCD Foundation website: iocdf.org/
For I-CBT specific resources, you can visit: icbt.online/
Intro Music Credits:
Big Bird's Date Night by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: www.twinmusicom.org/
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Thank you.
Can OCD make a memory seem so vivid and real that it's like convincing?
Waiting for more of your videos… These days I have been going backward to the pre-OCD period of my life, where it was dormant. Then I had very low insight, life was filled with a stagnancy where everything seemed to be in a different isolated and separated reality with no happiness and constant rumination about basically everything. This is making me fall into a comfort zone because it was the period where I was all 20 years however, I am not at all happy and can’t do anything which I still was able to as I was making progress. I don’t know honestly where am I falling… 🤔 I have blended stuff for 20 years in my life- and this insight tool helped me come out of a major spike I was facing-
For the past five years, I've bravely exposed myself to social interactions, yet every encounter leaves me feeling defeated. The difficulty is that I seem to make people feel awful around me. They can sense my toxic shame - it radiates from me, making them so uncomfortable because I'm painfully self-conscious and extremely awkward. I can't control this feeling. I never feel at ease with myself when I have to talk to people. I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't want to avoid people, and I certainly don't want to hide from them. But this overwhelming sense of toxic shame persists, even though I've been working in public for about six years in a restaurant. I'm 31 years old and have never been in a relationship with a woman; they all avoid me. I try my best to look charming; I take care of myself and dress well, but this toxic feeling of shame makes people suspicious of me. They keep me at a distance. Every morning when I arrive at work, my co-workers notice me. Their eyes blink, and they look in the other direction. This silent rejection is crushing. I don't know how to overcome this awful feeling of toxic shame. It's a relentless shadow over my life, keeping me isolated and longing for a genuine connection. Please, if anyone understands or can offer some guidance, I desperately need it. This is a cry for help from someone who just wants to feel normal and accepted.
My ocd has me thinking i did something to my dog! And i have no proof also i dont remember doing anything which doesnt mean i didn't do anything
Good adition would be mentioning anything about mixing real events with deep diving into memories. Like I’ve cheated on my gf when i was drunk like hell and this was traumatasing event for me. The same day when I was allready sober I told it her and like she was chill about it but it was my last chance. Now Im deep diving into my memories if i did the same thing before actual cheathing. Like you said, there is no proof i did the same thing but there is that doubt and im into this whole OCD pattern. Even I ask friend i meat if i cheated my gf with them and answear is always „no” but its not enought for me
There is a good rule in Catholic Church , If you doubt you commit a mortal sin , you did not ,because you would not doubt it. plus to commit a mortal sin you need grave sin like 10 Commandments , you need before committing a sin not after you did it - full knowledge and full constant. You can not sin mortally by accident or by not knowing at that time.
Hi, do you know if I-CBT will work on just right or perfectionism OCD? If so, how does it work? I'm having just right OCD for posting comments on social media like Instagram or Facebook where I posted a comment and I kept on deleting it and retyping the same comment until I think it's perfect. Thank you
I have a question in regard to trusting one's senses as one aspect of the treatment for OCD. Sometimes I lose an item, and I can't believe my eyes I can't find it in the most likely places for it to be found. So, I check over and over those places for fear of having missed it the last time I searched. My question is, I can't believe my eyes it's not there because I can't accept the fact it's gone, or is the reverse?
That sounds like 'obsessionally doubting" your senses. You already know what you see, but you choose to question the information you have. You ask yourself: "Are my senses telling me the whole story? Could I be missing something?" This is exactly how OCD works, and treatment involves realizing that doubt is unnecessary and unproductive when you don't have actual evidence to support the doubt (i.e. a diagnosis from a doctor confirming you are losing your eyesight).
thank you
You're welcome.
thank you
Being stuck in the OCD bubble for the vast majority of the day is something I’d only wish on the worst of the worst
Can you make a video (if you haven’t yet) about how to build trust with ourselves ?
Definitely have that on the list. Thank you!
I'm about to start I- CBT. Something i cant find info on is fear of ones intentions or the fear of the meaning of my actions. My main obsession is my intentions. I question them all. I'll have a thought and then I'll do a thing which activates intense anxiety. Did I do the thing because of the thought? Its to a point where my body is almost unable to move outta fear of what the movements mean. Am I trying to hurt this person cuz I had a thought about it? How do I implement I CBT when the though is so closely attached to "evidence" that I'm a horrible and violent person?
This sounds like a case of doubting what you already know to be true. The truth is that people with OCD actually know stuff about themselves. Just like anyone else. OCD just convinced you that you should doubt and/or reject what you know about yourself. Whenever I meet someone with OCD who is doubting what they want or desire, I always ask them what they really want, and they can always answer the question!! The key is to realize that you can, not only, trust what you know, but it should be central to your reasoning.
“I don’t have to live my life according to this one ‘what if’ anymore.” Wow, this is such a powerful and freeing statement. Thank you sir 🙏🏼
Awesome! Happy that spoke to you. I'm hoping to devote more time to the channel in the near future.
So grateful I found your channel. Everything you say makes so much sense to me. Subscribed!
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm so happy the channel has been helpful.
Question: Can OCD make you think 1. you JUST tried to do something bad, or 2. that you ARE going to _in the moment._ False memory about the past is absolutely a thing in OCD, but what about _in the moment_ ? Like, "Did I JUST try to...?" Or _in the moment,_ "I'm gonna do this," YET you weren't ACTUALLY gonna do it, it was just a false "intention" triggered randomly. You felt it, you thought you were about to do it, you "consciously" planned to _in the moment_ until you snapped out of it or you didn't do it. Is either a thing in OCD? For example, _in the moment_ someone comes at you, you dodge, naturally. It was a conscious/subconscious choice. Does that help clarify?
One of the clearest signs that a particular belief or doubt is OCD is if it took you a lot of effort and review and testing and checking to arrive at the belief or doubt. Actual knowledge is simple. If someone asks you if you need to sneeze, you have an immediate answer. That's how quick the truth comes to you when you trust and don't doubt.
@@OCDspace412 Sorry, can you repeat and connect the sneeze analogy to OCD? Which part of OCD does the sneeze-intention connect to/represent?
@@johnrainsman6650 Sure. It relates to any self-knowledge. Do you want to hurt people? Who are you attracted to? What did you eat for breakfast this morning? Did you steal something from the store you just left? Do you have bad intentions? Do you want other people to be harmed? Did you hit someone with your car on the way to work? These are all questions with quick, easy answers when you're not obsessionally doubting yourself. Hope that helps.
Do you know of any icbt therapists in the uk?
Check out icbt.online/find-treatment/
I’ve watched this video like 3 times
I LOVE THE SHIRT!!! (Also ngl your channel is the most helpful OCD channel, I’m starting to prefer I-CBT over ERP a lot because I’ve already been analyzing the inner and outer machinations of my OCD a little)
Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching!
How would this work with memory based OCD, especially based on something someone said about you? I sometimes don’t know whether the “false” memory that feels extremely real is real and I’m obsessively doubting it, or if the “false” memory is me doubting my innocence and thus, I should doubt it
All of the work and effort and going back and forth is often a clear sign it's OCD. Real knowledge is usually immediate and simple.
A great example of real knowledge I picked up from a colleague. Ask yourself if you know whether or not you need to sneeze right now. That's a great example of simple, real knowledge.
@@OCDspace412 Sometimes this iteration the false memory feels effortless and realistic though and it takes more effort to deny it, although using I-CBT, I know it cognitively stems from a long line of other iterations and being changed dramatically based on “what ifs” and imagination and paranoia about if I did the thing/if I was capable of somehow doing the thing and forgetting, and I still go back and fourth. If I remember correctly It was originally effortless to say it didn’t happen but then I spiraled into imagining in an intrusive way how it could have happened and being like “am I capable of doing this awful thing?” And than it snowballing from there.
Thanks Michael for these super helpful videos!
You're welcome!
Do you think you could do a video on ROCD treatment under the I-CBT model?
I will definitely add that to the list!
I have no hope im dealing with hocd and i feel convinced and have anxiety 24/7
Don't give up hope. There is a way out with the right therapist, a little bit of work, and time!
Thank you for these vids.
You're welcome!
Thank you, this video was very helpful. Also life of agony rules
Happy this helped! LOA NYHC!
So for me idk if this is false memory or just real event but what happened is that I know something happened but I don't remember the exact details and when I ruminate on it puts something that gives me so much anxiety but I start to ask did it happened that way because I had this thought before and it was a obsession and i was able to dismiss it because i said i know something happened but i didn't do anything but it seems ocd says i did and feels soo real and vivid thoughts idk if it's me or its false memory it feels liek im lying to myself
Thank you for sharing your experience. ICBT helps people focus on the present and prioritize what is happening in the here and now, to see if there is any evidence present to doubt one's goodness, competence, etc. In working from an ICBT lens, the person with OCD can start to claim real self-knowledge again. Noticing that feelings are running the show is an important step. They are convincing, but they are not evidence of anything.
Thank you so much. I’ve started having the doubt of “am I remembering that correctly? Did I leave something out when I asked this question? Maybe they didn’t answer my question fully because I wasn’t clear enough. Maybe I didn’t ask the right question.” Even though I remember this info, I’m starting to question if I even asked for it in the first place. Obviously I could just ask again, but that’s just a compulsion. There is not evidence in reality telling me that I’m misremembering/forgetting this. The evidence would be info presented to me that contradicts my memory or genuinely not remembering, and the genuine not remembering would feel correct and I would feel no conflict over if I was wrong or not. Because I do remember the info, it’s simply the “what if” of possibly not remembering that’s getting me.
Great breakdown of the OCD thought process. Happy these videos are helping!
@@OCDspace412 Your videos have been immensely helpful! I-CBT needs more coverage in the U.S.!
Thank you for sharing 😊
My pleasure!
Im so glad ive come across this video i have ocd false memory and i keep thinking ive done somthing wrong in my relationship and its made me feel like a bad pwrson. Causing me panic attacks and suicidal thoughts even though i know i would never cheat or harm my partner. And i couldnt understand why i was getting like this and this video has been a life saver so thank you so much!❤
I'm so happy this was helpful. And you're finding a path towards trusting yourself again!
Thanks for your Videos! I suffer from ROCD for 14 years and this video was helpful.
My pleasure!
Very helpful! Thank you.
You're welcome!
So clearly explained and immensely helpful, as always. Thank you Mike!
Thank you. Happy to be helping!
Mike, your videos are so insightful! The concept that one should only be concerned about something if they are receiving direct sensory information about it (and conversely, that they shouldn't if they aren't) has been immensly helpful in managing my OCD. P.S. What would you say is the vulnerable self theme of someone whose obessions revolve around being suspected of, arrested for, charged with, or convicted of some crime, or otherwise getting in trouble with the law?
Awesome. So happy that these ideas have been helping!
Welcome back! It's been too long 😇
Thanks. Happy to be back!
Thank you for posting! I have been checking weekly
I'll try and keep it up!
Well done. I will assign this to my clients. Thanks for your contribution to the I-CBT body of work.
Awesome, thank you!
Oh, that's you Armando. Thanks for watching!
Hi brother, thanks for the video. I'm from Brazil and we don't have any I-CBT therapits here. Can you help me with my OCD? And, who knowks, maybe it can be a door to I-CBT grow here.
Hey, I can let you know if I ever have the ability to work with people in Brazil. Just keep an eye on this list, and hopefully some people in Brazil will pop up soon: icbt.online/find-treatment/
What if you can't get proof in the real world because your obsessions cannot be proven in this world? Thank you 😊
Thanks for watching. And such a great question. Keep in mind that a lack of information is still information, and can be a cue that there is no reason to doubt. That silence can be trusted. But I suspect there is a nuanced situation underlying your question, and so I would definitely encourage you to find an ICBT therapist if your interest in peaked. There's a lot of reasoning to explore that leads one into a place of obsessional doubt!
Great question.
We people find the silence- deadening- like something bad is brewing in our atmosphere or whatever- just going to grab our knees. I don’t know why but it reflects how important it is to understand just as described by you, Mike, that silence has to be trusted as an indication that nothing is happening. An obsession is like that- so much fluff.
Very clearly explained as always. Thanks Michael.
Thank you!
Why isn’t ICBT a compulsion in it of itself?
Hi Alexander. Such a great question. From an ICBT perspective, a behavior is only a compulsion if used in a very specific way - ie. in a repetitive manner to cope with one's lack of trust in oneself. But if the core trust is never improved, the reassurance will continue to be necessary. ICBT focuses on building up the trust in oneself, in the information one has gathered, and in one's ability to reason, so that you can process information in a completely different way and resolve doubt. Instead of reassurance seeking, one can shift to being an information seeker who trusts information available in the here and now, and draws healthy inferences that lead to moving on. For even someone with OCD, this is exactly how life is lived in all areas outside of the obsession. It's about replicating that same approach in the area of the obsession. I hope that answers your question.
Lame video, gives no strategies for quieting down the ocd imagination
Hi LIam, This is an older video when I was just exploring the idea that OCD is an issue of imaginal absorption, something that has not always been recognized by other treatment approaches. The overall strategy for staying out of the imagination, from an ICBT perspective, involves learning to know the difference between the world of the senses and the world of the imagination, and then learning to trust, and not doubt, the world of the sense. Here is more of a "strategy" video you might find helpful. th-cam.com/video/E0Z7jULytfc/w-d-xo.html
This is exactly the problem I face. I believe I’m incompetent. So I get incredibly hard on myself to make myself look in front of others that I am not. I believe I’m a bad person as verbatim, so I do everything morally just to myself to look like to myself that I’m good and do not belong to evil. I wish instead of thinking that they are giving reassurance, the other therapists should opt for the same approach to tell their clients and audience this.
Absolutely. Applying the "reassurance seeking" label to too many behaviors can be a problem in treatment. It's important to spread the word that people with OCD are fully capable of processing information, and resolving doubt. In fact, they do it in all other areas of their life. It's just about replicating that same process in the area of the obsession.
@@OCDspace412 Yes, in fact cognitive behavioural therapy has helped me so much. In my life of 22 years my eyes were opened when my mom merely just got me aware of the fact that other people live completely at peace, they work for enjoyment, etc. This made me aware- oh my god, why do I never feel this way? When I simply got aware of this, I made major progress by aligning my beliefs and my temperament to match with others. But it would have never been possible if I would not have known what was wrong with me and my perception of life and what is right for others and their perception of life. I have also have had experiences where the peace itself dissolved all of my fears and distorted perceptions of reality, instead of me working hard to repair each and every one in a very taxing and never-endingly difficult way.
"I do not believe in believing." -Osho Don't believe, just do.
I miss your videos! You were my entry into I-CBT and it’s changed my life!
Dropping one shortly!
Thank you for the vid! This helps me with the concept a good deal.
Thank you for the feedback. So happy this helped!
I want to point out something I think is extremely important for OCD. I got educated about OCD through various sources here in youtube, but nobody explains to us what normal is, what people think about or do. This education is critical because we can’t have a normal life unless atleast we know what normal is, and hence what is making our thinking so abnormal or unnatural. Even though this education is important, IDK why many therapists do not tell this to us with chronic OCD (who don’t have any clue of what life is)
I totally agree. Just because you have OCD doesn't mean you can't practice healthy thinking just like anyone else! The good news is that people with OCD already know what "normal" is, because "normal" is the thinking you do in all other areas besides the area of your obsession. Normal is basically trusting yourself and trusting what you know and disregarding possibilities that don't have direct evidence in the here and now making them relevant. I'm going to be working on another video soon about the "selectivity of the doubt" that talks about how OCD thinking is only present in select areas, and is absent in others.
Hello sir. I have been suffering from all kinds of ocd for the past two years. Many themes like HOCD, ROCD, POCD, Schizophrenia OCD ,etc. Right now my HOCD has spiked. My brain is like you are disgusted by vaginas and dont want to have intercourse with women. It is better with men. It is really scary sir. I have never been attracted to men in my entire life. And never have i thought of that before HOCD began. Can OCD create false disgust?
Hi Hardtohandle. ICBT focuses on acknowledging that the problem is doubt, and there is plenty of information to counter the OCD obsession once one begins to trust themselves again. The doubts go something like this: "I don't want to hurt anyone, but what if I do it anyway?" "I don't want a relationship with this specific kind of person, but what if I'm in denial." ICBT is all about trusting the first part of those statements and getting rid of the added doubt!
I have several questions on this topic - Can you have several Vulnerable Self Themes? What would be an example of a VST for sensorimotor / hyperawareness OCD, or meta-OCD? Can I-CBT be applied to all "themes" of OCD? Could a VST be something like "I could be a mentally weak person"?
Great questions. I'm going to be doing a video on Meta OCD so keep an eye out. In most cases, the VST would be a fear of losing control or not having control. There is a lack of trust in the experience in the here and now. The doubt can be something like "I'm able to think clearly, but what if I go crazy." This is a self-fulfilling prophecy because the anxiety symptoms are experienced, and things such as 'brain fog' convince one that they really are losing their mind. The key is beginning to trust oneself, being able to identify symptoms of anxiety, and beginning to drop the commitment to the self-doubt that keeps leading one into the dissociative experience of the OCD bubble. Hope that helps! Also, being mentally "weak" would be a doubt in itself. It's a subjective story that's created about one's experience. Struggling with OCD, or any other mental health concern, doesn't equal weak, so that would be a reasoning problem where one has blended the 2 terms together.
And don’t try calculating probabilities of what is possible! I fell into that trap, and wound up obsessing about probabilities and percentages. Did I calculate them correctly? Am I safe at an 80%, or 75%, or 40%, or 10% chance?? Big mistake doing this! Instead, look to your immediate five senses and rely on their immediate information alone!
So true. Possible is just possible, no matter how possible! And the individual with OCD is not actually treating every possibility out there with this much attention. Just the possibilities that the selective and biased OCD logic chooses!