SMASH the OCD Cycle with ERP
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- SMASH the OCD Cycle with ERP
DO YOU NEED HELP WITH OCD & ERP?
👉🏼 If you are tired of your OCD and need help treating it with ERP so that you can feel better, I can help you.
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Have you ever wondered how that OCD cycle begins and what you can do to stop it or break the cycle? In this video, I review the OCD cycle and how using ERP, exposure and response prevention can break the cycle.
Although anyone can experience thoughts or images that pop into their head, but having OCD causes you to have “sticky” thoughts, and you tend to give significance or meaning to your thoughts in a way that makes them become obsessive. And because these thoughts make you uncomfortable, fearful, anxious, and even disgusted, you begin to do certain behaviors to try to calm yourself. These behaviors can then become compulsions and reinforce your OCD cycle.
By repeating the process of ERP, (Exposure and Response Prevention) and doing a variety of exposures and extending the time and practice of Response Prevention, you will have created new neuropathways incorporating safety learning, increased your tolerance for discomfort and anxiety and broken your OCD Cycle.
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I have had a "pure O" affliction for my entire life. People would just call me a "worrier" and tell me not to worry so much. I thought I was just mentally "problem solving" and it was exhausting. Wish I had understood a long time ago that my mental behaviors were due to OCD. It has been very helpful to become aware that there are ways to overcome this.
I am sorry that you have suffered with this for so long. It is different than being a worrier. If you are in need more help, feel free to contact me. www.paigepradko.com/ocd
Me too
What a marvelous and immensely helpful analysis of the beast we call "OCD." What's interesting to me is that the analysis very closely resembles my own personal experience with this roller coaster ride of an affliction. It is indeed a comfort and an added support to hear it broken down so expertly and skillfully. Wow! Thank you Paige for this fantastic talk.
Thank you for your comment. I value it and appreciate it.🙏❤️
very helpful video as usual Paige🙏 since i can’t afford therapy your videos help a lot to deal with my pure OCD:)
So glad my videos are helpful 😊
I’ve been struggling with OCD my entire life. It took and still taking away almost everything good from my life and it’s causing people around me including myself believe that I’m weak and lazy. OCD is something you can’t explain more than this video, it’s the best video about OCD and how to treat it I’ve ever watched in my entire life! Seriously thank you so much @Paigepradkotherapy for this beautiful video! 🙏🏻👍🏻
Thank you Anas. That means a lot to me.🙏❤️
I hope since writing this post you’ve experienced some relief from your struggle with ocd ❤
I love the way you explain all the disorders, I have a list of them. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you 🙏😊
I'm a visual learner, this helps so much. Thanks Paige!
Visuals help me too! Glad you liked it!
Paige I love you. This video is so convincing and motivational, believe me you are a Wonderful person. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for watching, Uzma. I appreciate you too. 🙏❤️
Paige dear I am Tremendously grateful to you for replying to my message.
This was eye opening for me… I never thought my anxiety/agoraphobia was Under OCD??? I’ve been to therapists and not once was ERP or OCD discussed. I will filter through your channel to find out more about ERP. Thanks Paige - you are awesome!
PS - you mentioned you course has an online support group. Is this only accessible from Facebook? What if we don’t have that platform?
Hi Georgia. I am looking into a few different platform options that will work for everyone. I realize that Facebook is not going to work long term. I am available by email for people that prefer to not join the support group. Yes, I do use ERP for agoraphobia as well as other phobias and anxiety disorders in addition to OCD.
Great, very helpful video. In my opinion, you are the best therapist.
Hi Laura. Thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it. 🙏❤️
I would first like to thank you Paige. Your OCD videos helped me more than any other OCD videos on youtube. God Bless you for your help. I did ERP for 2 months after watching all of your OCD videos, and I have improved my OCD by 80%. (My OCD is intrusive thoughts that go against my religious beliefs that causes me fear, guilt, and annoyance).
So although my life is more manageable, I have now noticed that my OCD has morphed into something new…so while I apply your “I.A.M” method, my OCD doesn’t allow me to move on from the thought that pops up. I’m very good at Identifying, accepting and not resolving it, BUT, it’s very hard for me to move on from it, and my OCD has noticed.
It tells me that “If I don’t solve this issue, I can never enjoy the things I love in life.”
So I’m stuck in a loop of Identify, Accept….but not move on. I’m stuck in the I.A…but the move on part is so hard.
I understand and am so glad that you are asking this question. The “move on” of the I. A.M. method has to be self directed. What I mean by that is that you identify something that you can “do” in the moment and shift your focus to that. Let’s say shift your focus to playing an instrument or cooking or singing or washing the dishes….you practice really focusing on doing something. You may still be anxious and your thought may float there. Keep repeating the process when the intrusive thought shows up and keep redirecting your attention.
A completely different approach can also be used and that is a more direct and planned ERP exposure approach. You can do direct exposures on your intrusive thoughts by having them on purpose many times throughout the day. You can put a timer on your watch and every 20-30 minutes have an alarm go off that reminds you to think of your intrusive thought. You can also listen to scripts or exposure yourself to environments and objects and people that trigger your fear. I teach 4 different types of exposures in my course on ERP for Pure O and OCD. I encourage people to mix and match all 4 methods to keep their brain learning that you are safe. If you ever need more help, you can find out more here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
@@PaigePradkoTherapy ahhh, so that’s the mistake I was making!! I would do the “move on” by changing my thought to something else in the moment, rather than really focusing on something at the moment (for example, if I’m playing video games and the thought kicks in,
after Identify and Accept, I should focus all my energy on getting back to enjoying the video game 😄)
Move on part will still be hard since I’m so used to constantly trying to resolve it before moving on, but this is teaching me that as difficult as it may seem, and as scary as it may seem to not analyze, it’s time to let go 😄
Yes! You’ve got this!
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Hello Paige! I forgot to ask, is it normal to feel weird and uncomfortable when you first begin to accept intrusive thoughts instead of trying to solve them?
I can already tell it’s rebuilding my brain and I feel less bothered, and I’m finally feeling some relaxation by not trying to find a logical solution to every thought, but, I will admit even though I feel better, I still feel anxious and weird/ uncomfortable bc I’ve been so used to rejecting this thought and trying to solve it, and now I just accept it and move on.
Is it normal to feel like that when you first begin accepting thoughts?
Thanks, Paige, very great contents! Your channel is extremely helpful.
Thank you. I appreciate it.🙏❤️
Amazing thanks for the help
I really appreciate this video ❤
Absolutely. Glad it was helpful. 😊
Can't stop checking windows and doors,anxiety is so strong,not sure how to start erp
Thanks for your videos mam, It's very helpful for us. Please continue this process mam. Thank you so much❤❤❤
Thank you, I will 😊
You're my savior Paige, thank you so much!!❤
Thank you for watching. Let me know how I can support you and what topic you would like to see covered in a video. 🙏❤️
DO YOU NEED MORE HELP WITH OCD & ERP?
👉🏼 If you are tired of your OCD and need help treating it with ERP so that you can feel better, I can help you.
Find out more about my course for OCD here:
paigepradko.com/ocd.
👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼 SELF ASSESSMENT for OCD:
www.paigepradko.com/ocdquiz
👉🏼 Here is a GIFT for you. A PDF for The Top 10 Things to Know to Practice ERP for OCD, Phobias & Anxiety:
www.paigepradko.com/erp
Thanks mam now I get 100% confidence I definitely will cure from ocd
Thanks mam
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am so glad my video was helpful.😊
I am so glad my video was helpful.😊
Thank you so much for this video Dr. Paige! I have contamination OCD, and recently my mind has been telling me my bed is dirty even though its entirely clean. There is no reason for it be dirty, nothing happened, usually it doesn't bother me if its not actually contaminated, but I can't seem to get rid of the thought no matter how much I don't react to it. Its stuck in my head to the point I've been led to kind of believe it. For example, every time I think of my bed, I am reminded its contaminated automatically. And then I remember that its not actually contaminated, but the thought still stays and has been stuck for quite some time now. What can I do about this? Accepting, ignoring, not reacting or using other strategies doesn't seem to be working.
Hi Jayson. First, I am sorry that you are experiencing this. It is difficult and it is not your fault. Sometimes if a thought is especially sticky like this, it is still associated with your anxiety response in your brain. The neuro network for bedsheets, contamination and your anxiety response are wired together and associated in your brain. Response prevention and not responding to those thoughts with any kind of mental or physical behavior is important, but if a thought is especially sticky, more in depth ERP is required. I am not sure if you are aware, but this week, I have released my new course for OCD. I cover exactly what to do for contamination OCD. I cover 4 different ERP techniques. In my opinion, you need to do more in depth ERP before you can move to a response prevention approach. We have to get you unstuck from that thought. Should you be interested, I am offering a $100 savings on the course until this Friday 4/8. Here is a link should you be interested in more help: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
So grateful for your vid🙏
Thank you 🙏
Ocd for a long time now. I moved and had an ocd relapse with all themes at once. I also experienced phycosis with ocd to the point I was hallucinating at times. There is not much talk about this one. I’m in recovery now I almost had to keep ignoring instead of feeding into it
Hi Kristy. Thank you for sharing. Yes, major changes in life like moving can exacerbate OCD. And you are right, hallucinating is not as common and therefore not as known as other subtypes of OCD. I am so glad that you are in recovery.
Hi paige ! Grat videos ❤ as usual . I am currently suffer from sexual ocd how can i cure this?
Thank you. There are several options including ERP, the I. A.M. method and I-CBT therapy. OCD is OCD regardless of theme. It creates doubt and tries to convince you to not trust yourself. It is the OCD that you should not listen to and not trust.
Thank you so much! Your explanations are so comprehensive, yet easily understood. I saw that you offer courses, are they suitable for adolescents? ERP therapy is extremely hard to access in our area even virtually, we have been at it for close to six months. Additionally, few providers accept military insurance. Looking for themes of harm and morality specifically. Again, thank you so much for your work.
I should add, adolescent is 12 years old.
Hi Heather. I have several 11 and 12 year olds…on up…taking the course. The course does not contain any graphic or suggestive materials and I kept in mind that age 11 and up would be viewing the course. I have lessons and ERP examples for both Harm OCD and Moral Scrupulosity in the course. Please email me at paige@paigepradko.com and I can explain more and answer any questions. 😊
@@PaigePradkoTherapy hello I am Psychologist. I too want to start TH-cam channel about Psychological issues.
That’s wonderful. Where are you from?
@@PaigePradkoTherapy I am from Pakistan. I really work hard on my clients .However my work is not appreciated. I began writing on Medium also ..
I get constant urges to take deep breaths when I don’t my chest hurts is this OCD
I understand. That is called Sensorimotor or somatic awareness OCD. I understand it well because I also suffer from this type of OCD. I am so sorry that you suffer from this. Not many people understand that it is a form of OCD. I cover what to do in detail in my course here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd if you would like more help.
I get intrusive mean thoughts for my loved ones. It's so frustrating. I am always hypervigilent and it's like I watch the thought process : trigger, fear, obsession, guilt, anger, despair. What if I am a malignant person and I am just fooling myself. So hard not to ruminate. It's like lernaia hydra, a mythical monster, you cut one head and two pops out. I just want to ask for forgiveness and confess.
*mean person. Not malignant. Sorry English are not my native language
What you have is OCD. You are not your thoughts. In fact, if your OCD theme happens to be mean thoughts about your loved ones, you most likely love and cherish your loved ones. I am so sorry you are dealing with this. I have 2 more videos on OCD posting to TH-cam this week that you may find helpful. Here is a pdf that can help you with ERP www.paigepradko.com/erp.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy thank you for your kind response.
Hi Paige, should we plan particular exposures or can we just treat life as ERP every time we are triggered? Thank you for the great content!
Hi Kristiyan. Your question is fantastic! I encourage 4 different types of ERP in my OCD course, because using a variety of exposures and techniques keeps your brain surprised and learning. But, my favorite method are incidental, in the moment ERP, every time you are triggered. You want to always practice response prevention and have a plan when you are triggered. Have you watched any of my videos where I teach the I. A.M. method? It is an incidental exposure technique. Here is a video to refresh you: Brain Hack for OCD & Anxiety th-cam.com/video/9nEC8yIgFKg/w-d-xo.html
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Thank you very much for the reply, Paige. This is very freeing and resonates a lot with my experience. Incidental exposures are the best and more sustainable method and give us a long term attitude towards triggers. Although planned exposures have their place in ocd treatment, for me personally all the planning and assessing the generated discomfort, creating a specific program, choosing a specific fear are more of an over-complication than a sustainable plan. However I will check the video and the other 3 types of exposures. Thanks a lot again for your content !
thanks you :) so important information i like it, im curious to know something i practice for years when i don't do any compulsive behavior ritual i keep let thoughts and feelings be without give them attention as i learned from CBT its always happen to me my brain change command for do compulsive behavior i frozen i cant choise after many hours of not give attention to compulsive. i wanna ask you if this nature and maybe i have practice even when my brain change to do ritual ? sorry about my english!
Hi. Thank you for your question. I am not sure if I understand your question. It sounds like when you stop doing the compulsion, you no longer get this urge or message from your brain to do the compulsion. Is that correct? If so, this is exactly what we want to accomplish in ERP. Your brain has learned that you do not need the compulsion after all.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy i mean for example if i do ERP i can stick with the bad feelings thoughts etc, and there limit i cant anymore and back to ocd cycle, its repeat it all time, so its mean i fail with erp
Now I understand. You are having trouble resisting the compulsions. Sometimes people can work their way up to complete response prevention by postponing the compulsion or changing it in some way. Do what you can to postpone it or change it until you are able to fully resist the urge. If you need more help, I offer a course on ERP here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Thank you
Paige, I'm undertaking post graduate cbt training. In a treatment session, I've found that there isn't enough time for anxiety to reduce within the time we have. The OCD being addressed is 'just right' ocd such as feeling a need to look back at a number 7 the second time in the exact same way, then needing to do it again and again until it feels right but always until it feel right after an even number of times. What needs to be done in the session to demonstrate to the client that this process can be effective, so they are more willing to practice between sessions?
Hi Gary. So glad that you are learning more about CBT. Practicing ERP has changed over the years as new theories and research is explored. In this video I talk about SUDS and waiting for anxiety to go down. I documented in the description and in more recent videos that I now practice ERP using Inhibitory Learning Theory. We have learned that we no longer have to rate anxiety, use a hierarchy or wait for anxiety to come down. The main thing we want to focus on is triggering the client’s core fear in the exposure and not doing any compulsions or avoidance. This experience creates new safety learning (neuropathways) in the brain that eventually overrides the old fear network. They learn also that they can tolerate the anxiety of in your client’s case…feeling “not” just right. Your exposures in the office is to just have them expose themselves to whatever makes them feel…”not” just right. Do not worry about the level of anxiety. Here is a video that explains more about Inhibitory Learning Theory th-cam.com/video/0xpDmuIe53E/w-d-xo.html.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and this is really helpful
Does this ocd erp help with intrusive scary thoughts ? I need a course that helps with intrusive thoughts - example self harm, harm loved ones keep me on high anxiety like this morning - Is this going to help with that? Why do I want to sit with those thoughts . Please help
Hi Milena. I am so sorry that you are struggling with those thoughts. Yes, my course will help you with those intrusive scary thoughts and help you to feel better. I even have a separate lesson for harm ocd, as you described. I teach several different types of ERP that are very effective and include examples. This is an ocd theme that I work with often. You can read more and register here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd.
This is very supertive videos.
Thank you 🙏❤️
Thank you❤️🙏
You’re welcome 🙏❤️
Why is our brain our worst enemy 😔. Do you think it's possible to overcome ocd on our own? Doing ERP without a therapist? I downloaded your free pdf (my ocd made me doubt: is this really for free? 🙈) . I'll give it a try. This video is also very helpful to really understand the steps of ERP.
It is possible, but sometimes people need more guidance. If you need more help, I do offer an easy to follow course that walks you through step by step and then gives you the forms to complete and examples of how to do ERP on over 18 subtypes of ocd. If you are interested in learning more, here is a link:
www.paigepradko.com/ocd.
Hi Paige, I am currently trying ERP and with the vast majority of my thoughts it works really well. However, there is a thought that makes it almost impossible to sleep at night and ERP doesn't help with it. I tried to avoid seeking reassurance, but it doesn't go away. I am not new to mental illness, as those run in my family and I was also diagnosed with autism.
While my question may seem unusual, I would like to ask if conditions like autism or general mental health affects one's sexual orientation?
Hi Celeste. No, those conditions to not affect one’s sexual orientation and neither does OCD. OCD just causes you to doubt. This is why we do not give those doubting thoughts attention.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Thank you, Paige. Therefore mental health has no effect on sexual orientation, right?
That’s correct.
mam i have a doubt.. my final exams are approaching in 1 month..when i try not to act on the obsessions it creates anxiety and wastes a lot of my time..should i act on the thoughts for this 1 month to save my time?
or continue controlling the thoughts without acting..
Hi. I wish I could help, but unfortunately, you will have to make this decision. Working on your OCD with ERP does take time and a commitment as well. And yes, compulsions also take up your valuable time. Possibly it is best to wait until your final exams are completed and then dedicate time to learning and practicing ERP. If you need help, I offer a course for ERP for OCD and Pure O. www.paigepradko.com/ocd
I wish you the best on your exams.
I HAVE SENSIROMOTOR BREATHING LAST NOVEMBER 2020 AND UNTIL NOW I SUFFERING FROM THIS😢😢😢
I am so sorry that you are experiencing this. I haven’t shared this publicly on a TH-cam video, but I also have suffered from Sensorimotor OCD with breath awareness. I can help you with this. I cover exactly what to do in my new course should you be interested in more help: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
How to deal with disgust and guilt and shame with ocd and doing ERP
Please please help me 🙏🙏
Hi Jyothsna. First, I hope that you know that you are not alone. Guilt and shame go hand in hand with OCD. Guilt and shame seem to fuel OCD. This is perhaps why people with OCD are the kindest people on the planet…they actually care very much about how they affect others. And they care possibly too much about something they have no control over and that is their thoughts. You also mentioned disgust. People that experience disgust instead of anxiety or fear or general discomfort typically require longer term treatment. I talk about this in more detail in my OCD course. The experience of disgust involves more areas of the brain than fear/anxiety. ERP is recommended but treatment gains are slower and treatment therefore takes longer.
Here is a free ocd self assessment: www.paigepradko.com/ocdquiz
And here is more information about my course for Pure O and OCD: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
Hello how can I remove this ocd my ocd it is kind of hard to explain but my ocd is like I have to think of good thoughts while doing something and it’s really annoying I tried erp before and it helps kind of but after a while I start doing compulsions again I also have the pure o ocd too.
Hi. Yes, what you are describing is a mental compulsion that is called, “neutralizing with good thoughts”. There are several different kinds of ERP that you can do for this. Try your best to not do the compulsion or to interrupt the behavior when you become aware that you are doing it. You can do exposures on the types of situations that trigger the compulsion and then resist the compulsion or you could use an incidental ERP technique like my I. A.M. method. th-cam.com/video/9nEC8yIgFKg/w-d-xo.html. If you need more help with ERP, I have a course that can help called, Free From Pure O &OCD. Here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
I can't Thank you enough
I appreciate it.
Hello Paige! Do you have a course to overcome agoraphobia?
Hi. Some people with agoraphobia may enroll in my OCD course to learn ERP. However, I will be developing a unique course, exposure coaching and support group for people with agoraphobia later this year. You can go to www.paigepradko.com and sign up for my newsletter if you would like to be notified when that is available later this year. 😊