I have OCD and I hate people around me when they say they have OCD just because something is annoying them, they don't understand you can really suffer from it.
Prod.By.Waves i just realized that i have ocd life fr it started 1 year ago or something and realized that something was wrong i didn’t know why i tired to make it stop but i can’t that i found a video about ocd and i figure it out that that’s what i have and i can’t live with it anymore i really just want this to stop but i don’t know how
Ikr I suffered from OCD of germs and organising 3 years ago and it fucked me up so bad till I went to a therapy and I got into alot of fights with people who laughed at the situation
My biggest struggle with OCD is me fearing that someone can hear my thoughts, or is somehow watching my thoughts so I can never feel comfortable to have my own thoughts. That is an OCD struggle according to my doctor
same I'm afraid that a mind reader or a psychic comes out of nowhere and tells everybody my weird thoughts and embarass me.This is one of the reasons I don't go out of the house.
same I'm afraid that a mind reader or a psychic comes out of nowhere and tells everybody my weird thoughts and embarass me.This is one of the reasons I don't go out of the house.
@@심설하-r6k you just have to not care about what's going on in your head make peace with your thoughts let them be there don't try to fight them and argue with them and know that it just a fear that grown because you gave it too much attention and the best you can do is read and get educated about psychosis like schizophrenia so u can convince yourself that it not what's happening to you since i wrote the comment 5 days ago i can say that i'am 95% over my fear
HappyCamz very true. I haven’t told anyone but a few close friends, but sometimes my strange habits leak into my life at school and I wonder if people notice
As someone with OCD, it’s important to mention: When we do the “rituals” that seem obscure, weird and not logical, WE KNOW THAT IT’S WEIRD AND NOT LOGICAL. But we still need to do it. That’s what’s so upsetting, knowing it but having trouble avoiding doing it
It really is hard. When I remember something that i haven't fixed, even in midnight, i clean my room idk why. When I remember about something i lost which i don't even know if i will use it, i go crazy finding it.
Sometimes you feel like you’re Alone with ocd but seeing all these comments kinda relieves me a little bit knowing that there are other people out there that understand you
I belive for some reason I'll die if everything is not perfect for example I'm scared that a killer will kill me so I dont leave any cracks and i check everywhere so no-one is hiding and if I hear noises aNyWhErE then I'll carry a knife to protect myself!! Also I feel like ppl can read my mind!! I'm so stressed out!!
When I was younger my mind would force me to do things, like touching something saying something, it was annoying because I felt like I was being threatened.
omg is that OCD because my littlesister says that she always have and needs to "bend" her thumbs and i keep asking her why and she always says that she doesnt know, she just has to.
Omg that's the same with me it is as uf somebody it telling you to do thease things but you can not actually hear them the problem is I am 13 and I wanna go to docter to ask about it but I have tried to ask before for help and tried to explain it but no body took me seriosly until my mum finally listened to me but I am scared to go to the docter because I'm paranoid that they will say some crap like It's cause of school Idk if u have been there please help me out man
I’m writing this here because I have no where else to say this. I’m a 14 year old and I have these rituals, but I don’t want to self diagnose. Whenever I walk down my hallway, I have to step on every other tile. If I want to open an app I have to do it 3 different times before actually using the app. Every night I push my bed against the wall 8 times and if I don’t I feel like my family is in danger. I’m afraid to ask to be properly diagnosed because I don’t want to be a financial burden. I don’t know why I’m typing this, I just needed to get it out.
I have OCD and a speech disorder, ( My doctor said i'm over worried, but all of my symptons are exactly the same as OCD and speech disorder symptons ) I'm like you but it's worse, i can't arrange words and make it into a sentence, it's just like there's 1000 words in my mind and i can't use all of them at once, so everytime i'm speaking, i stutter alot to choose which word should i use, I started to be bored of living, it's like i'm a living corpse, i keep saying something wrong all the time, when i'm speaking it feels like i already said that word even though in reality i haven't and it's just my imagination, annoying disease, i have to re read words over and over again for 30 times, i have to say words over and over again for 30 times, even when i'm typing, it feels like everything is wrong and i had to delete some wrong words, because there are too many word that pops up in my mind and i keep saying the first words that pops in my mind, which is sad. Also i'm 14 and an Indonesian native speaker, even i don't use english as a native language, my english wasn't this bad.
Azzaya Nergui sammeeee this happens to me all the time and it’s annoying af but i feel compelled to do that random thing or else my family dies or something bad
This video forgot to mention that most of the times the sufferer undertands that the obsessions and compulsions are irrational. I have severe OCD myself, mostly hygiene related. When I was at my worst i could stay in the shower for over 5 hours. It's not that I actually believe that i'm still dirty and I know that I can't get any more "clean", but as fast as I leave the shower I get a weird compulsion to enter the shower again, Sometimes without any motive at all, It just dosens't "feel right". It's really weird to explain. People are always to judgmental and says things like "just snap out of it" it's like telling an addict to just stop using.
a l oh my god... i think i have ocd. i feel the need to do that alot and whenever i see a conversation is ending i have to say the same word everytime that happens, or else i just feel numb. its why i scream whenever i wrap my cables wrong. Thank you. Im gonna go to the doctor
I get it. It's like having a soul wedgie. Every thing feels wonky and off. I was on food loop for a while. I had to eat a donut every day. If I didn't, it was all I could think about for the rest of the day. I'll admit I like sweets, but it was to the point I was crying while eating them. I just wanted that feeling to go away.
I never knew what OCD truly was and will never underestimate it. It sounds like a living nightmare to go through and I hope anyone that goes through this can see happier days. My girlfriend has OCD and she is doing fine but it still bothers her from time to time. I will always be there for her because I wouldnt want to go through this alone
I’m at a point where I’m not diagnosed, so I don’t claim to have OCD. But I have these obsessions and compulsions that inhibits my ability to think clearly. I’m often attacked by thoughts that trouble me greatly. It’s like torture, I have these moments where I’m surrounded in irrationality but there’s that looming sense of unsureness. I don’t know at this point.
Samee but like it's minor like only sometimes it's not that bad but I have those characteristics and I still remember when I was younger I so I have to pray before I eat I prayed so many times couse to double check if I actually prayed till my friend realised but God bless me now it's starting to fade for some reason @-@
The "repeat" mechanism was presented way too simplified. You don't just endlessly repeat stuff and then suddenly stop for no reason. There's always some system or idea behind the repeats. It's either a "good" number, like, for example, you define 5 as a "good" number, because when you were five you got that instrument that you still love and play, or you met your loved one 5 years ago. You choose the number and you define it. There's no logic behind it, it just has to be reasonable for yourself in some way. So, if 5 is a good number, you will repeat 5 times. There are other methods too, though. Sometimes you will have to repeat indefinitely until it feels like you "did it right". Again, the definition is made by you. It can be anything and also more than one thing. For example, you have to repeat until you manage to finish the action exactly after an exhale and before you start to inhale again. If you "don't succeed" on a try, you have to repeat until you "get it right". A mix of methods is also possible. Like, you have to repeat for 5 times, but also make sure to finish number 5 with a "good" action. If you fail, you have to repeat the 5 and try to "get it right" again. That is why and how it gets time consuming. If you fail, then the fear kicks in. And it's agonizing. So much so, that it can keep you at a task for a very long time. My OCD was so bad at one point, I almost choked myself on several occasions, because I tried to control my breathing insanely. I had other OCD issues too, but that one was the most exhausting. I managed to get better and I keep track of my personal development and as soon as I recognize a negative development I get back to my ERP and fight it. I don't always succeed at everything. But most of the time I do. I haven't choked myself in 4 years now. I'm still struggling, but I'm fighting every day and the fact that I got better helps me to keep going. It gets tougher around winter. The other day I found that I had started rituals again while watching commercials of meds against flu. I have this weird idea that if I don't I'll miraculously get sick when watching them. So I started to very consciously watch them again, making very sure I don't perform any rituals. I keep doing that for a few days and the urge to perform is basically gone. One important trick is to realize when rituals try to sneak in again. You have to detect and fight them, or they will slowly take over. I have experienced it. Doing one annoying thing isn't all that bad, after all. If it makes you feel better, why not? Then another thing comes up and it's just one thing, so you can do that little thing too. Then one more thing comes up and before you realize it, all you do is try to prevent disaster from happening with the weirdest methods. Just the act of "going to bed" from the living room to the actual bed could take up to about 45 minutes for me - not to mention the terrifying fear that I experienced among the way. (Yes, it can take that long, or even longer, remember you don't just have to do it, but you have to do it "right" - or repeat.) Today I do it very simply, just like everybody else. During times that are stressful the compulsions can sometimes come forth more forcefully and get to me, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. So, if anyone who suffers actually reads this: Don't give up! It's worth the fight. It's worth the fear and the sweats and the tears, because at the other end there's a better life.
Exactly. OCD means more that double check or repeat something. I have OCD alongside schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. I reach an illness level that gives me pain, literally. For me, even the most simple and common things that people can think at, are very difficult to do. I have experienced all things you've written about, with breath control and going to bed and even with the good and bad number and what terrible fear i feel if I don't do it "right". My way to control it was telling myself that this is not real, is just in my mind, but from a certain point it stopped working, I think my brain was getting used to it and it started to ignore it. So, it is very hard, I'm pretty fucked up. And more painful is that people around me say that I'm just weak or stupid, they don't realize how it is to have an mental illness.
i think i may have this disorder...but i don’t want to offend anyone if i don’t so i always had anxiety with fixing things, like arranging, but that isn’t exactly ocd then,this summer, i feel this strange urge that if i don’t redo something or tap something in the right place..something bad will happen like, today i was flushing the toilet and closing the seat..and i thought to myself..if i don’t tap the toilet again..something will happen..so i keep tapping it unlit it feels right..
I know your comment is 9 months ago but goodness this explains everything. I have similar "activities" like that and I'm not a hygienic person at all! But the thoughts are really really time consuming bcs it makes me do irrational "ritual". Some days I even dont wanna go to bed bcs just imagining the steps it takes to go to sleep already exhausts me. And it gets bad when I get my pms and even the period itself, the hormonal imbalance might be the cause.
I developed OCD (intrusive thoughts, ruminations, compulsions) when I was only 10 or 11. It was debilitating, and I thought I was going crazy. I was diagnosed when I was super young. I’m 26 now and still struggle with it. It can feel very isolating.
Can totally relate to you. It can make us feel so isolate but may be because 50-60% of those with OCD have MDD as well which is even more difficult to manage
Read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston & Martin Seif... It can help you a lot to understand how we get stuck with these thoughts and how we can come out of them
@@mattyr3724 I also have ocd. Usually after doing masturbation or eating or any other thing my compulsion is mentally repeating those things like how i done those things and gets temporary relief and joy. But after 3-4 minutes same compulsion comes again with more power. Sometimes feels panick attacks for no reason. I am 27 now male.
i looked up ocd tonight and literally had every symptom. i haven’t even been diagnosed or told my parents but my life is almost hell. don’t worry i would never hurt myself but having ocd sucks and i honestly would never wish it upon anyone else.
My issue is I've had shared a lot of symptoms with many disorders I've researched which is why I'm so worried about self diagnosing. Its hard for me to tell the difference between what I'm experiencing.
Read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston & Martin Seif... It can help you a lot to understand how we get stuck with these thoughts and how we can come out of them
U can watch the channel youhaveocd here at yt the person who owns this channel has recovered from severe ocd u can get constantly support from this channel and remember that u can recover but to recover u have to do the work ot takes some time like 7 or 8 months usually but u will recover eventually if u do the work of corse!!!
To everyone who is struggling with OCD, just keep fighting it and hold on to your life. I know you can keep your life together. I love and believe in you.
literally this describes me so well, and i try to tell myself that nothing bad will happen if i don’t do the thing my head tells me to do, but i feel like i have to
It haunts me even when I'm on my phone, Everytime I like a comment,I have to like 2 more,if I do it 4 times,I have to do it 2 more times again and so on.
i have something similar with the numbers 6 and 13. since people have made them seem like they are bad numbers or something like i can’t like an instagram post they has been posted six hours ago or something. or if for instance if something had like five replies and i want to reply as well i can’t or else i will be the sixth reply and something bad will happen. like this comment had four replies before i replied so it’s fine
Yesterday I was diagnosed with OCD included high anxiety and a little panic. And also depression. It’s sad to know OCD is hard to be cured completely. But since I know my disorders, I hope I, and we can find the way to live with OCD through the cure . Thank you for reading my not-good English comment. Hope today is better for you :)
it is definitely hard to completely get rid of, but it also does get better! It might sneak through occasionally but at some point it shouldn't bother your day-to-day life. Good luck!
No one believes me when I say I have OCD when I touch something with my right hand I have to touch it with my left, my brain makes me touch things I would never think of doing, every time I close the shower handle or door I do it again multiple times until I’m satisfied. Another, for example, is when it's like 3:59 I can't stop staring until its 4:00 and I hate it!
I DO THE HAND THING this is really weird to describe but i’ll try here we go if i slap my hands down on a table, but Slap A is harder, louder, and hit first, and Slap B softer, quieter, and hit last, i will do it again, but having the hand that did Slap B do Slap A and vise versa. If I mess up, I do the same thing with those slaps and then carry on. IT DRIVES ME INSANE SOMETIMES
I was recently diagnosed with OCD. For a while, it seemed like nobody understood what I was going through until I discovered this disorder. I’m thankful to know how many people are out there that I can relate to, and I’m glad to know that there is treatment. I feel like this is one of those disorders that people severely underestimate. It’s important to realize that people ARE hurting, which makes it so important to watch over what you say to others, face-to-face and online.
Remember everything will be ok! Regardless of what you’re doing everything will be ok...it won’t take over your life. You have the control over yourself and your life and no one can take that from you! If you feel anxious just stop for a second, breathe, and you will calm down. YOU are stronger than your thoughts. Thoughts aren’t as real as we think they are. Wish you a wonderful day
my OCD (as of late) attacks things that bring me comfort or make me happy. Intrusive thoughts will form around this person or thing I love and I’ll feel panicked at the idea of this thing I rely on for relief, being ruined. which then causes me to do a series of compulsions to keep this person or thing safe. it’s exhausting, and a dark characteristic of OCD that I’ve never experienced before until recently. anybody dealing with this, I hope you know you’re not alone, no matter how specific your thoughts and obsessions may seem, someone out there CAN sympathize with you.
@@guccimaraj8257 mine is a weird dark pixel picture and its scary so I replace the "weird thoughts" with "nice" thought mostly comes up when I'm trying to go to sleep can't go to sleep...
I think about others getting hurt then worry that it will actually happen so I try to tell my thoughts ‘no don’t do it I like that person please’ also I can mentally talk trash about a person and then scenarios pop into my head about something hearing those thoughts, thinking I don’t like that person, and then hurting them so I try and think ‘wait no but I like that person’ and I have this weird thing where I can sort of ‘project’ my thoughts and it feels like I’m launching them somewhere but sometimes I don’t feel the launching of every word so I feel like the demon hasn’t heard all of what I said and so I repeat it over and over again until it does project completely It’s horrible I feel like I can’t even express pain that someone I love has caused me in my head without fearing them getting hurt... I also have a lot of terrible intrusive thoughts about morally extremely wrong things then I get scared someone’s reading my mind and hearing these thoughts There’s a lot more things that just exhaust me and make going out into public with lots of people a huge chore
I’ve recently missed two days of school in one week due to physical and mental exaustion from OCD (kept me up till 3AM) it’s much worse than people think it is :/
When I was a child, I used to avoid stepping on the cracks on the sidewalks. And I also count the steps before crossing a particular crack. The count has to end in even numbers, and my step should always end on my right foot before crossing the crack. If not, I would get anxious and scared. Is that OCD?
Yeah that's how mine started when I was younger. I used to have to step right inside the squares and swing my arms through the lines. Go get help. It progresses and changes over time and it can ruin your life.
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, sometimes I still have the urge, but I can control it now. When I was a kid it was worse. But now it only occurs when I'm not busy with anything.
@@izlshf5879 Yes it's good and everybody can underestand it but everybody always say Why your handwriting is weird and why are you so slow and check your writing again and again? Actually I always lose my exams time cause my OCD and I write so slow and weird.
I might just confirmed that i have OCD after i learned about those mental rituals. Everyday i wake up and perform those mental rituals in my head and it causes me distress and making me unfocused.
Some Person I have to do then aswell and I am very confused what it is, I have to like make sure that my door is placed right and repay it five times, or something bad will happen.
I was recently diagnosed with OCD and I have to say this video knows it's stuff. I have felt with people calling it Obsessive Cleaning Disorder, and am happy to see that most people are enlightened to know that is not the case. Thank you.
OCD started in me when I was 6, and the sad fact is now only am realizing it was a disorder, my whole life I thought I was alone, I did tell my family about these (when I was a kid)but all they did was laughing and my brother always teased me cause I repeated things, I think OCD is the worst disorder , but the good part for me is I overcame this without anyone's help(still a glimpse exist) am so glad about that, I don't think anyone would ever know about what else I've gone through other than you guys, btw I recommend you guys to visit a therapist and I hope everything will be alright for y'all , everything's gonna be fine ❤️
Same is started when I was around 8-9 and I’m 11 nearing 12 now but I only realised that is what it was. Like examples. Stepping on all the titles in a street, if one tiny bit of my toe steps on the tile before it, I have to restart it. Or if my hand touches the wall. My other hand touches it. To equalise touches. I don’t know how it happens but it does. Good luck to you.
@@Aden068 Can relate to that stepping on tiles thing 🥲 if I did anything wrong I will be disappointed and repeated it until I did it right .Do you still struggle with OCD ,if so please do visit a therapist ,never make the same mistake as I did 😔,"SOONER THE BETTER". Anyway hope you're fine and wishing you goodluck 🖤
OCD just makes me feel insane. Everything is so much harder and confusing. I count things. Over and over. Just to confirm that I was right about what I counted lol. Everything has to be level and even. If I touch something with one hand and not the other, I feel unbalanced. As I’m walking on the sidewalk I count my steps and make sure that I never step on the cracks. Only liking numbers to be by multiples of 5; the tv, my car radio, my phone, even the clock bothers me when it doesn’t end with a 0 or 5. I don’t think people realize how exhausting it is. Or how when I forget to set the radio on the right number before I leave the car I feel like something bad will happen to me or someone I love. It’s so ridiculous. I can even see and understand it’s ridiculous. But to my brain it’s not. And it’s so hard to control the impulses. I feel for anyone that goes through this. Whether you have the same experience or something different. OCD is complex and different with everyone and it’s rough.
omg everything has to multiples of five for me too. and if I step on a crack I have to walk backwards and then redo it... not stepping on the crack. I also count my steps and I just can't stop
No way. Your compulsions are just like mine, like all of them. They're exhausting. But I have another compulsion which is the most exhausting one, jumping 18×9 times while landing on both of my kegs at the same time because I have to do things in either 18 times or 9 times depending on the number of pairs of that certain object(my compulsions mostly include moving certain objects, or myself) and 5×5 if that thing is my phone.
I don't know if you would call this ocd ? Because I do the same thing but with car's in a row ? They all have to be of lined in a row. And I will count over and over again or even by 3×whatever the number may be ,, to confirm that I've counted them correctly. if that makes any sense,. does this even means anything ??
All these symptoms go for me. BOTH THE TOUCHING AD MULTIPLES ONE. Like if I'm watching a video and I need to pause it I would wait and pause when the digits are either 0 or 5. All the ocd symptoms in the comment r experienced by me. I need to GO TO DOCTOR
From what I’ve experienced and noticed, OCD differs A LOT between person to person. But it’s really nice to see people connecting over their struggles in the comments. I went a long time without a diagnosis for my OCD and other disorders and I genuinely thought I was crazy. But a diagnoses makes connecting with others and understanding how your own brain works a fair amount easier. Anxiety disorders are scary, if anyone reading this has one, I know the struggle. Stay strong.
My OCD affects how I play games. If I get an unwanted thought while playing a game, it affects how I make progress. For example, an unwanted thought might make me remember something important to the game, but since It was an unwanted thought, I don't do that "important thing" and pretend like I didn't remember it. A better example next. I like being creative, building and etc. An unwanted thought might trigger something creative for me to build. Guess what? It was an unwanted thought that I didn't like, so once again, I pretend like I didn't remember it.
this video brought me so much joy. i was smiling all through it because something i've felt with for such a long time, is being described in a way ive always wanted to but could never let it leave my mouth. one of my obsessions is that nothing i say makes sense, and so as a result of that to help reduce my anxiety from that i repeat myself over and over, trying to make the right words come out until i feel satisfied. i'll be sure to link this vid when someone asks me about my ocd.
*Warning: this is rather gross* I literally stand in front of a mirror for at least a few hours a day just picking my face, I'm trying to get rid of bumps or blemishes. No, it's not normal, I make myself bleed and I can't stop until the flaw is gone, then another, and another. I've been late for parties, and I sometimes can't even take notes in class because I am trying to pick again. It is so embarrassing when people comment on the bleeding or scabs. I stopped when I was younger (in about 4th grade), but then my sister got psoriasis and she began to get blotches of skin to dry and flake. I began picking at myself again and occasionally try to get the dandruff out of her hair. It's full-blown and I've been trying to use fidget rings and other things to keep my hands busy but the only thing that is slightly improving it is medication. And now I've started pulling the hair from my arms and legs to the point where somebody has to stop me. I just start with hair that is a little darker than the rest, then I see that this hair looks weird too, and sometimes I have to dig into my skin to be able to get the hair out and finally feel temporary relief.
Wimsem - Tekenen & Knutselen Yeah, I've talked recently with my doctor about it and we're working to try to improve it. It is only "triggered" (ugh I don't like that word) when I touch my skin and feel something off or if I stare at the mirror for too long, at which point I am sent back into a frenzy of tearing myself apart.
Snickercole I suffer from compulsive skin picking too! I recently started medication so I hope it works. My picking is also triggered when I touch something that needs "fixing" or something, then I will be obsessed about it, like I won't be able to sleep until I picked at it. I do it everyday but sometimes I do it less and it's more manageable. It definitely gets worse when I'm very stressed though
That sounds more like bfrbs then ocd. Bfrbs (Body Functioning Repetitive Behaviours) are compulsive disorders after all! Trichotilliomania is a compulsive hair pulling disorder and dermatillomania is a skin picking disorder.
I always keep refreshing my Instagram page to check if I didn’t accidentally go on live or post something and sometimes it get so annoying and makes me panic a lot. I also have those intrusive thoughts like everyday and it makes me so scared that someone would be able to read my thought. Also I have thoughts like “If you don’t do this your family will die.” And when I try to open this problem to someone people just find it ridiculous.
When i was a kid i would keep turning the light on and off multiple times before bed to make sure it was pressed all the way because i felt like it might short and start a fire if i didnt.
Kitty Cat over time I was so so tired of it so I just stopped caring I told myself that it’s just in my mind and when I saw that after stop doing it it didn’t affect the way I thought it would I believe it and now I don’t do it
Sometimes I have to click and repeat and look at things four times or if I do it one extra time by accident I have to do it 4x4 times this happens really often I try not to do it and I don't think something bad is going to happen I also have ADHD
@@DylOR851 same with me. especially when I'm reading. i have to check some sentence 5 times again and again. if i don't do that i think something bad is gonna happen. and it's so hard to have this disorder ☹
One illness grows and then you can easily have 2 then 3 illnesses of the mind.....the result of incorrect ...wrong thinking patterns...you can learn a lot from it and reverse back into healthier behaviours from correcting the mistake programming....it’s a process to get well like it was to get sick
As a person having OCD, i can say that this video is very informal and helpful, and is a great way to inform others of what OCD is and how it works. Although OCD for some can be seen to be much darker and horrid than portrayed in this video, you have seemed to take a lighter approach to it, but have still maintained to include many important factors about OCD. anyways, I'm rambling on at this point, great video!!
Just started my own channel and its taken a lot of guts as I have suffered all my life with OCD but your site is amazing and really encourages me and others to challenge OCD. thank you so much for spending the time to help people like me.
Sometimes when I accidently touched something, I automatically have to touch it twice. And everytime I buy groceries, I have to check my wallet dozens of time to make sure my money is still there 😅
@Elly Gilmore same here man 😭 !! I hate my life, I am not able to live my life happily !! Wtf is this Disorder 😭😭😭 I really wanna be a normal person !! OCD is so ridiculous
I have ocd and I has destroyed my life I’m starting medication tomorrow but I haven’t even been able to go to school because of my constant erasing and rewriting along with other things. It’s a nightmare, I’m so tired of it!
I'm so sorry you are going through this....my mother has it pretty severe. I remember going up she did/still does a similar thing. Going through recites a million times rewriting and scratching out what she already read a million times. That's one of the reasons why she's always late.
Me: Touches something in a bottle that’s poisonous My brain: OMG YOU TOUCHED IT EVEN IF ITS IN A BOTTLE YOU’RE GONNA DIEEEE Me: *runs in the bathroom to wash my hands* This happens everyday. I feel as if I get germs on my hands, I seem to HAVE to wash them. Now, my hands are extremely dry and it hurts whenever I wash it with soap. (And yes, this isn’t my ONLY ocd problem.)
I have thoughts like: “Don’t touch the banister on your way down the stairs or you’ll die” This happens to me quite a lot and I’m very confused. Is this OCD?
I don't think so..!! Don't connect everything with ocd. Control your thoughts. Don't let your thoughts overpower you. After 4-5 times, You will be fine.
@@stoopidcrumpet6679 having idiotic thoughts is not necessarily OCD. It is OCD if the thought keeps coming back even after your brain concluded that it is an idiotic thought.
I’m pretty sure I have ocd, and it explains a lot of my life, but I’m not totally sure. Is there any way to diagnose without actually going to a physiatrist? I’m not interested in treating it because none of my compulsions are actually serious, I just want some validation. Also, the way this video was organized was very pleasing to me, and exactly how I like to learn.
I think I may have OCD so I am watching a lot of psychology videos to make sure I have it before getting an appointment with a doctor. Well, "rituals" in general seem to resonate with me a lot: for example, I like a certain way of packing my bag, the night before school. I HAVE to do it in that SPECIFIC way and my parents keep on telling me, "It's not efficient, why are you doing it that way?" I just say, "Well, I like to do it that way." Because of this routine, I usually waste around 1:30 hrs of my evening. The last 2 points @2:49 about Repeating and Arranging also relate to me as well. Well, you're probably already bored so I'll just bore you a tiny bit more with another example. I like texting or writing online with PERFECT punctuation. If I don't, it really bugs me and in the end, I cave in and waste another half a minute editing my text to put in punctuation. All my friends all make fun of me because of this certain habit, joking "Why even bother? It's fricking WhatsApp/Messages; you don't need punctuation!" I never listen. I have an urge to do it that way. And I don't think I ever will change. 2 things to remember: -I don't really have intrusive thoughts or anything like that. It's more of like my body feels weird; it really bugs me, and I feel in order to stop it I must do/perfect/organise it. -Wasting of my time does not really bother me. I just say to myself, "It is necessary, I can't change my routine like that!" So, in conclusion, what do you think? Do you think I may have OCD? Is it worth getting an appointment with a doctor? Thank you.
I'm really not sure if I have OCD but when I was younger, I used to tell myself repeatedly that everything was going to be fine and nothing bad would happen whenever something bad almost happens to me. Like for example when a knife almost falls on me or when using a treadmill, I think that I might be sucked and flattened 💀 (worse if it happens to a close person). I would think about this a LOT and be just spaced out in my room for a few minutes. It doesn't happen to me anymore but I do keep touching the same places in my phone sometimes but I can control it most of the time.
Ok this video made me sure i have OCD i always thought i might have it but this confirms it. Thanks! My OCD is mainly works like this. When i touch something with my right arms middle finger then i have to do the exact same action with all my other fingers on my hands so it feels "right" this makes sleep almost impossible because i have to sleep straight on my back without turning over or moving because i will get that uncomfortible feeling.
When I was 11, my first case of OCD made its way into my head. I would get those terrifying images in my head and worry that every little step I make can cause a disaster, I would lock myself in to prevent anything. A year later, I would have this compulsion to tell my mom EVERYTHING that goes on in my head, my whole thoughts, I was afraid I would die before telling my mom something important “ridiculous IK” . Then washing my hands for no reasons became an issue, my hands would turn bloody red in the winter and my skin would fall off because I would wash my hands more than 20 times with freezing water a day. I thought I was insane and that no one could understand me, I didn’t even know OCD was a thing and I thought I was the only one in the world who would feel this way, I committed suicide 2 times because I couldn’t handle the pain and the headache I would get, I would be so tired and exhausted. I learned OCD can be passed in generations, I’m afraid that my kids are going have it. I wouldn’t wish OCD to my worst enemy, it’s a torture to the mind that never ends, I’m on meds now, and I do see a therapist, but the compulsions are still here, not as intense, but they will never go...
Im pretty sure I have ocd,I've always had a lot of problems obsessing over things. I also over think things,And I hate when things are out of order,for instance,If something has a knot in it,I would spend hours untieing it. Also,I tend to be afraid of things,even though I know they aren't real,my mind still tries to scare me. I used to..well,I still do,Make up words or things like that,and tell myself,"unless I say this word, nothing can hurt me" The worst part though,Is I tend to get "Images" in my head,Gore, People being hurt or hurting me,etc. I didn't tell my mother about this until I was twelve, because I was Terrifyed People would think I was crazy,but my mother immediately reconized it,as she has ocd herself. I've been going to therapy for a few months now,for my Social Anxiety as well,But it hasn't been helping much
Queen Of Memes no way I did the exact same thing. I already thought if I said the word "red" in my head then I would be protected from everything. If I touched something dirty, I simply would say red in my head and I would assume all the germs are eliminated.
I have a weird thing, I don't think it's OCD but with food I can't eat it if people touch it or if it's been on a table or if someone asks for a taste I wipe off the spoon violently I also always say I'm sick if people ask for some of my water I have a big thing about fruit, I cannot eat it if it's been exposed or cut up by someone who isn't me I can't drink out of someone else's glass, once my dad tried to make me eat off a plate that had already been used and I cried and completely refused I also suspect I have mild anxiety
no way i did this alwell , i repeatedly counted my steps and if i didn’t start my steps with my right foot and end with my left , i would have to walk all the way back and repeat until it was perfect, i also washed my hands constantly and most of the times it would start bleeding
For people who have ocd: If you are too afraid to talk to someone, write in a journal. Remember, counselors are there to help you, not to yell at their top of their lungs to everyone that you have ocd. If you dont completely feel comfortable with meeting them in person, you can email/text them or call them! And you can first talk to someone you trust that you think will give you good advice! If you have a school counselor, you can try talking to them too! And accepting that you have OCD and not trying to run from it is a step of getting rid of it. When you have disturbing thoughts, tell yourself that that did NOT happen and that here you are, existing along with other people, breathing and moving and with your loved ones. I'm not some amazing counselor who has 5.0 stars on their ratings or stuff but I understand how other people feel, and I'm writing the things that helped me! So dont be afraid to talk to someone, your mental health matters ❤
This is actually a really well done explanation. I have OCD, and mine is more of a mix of the second, third, and fifth kinds you mentioned. I'm glad of your research and I'm also just really interested in mental disorders in general. Great work!
I never knew I had it until now. I had It started since I was 5, and now I’m going into junior high. I just didn’t know... and I know my mom wouldn’t believe me if I told her.
I do that too but, because i fear that the save will be corrupted and the game will crash, and i will have to delete it and reload another, i save like 3 times in skyrim
Intrusive thoughts and compulsions always bothered me. I can track it all back to 3 or 4 years old. I don't want to self-diagnose, but I will say I show symptoms of OCD for sure. I do have ADHD (diagnosed). A lot of people don't know this, but ADHD and OCD have a surprising amount of overlap. for example, repetitive compulsions can overlap with hyperactive fidgeting. In fact, they enhance some symptoms of one another (unfortunate for me :/).
Yeah I think I’ve noticed that like when I need to move/fidget but don’t realize it and it makes me really uncomfortable and anxious which enhances my OCD
OCD is tough it has gotten alot better in my case. But I still remember the endless nights of standing up and laying down in bed over 20 times or having to repeat the same word until I couldn't even understand what was going on. It's mental torture.
I have OCD and it really sucks, I make myself do these things such as touch the shower head 50 times before I can leave the shower! I make myself think that if I don’t do it something bad will happen! After a while, I feft like I was so different to others and all these thoughts inside my head got to me. I started feeling like there was something really wrong with me! But after I started watching these videos and talking to my parents about it, it made me feel a lot better! I’m only 11 years old, but trust me, if you have OCD and you are really struggling with it, tell someone that you trust! :)
When I was younger, I always said I had OCD because I thought it was “quirky” I feel terrible, because now that I’m older, I understand how terrible OCD is to deal with everyday
I think I have ocd because I get a lot of intrusive thoughts that make me do things. It was worse when I was younger, because I didn’t know what to do and I had to do whatever the thoughts said. Now I think it’s better because whenever I have those intrusive thoughts, instead of listening or doing whatever they tell me to, I ignore it and just think “nothing bad will happen if I don’t do that. My loves ones will not be harmed (that’s usually what the intrusive thoughts say if I don’t do something). God is protecting us (I’m a really religious person so this sentence helps).” Every now and then I do listen to the obtrusive thoughts, but a lot less frequently than I used to.
This disorder absolutely destroyed my whole teenege life in many different ways even tho I’m heathy now I have so much trauma from all the years it have destroyed for me.
My OCD gets so bad and i get trapped in my own mind everyday. Sometimes i have to force myself put of my own head, and i use "aggression" to get out of that negative mindset. I always just push it to the back of my mind and tell myself im "Okay".
I think I've had OCD for a long time but I'm finally learning what it is and recognizing it. I don't have a diagnosis but I strongly believe I have it. It's been getting a lot worse this past year and it's becoming uncontrollable. I was in tears from it the other day. I'm far too scared to ask my parents to take me to the doctor for it, does anyone know how I can fix it by myself?
I know you’re probably scared to ask, but getting an official diagnosis and letting your family know what’s going on will make you feel a lot better, (I m not claiming to have ocd just wanted to give you some advice) I hope you have a wonderful day.
Bro the best thing to is to realize that no matter how many times you do a thing or repeat a particular action, it's no use. Your gonna get temptations do do it again.
I know all of us are here, we are being tortured by OCD which mentally & physically drains us - I've had severe attacks myself which made me want to breakdown & cry. I just want you all to know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I feel you. We feel you. Everybody in the world is imperfect & you don't have to be perfect although I know it's hard to believe that right now. All of us are imperfect human beings, which beautifully crafts perfection. Please just hang in there, it will get better, it will stop. I promise.
I have very weird and scary thoughts that haunts me and give me so much fear and anxiety especially when I try to sleep I feel very scared sometimes that I will loose control on everything and go mad
I have severe OCD and I know I’m not alone. It really is mental torture. I suffer greatly from it and I know that a lot of people as well. You’re not alone and you will beat this ocd sickness. Stay strong and don’t give up. Seek professional ocd help and take the ocd meds like Luvox. Good luck every1!
My sisters really struggles with severe ocd and I had problems with ocd too I used to tap every door frame I walked by with both of my hands and I had to do it and I had to check other things like 30 times but as I grew up I stopped doing this things cause it was way to exhausting doing this things I didn’t have time for these things and I thought I was a psycho or something and I suddenly stopped. My sister is really suffering from it and I don’t get it why people can’t stop doing these things like I did.
I struggled with this more as a child and young adult… I had to step on every line in the sidewalk at school. If I missed it, I went back to step on it and got in trouble for leaving the line. I still hit the lock button on my key fob three times instead on just once.
I am having same Symptoms of this Disorder I get severe thoughts that damages my emotions killed my happiness. Firstly i thought it is just my overthinking but now i am able to understand this and i will show this up to a Consultant
My OCD got so bad I had to move back in with my parents, but they hate me for how disruptive my symptoms are. They treat me with contempt because they believe I'm attempting to control their lifestyle, but I'm really not. I'm just attempting to make myself feel safe and to keep them safe too. I can't begin to tell you how it feels to have the guilt of ruining people's lives because of it. And how demoralizing it is to be yelled at saying I'm not normal I don't wanna live like this either. Life is hell. Every split second is a panic and living around people who you can't trust to respect boundaries or with unpredictable people sends the anxiety and OCD into overdrive. If anyone is reading this and knows someone with OCD please be kind and supportive because every moment is a battle with ourselves and we need people on our side.
I wonder if I have OCD because I’m going to admit that I get obsessed with girls that I find attractive and they always break my heart because they get uncomfortable and block me I don’t think I’ll ever get a relationship if I keep struggling like this
@@xdrazormon454 I don't perhaps think that's the case necessarily.... You're not wrong for feeling how you feel but there are a lot of disorders (that nobody truly understands yet) that involve the overlap between attention (ie things that grab your attention) and emotional dysregulation (ie. ability to self regulate feelings). It could maybe be ASD related hyperfocus (again, all of OCD, ADHD, ASD issues _might_ be a issue?). OCD is such a crippling and paralyzing disorder that I'm scared of touching objects... Plastic bags, doing laundry... It's a thing where people aren't even involved and I'm sacrificing human relationships to deal with cleaning. I hope the best, don't know your circumstances but hopefully given you other options too coz I've def been where you are before and underlying causes overlap and can even occur side by side
I keep having these compulsions to touch certain things, make something even etc...if I don’t someone will die it’s getting to the point where I can’t focus on ANYTHING because of it because I have to do all this stupid stuff or my cat will die.
I've been questioning whether or not I have some mild traits of OCD or PTSD or if it's just similarities with them that are actually just my Anxiety, but I experience the following: -Before I leave my house or any house I absolutely have to make sure all the ovens and stoves are off and if I don't, I get these visions and thoughts that are really hard to get rid of about my dogs trying to claw their way out of my house as it burns down. *(I'm not really 100% sure what constitutes intrusive thoughts but..)* -I absolutely always stay in my house and hardly ever leave in fear of putting my dogs or belongings in danger. -Every time I don't see a family member, I always imagine them in danger or dead or in a car crash somewhere and it remains like that for hours. -I don't drive a car because I'm always on edge that something bad will happen and even if I am not driving, I constantly am looking around at my surroundings and I've been called out by other people about how aware I try to be over what's happening and making sure everything is alright. -Memories of toxic relationships flash in my head when I think of certain words/games/songs that kind of revolve around it. -I line things up a lot and make them neat and tidy and straight and I have to get them a perfect way or else it just makes me feel mentally uncomfortable. (I know there's a bad stigma around OCD and people thinking it is just neatness, so it is probably just me being a perfectionist.) -Sometimes if I am in a quiet area or just an area in general, I always have the what-if voice in my head. Aside from (for example on a bus ride) what-if this happens that leads to this which makes us all crash and die or get hurt (because I feel that too), I just have these urges to scream at the top of my lungs. But just a sort of sense of self-realization that tells me that anything is possible or anything can happen and that I possess the ability to just do random things and random times and there's technically nothing holding me back. -Visions that seem like movie scenes play out when I have plans to go anywhere that always result in a negative outcome fill my mind and makes me want to leave home even less. -Every thought I have makes me feel inferior or guilty or shameful about how I do things as simple as walking or breathing or looking around at people. -i have thoughts I can't control like how at 21:20 he was talking about stabbing people to death. I have these thoughts and of course I'm never go to ever act upon it, but it plays out in my head and I really hate when it happens because it makes me feel like garbage. It kind of falls under that what-if that was previously mentioned but sometimes it feels like a pull towards committing just the random act, but I fight and usually don't. -I constantly am checking doors and windows to make sure no one is listening outside of them or watching me from outside. I'm usually very uneasy when I am in a room at night with open curtains. -Nothing makes me feel safer than sitting in my home away from people. -Whenever I drive over bridges, I always imagine them opening and us falling through and drowning. I always imagine them just falling in general, taking all of the cars with it. -I hoard a lot. I hoard my clothes and my stuffed animals in fear of me regretting getting rid of them and then I'd get really depressed because I start spiraling about how I can never get them back and then I feel like I've lost a huge chunk of myself and I always get really sad whenever I think of something I ate that someone wanted or something I got rid of that someone wanted to keep. -I always feel like the world is against me and that people know what I am thinking and they know what I am doing and how I act even when no one is nearby. A feeling that there are always cameras around me. Especially when I am in bedrooms or taking part in certain activities, I get the sense that people have hidden small hidden cameras throughout the room or audio receivers and everything I am doing I am being recorded. -I feel that whenever I am on my phone or computer, someone is watching my screen either from behind me quietly whether it be in person or through a camera, or just through the computer screen itself It probably isn't anything other than anxiety, but I figured videos like these would probably be an alright place to kind of see if anything stands out in particular just to be safe.
I have my appointment in a few weeks as I’ve been thinking a LOT about life and after life and causes me anxiety, at first I thought it was depression, but then I discovered OCD, I thought it was only the obsession about cleaning, but after watching this video I realized I have OCD, Depression, depersonalization/derealization, and overthinking 😢
Nice video.I came from wikipedia ocd page. I'm suffering ocd for a long time.This video helps me a lot.Instant to subscribe this channel now.Keep up the good work,also I will share this video for more people to understand what ocd is.
OCD has been a part of me my entire life. It has consumed my daily life and made it way more challenging. The different types of fixations I’ve had have varied greatly over the years. I’ve always had to touch things evenly like if I press something with my left pointer finger I have to do that with my right pointer finger. Needing to always double, triple, quadruple, etc. check things is always been a problem for me. The most severe forms of OCD have been over the last few years. There’s like this little person in my head ‘saying’ things which I can’t control. I also have sensory OCD, especially with bodily functions. At first I couldn’t go anywhere without focusing on lights, reflections, the sun, and anything with glare. I would get so scared I would go blind because I would look at the sun glare and fixate on it (it’s worst in water where the glare is extreme). I got over that and then it turned into hearing high pitched noises and background noise (especially chewing, swallowing, crunching, coughing, and loud breathing). And finally, for the last 4 months I have nonstop constantly been thinking about my swallowing and the only reason it’s as bad as it is is because other people hear and see when I swallow so I get super anxious around people and constantly swallow. When I’m watching a movie, in a quiet room, or talking with people (especially when background noise is at a minimum) I cannot stop focusing on my swallowing. It’s to the point where I don’t want to do anything social with people because I cannot stop thinking about my swallowing and it’s so frustrating. If anyone is going through something like this than please tell me about your experience, and if anyone has gotten past this than tell me how you did it, because I feel like this is the worst form of my OCD I’ve had.
My OCD has to do with my parents about 80%. I’ve never heard of any one else with a similar type of OCD. I don’t know why my OCD manifested that way but as you can imagine it made my childhood unbelievably difficult. Both of my parents have invisible germs (yes I know they’re not actually real germs) and it kept/keeps me from having physical contact with them. They contaminate anything they come into contact with and each object has levels of contamination. Thankfully my OCD is 1000x better than it was when I was younger. I have the most incredible parents who loved me even when my illness made them my enemy. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have them.
I have been trying to find videos on this stuff because just a couple weeks ago I hit my head pretty hard. Now I cant stop organizing I have completely redecorated and realigned all of my furniture and wiped down every inch if i see something that is not clean to my liking I have to no matter what fix it I literally cant ignore it.
I’m starting to feel like maybe I have ocd, when I hear yelling or if I’m under stress I have to tap every one of my fingers against a table or something. I make the same rhythm of taps every time and do it until my anxiety calms down. I have to check out my window like ten to fifteen times a day and I don’t even know why. I always have to check three or four times if I flushed the toilet every single time I go to the bathroom, when I write if I don’t like the way a word is written or if I mess up I have to start over completely on a new page because even using white out bothers me so bad, I always get a terrifying thought every night that someone will break into my house and kill my family and it happens every single night and sometimes keeps me up late, I always bite my nails until they bleed because I feel like I have to sometimes and I don’t know why. I can’t tell if this stuff is an indication I have OCD but nobody takes me seriously. My mom doesn’t agree and won’t take me to possibly get a diagnosis. It’s really hard.
Same here, I have so much fear as if someone will break in my home at night and kill of my family...and so I always check my door ,windows and gas before I sleep
Hi! This are just a thought. Don't make such such thoughts real. U have identified yourself with such thought. So stop making this type of thought and don't believe in such thought because they are not real. Now whenever such type of thought came then don't do what thought tells u to do. Just observe the thought without reacting to it and u will see that if u dont react to the the thought then after sometime the thought will go away. Just don't believe in the thought and don't make this thought real. Always have positive thinking because what u think that u become so if u want positive changes in your life then think positive thoughts only.
@@kanakpatel3614 If you ignore OCD, you most likely feel uncomfortable for the next 2 hours. Then the feel that you have to do it eventually get's away but you immedieately get the next exercise. I even had the same exercise controlling my mind and make me feel uncomfortable for a full week. At least that was for me so. So it's not as easy as you might think.
I really despise my OCD everyday of my life I have to do everything in 3’s and if I do not do them I always have that feeling that something bad will happen if I do not do these rituals. These rituals would include shaking my head 3 times, locking my car 3 times, or even knock on a door 3 times. I always hated it, it’s wrong of me to say but I absolutely hate it and I wish it can go away.
OCD is a terrible neurological and genetic disorder that cannot be cured. At best, it can be managed. And, as we’ll see, managing the disorder comes down to managing one’s values.
I haven't been diagnosed but I'm pretty sure I have OCD. At the beginning (5 years ago) it was really difficult to live with. I was only 13 and I thought I was mentally ill. I didn't want to tell my parents about it, fearing they would find me crazy. I thus suffered in silence and it got worse and worse. I had many compulsions and I made ritual patterns to soothe myself. It was really exhausting. In fact, I couldn't be happy anymore. But, 2 years ago or so, I figured that I could just accept and ignore those intrusive thoughts. I saw that as a challenge and I gradually got rid of some of them. These last two years, I've finally opened up and tried to tell what I had to some people but, except for my older sister, no-one really understood my pain. Now that I'm of age and able to make decisions for myself, I think about talking to a psychiatrist. I reckon it might help me. I ain't a professional and I don't know a lot about the subject but I'd be glad to help you. Feel free to share you own experience with me. Good luck to everyone who's suffering of that annoying disorder...
I have OCD and I hate people around me when they say they have OCD just because something is annoying them, they don't understand you can really suffer from it.
Yeah that's why i always bring my phone to entertain me. : D
they think its cool , but im literally so fucked up
Prod.By.Waves i just realized that i have ocd life fr it started 1 year ago or something and realized that something was wrong i didn’t know why i tired to make it stop but i can’t that i found a video about ocd and i figure it out that that’s what i have and i can’t live with it anymore i really just want this to stop but i don’t know how
you're literally doing that idiot
Ikr
I suffered from OCD of germs and organising 3 years ago and it fucked me up so bad till I went to a therapy and I got into alot of fights with people who laughed at the situation
My biggest struggle with OCD is me fearing that someone can hear my thoughts, or is somehow watching my thoughts so I can never feel comfortable to have my own thoughts. That is an OCD struggle according to my doctor
for me am affraid that my thoughts are wrong
Fernando Rodriguez same. And also my ocd causes me to have weird thoughts
same I'm afraid that a mind reader or a psychic comes out of nowhere and tells everybody my weird thoughts and embarass me.This is one of the reasons I don't go out of the house.
same I'm afraid that a mind reader or a psychic comes out of nowhere and tells everybody my weird thoughts and embarass me.This is one of the reasons I don't go out of the house.
@@심설하-r6k you just have to not care about what's going on in your head make peace with your thoughts let them be there don't try to fight them and argue with them and know that it just a fear that grown because you gave it too much attention
and the best you can do is read and get educated about psychosis like schizophrenia so u can convince yourself that it not what's happening to you
since i wrote the comment 5 days ago i can say that i'am 95% over my fear
I hate when people say they have OCD just because they like being organized
Yep
They always show it on TV as hand washing. It can have nothing to do with that and so severe!
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I hate when i tell people I have OCD and they think thats all it is... like its not easy to live like this
HappyCamz very true. I haven’t told anyone but a few close friends, but sometimes my strange habits leak into my life at school and I wonder if people notice
As someone with OCD, it’s important to mention:
When we do the “rituals” that seem obscure, weird and not logical, WE KNOW THAT IT’S WEIRD AND NOT LOGICAL. But we still need to do it. That’s what’s so upsetting, knowing it but having trouble avoiding doing it
Yeah, if I don't do them I feel a feeling of anxiety or a compulsion to do it.
If I don't I feel extremely uncomfortable.
@@IsaacWale2004 exactly
Hi! Do you have that still? I've had that for two years and since that time,I've had no any friend.Can we friend?
Cool lie
@@Hiraimomoooo actually I found it for myself tdy
OCD is exhausting and time consuming. It mentally wears you down.
i agree, i have ocd. it’s torture
*When your brother is a walking pigsty and you have OCD:* 😔🔫
Nonsense.
Agreed... it makes it hard for me to function in daily life sometimes.
It really is hard. When I remember something that i haven't fixed, even in midnight, i clean my room idk why. When I remember about something i lost which i don't even know if i will use it, i go crazy finding it.
It's like you have missions and you can never complete them
Basically
It is a curse
True. It's horrible
And keep repeating them and keep repeating them and keep repeating them. It’s a mission that never ends.
Kevin Baker exactlyyyy
Sometimes you feel like you’re Alone with ocd but seeing all these comments kinda relieves me a little bit knowing that there are other people out there that understand you
Yes we understand you please never feel alone God is with us all and he cares for us
Yeah I know right? I also have OCD
Yeah
The Dumbest Cousins EXACTLY
This is literally how I feel also
To everyone who's reading this: I honestly hope you'll find your way to the life you really deserve...
Why do I keep blinking 4 times when I do like 5 I blink 3 times to make 8 I keep blinking multiples of 4 plz help
I support your movement. 💚
@@ifheavenwashuman Thank you so much! ❤️
Thank u so much
Thank you!
OCD is not a joke. It is a mental torture that consumes your life and happiness.
I belive for some reason I'll die if everything is not perfect for example I'm scared that a killer will kill me so I dont leave any cracks and i check everywhere so no-one is hiding and if I hear noises aNyWhErE then I'll carry a knife to protect myself!! Also I feel like ppl can read my mind!! I'm so stressed out!!
Yeah I'm always Sad cause I have OCD for 6 years.
@@haniegh9562 im so sorry for you guys i will never understand the mental torture that people with ocd go through daily, god bless :(
@@emilia-ig2fd Thanks
@@haniegh9562 You probably tried it already, but my therapy helped me a lot. Hope your thinkings are free again soon.
If I touched something with my right hand, I need to touch it with my left hand as well!!! Cause my brain haunts me :(
May God bless you
Peachgguk Tae :) you too
Me too! I dont know why i did it just to make things balanced i suppose
@@kermit6419 May God bless you
Nush Sumodhee I have to do everything 4 times
When I was younger my mind would force me to do things, like touching something saying something, it was annoying because I felt like I was being threatened.
I sometimes feel the need to make certain sounds until it feels right again
omg is that OCD because my littlesister says that she always have and needs to "bend" her thumbs and i keep asking her why and she always says that she doesnt know, she just has to.
Omg that's the same with me it is as uf somebody it telling you to do thease things but you can not actually hear them the problem is I am 13 and I wanna go to docter to ask about it but I have tried to ask before for help and tried to explain it but no body took me seriosly until my mum finally listened to me but I am scared to go to the docter because I'm paranoid that they will say some crap like It's cause of school Idk if u have been there please help me out man
¿ǝuoɥd ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉddᴉlɟ noʎ ǝɹɐ ʎɥM thats how I feel today
¿ǝuoɥd ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉddᴉlɟ noʎ ǝɹɐ ʎɥM mee too
I’m writing this here because I have no where else to say this. I’m a 14 year old and I have these rituals, but I don’t want to self diagnose. Whenever I walk down my hallway, I have to step on every other tile. If I want to open an app I have to do it 3 different times before actually using the app. Every night I push my bed against the wall 8 times and if I don’t I feel like my family is in danger. I’m afraid to ask to be properly diagnosed because I don’t want to be a financial burden. I don’t know why I’m typing this, I just needed to get it out.
don't worry bro
we are with you 😂💯
I do the exact same as you, I don't know if I actually have ocd but you aren't alone
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I have OCD and a speech disorder, ( My doctor said i'm over worried, but all of my symptons are exactly the same as OCD and speech disorder symptons ) I'm like you but it's worse, i can't arrange words and make it into a sentence, it's just like there's 1000 words in my mind and i can't use all of them at once, so everytime i'm speaking, i stutter alot to choose which word should i use, I started to be bored of living, it's like i'm a living corpse, i keep saying something wrong all the time, when i'm speaking it feels like i already said that word even though in reality i haven't and it's just my imagination, annoying disease, i have to re read words over and over again for 30 times, i have to say words over and over again for 30 times, even when i'm typing, it feels like everything is wrong and i had to delete some wrong words, because there are too many word that pops up in my mind and i keep saying the first words that pops in my mind, which is sad. Also i'm 14 and an Indonesian native speaker, even i don't use english as a native language, my english wasn't this bad.
@@chips.3927 you're 14 , relaxxx
literraly it feels like my brain is threatening me sometimes cause i have to repeat certain thigs over and over until it feels fine.
Me tooo
Me too i had it like for ever and I never knew its like u hv to do it or something bad is gonna happen but Idrk what to do
Same here man. Hope it gets better.
Yeah.
Omfg literally never related to something more in my life
My Brain: *Exists*
Weird Thoughts: *It’s free real estate*
Especially when you’re sleeping.
*if you don't blink 10 times your family will die*
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4- no, wait. That didn't feel right. Do it again.
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Azzaya Nergui sammeeee this happens to me all the time and it’s annoying af but i feel compelled to do that random thing or else my family dies or something bad
This video forgot to mention that most of the times the sufferer undertands that the obsessions and compulsions are irrational. I have severe OCD myself, mostly hygiene related. When I was at my worst i could stay in the shower for over 5 hours. It's not that I actually believe that i'm still dirty and I know that I can't get any more "clean", but as fast as I leave the shower I get a weird compulsion to enter the shower again, Sometimes without any motive at all, It just dosens't "feel right". It's really weird to explain. People are always to judgmental and says things like "just snap out of it" it's like telling an addict to just stop using.
a l oh my god... i think i have ocd. i feel the need to do that alot and whenever i see a conversation is ending i have to say the same word everytime that happens, or else i just feel numb. its why i scream whenever i wrap my cables wrong. Thank you. Im gonna go to the doctor
I get it. It's like having a soul wedgie. Every thing feels wonky and off. I was on food loop for a while. I had to eat a donut every day. If I didn't, it was all I could think about for the rest of the day. I'll admit I like sweets, but it was to the point I was crying while eating them. I just wanted that feeling to go away.
Yeaah..
that's not ocd lmao
oh my gosh I completely understand the "feel right" that's exactly what I say when explaining my obsessions and compulsions to friends or family
I never knew what OCD truly was and will never underestimate it. It sounds like a living nightmare to go through and I hope anyone that goes through this can see happier days. My girlfriend has OCD and she is doing fine but it still bothers her from time to time. I will always be there for her because I wouldnt want to go through this alone
Thank you
I’m at a point where I’m not diagnosed, so I don’t claim to have OCD. But I have these obsessions and compulsions that inhibits my ability to think clearly. I’m often attacked by thoughts that trouble me greatly. It’s like torture, I have these moments where I’m surrounded in irrationality but there’s that looming sense of unsureness. I don’t know at this point.
i'm waiting to get diagnosed too but corona happened
Divine Kila I know, I just want some assurance, but I can’t until quarantine is over
Samee but like it's minor like only sometimes it's not that bad but I have those characteristics and I still remember when I was younger I so I have to pray before I eat I prayed so many times couse to double check if I actually prayed till my friend realised but God bless me now it's starting to fade for some reason @-@
Josh B i think i have it but every time i mention it to my mom, she says i have to stop thinking about it
Same, I'm going to a therapist after this but that's also because I have tics.
The "repeat" mechanism was presented way too simplified. You don't just endlessly repeat stuff and then suddenly stop for no reason. There's always some system or idea behind the repeats. It's either a "good" number, like, for example, you define 5 as a "good" number, because when you were five you got that instrument that you still love and play, or you met your loved one 5 years ago. You choose the number and you define it. There's no logic behind it, it just has to be reasonable for yourself in some way. So, if 5 is a good number, you will repeat 5 times. There are other methods too, though. Sometimes you will have to repeat indefinitely until it feels like you "did it right". Again, the definition is made by you. It can be anything and also more than one thing. For example, you have to repeat until you manage to finish the action exactly after an exhale and before you start to inhale again. If you "don't succeed" on a try, you have to repeat until you "get it right". A mix of methods is also possible. Like, you have to repeat for 5 times, but also make sure to finish number 5 with a "good" action. If you fail, you have to repeat the 5 and try to "get it right" again. That is why and how it gets time consuming. If you fail, then the fear kicks in. And it's agonizing. So much so, that it can keep you at a task for a very long time.
My OCD was so bad at one point, I almost choked myself on several occasions, because I tried to control my breathing insanely. I had other OCD issues too, but that one was the most exhausting. I managed to get better and I keep track of my personal development and as soon as I recognize a negative development I get back to my ERP and fight it. I don't always succeed at everything. But most of the time I do. I haven't choked myself in 4 years now. I'm still struggling, but I'm fighting every day and the fact that I got better helps me to keep going. It gets tougher around winter. The other day I found that I had started rituals again while watching commercials of meds against flu. I have this weird idea that if I don't I'll miraculously get sick when watching them. So I started to very consciously watch them again, making very sure I don't perform any rituals. I keep doing that for a few days and the urge to perform is basically gone. One important trick is to realize when rituals try to sneak in again. You have to detect and fight them, or they will slowly take over. I have experienced it. Doing one annoying thing isn't all that bad, after all. If it makes you feel better, why not? Then another thing comes up and it's just one thing, so you can do that little thing too. Then one more thing comes up and before you realize it, all you do is try to prevent disaster from happening with the weirdest methods. Just the act of "going to bed" from the living room to the actual bed could take up to about 45 minutes for me - not to mention the terrifying fear that I experienced among the way. (Yes, it can take that long, or even longer, remember you don't just have to do it, but you have to do it "right" - or repeat.) Today I do it very simply, just like everybody else. During times that are stressful the compulsions can sometimes come forth more forcefully and get to me, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. So, if anyone who suffers actually reads this: Don't give up! It's worth the fight. It's worth the fear and the sweats and the tears, because at the other end there's a better life.
Exactly. OCD means more that double check or repeat something. I have OCD alongside schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. I reach an illness level that gives me pain, literally. For me, even the most simple and common things that people can think at, are very difficult to do. I have experienced all things you've written about, with breath control and going to bed and even with the good and bad number and what terrible fear i feel if I don't do it "right". My way to control it was telling myself that this is not real, is just in my mind, but from a certain point it stopped working, I think my brain was getting used to it and it started to ignore it. So, it is very hard, I'm pretty fucked up. And more painful is that people around me say that I'm just weak or stupid, they don't realize how it is to have an mental illness.
i think i may have this disorder...but i don’t want to offend anyone if i don’t
so i always had anxiety with fixing things, like arranging, but that isn’t exactly ocd
then,this summer, i feel this strange urge that if i don’t redo something or tap something in the right place..something bad will happen
like, today i was flushing the toilet and closing the seat..and i thought to myself..if i don’t tap the toilet again..something will happen..so i keep tapping it unlit it feels right..
Yes
I know your comment is 9 months ago but goodness this explains everything. I have similar "activities" like that and I'm not a hygienic person at all! But the thoughts are really really time consuming bcs it makes me do irrational "ritual". Some days I even dont wanna go to bed bcs just imagining the steps it takes to go to sleep already exhausts me. And it gets bad when I get my pms and even the period itself, the hormonal imbalance might be the cause.
At least I’m not alone with that 5number thing
i click on these videos so i can read the comments and feel less alone :(
Same
Your not alone bro it’s just hard to find someone that understands man
Same
True
If you observe closely, every person has mental disorder of some kind.
It's just that we're having more tests nowadays to learn about these things.
I developed OCD (intrusive thoughts, ruminations, compulsions) when I was only 10 or 11. It was debilitating, and I thought I was going crazy. I was diagnosed when I was super young. I’m 26 now and still struggle with it. It can feel very isolating.
Can totally relate to you. It can make us feel so isolate but may be because 50-60% of those with OCD have MDD as well which is even more difficult to manage
Read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston & Martin Seif... It can help you a lot to understand how we get stuck with these thoughts and how we can come out of them
I’m 27 now but I’m the same as you. OCD takes over my life
@@mattyr3724 I also have ocd. Usually after doing masturbation or eating or any other thing my compulsion is mentally repeating those things like how i done those things and gets temporary relief and joy. But after 3-4 minutes same compulsion comes again with more power. Sometimes feels panick attacks for no reason. I am 27 now male.
Medicine helped me a lot.
i looked up ocd tonight and literally had every symptom. i haven’t even been diagnosed or told my parents but my life is almost hell. don’t worry i would never hurt myself but having ocd sucks and i honestly would never wish it upon anyone else.
I'm scared bro I have some of this symptoms..can I comes off from this 😒😒
I have obsessions but my compulsions are avoidance, reassurance, and locking the door.
God Bless you ❤️
My issue is I've had shared a lot of symptoms with many disorders I've researched which is why I'm so worried about self diagnosing. Its hard for me to tell the difference between what I'm experiencing.
Read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston & Martin Seif... It can help you a lot to understand how we get stuck with these thoughts and how we can come out of them
I have OCD and takes over my life. I hate it.
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same here. I'm up at 4 am because of my panic attacks.
Larry TM, Whenever I have pain attacks I listen to this song. m.th-cam.com/video/rds7V5Sxu-4/w-d-xo.html
IDK, maybe it can help you.
Exactly the same here. My hands are completly sore vevside og my OCD. I can’t even walk out the door normally.
U can watch the channel youhaveocd here at yt the person who owns this channel has recovered from severe ocd u can get constantly support from this channel and remember that u can recover but to recover u have to do the work ot takes some time like 7 or 8 months usually but u will recover eventually if u do the work of corse!!!
Description Untitled I'm sorry. Same here, however, meds and therapy have helped.
to me it’s like having challenges on a timer that you can never complete
jichuu❤️
To everyone who is struggling with OCD, just keep fighting it and hold on to your life. I know you can keep your life together. I love and believe in you.
My mind always forces me to do things
For example:
"Jump over there or your family is gonna die"
Is that OCD? Im scared
i always have that besides my intrusive thoughts and compulsions...u‘re not alone buddy
omg me too, except it’s not my family that’s being targeted but me
@@hj-li2nd sometimes its me, but i dont really care if i die tho lmao
I have never felt this so much in my life
literally this describes me so well, and i try to tell myself that nothing bad will happen if i don’t do the thing my head tells me to do, but i feel like i have to
It haunts me even when I'm on my phone, Everytime I like a comment,I have to like 2 more,if I do it 4 times,I have to do it 2 more times again and so on.
Me too
Exactly pretty much
I blink 4 times each blink so I can get more comfortable I do the same thing but idk if it's ocd
Jesus same
i have something similar with the numbers 6 and 13. since people have made them seem like they are bad numbers or something like i can’t like an instagram post they has been posted six hours ago or something. or if for instance if something had like five replies and i want to reply as well i can’t or else i will be the sixth reply and something bad will happen. like this comment had four replies before i replied so it’s fine
I'm so happy I'm here
I feel I'm not the only one
Comm Grad we are in this together ✊
Here for ya, brotha. OCD crew checkin in, brb suffering right now
Same
Yesterday I was diagnosed with OCD included high anxiety and a little panic. And also depression. It’s sad to know OCD is hard to be cured completely. But since I know my disorders, I hope I, and we can find the way to live with OCD through the cure . Thank you for reading my not-good English comment. Hope today is better for you :)
it is definitely hard to completely get rid of, but it also does get better! It might sneak through occasionally but at some point it shouldn't bother your day-to-day life. Good luck!
@@lemonlizard1 Thank you for your cheerful message 😊🌸
Hey I have almost cured my ocd through meditation without meds , if u need help contact
@@christianavocado24 cna you tell us about it please
No one believes me when I say I have OCD when I touch something with my right hand I have to touch it with my left, my brain makes me touch things I would never think of doing, every time I close the shower handle or door I do it again multiple times until I’m satisfied. Another, for example, is when it's like 3:59 I can't stop staring until its 4:00 and I hate it!
This is exactly what I do I haven’t been clinically diagnosed yet
Mangoes In Space me too !
For me, I don't manifest many types of OCD except for the counting whenever I step on vertical lines on the road or tiles on the floor.
This is what exactly I do ☹️
I DO THE HAND THING
this is really weird to describe but i’ll try here we go
if i slap my hands down on a table, but Slap A is harder, louder, and hit first, and Slap B softer, quieter, and hit last, i will do it again, but having the hand that did Slap B do Slap A and vise versa. If I mess up, I do the same thing with those slaps and then carry on. IT DRIVES ME INSANE SOMETIMES
I was recently diagnosed with OCD. For a while, it seemed like nobody understood what I was going through until I discovered this disorder. I’m thankful to know how many people are out there that I can relate to, and I’m glad to know that there is treatment. I feel like this is one of those disorders that people severely underestimate. It’s important to realize that people ARE hurting, which makes it so important to watch over what you say to others, face-to-face and online.
I'm suffering so much, my own mind threads me! It's been a very long time OCD is taking over my life.
Remember everything will be ok! Regardless of what you’re doing everything will be ok...it won’t take over your life. You have the control over yourself and your life and no one can take that from you! If you feel anxious just stop for a second, breathe, and you will calm down. YOU are stronger than your thoughts. Thoughts aren’t as real as we think they are. Wish you a wonderful day
I hope you’re doing better 💕
@@meghan9812 it said it dont have a cure :( on a site
my OCD (as of late) attacks things that bring me comfort or make me happy. Intrusive thoughts will form around this person or thing I love and I’ll feel panicked at the idea of this thing I rely on for relief, being ruined. which then causes me to do a series of compulsions to keep this person or thing safe. it’s exhausting, and a dark characteristic of OCD that I’ve never experienced before until recently. anybody dealing with this, I hope you know you’re not alone, no matter how specific your thoughts and obsessions may seem, someone out there CAN sympathize with you.
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The thing i hate about ocd is that the intrusive thoughts like nvm i can't explain it
Vercingetorix mine put me in inappropriate scenarios that make me feel uncomfortable , graphic picture and death plague my mind all the time
@Vercingetorix mine is me absorbing my bully and his failure nvm i can't explain too
@@guccimaraj8257 mine is a weird dark pixel picture and its scary so I replace the "weird thoughts" with "nice" thought mostly comes up when I'm trying to go to sleep can't go to sleep...
I think about others getting hurt then worry that it will actually happen so I try to tell my thoughts ‘no don’t do it I like that person please’ also I can mentally talk trash about a person and then scenarios pop into my head about something hearing those thoughts, thinking I don’t like that person, and then hurting them so I try and think ‘wait no but I like that person’ and I have this weird thing where I can sort of ‘project’ my thoughts and it feels like I’m launching them somewhere but sometimes I don’t feel the launching of every word so I feel like the demon hasn’t heard all of what I said and so I repeat it over and over again until it does project completely
It’s horrible I feel like I can’t even express pain that someone I love has caused me in my head without fearing them getting hurt...
I also have a lot of terrible intrusive thoughts about morally extremely wrong things then I get scared someone’s reading my mind and hearing these thoughts
There’s a lot more things that just exhaust me and make going out into public with lots of people a huge chore
Gucci Maraj sane it’s crazy
I’ve recently missed two days of school in one week due to physical and mental exaustion from OCD (kept me up till 3AM) it’s much worse than people think it is :/
🙏🙏
Same it’s kept me up so late before, sometimes I have to do things repeatedly for hours and I can’t stop
I've struggled with it in my school Since I was in elementery school.
It’s really exhausting
I just miss heaps of days bc of anxiety 😪
When I was a child, I used to avoid stepping on the cracks on the sidewalks. And I also count the steps before crossing a particular crack. The count has to end in even numbers, and my step should always end on my right foot before crossing the crack. If not, I would get anxious and scared. Is that OCD?
Yeah that's how mine started when I was younger. I used to have to step right inside the squares and swing my arms through the lines.
Go get help. It progresses and changes over time and it can ruin your life.
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, sometimes I still have the urge, but I can control it now. When I was a kid it was worse. But now it only occurs when I'm not busy with anything.
I'm 13 and that's what started it off for me when I was about 10
omg me too i didn’t think it was ocd tho
@@thaliarapatas913 wat did you think it was?
I have OCD and these overwhelming thoughts has brought me to tears but with help from a therapist and pills I got past it and you can to❤
Classmates: OuCh My OCd, YouR HaNdWriting Is HorrIblE
Me in my mind: Somebody SHUT THEM UP
I just tell them to. I makes me upset when people say that
OMG! I have OCD and I didn't know that Why my handwriting is always weird for my classmates. But now I underestand.
@@haniegh9562 huh. Your handwriting is good or no
@@izlshf5879 Yes it's good and everybody can underestand it but everybody always say Why your handwriting is weird and why are you so slow and check your writing again and again?
Actually I always lose my exams time cause my OCD and I write so slow and weird.
@@haniegh9562 well OCD isnt just about perfection
I might just confirmed that i have OCD after i learned about those mental rituals. Everyday i wake up and perform those mental rituals in my head and it causes me distress and making me unfocused.
Some Person I have to do then aswell and I am very confused what it is, I have to like make sure that my door is placed right and repay it five times, or something bad will happen.
@@strictlyfunny1226 same with me 😞
Actually get it diagnosed then. Don't self diagnose
Me too
@@yeahboii6618 yeah
I was recently diagnosed with OCD and I have to say this video knows it's stuff. I have felt with people calling it Obsessive Cleaning Disorder, and am happy to see that most people are enlightened to know that is not the case. Thank you.
OCD started in me when I was 6, and the sad fact is now only am realizing it was a disorder, my whole life I thought I was alone, I did tell my family about these (when I was a kid)but all they did was laughing and my brother always teased me cause I repeated things, I think OCD is the worst disorder , but the good part for me is I overcame this without anyone's help(still a glimpse exist) am so glad about that, I don't think anyone would ever know about what else I've gone through other than you guys, btw I recommend you guys to visit a therapist and I hope everything will be alright for y'all , everything's gonna be fine ❤️
That’s a nice comment my friend. Wishing you luck.
Same is started when I was around 8-9 and I’m 11 nearing 12 now but I only realised that is what it was. Like examples. Stepping on all the titles in a street, if one tiny bit of my toe steps on the tile before it, I have to restart it. Or if my hand touches the wall. My other hand touches it. To equalise touches. I don’t know how it happens but it does. Good luck to you.
@@Aden068 Can relate to that stepping on tiles thing 🥲 if I did anything wrong I will be disappointed and repeated it until I did it right .Do you still struggle with OCD ,if so please do visit a therapist ,never make the same mistake as I did 😔,"SOONER THE BETTER". Anyway hope you're fine and wishing you goodluck 🖤
@@Aden068 sameeee I’m 14 and I’m only realising the things I do aren’t what people without ocd do
Wow! Can you help me ? Please
OCD just makes me feel insane. Everything is so much harder and confusing. I count things. Over and over. Just to confirm that I was right about what I counted lol. Everything has to be level and even. If I touch something with one hand and not the other, I feel unbalanced. As I’m walking on the sidewalk I count my steps and make sure that I never step on the cracks. Only liking numbers to be by multiples of 5; the tv, my car radio, my phone, even the clock bothers me when it doesn’t end with a 0 or 5. I don’t think people realize how exhausting it is. Or how when I forget to set the radio on the right number before I leave the car I feel like something bad will happen to me or someone I love. It’s so ridiculous. I can even see and understand it’s ridiculous. But to my brain it’s not. And it’s so hard to control the impulses. I feel for anyone that goes through this. Whether you have the same experience or something different. OCD is complex and different with everyone and it’s rough.
omg everything has to multiples of five for me too. and if I step on a crack I have to walk backwards and then redo it... not stepping on the crack. I also count my steps and I just can't stop
No way. Your compulsions are just like mine, like all of them. They're exhausting. But I have another compulsion which is the most exhausting one, jumping 18×9 times while landing on both of my kegs at the same time because I have to do things in either 18 times or 9 times depending on the number of pairs of that certain object(my compulsions mostly include moving certain objects, or myself) and 5×5 if that thing is my phone.
I don't know if you would call this ocd ? Because I do the same thing but with car's in a row ?
They all have to be of lined in a row. And I will count over and over again or even by 3×whatever the number may be ,, to confirm that I've counted them correctly. if that makes any sense,.
does this even means anything ??
Im also a counter. never realized it was strange. I do better if I keep busy. crochet or coloring helps. I exaust myself cleaning and arranging.
All these symptoms go for me. BOTH THE TOUCHING AD MULTIPLES ONE. Like if I'm watching a video and I need to pause it I would wait and pause when the digits are either 0 or 5. All the ocd symptoms in the comment r experienced by me. I need to GO TO DOCTOR
I used to wash my hands like 15 times after visiting the restroom. My hands looked like zombie hands.
Omg sameee my hand got so dry and i got so many scars on my hand but I can’t help it!!
Same here⬅️
I'm in so pain i can't handle it anymore. 😓😓😓😓
I've bleed out of my hands after i washed them over 16 time in one night
Did u fix it?
From what I’ve experienced and noticed, OCD differs A LOT between person to person. But it’s really nice to see people connecting over their struggles in the comments. I went a long time without a diagnosis for my OCD and other disorders and I genuinely thought I was crazy. But a diagnoses makes connecting with others and understanding how your own brain works a fair amount easier. Anxiety disorders are scary, if anyone reading this has one, I know the struggle. Stay strong.
My OCD affects how I play games. If I get an unwanted thought while playing a game, it affects how I make progress. For example, an unwanted thought might make me remember something important to the game, but since It was an unwanted thought, I don't do that "important thing" and pretend like I didn't remember it. A better example next. I like being creative, building and etc. An unwanted thought might trigger something creative for me to build. Guess what? It was an unwanted thought that I didn't like, so once again, I pretend like I didn't remember it.
Same :-(
this video brought me so much joy. i was smiling all through it because something i've felt with for such a long time, is being described in a way ive always wanted to but could never let it leave my mouth. one of my obsessions is that nothing i say makes sense, and so as a result of that to help reduce my anxiety from that i repeat myself over and over, trying to make the right words come out until i feel satisfied. i'll be sure to link this vid when someone asks me about my ocd.
*Warning: this is rather gross*
I literally stand in front of a mirror for at least a few hours a day just picking my face, I'm trying to get rid of bumps or blemishes. No, it's not normal, I make myself bleed and I can't stop until the flaw is gone, then another, and another.
I've been late for parties, and I sometimes can't even take notes in class because I am trying to pick again.
It is so embarrassing when people comment on the bleeding or scabs.
I stopped when I was younger (in about 4th grade), but then my sister got psoriasis and she began to get blotches of skin to dry and flake. I began picking at myself again and occasionally try to get the dandruff out of her hair. It's full-blown and I've been trying to use fidget rings and other things to keep my hands busy but the only thing that is slightly improving it is medication.
And now I've started pulling the hair from my arms and legs to the point where somebody has to stop me. I just start with hair that is a little darker than the rest, then I see that this hair looks weird too, and sometimes I have to dig into my skin to be able to get the hair out and finally feel temporary relief.
I think that may be dermatillomania
Wimsem - Tekenen & Knutselen Yeah, I've talked recently with my doctor about it and we're working to try to improve it.
It is only "triggered" (ugh I don't like that word) when I touch my skin and feel something off or if I stare at the mirror for too long, at which point I am sent back into a frenzy of tearing myself apart.
I hope you you get better. ☺
Snickercole I suffer from compulsive skin picking too! I recently started medication so I hope it works. My picking is also triggered when I touch something that needs "fixing" or something, then I will be obsessed about it, like I won't be able to sleep until I picked at it. I do it everyday but sometimes I do it less and it's more manageable. It definitely gets worse when I'm very stressed though
That sounds more like bfrbs then ocd. Bfrbs (Body Functioning Repetitive Behaviours) are compulsive disorders after all! Trichotilliomania is a compulsive hair pulling disorder and dermatillomania is a skin picking disorder.
I feel like everybody watching has OCD.
Nah I came from logics ocd and I'm wondering what it is
Mostly
nope
I have no idea if l have 😅
Lots of people "claim" they have it...
I always keep refreshing my Instagram page to check if I didn’t accidentally go on live or post something and sometimes it get so annoying and makes me panic a lot.
I also have those intrusive thoughts like everyday and it makes me so scared that someone would be able to read my thought.
Also I have thoughts like “If you don’t do this your family will die.”
And when I try to open this problem to someone people just find it ridiculous.
Have you found the solution for this? I also get thought like "if u don't do this" and it's really frustrating
Bro same! For years I felt like people could hear my thoughts which made the intrusive stuff even more agressive. It really is a personalized hell
When i was a kid i would keep turning the light on and off multiple times before bed to make sure it was pressed all the way because i felt like it might short and start a fire if i didnt.
I used to do that because I didn’t like certain numbers so I kept turning lights on an off
Chanyeol’s red hair I still do, I I need to do something for 3,5 or 20 times and I don’t like the numbers 4,6 and 13 how did you stop this
Kitty Cat over time I was so so tired of it so I just stopped caring I told myself that it’s just in my mind and when I saw that after stop doing it it didn’t affect the way I thought it would I believe it and now I don’t do it
Same with the gasoline ugh. I was eating my noodles as a midnight snack and my body urge me to go back to the kitchen and turn off the gas again.
I do that with my charger
Sometimes I have to click and repeat and look at things four times or if I do it one extra time by accident I have to do it 4x4 times this happens really often I try not to do it and I don't think something bad is going to happen I also have ADHD
@@DylOR851 same with me. especially when I'm reading. i have to check some sentence 5 times again and again. if i don't do that i think something bad is gonna happen. and it's so hard to have this disorder ☹
One illness grows and then you can easily have 2 then 3 illnesses of the mind.....the result of incorrect ...wrong thinking patterns...you can learn a lot from it and reverse back into healthier behaviours from correcting the mistake programming....it’s a process to get well like it was to get sick
Could there be memory issues as well to concider...a fault in that part of the brain
Me too! I lose my mind if I do something less than 4 times!
Same When I Turn Off The Lights In My Room I Always Checked It Many Times
As a person having OCD, i can say that this video is very informal and helpful, and is a great way to inform others of what OCD is and how it works. Although OCD for some can be seen to be much darker and horrid than portrayed in this video, you have seemed to take a lighter approach to it, but have still maintained to include many important factors about OCD. anyways, I'm rambling on at this point, great video!!
i have had extremely violent thoughts almost all my life, and adhd and autism, they mix into something horrible idk idk how i could be so unlucky
Just started my own channel and its taken a lot of guts as I have suffered all my life with OCD but your site is amazing and really encourages me and others to challenge OCD. thank you so much for spending the time to help people like me.
Glad to be of help! 👍🏻
Sometimes when I accidently touched something, I automatically have to touch it twice. And everytime I buy groceries, I have to check my wallet dozens of time to make sure my money is still there 😅
@Elly Gilmore same here man 😭 !! I hate my life, I am not able to live my life happily !! Wtf is this Disorder 😭😭😭 I really wanna be a normal person !! OCD is so ridiculous
@@okcool24 I hope u get better!❤💪🏼
Yup i have the same thing. Im not diagnosed but it becomes so worse at me. It letterly causes my faling in sleep thing
@@okcool24 same but I don't know if i have ocd
I have ocd and I has destroyed my life I’m starting medication tomorrow but I haven’t even been able to go to school because of my constant erasing and rewriting along with other things. It’s a nightmare, I’m so tired of it!
Kawaiixox Love omg i do that too!
I DO THIS
I'm so sorry you are going through this....my mother has it pretty severe. I remember going up she did/still does a similar thing. Going through recites a million times rewriting and scratching out what she already read a million times. That's one of the reasons why she's always late.
Me: Touches something in a bottle that’s poisonous
My brain: OMG YOU TOUCHED IT EVEN IF ITS IN A BOTTLE YOU’RE GONNA DIEEEE
Me: *runs in the bathroom to wash my hands*
This happens everyday. I feel as if I get germs on my hands, I seem to HAVE to wash them. Now, my hands are extremely dry and it hurts whenever I wash it with soap. (And yes, this isn’t my ONLY ocd problem.)
yay im not alone
same
Ohm same this happens every day after day :(
I hate it when girls in my class say they have ocd because they fixed something to be neat.
Im finally going to a councillor tomorrow 😊
I have thoughts like:
“Don’t touch the banister on your way down the stairs or you’ll die”
This happens to me quite a lot and I’m very confused. Is this OCD?
I don't think so..!! Don't connect everything with ocd. Control your thoughts. Don't let your thoughts overpower you. After 4-5 times, You will be fine.
Akansha Nathaniel thankyou for the help! :)
Stoopid Crumpet how is it now?? i’m struggling with the same thing :(
@@stoopidcrumpet6679 having idiotic thoughts is not necessarily OCD. It is OCD if the thought keeps coming back even after your brain concluded that it is an idiotic thought.
@@mr.bloggie5614 if the thought does not keep coming back after you dismissed it then its not ocd
I’m pretty sure I have ocd, and it explains a lot of my life, but I’m not totally sure. Is there any way to diagnose without actually going to a physiatrist? I’m not interested in treating it because none of my compulsions are actually serious, I just want some validation. Also, the way this video was organized was very pleasing to me, and exactly how I like to learn.
I think I may have OCD so I am watching a lot of psychology videos to make sure I have it before getting an appointment with a doctor. Well, "rituals" in general seem to resonate with me a lot: for example, I like a certain way of packing my bag, the night before school. I HAVE to do it in that SPECIFIC way and my parents keep on telling me, "It's not efficient, why are you doing it that way?" I just say, "Well, I like to do it that way." Because of this routine, I usually waste around 1:30 hrs of my evening. The last 2 points @2:49 about Repeating and Arranging also relate to me as well.
Well, you're probably already bored so I'll just bore you a tiny bit more with another example. I like texting or writing online with PERFECT punctuation. If I don't, it really bugs me and in the end, I cave in and waste another half a minute editing my text to put in punctuation. All my friends all make fun of me because of this certain habit, joking "Why even bother? It's fricking WhatsApp/Messages; you don't need punctuation!" I never listen. I have an urge to do it that way. And I don't think I ever will change.
2 things to remember:
-I don't really have intrusive thoughts or anything like that. It's more of like my body feels weird; it really bugs me, and I feel in order to stop it I must do/perfect/organise it.
-Wasting of my time does not really bother me. I just say to myself, "It is necessary, I can't change my routine like that!"
So, in conclusion, what do you think? Do you think I may have OCD? Is it worth getting an appointment with a doctor? Thank you.
I'm really not sure if I have OCD but when I was younger, I used to tell myself repeatedly that everything was going to be fine and nothing bad would happen whenever something bad almost happens to me. Like for example when a knife almost falls on me or when using a treadmill, I think that I might be sucked and flattened 💀 (worse if it happens to a close person). I would think about this a LOT and be just spaced out in my room for a few minutes. It doesn't happen to me anymore but I do keep touching the same places in my phone sometimes but I can control it most of the time.
I hate my ocd, it literally controls my life
I'm so sorry. My mother has it bad...at least you admit it.
Ok this video made me sure i have OCD i always thought i might have it but this confirms it. Thanks! My OCD is mainly works like this. When i touch something with my right arms middle finger then i have to do the exact same action with all my other fingers on my hands so it feels "right" this makes sleep almost impossible because i have to sleep straight on my back without turning over or moving because i will get that uncomfortible feeling.
When I was 11, my first case of OCD made its way into my head. I would get those terrifying images in my head and worry that every little step I make can cause a disaster, I would lock myself in to prevent anything. A year later, I would have this compulsion to tell my mom EVERYTHING that goes on in my head, my whole thoughts, I was afraid I would die before telling my mom something important “ridiculous IK” . Then washing my hands for no reasons became an issue, my hands would turn bloody red in the winter and my skin would fall off because I would wash my hands more than 20 times with freezing water a day. I thought I was insane and that no one could understand me, I didn’t even know OCD was a thing and I thought I was the only one in the world who would feel this way, I committed suicide 2 times because I couldn’t handle the pain and the headache I would get, I would be so tired and exhausted. I learned OCD can be passed in generations, I’m afraid that my kids are going have it. I wouldn’t wish OCD to my worst enemy, it’s a torture to the mind that never ends, I’m on meds now, and I do see a therapist, but the compulsions are still here, not as intense, but they will never go...
wow!i couldn’t much comprehend something more than this text!i totally understand you😢❤❤you’re not alone🩷🩷
Im pretty sure I have ocd,I've always had a lot of problems obsessing over things. I also over think things,And I hate when things are out of order,for instance,If something has a knot in it,I would spend hours untieing it. Also,I tend to be afraid of things,even though I know they aren't real,my mind still tries to scare me. I used to..well,I still do,Make up words or things like that,and tell myself,"unless I say this word, nothing can hurt me"
The worst part though,Is I tend to get "Images" in my head,Gore, People being hurt or hurting me,etc. I didn't tell my mother about this until I was twelve, because I was Terrifyed People would think I was crazy,but my mother immediately reconized it,as she has ocd herself. I've been going to therapy for a few months now,for my Social Anxiety as well,But it hasn't been helping much
Queen Of Memes no way I did the exact same thing. I already thought if I said the word "red" in my head then I would be protected from everything. If I touched something dirty, I simply would say red in my head and I would assume all the germs are eliminated.
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I have a weird thing, I don't think it's OCD but with food I can't eat it if people touch it or if it's been on a table or if someone asks for a taste I wipe off the spoon violently I also always say I'm sick if people ask for some of my water I have a big thing about fruit, I cannot eat it if it's been exposed or cut up by someone who isn't me I can't drink out of someone else's glass, once my dad tried to make me eat off a plate that had already been used and I cried and completely refused I also suspect I have mild anxiety
no way i did this alwell , i repeatedly counted my steps and if i didn’t start my steps with my right foot and end with my left , i would have to walk all the way back and repeat until it was perfect, i also washed my hands constantly and most of the times it would start bleeding
I have the exact same thing. I force myself to do rituals to be “safe”.
Nice channel, how come you have so less subscribers ? You guys need more recognition. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Devansh - please help us spread the word!
Osmosis Sure will. Just keep the content flowing!
Osmosis is it ocd when u hear a voice that tells you to do these things
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Hearing voices is auditory hallucination, OCD do not have a hallucination component.
Me watching the video:
My brain: This is some good self care advice
For people who have ocd:
If you are too afraid to talk to someone, write in a journal. Remember, counselors are there to help you, not to yell at their top of their lungs to everyone that you have ocd. If you dont completely feel comfortable with meeting them in person, you can email/text them or call them! And you can first talk to someone you trust that you think will give you good advice! If you have a school counselor, you can try talking to them too! And accepting that you have OCD and not trying to run from it is a step of getting rid of it. When you have disturbing thoughts, tell yourself that that did NOT happen and that here you are, existing along with other people, breathing and moving and with your loved ones. I'm not some amazing counselor who has 5.0 stars on their ratings or stuff but I understand how other people feel, and I'm writing the things that helped me! So dont be afraid to talk to someone, your mental health matters ❤
thanks but my ocd problem is with over journaling and its harder to reach out unelss i record them
This is actually a really well done explanation. I have OCD, and mine is more of a mix of the second, third, and fifth kinds you mentioned. I'm glad of your research and I'm also just really interested in mental disorders in general. Great work!
I never knew I had it until now. I had It started since I was 5, and now I’m going into junior high. I just didn’t know... and I know my mom wouldn’t believe me if I told her.
Same
Me:saves game 12 times after completing a mission
I do that too, usually about 4-5 times to know that the game has really saved :)
I do that too but, because i fear that the save will be corrupted and the game will crash, and i will have to delete it and reload another, i save like 3 times in skyrim
so relatable lol😂😂💯💯
I've done that in The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild.
Me: saves a Word document a lot of times before leaving it.
Intrusive thoughts and compulsions always bothered me. I can track it all back to 3 or 4 years old. I don't want to self-diagnose, but I will say I show symptoms of OCD for sure. I do have ADHD (diagnosed). A lot of people don't know this, but ADHD and OCD have a surprising amount of overlap. for example, repetitive compulsions can overlap with hyperactive fidgeting. In fact, they enhance some symptoms of one another (unfortunate for me :/).
Yeah I think I’ve noticed that like when I need to move/fidget but don’t realize it and it makes me really uncomfortable and anxious which enhances my OCD
OCD is tough it has gotten alot better in my case. But I still remember the endless nights of standing up and laying down in bed over 20 times or having to repeat the same word until I couldn't even understand what was going on. It's mental torture.
Thank you for taking the time to make and share this. It really helped me and I'm so grateful I saw this. Thank you so much.
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I thought I was the only one having this inner voice forcing you to do things
I have OCD and it really sucks, I make myself do these things such as touch the shower head 50 times before I can leave the shower! I make myself think that if I don’t do it something bad will happen! After a while, I feft like I was so different to others and all these thoughts inside my head got to me. I started feeling like there was something really wrong with me! But after I started watching these videos and talking to my parents about it, it made me feel a lot better! I’m only 11 years old, but trust me, if you have OCD and you are really struggling with it, tell someone that you trust! :)
This is anxiety in a whole new level.
Is ocd a symptom of anxiety??
@@xyj8204 yes
When I was younger, I always said I had OCD because I thought it was “quirky” I feel terrible, because now that I’m older, I understand how terrible OCD is to deal with everyday
I think I have ocd because I get a lot of intrusive thoughts that make me do things. It was worse when I was younger, because I didn’t know what to do and I had to do whatever the thoughts said. Now I think it’s better because whenever I have those intrusive thoughts, instead of listening or doing whatever they tell me to, I ignore it and just think “nothing bad will happen if I don’t do that. My loves ones will not be harmed (that’s usually what the intrusive thoughts say if I don’t do something). God is protecting us (I’m a really religious person so this sentence helps).” Every now and then I do listen to the obtrusive thoughts, but a lot less frequently than I used to.
This disorder absolutely destroyed my whole teenege life in many different ways even tho I’m heathy now I have so much trauma from all the years it have destroyed for me.
yea my brain forces me too keep looking out windows, touch walls, and constantly keep checking if the door locked when it is. I got use to it tho.
My OCD gets so bad and i get trapped in my own mind everyday. Sometimes i have to force myself put of my own head, and i use "aggression" to get out of that negative mindset. I always just push it to the back of my mind and tell myself im "Okay".
I think I've had OCD for a long time but I'm finally learning what it is and recognizing it. I don't have a diagnosis but I strongly believe I have it. It's been getting a lot worse this past year and it's becoming uncontrollable. I was in tears from it the other day. I'm far too scared to ask my parents to take me to the doctor for it, does anyone know how I can fix it by myself?
I know you’re probably scared to ask, but getting an official diagnosis and letting your family know what’s going on will make you feel a lot better, (I m not claiming to have ocd just wanted to give you some advice) I hope you have a wonderful day.
@@ummm_88okboomer45 Yeah you're probably right, thank you for the advice, I appreciate it very much. Hope you have a nice day as well!
@@averysanders8865 glad to help!
Bro the best thing to is to realize that no matter how many times you do a thing or repeat a particular action, it's no use. Your gonna get temptations do do it again.
I know all of us are here, we are being tortured by OCD which mentally & physically drains us - I've had severe attacks myself which made me want to breakdown & cry. I just want you all to know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I feel you. We feel you. Everybody in the world is imperfect & you don't have to be perfect although I know it's hard to believe that right now. All of us are imperfect human beings, which beautifully crafts perfection. Please just hang in there, it will get better, it will stop. I promise.
not everyone, plenty of self diagnosed people trying to get a label to feel special in this comment section
I have very weird and scary thoughts that haunts me and give me so much fear and anxiety especially when I try to sleep I feel very scared sometimes that I will loose control on everything and go mad
Are you ok now?
I have severe OCD and I know I’m not alone. It really is mental torture. I suffer greatly from it and I know that a lot of people as well. You’re not alone and you will beat this ocd sickness. Stay strong and don’t give up. Seek professional ocd help and take the ocd meds like Luvox. Good luck every1!
My sisters really struggles with severe ocd and I had problems with ocd too I used to tap every door frame I walked by with both of my hands and I had to do it and I had to check other things like 30 times but as I grew up I stopped doing this things cause it was way to exhausting doing this things I didn’t have time for these things and I thought I was a psycho or something and I suddenly stopped. My sister is really suffering from it and I don’t get it why people can’t stop doing these things like I did.
I struggled with this more as a child and young adult… I had to step on every line in the sidewalk at school. If I missed it, I went back to step on it and got in trouble for leaving the line. I still hit the lock button on my key fob three times instead on just once.
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I am having same Symptoms of this Disorder
I get severe thoughts that damages my emotions killed my happiness. Firstly i thought it is just my overthinking but now i am able to understand this and i will show this up to a Consultant
My OCD got so bad I had to move back in with my parents, but they hate me for how disruptive my symptoms are.
They treat me with contempt because they believe I'm attempting to control their lifestyle, but I'm really not. I'm just attempting to make myself feel safe and to keep them safe too.
I can't begin to tell you how it feels to have the guilt of ruining people's lives because of it. And how demoralizing it is to be yelled at saying I'm not normal
I don't wanna live like this either. Life is hell. Every split second is a panic and living around people who you can't trust to respect boundaries or with unpredictable people sends the anxiety and OCD into overdrive.
If anyone is reading this and knows someone with OCD please be kind and supportive because every moment is a battle with ourselves and we need people on our side.
It always sucks whenever out of all people, your parents don’t support you. Sorry to hear that.
I wonder if I have OCD because I’m going to admit that I get obsessed with girls that I find attractive and they always break my heart because they get uncomfortable and block me I don’t think I’ll ever get a relationship if I keep struggling like this
@@xdrazormon454 what you stated wouldn't be considered a symptom of OCD if you were wondering
You got this! I highly recommend a therapist as they will help against your struggle both with your parents and OCD
@@xdrazormon454 I don't perhaps think that's the case necessarily.... You're not wrong for feeling how you feel but there are a lot of disorders (that nobody truly understands yet) that involve the overlap between attention (ie things that grab your attention) and emotional dysregulation (ie. ability to self regulate feelings). It could maybe be ASD related hyperfocus (again, all of OCD, ADHD, ASD issues _might_ be a issue?).
OCD is such a crippling and paralyzing disorder that I'm scared of touching objects... Plastic bags, doing laundry... It's a thing where people aren't even involved and I'm sacrificing human relationships to deal with cleaning.
I hope the best, don't know your circumstances but hopefully given you other options too coz I've def been where you are before and underlying causes overlap and can even occur side by side
I keep having these compulsions to touch certain things, make something even etc...if I don’t someone will die it’s getting to the point where I can’t focus on ANYTHING because of it because I have to do all this stupid stuff or my cat will die.
I've been questioning whether or not I have some mild traits of OCD or PTSD or if it's just similarities with them that are actually just my Anxiety, but I experience the following:
-Before I leave my house or any house I absolutely have to make sure all the ovens and stoves are off and if I don't, I get these visions and thoughts that are really hard to get rid of about my dogs trying to claw their way out of my house as it burns down.
*(I'm not really 100% sure what constitutes intrusive thoughts but..)*
-I absolutely always stay in my house and hardly ever leave in fear of putting my dogs or belongings in danger.
-Every time I don't see a family member, I always imagine them in danger or dead or in a car crash somewhere and it remains like that for hours.
-I don't drive a car because I'm always on edge that something bad will happen and even if I am not driving, I constantly am looking around at my surroundings and I've been called out by other people about how aware I try to be over what's happening and making sure everything is alright.
-Memories of toxic relationships flash in my head when I think of certain words/games/songs that kind of revolve around it.
-I line things up a lot and make them neat and tidy and straight and I have to get them a perfect way or else it just makes me feel mentally uncomfortable. (I know there's a bad stigma around OCD and people thinking it is just neatness, so it is probably just me being a perfectionist.)
-Sometimes if I am in a quiet area or just an area in general, I always have the what-if voice in my head. Aside from (for example on a bus ride) what-if this happens that leads to this which makes us all crash and die or get hurt (because I feel that too), I just have these urges to scream at the top of my lungs. But just a sort of sense of self-realization that tells me that anything is possible or anything can happen and that I possess the ability to just do random things and random times and there's technically nothing holding me back.
-Visions that seem like movie scenes play out when I have plans to go anywhere that always result in a negative outcome fill my mind and makes me want to leave home even less.
-Every thought I have makes me feel inferior or guilty or shameful about how I do things as simple as walking or breathing or looking around at people.
-i have thoughts I can't control like how at 21:20 he was talking about stabbing people to death. I have these thoughts and of course I'm never go to ever act upon it, but it plays out in my head and I really hate when it happens because it makes me feel like garbage. It kind of falls under that what-if that was previously mentioned but sometimes it feels like a pull towards committing just the random act, but I fight and usually don't.
-I constantly am checking doors and windows to make sure no one is listening outside of them or watching me from outside. I'm usually very uneasy when I am in a room at night with open curtains.
-Nothing makes me feel safer than sitting in my home away from people.
-Whenever I drive over bridges, I always imagine them opening and us falling through and drowning. I always imagine them just falling in general, taking all of the cars with it.
-I hoard a lot. I hoard my clothes and my stuffed animals in fear of me regretting getting rid of them and then I'd get really depressed because I start spiraling about how I can never get them back and then I feel like I've lost a huge chunk of myself and I always get really sad whenever I think of something I ate that someone wanted or something I got rid of that someone wanted to keep.
-I always feel like the world is against me and that people know what I am thinking and they know what I am doing and how I act even when no one is nearby. A feeling that there are always cameras around me. Especially when I am in bedrooms or taking part in certain activities, I get the sense that people have hidden small hidden cameras throughout the room or audio receivers and everything I am doing I am being recorded.
-I feel that whenever I am on my phone or computer, someone is watching my screen either from behind me quietly whether it be in person or through a camera, or just through the computer screen itself
It probably isn't anything other than anxiety, but I figured videos like these would probably be an alright place to kind of see if anything stands out in particular just to be safe.
I have my appointment in a few weeks as I’ve been thinking a LOT about life and after life and causes me anxiety, at first I thought it was depression, but then I discovered OCD, I thought it was only the obsession about cleaning, but after watching this video I realized I have OCD, Depression, depersonalization/derealization, and overthinking 😢
Nice video.I came from wikipedia ocd page. I'm suffering ocd for a long time.This video helps me a lot.Instant to subscribe this channel now.Keep up the good work,also I will share this video for more people to understand what ocd is.
OCD has been a part of me my entire life. It has consumed my daily life and made it way more challenging. The different types of fixations I’ve had have varied greatly over the years. I’ve always had to touch things evenly like if I press something with my left pointer finger I have to do that with my right pointer finger. Needing to always double, triple, quadruple, etc. check things is always been a problem for me. The most severe forms of OCD have been over the last few years. There’s like this little person in my head ‘saying’ things which I can’t control. I also have sensory OCD, especially with bodily functions. At first I couldn’t go anywhere without focusing on lights, reflections, the sun, and anything with glare. I would get so scared I would go blind because I would look at the sun glare and fixate on it (it’s worst in water where the glare is extreme). I got over that and then it turned into hearing high pitched noises and background noise (especially chewing, swallowing, crunching, coughing, and loud breathing). And finally, for the last 4 months I have nonstop constantly been thinking about my swallowing and the only reason it’s as bad as it is is because other people hear and see when I swallow so I get super anxious around people and constantly swallow. When I’m watching a movie, in a quiet room, or talking with people (especially when background noise is at a minimum) I cannot stop focusing on my swallowing. It’s to the point where I don’t want to do anything social with people because I cannot stop thinking about my swallowing and it’s so frustrating. If anyone is going through something like this than please tell me about your experience, and if anyone has gotten past this than tell me how you did it, because I feel like this is the worst form of my OCD I’ve had.
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My OCD has to do with my parents about 80%. I’ve never heard of any one else with a similar type of OCD. I don’t know why my OCD manifested that way but as you can imagine it made my childhood unbelievably difficult. Both of my parents have invisible germs (yes I know they’re not actually real germs) and it kept/keeps me from having physical contact with them. They contaminate anything they come into contact with and each object has levels of contamination. Thankfully my OCD is 1000x better than it was when I was younger. I have the most incredible parents who loved me even when my illness made them my enemy. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have them.
That sounds too specific and exhausting. Next level obsession
I have been trying to find videos on this stuff because just a couple weeks ago I hit my head pretty hard. Now I cant stop organizing I have completely redecorated and realigned all of my furniture and wiped down every inch if i see something that is not clean to my liking I have to no matter what fix it I literally cant ignore it.
We hope that our video was able to help, Cyrus. 🙏🏼
I’m starting to feel like maybe I have ocd, when I hear yelling or if I’m under stress I have to tap every one of my fingers against a table or something. I make the same rhythm of taps every time and do it until my anxiety calms down. I have to check out my window like ten to fifteen times a day and I don’t even know why. I always have to check three or four times if I flushed the toilet every single time I go to the bathroom, when I write if I don’t like the way a word is written or if I mess up I have to start over completely on a new page because even using white out bothers me so bad, I always get a terrifying thought every night that someone will break into my house and kill my family and it happens every single night and sometimes keeps me up late, I always bite my nails until they bleed because I feel like I have to sometimes and I don’t know why. I can’t tell if this stuff is an indication I have OCD but nobody takes me seriously. My mom doesn’t agree and won’t take me to possibly get a diagnosis. It’s really hard.
Stay strong
Same here, I have so much fear as if someone will break in my home at night and kill of my family...and so I always check my door ,windows and gas before I sleep
Hi! This are just a thought. Don't make such such thoughts real. U have identified yourself with such thought. So stop making this type of thought and don't believe in such thought because they are not real. Now whenever such type of thought came then don't do what thought tells u to do. Just observe the thought without reacting to it and u will see that if u dont react to the the thought then after sometime the thought will go away. Just don't believe in the thought and don't make this thought real. Always have positive thinking because what u think that u become so if u want positive changes in your life then think positive thoughts only.
@@kanakpatel3614 If you ignore OCD, you most likely feel uncomfortable for the next 2 hours. Then the feel that you have to do it eventually get's away but you immedieately get the next exercise. I even had the same exercise controlling my mind and make me feel uncomfortable for a full week. At least that was for me so. So it's not as easy as you might think.
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Stay strong❤️❤️
I really despise my OCD everyday of my life I have to do everything in 3’s and if I do not do them I always have that feeling that something bad will happen if I do not do these rituals. These rituals would include shaking my head 3 times, locking my car 3 times, or even knock on a door 3 times. I always hated it, it’s wrong of me to say but I absolutely hate it and I wish it can go away.
🧠 Buspirone/Esketamine are helpful if your OCD getting worse. OCD is not funny ! It is the mental pain !
OCD is a terrible neurological and genetic disorder that cannot be cured. At best, it can be managed. And, as we’ll see, managing the disorder comes down to managing one’s values.
I haven't been diagnosed but I'm pretty sure I have OCD. At the beginning (5 years ago) it was really difficult to live with. I was only 13 and I thought I was mentally ill. I didn't want to tell my parents about it, fearing they would find me crazy. I thus suffered in silence and it got worse and worse. I had many compulsions and I made ritual patterns to soothe myself. It was really exhausting. In fact, I couldn't be happy anymore. But, 2 years ago or so, I figured that I could just accept and ignore those intrusive thoughts. I saw that as a challenge and I gradually got rid of some of them. These last two years, I've finally opened up and tried to tell what I had to some people but, except for my older sister, no-one really understood my pain. Now that I'm of age and able to make decisions for myself, I think about talking to a psychiatrist. I reckon it might help me. I ain't a professional and I don't know a lot about the subject but I'd be glad to help you. Feel free to share you own experience with me. Good luck to everyone who's suffering of that annoying disorder...