I can imagine what my brothers and sisters here are going through, its so hard to avoid this OCD devil, unless you stop fighting it, Do not be afraid of this OCD devil, Life is so much beautiful without it, Just don't respond it
Beautiful comment i ve dealt with that for a long time but was managing it by fighting it but.it gave me anxiety and stress. Now i am learning to let go of it by ignoring the thoughts and refocusing my attention each time on what i am doing and then i feel the urge to go to my thoughts and check them like to be safe but i try to ignore this thing too with the same method without expecting it to go. I dont focus on it and then it leaves. And then something else comes but this time its easier and then easier. And then youre tempted again because the thought seems different. But you have to do the effort each time and from time to time it will be easier and easier. Its worth trying and you will lose nothing. Begin now dont delay and i think maybe find something to do to get out of it like a code : stop. Or enough
My Ocd gives me very bad images of it though. I have had very bad panic attacks from it. 🙂 I'm only 15 I want this thing to leave me alone for once. Its been getting more serious since I was 13 and it is to the point I sometimes can't hang out with people because of it. I know the triggers but I can't avoid these triggers no matter what I do. It is EVERYWHERE.
Developed postpartum ocd after giving birth. These videos are extremely helpful to us who can't afford seeing a psych / paying for a therapy. So kind of you Katie to upload these. May God bless you more!!!
Don't think too much about OCD. If thoughts are coming to your brain , don't fight , just accept them, treat them just like other normal thoughts and go ahead with it. The more you fight, the deeper it gets.
@Clever_queen is not like that. If you are worried about it, let me assure you that no thoughts are going to make you evil. Really. But ye, the problem is not that, is what the guy avobe says. Is a false alarm, keep it going with whatever it comes. Just keep going and live in the moment. The only thing is really going to happen is your suffer, and to that you always have alternatives
Being an musician with OCD is draining... I'm losing my relationships, my will to make music, social situations suck. I'm literally on the verge of a career change because I can no longer think.
Hi Katie I'm a 20 year old male who, since 17 has suffered with OCD. Because there were no physical compulsions I spent the best part of a year confused and anxious about what was going on in my head. Now, in a better place after receiving help but mainly working it all out for myself, I find it interesting how much i recognise of the engaging behaviour you mention in the video (I'm pretty sure I engaged in all those behaviours). It took me a year to work out these behaviours were not helping me and to break the cycle, but hopefully this video will help others to understand these behaviours quicker and spare people of a potentially long and shit experience. Thanks!
Katie, I've never heard anyone explain the hell I've been through for years like you did so well. This video explains exactly my childhood and adolescence with pure Toc. I will watch your videos and thank you very much for them. Greetings from Argentina and sorry for my English.
keep going you got this : all it takes is strength, massive lifestyle/diet changes and confidence in yourself. People around you won't understand or believe you, but I do :)
I can't work because of this, it's hard to engage with friends and family, me and my bf who i loved so much have broken up and I'm super depressed and just confused about the whole matter all because of this stupid disorder! May God help. the more I think about them the more intense the thoughts become: thoughts, images, and sensations!!!!!!
Rae Azanna Yeah i have the same Problem. I am scared of going outside or near other people because of the intensive thoughts. I am kinda wondering how my life is supposed to go on with this. I just have OCD for one Year so i kinda cry when i think about the times where i lived without OCD. I am scared of becoming insane because of it. I also start to move my neck around in a weird was because it is a Ritual to neutralize the thought And whenever i Walk past someone i avoid Eye Contact and concentrate myself deeply
thanks for these most helpful videos. This weekend I was reviewing your others I had seen quite some time ago (as my ocd has been pretty challenging lately) and am real appreciative you are adding more. Thanks again!
Kate that is fantastically articulated and made me aware of a thought pattern that has emerged often when my brain isn’t functioning healthily and disappeared when it is, but I didn’t even realise it could’ve been an OCD thought - I attached a lot of emotional significance to the thought during its original inception, even though it’s a provably incorrect thought but it still rears it’s head now and then never too far away. This has really helped as I may have to live with this thought pattern for as long as I live unfortunately. Thank you for offering these videos, these OCD ones were tremendously helpful even if only to put a condition to a repetitive thought
Your videos and advices are so helpful! You give me great insights to fight my Pure O. Great knowledge. Now i clearly understand my problem and how to battle with my pure O. God bless you and hope all that good return to you! My best wishes! Really thank you!
I have OCD hahaha you saved my life literally, thank you really much, btw you are a really gorgeous woman, much love you helped a lot of people keep up the good work!
Katie d'Ath, please upload it soon. I thought this was the first video but apparently its the last one you've uplaoded. I have HOCD myself and I feel like I'm in the final stages of everything. I just need to get over this last hurdle. Currently I'm implementing the steps from the book Brain Lock to try and get over it.
My life is constantly in this, unless I'm distracted or doing something. Its exhausting... and I want to stop. Isnt this another way of saying "worrying" though?
I end up using logic to debate anxiety - to cope with anxiety that brings a doubt into my imagination about things that back at the time I had no need to have doubts about, or even things I did a minute ago that I know I did correctly and safely despite the anxiety placing doubts in my mind. My counsellor said to me that gave me some good perspective i wrote it down in the room "you need a reason to doubt something - if you don't have a reason then doubt doesn't make sense". That sounds very rational and normal and like "well yeah no sh*t it makes sense" my father or anyone who's brain just moves on quickly would say in a split second, but it's the anxiety that says no and where it takes your imagination into unnecessary doubt, and then the rational brain says yes stay with logic, it's like a debate in the brain that can become a compulsion. I know when the thoughts are irrational (i call them flash thoughts), and I then need to make it clear to myself they are irrational and not based on observable evidence or past experiences that I didn't have doubt back in time of - but I try to do it quickly and move on and do something else (not easy). I think anxiety is a struggle to get a feeling of calm resolution during anxiety worrying because they are opposite feelings, and that's the problem, the feeling at the time of doubt is like a non-resolution feeling and you want the opposite. So you try and bring yourself to calm through reassurance logically, but it's when that thought then comes back in again and you think 'damn...do i have to go over all this logic in the way i did it before again to calm myself?' that's difficult to resist going over the logic thing again. And then if you get interrupted or lose the thread of logic you go over it again. It's like you have to say no i've done that no more. I really think the key is to deal with it quickly or just dismiss it straight away as the ocd talking and leave it despite how you feel knowing the anxiety go will go away. It can get pretty mentally depressing especially when you have unnecessary avoidance/procrastination behaviour from anxiety and you know you can do better in life if you get it together more without this ocd taking your confidence when it doesn't have to.
@@brenosantana1458 Anxiety is a way for ODC to be displayed. I mean, OCD is an anxiety disorder after all. However, the stem root for OCD / Pure O and everything that comes with it (anxiety, fear, doubt), is chemical, structural and functional abnormalities in the brain. It's both a hereditary AND a genetic disorder.
Thank You Katie so much....Really from all my heart. I have a mixed bag of OCD such as washing hand or skipping a certain tile on path...but the worst ones are the intrusive sexual thoughts about people I care, I love and the more I love them the worse are my thoughts....I feel so miserable
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Hey James :) Hope youre doing fine. I just want to say that it is like gym or something, these exercises, if you arent regular, theyll come back. I sadly couldnt continue them with my daily schedule. But something that helped me was thinking "If I really let this thought affect me its like I did agree to have this desire secretly in my mind" and so I dont act on compulsions anymore. The thought is painful for perhaps 10 or 15 seconds, but its gone after that. I wouldnt say Im cured, but Im doing much better. I still have a long way to go, try to get hold of my life again, its a constant struggle for every single person, so I dont get sad by it, but never stop trying. I hope this can help you a bit. 🙂
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Also you can take counselling if its good in your country. So far I havent found it value for money in my place. Perhaps you can contact Dr Katie for a session yourself, if youre in same country.
As I have learnt from Katie's videos, I think OCD is metaphorically very similar to ocean rip currents! If you know how to get rid of a rip current, the same rules applies to getting rid of OCD.
I have been through obsessive intrusive thoughts before & it was bad.. eventually I got over it & felt AMAZING. Now since a week ago, I’m going through it again.. I am scary myself & feeling like a terrible human. I wanna just run away
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Thanks for asking! I'm on OCD medication and doing ERP (Exposure Response Prevention) by my self. My OCD is almost completely under control now
Waow. Thank you. I always felt insecure as if I had not a "complete" OCD because I don't have obvious external compulsions. This helps understand better my difficulties. I spend an enormous amount of time thinking about how to tackle my OCD. It's obsessive. I then evaluate every situation and try to "get better" :/ But now I understand better, thx.
Obsession : I hate my mother. Avoiding Mother, Becoming triggered and agitated when mother is around. Reassurance, discussing with friends over and over and over as to why you hate your mother. Compulsion, calling the police on your mother every time Mom sends a birthday card or a Christmas present.
Hi Katie, my compulsions feel SO automatic that I'm not even sure what is me thinking(checking/ruminating) and what is thoughts! How can I tell the difference? For example - waking up first thing and my first thought is "Hey I didn't have an intrusive thought this morning". Thank you so much for your hard work it helps so much.
The moment you wake up consciously take your attention to the present (Mind fullness) don't let the "check if OCD still there" thought grab your attention ! Difficult but worth it !
Pure O hurts when the thought is about your child. Thought that literally came up due to severe anxiety. My brain literally said what is the worst thing that can happen and the thought popped up. I would do anything to have it disappear. I am understanding more now to just let it come and go about my day. It’s truly horrible how ocd attacks the most precious things to us.
Even when the thought comes it’s meaningless. I dont know if I am ruminating on it and I am not realizing it. The guilt that comes with it is also horrible
Thank you, you answered my question in the first 35 secs and it makes so much sense the person with ocd maybe only be aware of the obsessions( the thoughts) but not the compulsions.
I have OCD and I'm also making some big career and life changes this year (I just moved and I'm going to grad school and kind of planning out what I'm doing next year after my MA) and it's hard to tell what is reasonable introspection and checking and what's my OCD rearing its head again!
I keep on ruminating about something very absurd. I got admission in my grad college through a competitive exam. The results came online, but an official result used to come through post mail. Due to some address issue , that mail never came. When i took admission in college, they gave me admission but asked me to submit the official result. 4 years passed , i graduated from college and got my degree. But now i remember that i never submitted that doc, neither the college bothered. But this fear keeps on popping that at some point of time , the college will call me cancel my degree and my whole life will be over and i will feel a terrible shame and i will be called a fake. I sound ridiculous, but i cant do but think about it again and again
No one has to "live with" OCD or any issue. Anything obsessive is out of balance. People that are obsessive in one or more areas are driven by anxiety. I remember having anxiety, and obsessive compulsions. I was trying to get relief by satisfying the compulsions, but like a tyrant task-master, it never ended. It may have something to do with a very strict, insecure or harsh upbringing, or even a very abusive one. For me, it was the latter, and by the age of 21, I had nervous ticks, social anxiety, OCD, out of control thoughts, mood swings and chronic depression. That year, I had a surprise encounter with Jesus (whom I had been crying out to for help) and in less than 3 minutes - every one of these symptoms were gone. I walked away from that encounter completely changed and different. I not only experienced love for the first time in my life, but I had a peace inside that remained with me. The change in me was so obvious, that it had a domino effect on my friends and family. Even my best friend's parents gave their lives to Jesus because of the change they witnessed in me. That was 39 years ago. Don't believe anyone who tells you that Jesus Christ isn't real or doesn't exist. And if anyone reading this "thinks" He isn't real or exists, you have yourself positioned to never know the power and love of your Creator that's more fulfilling than any love or relationship on this earth. And the naysayers can save their breath. Doctors can only put a bandage over the festering wounds and distresses of human beings with drugs and "therapy." Their is nothing more compelling than a life that's been affected and made whole by Jesus Christ.
This video is really helpful but I think it needs to be said that not everything is OCD and those who watch videos like this to self diagnose are damaging those who actually struggle. By that I mean labelling things as a symptom of OCD can be a way to avoid responsibility which only makes things worse. I have Pure-O which i wasn't aware was even a thing until my psychiatrist pointed it out, and my brother has the more common form with physical compulsions.
I was sitting in my car today obsessing about my life like i usually do. the compulsion was to go buy comics, and the idea alone was able to assuage my obsessions.
I keep making new accounts over and over. I have restarted my social media/email/gaming profiles over 30 times.. I don't know why I do this. waste of time and money
This is difficult for me. I'm autistic and what they called Pure O. You just helped me to understand the compulsions that are internal. However, checking....is how I do remember my keys, make sure I have my sunglasses which are necessary....etc. I don't know what else to do. Ignore a thought that helps check?
I have no ocd diagnosis but have been experiencing obsessive/intrusive thoughts all my life and now am recognizing some of my thoughts and behavior as compulsions. Now that I am seriously considering that I may have ocd I am playing the cycle of “do I really have ocd” “am I a liar” “am I fabricating my experience” then endlessly googling for reassurance and checking myself for examples but then thinking “well I don’t have it as severely as the video said I should therefore I must not have ocd” Im exhausted…
I want my head to be cleansed. Its painful having to deal with intrusive thoughts on a daily basis. You know..? just always hovering in the back of your mind. Cant stand the fact that it makes me lose a sense of myself. Almost like ive created a different reality
Katie. Your presentation drove me crazy. Flapping your arms erratically and playing with that poster board. Every once in a while I would see item # 3 but never the last one on the list. Enraging. Even at the end, the list was obscured by the pop-ups. OCD drives me crazy and I can't learn unless everything is pure. Oh!
I end up using logic to debate anxiety - to cope with anxiety that brings a doubt into my imagination about things that back at the time I had no need to have doubts about, or even things I did a minute ago that I know I did correctly and safely despite the anxiety placing doubts in my mind. My counsellor said to me that gave me some good perspective i wrote it down in the room "you need a reason to doubt something - if you don't have a reason then doubt doesn't make sense". That sounds very rational and normal and like "well yeah no sh*t it makes sense" my father or anyone who's brain just moves on quickly would say in a split second, but it's the anxiety that says no and where it takes your imagination into unnecessary doubt, and then the rational brain says yes stay with logic, it's like a debate in the brain that can become a compulsion. I know when the thoughts are irrational (i call them flash thoughts), and I then need to make it clear to myself they are irrational and not based on observable evidence or past experiences that I didn't have doubt back in time of - but I try to do it quickly and move on and do something else (not easy). I think anxiety is a struggle to get a feeling of calm resolution during anxiety worrying because they are opposite feelings, and that's the problem, the feeling at the time of doubt is like a non-resolution feeling and you want the opposite. So you try and bring yourself to calm through reassurance logically, but it's when that thought then comes back in again and you think 'damn...do i have to go over all this logic in the way i did it before again to calm myself?' that's difficult to resist going over the logic thing again. And then if you get interrupted or lose the thread of logic you go over it again. It's like you have to say no i've done that no more. I really think the key is to deal with it quickly or just dismiss it straight away as the ocd talking and leave it despite how you feel knowing the anxiety go will go away. It can get pretty mentally depressing especially when you have unnecessary avoidance/procrastination behaviour from anxiety and you know you can do better in life if you get it together more without this ocd taking your confidence when it doesn't have to.
In general people will know, at least to some extent, that their worries are illogical but the temptation is to use logic to 'make absolutely sure' they are illogical. Whilst this can help in the short term it won't help in the long term as the problem is not the thoughts or feelings but the way that you process them. The best way to think about it regarding your idea of moving on quickly is to treat it 'as if' you believe it's a pointless thought or feeling rather than trying to convince yourself that it is before moving on. This may feel more uncomfortable in the short term but in the long term it will allow you to train yourself to respond differently to any unwanted thoughts and feelings rather than engaging with the urge to debate the content.
@@23katied Thanks for your help. I can't believe someone actually read and understood my lengthy ramblings about my mental processes when feeling doubt, intrusive thoughts and anxiety. It's a lonely thing to be in your mind when this overthinking is going on, even when there's people around. It's not easy to turn off. So true though, compulsions do feel like a temptation - a temptation to work out a worry (that the anxiety placed there in a split second for mostly no logical reason) and then after compulsion I'll feel better type of thing - it feels like a natural thing to do - we don't want to feel anxious. But what you said about "The best way to think about it regarding your idea of moving on quickly is to *treat it 'as if' you believe it's a pointless thought or feeling rather than trying to convince yourself that it is before moving on* . This may feel more uncomfortable in the short term but in the long term it will allow you to train yourself to respond differently to any unwanted thoughts and feelings rather than engaging with the urge to debate the content". Yeah that is the basic key in the moment to form a mentally healthy habit around irrational intrusive thoughts, especially when you said that most people know their worries are illogical - I certainly do, I know I have good perspective to weigh up the degree that a worry is or is not - it's just the anxiety pops its head in and that's the challenge to go through. I guess that's where ERP comes in as well. Sometimes even medication to take the edge off it all to move on past the irrational thought easier. Quick perspective is what I tend to want but don't always get due to the nature of the anxiety/ocd cycle, so knowing it's a pointless thought or feeling to begin with like you said is a great way to move past it and train your mind not to debate the irrational thought despite the ocd anxiety.
I'm here after reading about a new TV series called Pure coming soon. I've had these thought for a few years now, they don't consume my time or terribly worry me, but when they happen I truly feel like I'm going to do the wrong thing. I've got 2 ( not going to go into details) one about random women on the street, the other about any friends in a coffee shop. There's a 3rd one that rarely happen. It's nice to hear that other people get this and not that unusual. The first time it happened I remember having to pretend to need the loo to calm myself down. Thanks for the video.
My checking is insane. Did I have the appropriate or ideal emotion inside when I heard about the tragic event? Was there enough compassion? Do i need to visualize what that person went through so i can have a more matching feeling? What does it mean that I didn't like the taste of these carrots I'm eating? am I no longer enjoy vegetables bc I don't eat right? (Ps the carrots were just gross) How did that person (in a TH-cam video) phrase it? What word did they use? I think it was ________ but maybe I should go back and check just to see... while there's no point to it bc its irrelevant and nothing's contingent upon me knowing if they said that specific word or a synonym. I thought this way most my life and bc it's all internal, no one new and i didn't know it was abnormal.
Ive had pure o ocd since I was 8 now I'm 30. Not only ocd...social anxiety, unipolar, ergophobia...life sucks...I'm still unemployed...ive never had a job....my parents and people who knows me think I'm lazy and useless person. I try to explain to them but they didn't understand
My girlfriend just had to touch a specific shelf at the store and get her arm on it and there could be chemicals on it and now I can’t sit on the couch ever again and have to wash the sheets and basically the whole house
I build walls around myself or think of wearing a knight's armour from head to toe so that I can feel safe from getting gropped. Or do a gesture of cutting my throat and come out of that cavity before I am touched (that means me escaping from my body.) Imagine of cutting my arms so that I don't touch things I am disgusted to. So yeah there are compulsions. This is me after recovering I'd say 80-90% from OCD. Sometimes I wonder how did I survive so far. But I'd say focussing on your work helps, not entirely but mostly.
Then how am I supposed to recover, if I can't tell myself when I have a thought that it's just OCD kicking in, because telling myself it's OCD in order to let go of the thought is also a compulsion? I can't do anything without it being a compulsion? Thank you.
I can imagine what my brothers and sisters here are going through, its so hard to avoid this OCD devil, unless you stop fighting it,
Do not be afraid of this OCD devil,
Life is so much beautiful without it,
Just don't respond it
thank you for this comment :-)
Thank you
Beautiful comment i ve dealt with that for a long time but was managing it by fighting it but.it gave me anxiety and stress. Now i am learning to let go of it by ignoring the thoughts and refocusing my attention each time on what i am doing and then i feel the urge to go to my thoughts and check them like to be safe but i try to ignore this thing too with the same method without expecting it to go. I dont focus on it and then it leaves. And then something else comes but this time its easier and then easier. And then youre tempted again because the thought seems different. But you have to do the effort each time and from time to time it will be easier and easier. Its worth trying and you will lose nothing. Begin now dont delay and i think maybe find something to do to get out of it like a code : stop. Or enough
How are you now
My Ocd gives me very bad images of it though. I have had very bad panic attacks from it. 🙂 I'm only 15 I want this thing to leave me alone for once. Its been getting more serious since I was 13 and it is to the point I sometimes can't hang out with people because of it. I know the triggers but I can't avoid these triggers no matter what I do. It is EVERYWHERE.
Can I just get a new brain...
If you find a place for a new brains can you let me know as well 🙃😉
That would solve all of my fucking problems
just somehow brain anxiety functions are disabled u are free
I've never related so much...
Tell me where i put my name on the list
Developed postpartum ocd after giving birth. These videos are extremely helpful to us who can't afford seeing a psych / paying for a therapy. So kind of you Katie to upload these. May God bless you more!!!
Hey just wondering how you’re doing now cheers
girl when you were explaining the "engaging" compulsions, my jaw dropped. that's what's going on with me! lol
I know! I thought this was my way of performing erp, but it’s actually been making my ocd worse
bro omg
Same 😭😭
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now, cheers
ikr I was like this is what I do almost every minute
Don't think too much about OCD. If thoughts are coming to your brain , don't fight , just accept them, treat them just like other normal thoughts and go ahead with it. The more you fight, the deeper it gets.
The main thing is they're unacceptable
@Clever_queen exactly
@Clever_queen is not like that. If you are worried about it, let me assure you that no thoughts are going to make you evil. Really. But ye, the problem is not that, is what the guy avobe says. Is a false alarm, keep it going with whatever it comes. Just keep going and live in the moment. The only thing is really going to happen is your suffer, and to that you always have alternatives
I’m very confused with the whole thing am I supposed to do the opposite of what the thoughts want me to do or just ignore it?
@@garyharrisjames798 is just thoughts. Do your life, dont do anything about them.
Being an musician with OCD is draining... I'm losing my relationships, my will to make music, social situations suck. I'm literally on the verge of a career change because I can no longer think.
Hi Katie I'm a 20 year old male who, since 17 has suffered with OCD. Because there were no physical compulsions I spent the best part of a year confused and anxious about what was going on in my head. Now, in a better place after receiving help but mainly working it all out for myself, I find it interesting how much i recognise of the engaging behaviour you mention in the video (I'm pretty sure I engaged in all those behaviours). It took me a year to work out these behaviours were not helping me and to break the cycle, but hopefully this video will help others to understand these behaviours quicker and spare people of a potentially long and shit experience. Thanks!
How are you doing now?
Katie, I've never heard anyone explain the hell I've been through for years like you did so well. This video explains exactly my childhood and adolescence with pure Toc. I will watch your videos and thank you very much for them. Greetings from Argentina and sorry for my English.
These videos are incredible. Thank you so much. What you are doing here is invaluable and immeasurably appreciated.
Please continue to advocate for this condition - it is driving me to suicide
Mr D K same bro... we can do it tho we can beat it
courage
Dont give up. Do you know what causes the anxiety?
@@sharkypops3876 Anxiety is related with ocd.
Try to ignore it. I am better today.
please continue to make these videos. extremely helpful. thank you very much.
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on with this cheers
keep going you got this : all it takes is strength, massive lifestyle/diet changes and confidence in yourself. People around you won't understand or believe you, but I do :)
If I changed everything in my life my parents will thing Im going down my Ed root again or think they have done something wrong (weird. I know.)
Thank you Katie this has been really helpful, I've been feeling much better and am having far less thoughts than before. Thank you and keep uploading!
Just wondering how you are, now many thanks
This is the best video that explains pure o. Thank you for this!
I can't work because of this, it's hard to engage with friends and family, me and my bf who i loved so much have broken up and I'm super depressed and just confused about the whole matter all because of this stupid disorder! May God help. the more I think about them the more intense the thoughts become: thoughts, images, and sensations!!!!!!
Rae Azanna Yeah i have the same Problem. I am scared of going outside or near other people because of the intensive thoughts. I am kinda wondering how my life is supposed to go on with this. I just have OCD for one Year so i kinda cry when i think about the times where i lived without OCD. I am scared of becoming insane because of it.
I also start to move my neck around in a weird was because it is a Ritual to neutralize the thought And whenever i Walk past someone i avoid Eye Contact and concentrate myself deeply
Engage in relaxing and or spiritual practices that will soothe your mind
hope you can find more help!!!! I am also plagued by very intrusive images and sensations.
How are you doin now Rae?? Hope you re better
Leah May holy shit you are gorgeous, can you help me with this
thanks for these most helpful videos. This weekend I was reviewing your others I had seen quite some time ago (as my ocd has been pretty challenging lately) and am real appreciative you are adding more. Thanks again!
Kate that is fantastically articulated and made me aware of a thought pattern that has emerged often when my brain isn’t functioning healthily and disappeared when it is, but I didn’t even realise it could’ve been an OCD thought - I attached a lot of emotional significance to the thought during its original inception, even though it’s a provably incorrect thought but it still rears it’s head now and then never too far away. This has really helped as I may have to live with this thought pattern for as long as I live unfortunately.
Thank you for offering these videos, these OCD ones were tremendously helpful even if only to put a condition to a repetitive thought
Your videos and advices are so helpful! You give me great insights to fight my Pure O. Great knowledge. Now i clearly understand my problem and how to battle with my pure O. God bless you and hope all that good return to you! My best wishes! Really thank you!
I have OCD hahaha you saved my life literally, thank you really much, btw you are a really gorgeous woman, much love you helped a lot of people keep up the good work!
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on with this now cheers
Katie d'Ath, please upload it soon. I thought this was the first video but apparently its the last one you've uplaoded. I have HOCD myself and I feel like I'm in the final stages of everything. I just need to get over this last hurdle. Currently I'm implementing the steps from the book Brain Lock to try and get over it.
How are you doing now man ? Did you recover ?
I’ve always had this. I think it started when I wasn’t aloud to cry as baby
Katie d'ath is best in explaining things in easy way......
You're giving me weapons to battle my OCD, or rather to NOT battle them ;-). Thanks a lot.
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on cheers
Thank you for this series of videos Katie. I've felt pretty alone in this for to long. It can be truly exhausting.
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now, cheers
My life is constantly in this, unless I'm distracted or doing something. Its exhausting... and I want to stop. Isnt this another way of saying "worrying" though?
Mine too. It's taken over my entire life. Just horrendous. Hope you figure it out
Are you ok now?
I end up using logic to debate anxiety - to cope with anxiety that brings a doubt into my imagination about things that back at the time I had no need to have doubts about, or even things I did a minute ago that I know I did correctly and safely despite the anxiety placing doubts in my mind.
My counsellor said to me that gave me some good perspective i wrote it down in the room "you need a reason to doubt something - if you don't have a reason then doubt doesn't make sense". That sounds very rational and normal and like "well yeah no sh*t it makes sense" my father or anyone who's brain just moves on quickly would say in a split second, but it's the anxiety that says no and where it takes your imagination into unnecessary doubt, and then the rational brain says yes stay with logic, it's like a debate in the brain that can become a compulsion.
I know when the thoughts are irrational (i call them flash thoughts), and I then need to make it clear to myself they are irrational and not based on observable evidence or past experiences that I didn't have doubt back in time of - but I try to do it quickly and move on and do something else (not easy).
I think anxiety is a struggle to get a feeling of calm resolution during anxiety worrying because they are opposite feelings, and that's the problem, the feeling at the time of doubt is like a non-resolution feeling and you want the opposite. So you try and bring yourself to calm through reassurance logically, but it's when that thought then comes back in again and you think 'damn...do i have to go over all this logic in the way i did it before again to calm myself?' that's difficult to resist going over the logic thing again. And then if you get interrupted or lose the thread of logic you go over it again. It's like you have to say no i've done that no more.
I really think the key is to deal with it quickly or just dismiss it straight away as the ocd talking and leave it despite how you feel knowing the anxiety go will go away. It can get pretty mentally depressing especially when you have unnecessary avoidance/procrastination behaviour from anxiety and you know you can do better in life if you get it together more without this ocd taking your confidence when it doesn't have to.
You're the best, thank you so much!! May you be blessed forever.
thanks Katie, now I feel better
Really insightful, valuable and helpful, thank you Katie!
This helps me so much just understanding myself better-nervous to go to therapy but have always considered it!
Very helpful... I never realized I made it more serious by engaging it until watching this video... thx sooooooooo much!!!
this channel gives me so much hope. I have pure o and i can't tell my parenst to get therapy but this channel is giving me the advice i need.
I'm glad I saw this video, it explains what I have been trying to for the past several years. So, thank you.
I love your Chanel... It's helping me a lot. Thank you Katie d'ath.
Katie, this is very important to me
Do you know what causes the anxiety?
@@brenosantana1458 Anxiety is a way for ODC to be displayed. I mean, OCD is an anxiety disorder after all. However, the stem root for OCD / Pure O and everything that comes with it (anxiety, fear, doubt), is chemical, structural and functional abnormalities in the brain. It's both a hereditary AND a genetic disorder.
Thank You Katie so much....Really from all my heart.
I have a mixed bag of OCD such as washing hand or skipping a certain tile on path...but the worst ones are the intrusive sexual thoughts about people I care, I love and the more I love them the worse are my thoughts....I feel so miserable
Exactly
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on cheers
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Hey James :) Hope youre doing fine. I just want to say that it is like gym or something, these exercises, if you arent regular, theyll come back. I sadly couldnt continue them with my daily schedule. But something that helped me was thinking "If I really let this thought affect me its like I did agree to have this desire secretly in my mind" and so I dont act on compulsions anymore. The thought is painful for perhaps 10 or 15 seconds, but its gone after that. I wouldnt say Im cured, but Im doing much better. I still have a long way to go, try to get hold of my life again, its a constant struggle for every single person, so I dont get sad by it, but never stop trying. I hope this can help you a bit. 🙂
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Also you can take counselling if its good in your country. So far I havent found it value for money in my place. Perhaps you can contact Dr Katie for a session yourself, if youre in same country.
As I have learnt from Katie's videos, I think OCD is metaphorically very similar to ocean rip currents! If you know how to get rid of a rip current, the same rules applies to getting rid of OCD.
I usually face my thoughts, but they still come back. To annoy me, and I dislike being annoyed.
you need to stop hiding but go hunt down those thoughts
Leicester City F.C. Fan up the foxes 🦊
This is beyond wonderful! Thank you,Katie!!
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on cheers
I have been through obsessive intrusive thoughts before & it was bad.. eventually I got over it & felt AMAZING. Now since a week ago, I’m going through it again.. I am scary myself & feeling like a terrible human. I wanna just run away
JayMarie hey what are your thoughts
May I ask how you’re getting on now, many thanks
I needed this video thank you thank you.
I think I have both types of OCD. Thanks a lot for making these videos!!
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on cheers
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Thanks for asking! I'm on OCD medication and doing ERP (Exposure Response Prevention) by my self. My OCD is almost completely under control now
@@Earth098 awesome news I’m glad for you !! I assume it get better with time ! Not associating with the thoughts.thanks for your time
Waow. Thank you. I always felt insecure as if I had not a "complete" OCD because I don't have obvious external compulsions.
This helps understand better my difficulties.
I spend an enormous amount of time thinking about how to tackle my OCD. It's obsessive. I then evaluate every situation and try to "get better" :/
But now I understand better, thx.
My obsession is literally around “how to get better” and when I don’t work on myself I feel immense guilt
I've had pure o since I was a little kid
Thank you so much for your videos. I'm so so so grateful
please update. your videos are helpful.
God bless you for this videos, i have gotten so much better
Thank you for doing these videos :)
Thank you from my heart for these videos!
I do almost all of those omg, thank you so much!! I was so confused what was going on, now I feel like I can do ERP
Thank you! I'm looking forward to your next video. This is very helpful
THANK YOU SO MUCH, KATIE!!!!
Obsession : I hate my mother. Avoiding Mother, Becoming triggered and agitated when mother is around. Reassurance, discussing with friends over and over and over as to why you hate your mother. Compulsion, calling the police on your mother every time Mom sends a birthday card or a Christmas present.
Hi Katie, my compulsions feel SO automatic that I'm not even sure what is me thinking(checking/ruminating) and what is thoughts! How can I tell the difference?
For example - waking up first thing and my first thought is "Hey I didn't have an intrusive thought this morning".
Thank you so much for your hard work it helps so much.
how are you feeling now ?
Thanks my Angel.
Katie every morning when I wake up ,I start checking whether I had any ocd
thoughts or not.what should I do ?
Sayani Sen do you get them in your dreams as well? I feel the same way
That is Ocd in itself. The compulsion is to check if there are any.
The moment you wake up consciously take your attention to the present (Mind fullness) don't let the "check if OCD still there" thought grab your attention ! Difficult but worth it !
Pure O hurts when the thought is about your child. Thought that literally came up due to severe anxiety. My brain literally said what is the worst thing that can happen and the thought popped up. I would do anything to have it disappear. I am understanding more now to just let it come and go about my day. It’s truly horrible how ocd attacks the most precious things to us.
Even when the thought comes it’s meaningless. I dont know if I am ruminating on it and I am not realizing it. The guilt that comes with it is also horrible
I wish you posted new videos about treating Pure O. Thanks.
thankyou Kathie
Relate to ALL of it... genuinely helpful ❤️
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on with this now cheers
Thank you Ma'am
You're fabulous ♥️
This is spot on!!!
Thank you, you answered my question in the first 35 secs and it makes so much sense the person with ocd maybe only be aware of the obsessions( the thoughts) but not the compulsions.
May I ask how you’re getting on now many thanks
Hello Katie, when will you post the next video?
God Bless everyone!!!! Jesus Loves you all very much!!!!
THANK YOU
Exactly my experience. Thank you for this.
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on cheers
youre a life saver !!!
I actually do that! With my hand...'pushing away action'
Thank you for this very useful series. In this video the sound level is good. On some others it still is low.
I have OCD and I'm also making some big career and life changes this year (I just moved and I'm going to grad school and kind of planning out what I'm doing next year after my MA) and it's hard to tell what is reasonable introspection and checking and what's my OCD rearing its head again!
I keep on ruminating about something very absurd. I got admission in my grad college through a competitive exam. The results came online, but an official result used to come through post mail. Due to some address issue , that mail never came. When i took admission in college, they gave me admission but asked me to submit the official result. 4 years passed , i graduated from college and got my degree. But now i remember that i never submitted that doc, neither the college bothered. But this fear keeps on popping that at some point of time , the college will call me cancel my degree and my whole life will be over and i will feel a terrible shame and i will be called a fake.
I sound ridiculous, but i cant do but think about it again and again
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now, cheers
Katie , I love you.
You are 100 percent right
So helpful. Thank you so much.
No one has to "live with" OCD or any issue.
Anything obsessive is out of balance. People that are obsessive in one or more areas are driven by anxiety. I remember having anxiety, and obsessive compulsions. I was trying to get relief by satisfying the compulsions, but like a tyrant task-master, it never ended. It may have something to do with a very strict, insecure or harsh upbringing, or even a very abusive one. For me, it was the latter, and by the age of 21, I had nervous ticks, social anxiety, OCD, out of control thoughts, mood swings and chronic depression. That year, I had a surprise encounter with Jesus (whom I had been crying out to for help) and in less than 3 minutes - every one of these symptoms were gone.
I walked away from that encounter completely changed and different. I not only experienced love for the first time in my life, but I had a peace inside that remained with me. The change in me was so obvious, that it had a domino effect on my friends and family. Even my best friend's parents gave their lives to Jesus because of the change they witnessed in me. That was 39 years ago.
Don't believe anyone who tells you that Jesus Christ isn't real or doesn't exist. And if anyone reading this "thinks" He isn't real or exists, you have yourself positioned to never know the power and love of your Creator that's more fulfilling than any love or relationship on this earth. And the naysayers can save their breath.
Doctors can only put a bandage over the festering wounds and distresses of human beings with drugs and "therapy." Their is nothing more compelling than a life that's been affected and made whole by Jesus Christ.
I trust it help n still worry
This video is really helpful but I think it needs to be said that not everything is OCD and those who watch videos like this to self diagnose are damaging those who actually struggle. By that I mean labelling things as a symptom of OCD can be a way to avoid responsibility which only makes things worse. I have Pure-O which i wasn't aware was even a thing until my psychiatrist pointed it out, and my brother has the more common form with physical compulsions.
You are simply genius
Thank you
Katie , u look so beautiful...Ur elegance makes me fall for you...Love you loads😍
I was sitting in my car today obsessing about my life like i usually do. the compulsion was to go buy comics, and the idea alone was able to assuage my obsessions.
I keep making new accounts over and over. I have restarted my social media/email/gaming profiles over 30 times.. I don't know why I do this. waste of time and money
I have this. Pure o. Didn't know what it was called.
So on point 💯
This is difficult for me. I'm autistic and what they called Pure O. You just helped me to understand the compulsions that are internal.
However, checking....is how I do remember my keys, make sure I have my sunglasses which are necessary....etc. I don't know what else to do. Ignore a thought that helps check?
"Mental preparation"
I do that thing ten times a day.
I have no ocd diagnosis but have been experiencing obsessive/intrusive thoughts all my life and now am recognizing some of my thoughts and behavior as compulsions. Now that I am seriously considering that I may have ocd I am playing the cycle of “do I really have ocd” “am I a liar” “am I fabricating my experience” then endlessly googling for reassurance and checking myself for examples but then thinking “well I don’t have it as severely as the video said I should therefore I must not have ocd”
Im exhausted…
Have you gone to a therapist yet?
I want my head to be cleansed. Its painful having to deal with intrusive thoughts on a daily basis. You know..? just always hovering in the back of your mind. Cant stand the fact that it makes me lose a sense of myself. Almost like ive created a different reality
Katie. Your presentation drove me crazy. Flapping your arms erratically and playing with that poster board. Every once in a while I would see item # 3 but never the last one on the list. Enraging. Even at the end, the list was obscured by the pop-ups. OCD drives me crazy and I can't learn unless everything is pure. Oh!
Great, now I'm constantly checking to see if I have any internal compulsions. jk. But seriously, I do all of these things.
I end up using logic to debate anxiety - to cope with anxiety that brings a doubt into my imagination about things that back at the time I had no need to have doubts about, or even things I did a minute ago that I know I did correctly and safely despite the anxiety placing doubts in my mind.
My counsellor said to me that gave me some good perspective i wrote it down in the room "you need a reason to doubt something - if you don't have a reason then doubt doesn't make sense". That sounds very rational and normal and like "well yeah no sh*t it makes sense" my father or anyone who's brain just moves on quickly would say in a split second, but it's the anxiety that says no and where it takes your imagination into unnecessary doubt, and then the rational brain says yes stay with logic, it's like a debate in the brain that can become a compulsion.
I know when the thoughts are irrational (i call them flash thoughts), and I then need to make it clear to myself they are irrational and not based on observable evidence or past experiences that I didn't have doubt back in time of - but I try to do it quickly and move on and do something else (not easy).
I think anxiety is a struggle to get a feeling of calm resolution during anxiety worrying because they are opposite feelings, and that's the problem, the feeling at the time of doubt is like a non-resolution feeling and you want the opposite. So you try and bring yourself to calm through reassurance logically, but it's when that thought then comes back in again and you think 'damn...do i have to go over all this logic in the way i did it before again to calm myself?' that's difficult to resist going over the logic thing again. And then if you get interrupted or lose the thread of logic you go over it again. It's like you have to say no i've done that no more.
I really think the key is to deal with it quickly or just dismiss it straight away as the ocd talking and leave it despite how you feel knowing the anxiety go will go away. It can get pretty mentally depressing especially when you have unnecessary avoidance/procrastination behaviour from anxiety and you know you can do better in life if you get it together more without this ocd taking your confidence when it doesn't have to.
In general people will know, at least to some extent, that their worries are illogical but the temptation is to use logic to 'make absolutely sure' they are illogical. Whilst this can help in the short term it won't help in the long term as the problem is not the thoughts or feelings but the way that you process them. The best way to think about it regarding your idea of moving on quickly is to treat it 'as if' you believe it's a pointless thought or feeling rather than trying to convince yourself that it is before moving on. This may feel more uncomfortable in the short term but in the long term it will allow you to train yourself to respond differently to any unwanted thoughts and feelings rather than engaging with the urge to debate the content.
@@23katied Thanks for your help.
I can't believe someone actually read and understood my lengthy ramblings about my mental processes when feeling doubt, intrusive thoughts and anxiety. It's a lonely thing to be in your mind when this overthinking is going on, even when there's people around. It's not easy to turn off.
So true though, compulsions do feel like a temptation - a temptation to work out a worry (that the anxiety placed there in a split second for mostly no logical reason) and then after compulsion I'll feel better type of thing - it feels like a natural thing to do - we don't want to feel anxious.
But what you said about "The best way to think about it regarding your idea of moving on quickly is to *treat it 'as if' you believe it's a pointless thought or feeling rather than trying to convince yourself that it is before moving on* . This may feel more uncomfortable in the short term but in the long term it will allow you to train yourself to respond differently to any unwanted thoughts and feelings rather than engaging with the urge to debate the content".
Yeah that is the basic key in the moment to form a mentally healthy habit around irrational intrusive thoughts, especially when you said that most people know their worries are illogical - I certainly do, I know I have good perspective to weigh up the degree that a worry is or is not - it's just the anxiety pops its head in and that's the challenge to go through.
I guess that's where ERP comes in as well. Sometimes even medication to take the edge off it all to move on past the irrational thought easier. Quick perspective is what I tend to want but don't always get due to the nature of the anxiety/ocd cycle, so knowing it's a pointless thought or feeling to begin with like you said is a great way to move past it and train your mind not to debate the irrational thought despite the ocd anxiety.
Hi Katie love watching all your videos I wonder what your thoughts are on magical thinking which is part of my ocd problem
I'm here after reading about a new TV series called Pure coming soon. I've had these thought for a few years now, they don't consume my time or terribly worry me, but when they happen I truly feel like I'm going to do the wrong thing. I've got 2 ( not going to go into details) one about random women on the street, the other about any friends in a coffee shop. There's a 3rd one that rarely happen. It's nice to hear that other people get this and not that unusual. The first time it happened I remember having to pretend to need the loo to calm myself down.
Thanks for the video.
I do both and I feel so stressed out cause wow how am I supposed to handle my mind AND urges
I often ridicule my thoughts to make them a bit lighter.. or at least i try
Wow! Amazing. Thanks. Virtual hand shake or hug to you. Peace.
My checking is insane. Did I have the appropriate or ideal emotion inside when I heard about the tragic event? Was there enough compassion? Do i need to visualize what that person went through so i can have a more matching feeling? What does it mean that I didn't like the taste of these carrots I'm eating? am I no longer enjoy vegetables bc I don't eat right? (Ps the carrots were just gross) How did that person (in a TH-cam video) phrase it? What word did they use? I think it was ________ but maybe I should go back and check just to see... while there's no point to it bc its irrelevant and nothing's contingent upon me knowing if they said that specific word or a synonym. I thought this way most my life and bc it's all internal, no one new and i didn't know it was abnormal.
I had no ideas those mental/moral and feeling checks could be ocd
Ive had pure o ocd since I was 8 now I'm 30. Not only ocd...social anxiety, unipolar, ergophobia...life sucks...I'm still unemployed...ive never had a job....my parents and people who knows me think I'm lazy and useless person. I try to explain to them but they didn't understand
My girlfriend just had to touch a specific shelf at the store and get her arm on it and there could be chemicals on it and now I can’t sit on the couch ever again and have to wash the sheets and basically the whole house
I build walls around myself or think of wearing a knight's armour from head to toe so that I can feel safe from getting gropped.
Or do a gesture of cutting my throat and come out of that cavity before I am touched (that means me escaping from my body.)
Imagine of cutting my arms so that I don't touch things I am disgusted to.
So yeah there are compulsions.
This is me after recovering I'd say 80-90% from OCD.
Sometimes I wonder how did I survive so far.
But I'd say focussing on your work helps, not entirely but mostly.
when is part 2 coming out?
Then how am I supposed to recover, if I can't tell myself when I have a thought that it's just OCD kicking in, because telling myself it's OCD in order to let go of the thought is also a compulsion? I can't do anything without it being a compulsion? Thank you.
how are you doing now?