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@@thegreatestgaming6400 there are people who use OCD as just a synonym for a perfectionist, saying “omg I’m SO OCD!” Which is just glamorizing the disorder
Having OCD honestly makes you feel like you're possessed. It's like you have a demon in your head who is constantly trying to outsmart you, find your weak points, and tear you apart however it can. It's pure Hell, and makes you constantly feel alone. Nobody deserves to go through OCD and I have nothing but respect for the soldiers who are still fighting in spite of it. I wish you all luck.
Thank you ❤ ocd has been hell I broke down in tears watching this. It's so mentally draining and scary but it's not me it's my brain. It makes me sad this is happening to me but I wake up every day fighting through it. A month ago I was 10 out of 10 anxiety for no reason now I'm a 1 out of 10 thanks to Ali greymond
my boyfriend has that, especially with numbers. Whenever someone asks him "how many times did you try that?" "how many did you get?" etc, he will feel an extreme urge to say the wrong number and over-exaggerate. But often he will also just say a wrong number without even doing it on purpose
Exactly. It’s not: it makes me happy when things are nice and tidy It is (example): I need to keep this clean, to help alleviate the thought that my family will get sick, suffer and die because of germs
LITERALLY I have recently been diagnosed with ocd and the thing is is that I can have my room a mess but when It comes to doing school It’s extremely bad and my friends where saying well if you have ocd your home has to be clean and I was like what
OCD has affectively ruined my life since I was six years old. I am diagnosed with it, so I can speak about this from an inside perspective. It takes everything out of you, and seeing people pretend to have this disorder to be cute and quirky is awful for people who really have this. Anyone who has OCD, my love goes out to you. I hope you’re all okay.
I've was diagnosed with OCD when I was 4 or 5 and seeing people faking it really pisses me off. Most people act like it's not a big deal but it really is,OCD can mess up someone's life. I hope anyone else who's got it is doing ok,ik it can be tough but you just have to hang on as best you can❤️ I hope you have a great day/night,stay safe out there❤️
omg this suddenly reminded me of that one anime about a soccer player with ocd BUT they portray it as a gag because like “hE’s a sOcCeR pLaYer bUt hEs sOo oRGaNised uWu sO qUirky” although i never got to finish it so I can’t speak for the series as a whole (the title of the anime is Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun)
I like to have my room clean and neat, when friends come over they always say “ you’re such a cleanfreak you must have OCD “ just because something is clean doesn’t mean the person has OCD. It’s annoying when people make these comments or when they self diagnose without knowing what it is
YES. I have OCD and being organized is not something that affects me, being tidy does, I want everything to look a certain way but its just that something is 'clean'
ocd has to be the most misunderstood disorder out there. i remember in school, my classmates all thought it meant "obsessive cleaning disorder" and would say that had ocd when they wanted desks to be perfectly lined up, pencils to be organized, etc
Literally a girl told me that and after I just thought I was crazy because they had taken over ocd as a “neatness disorder” when I really went through it with my mind telling me to do certain things or else something would happen which had driven me nuts for so long
that and bipolar, people are like "omg i'm so bipolar" like shut up jessica you were sad yesterday and happy today that's just being a person with emotions honestly though it's just hard to say, since there's so much misinformation on so many disorders, we just need better information on mental health out there, i'm glad anthony is makin these videos
@@raggedyanne9631 saying its thebmost misunderstood problem its false from a young age we have been exposed to so many documentaries about people suffering from ocd that its notbjust about being neat So saying its the worst it isnt . Adhd its pretty confusing . People are suffering from adhd and still cant get proper help as its not a well known disability . Adhd is worste of course because if you have a sever adhd it can mess your whole life . Having job problem, always pooor having emotionnal dysregulation. Depression generalised anxiety, homelessness, extreme lack of motivation due toblack of dopamine in the brain, having executive fonction undevelloped to the point that people will judge you, call you lazy ect ect . So yes adhd compare to ocd is way worse as it mess your whole life . Not only adhd . ocd is far less worse than bipolar, bpd and the rest . People always think they have it worse We are all suffering in our own ways
yesss, I literally went undiagnosed with OCD for so long because my parents didn't understand OCD could be anything other than obsessions about cleanliness and neatness
My fiancee has had severe OCD since she was six years old...though she's lucky to have found medications that work (she takes a high dose of SSRIs and another medication that's prescribed for anxiety and OCD,) she literally goes through mental hell on the rare occasions I've seen her off her meds. I've seen her in fetal position, in tears, the one time she had to wait two days to get her OCD meds refilled. I hope you're able to find treatment that works wonderfully for you and eases your symptoms, and know you're never alone 💛
I strongly dislike people who go around saying when they are ordering colored pencils in class saying they have OCD. People don't understand how serious this is.
I think it's important to remember: Hate the game, not the player. It's really hard not to use disabilities as metaphors. It's so integrated into our culture that it might take a while for things to heal. I make the mistake all the time too. We gotta try and be understanding of it, and kindly correct people who do it, or the message will be muddled. Edit: grammar fix
Pffffft this guy wanted to ask me out once and I refused to respond to him until I finished my Rubik's cube. But the thought kept on distracting so I kept on messing up and starting again, still refusing to respond to him I felt really bad for making him wait, just to friendzone him anyway. But my obsession of finishing the cube was too high I haven't been diagnosed for OCD, ADHD/ADD but I definitely have a mix of them. I just haven't been diagnosed because in my culture therapy/mental illnesses prove that you are a defect
@@andrewcotter2036 Yes, I agree with you on some level. I always tell people nicely not to mention those types of things unless you know what you are talking about. I try to explain to them that it is serious. And to go around saying things like that just bother me.
Ahhhh, I hate it when people do this! One of my friends does this with adhd. Like, she says ‘Oh, I used 5 emojis! I feel like such a dumb adhd kid’ THATS A DIRECT QUOTE
I hate when people say, “oh, I’m so OCD!” because they like to organize shit. .... Thank you for showing that OCD is so much more than that. It is hard and it takes so many hours out of my day and it sucks when people make it less than it is. Also, try having issues with things being contaminated during a pandemic. My hands aren’t even the same color as the rest of my body anymore.
Almost everyone will have a similar ocd to what I see everyone here talking about. It’s the most common cases it seems. I’d like to see him interviewing someone who has some of the worst levels of it. And how it affects their ability to maintain a job or peace of mind
Same with autism. A lot of autistic folks like having stuff organised. (not me, I am a chaotic autistic person, thanks adhd) And people are like: I put my books in alphabetical order, I am so autistic. No, you're not, you don't get a meltdown if your books aren't in order anymore (yes, this is generalised)
Also OCD doesn't go with orginizing or tidyness. Like me verifying my door for minutes and getting back to it at the middle of the road and verifying every small administration things for minutes has nothing to do with orginizing
I have this oddly specific compulsion that my eyes have to be perfectly positioned and staring 100% parallel at the ceiling before I can close my eyes to go to sleep. If it didn’t feel 100%, I open my eyes and do it all over again. I’ve spent nights just sobbing because I couldn’t get it right. I have this overwhelming fear about my eyes crossing when I’m trying to fall asleep and I legit still can’t make sense of it 20 years later lmao
i have NEVER seen anyone put this feeling into words ,,,,, THANK YOU,,,,,, i struggled with this during all of my childhood and teen years but it got a lot better when i was around 20 (i have no clue what caused it to disappear, but maybe this can be a little glimpse of hope for you that it can go away and that you wont have to struggle with it forever)
It's the same thing but I've to close my eyes while staring at night bulb and then without thinking about anyone's faces I've to remember someone who's been good to me faces and if not I'll have to do it again It's getting better day by day though
im not diagnosed w ocd by all means but i do this and i get worried that god will get upset w me over certain things and i ask for forgiveness a few times a day but i’m pretty sure it’s religious paranoia for me
I'm actually the opposite I have OCD symphtoms that are against mostly Cristianity and any kind of God in general, though I also have many other types of obsessions and compulsions. My antireligious part of my OCD comes from past trauma and I kind of consider myself a Satanist. However I have friends who are Christians and I usually don't judge people based on religion. Just don't talk to me about god and stuff like that and we can get along just fine.
Hoarding is a form of OCD. it's weird how OCD is portrayed as being such a "cleanliness disease" when in reality OCD is a huge spectrum like autism almost. Just thought I'd add my 2 ¢.
Yes!! As someone with ocd I hate how it’s portrayed as a “clean everything disease” because obsessiveness revolves around soooooo many things, being thoughts, whether something is clean enough or not... And for me, I obsessively wash my hands, and obsess over thoughts, but it makes me mad on how it’s misunderstood and marked as “a disorder where you want to clean everything “, because while people can obsessively clean things, ocd is so much more than cleaning things, I couldn’t agree more
@@gomyminions and I agree, cleaning doesn’t apply to all people>< for me it applies to hand washing, usually when I clean my room it’s an act of self care and it’s not obsessive, like my hand washing and intrusive thoughts
@@hallowthepeach Same on the room thing, I have depression as well so it's really hard some days to organize my life, but when I get the will to clean the house it's because it gives me peace of mind for a minute, it feels like the organization outside softens the caos inside, but it's not related to the OCD. Hardly anyone I know understands so I feel seen lol
Looking at the good effects of psilocybin mushrooms on OCD and depression I had a test, the effects of just one dose of psilocybin mushroom gave me an encouraging result.
As someone who suffers from OCD i think its important to educate people that OCD is more than just 'being neat'. I truly thank you for what you do Anthony.
@@flandin_ um what? Nobody said you did..don’t be rude please. My edit: and just because you don’t suffer doesn’t mean others are the same. People are different, so do not invalidate someone else’s problems simply because you don’t feel the way they do.
flandin_ think about what u say before u speak I have ocd and this is exactly what he was talking about people don’t see inside there thoughts it’s just the outside
@@flandin_ your OCD is different from mine. And mine is different from every person's in this video. Just because YOU don't suffer doesn't mean I don't. You have no right to dictate how i talk about what i experience. If you want to talk about yours then write your own comment.
@@flandin_ Hey, even though I myself don’t suffer from OCD, I know it’s a hard thing for others, and saying that it’s “not that bad” really devalues the efforts of the people who have to deal with it. Please don’t say such insensitive things about something you don’t understand.
I completely agree re: how upsetting it is when people say that OCD is a ‘beneficial disorder’ - my boss once told me that I was lucky to have OCD because it probably made me the organized person that I am. This was upsetting because a) having OCD sucks and b) it made me feel like my actual work ethic and attention to detail wasn’t really appreciated because it was incorrectly attributed to this horrible thing that I have to live with
I dealt with something similar at my last job. My managers would come to me specifically to organize stuff because they knew I have OCD and it would always look really nice when I was done. I told them several times that that kind of thing takes me a lot longer to do, and when I have to stop for any reason before I’m done, it’s extremely triggering for me. They still did it, and I felt pretty used. Not cool when people do stuff like that.
Please, can you do "I spent a day with dyslexics" because there are lots of misconceptions about it and I feel it would be interesting for people who don't have dyslexia.
I would love to see auditory dyslexia included as well. I struggled w spelling and understanding people for years and spent hours researching dyslexia until I found that there's an auditory form of it
Thanks for educating people on this issue and highlighting the debilitating side of it. As someone who also suffers from OCD, it drives me crazy seeing it being romanticised so much. Keep up the great work!
I feel horrible, because my best friend always repeats actions that take so much of her time, and I simply would get mad at her because it bothered me. I didn't stop to think about how she was feeling. She goes back and forth and jumps every time she passes certain spots in the sidewalk by where we live, she opens and closes all doors multiple times, touches her mirrors with her face before she leaves her home, kisses her phone 10 times exactly (but it went up,) taps her car, pauses videos/movies every few minutes, and so many more. We are neighbors and have grown up together, so go places with her often. It takes a VERY long time to get into the car, because she has a very tedious ritual she sometimes repeats for "safety." One time, after she almost missed the bus because of running and jumping back and forth on the sidewalk, so I sat down with her at her house after school. I asked her why she did all this stuff. She said she felt like herself and specifically her family was in serious danger if she didn't do this stuff. She said she didn't know why and began to cry. I always see her touching things over and over. I am so disappointed in myself for only thinking of myself at first. Her mother doesn't understand, she says it's annoying. It broke my heart every time after that conversation when I saw repeatedly touching her face to her phone while she was on call with her mom. I still blame myself for forcing her to start trying to hide her compulsions. When her and I are able to hangout again, we'll watch a movie, and I will not yell at her for pausing the movie every couple minutes. This video was very informative, thank you!
@Sadie Turner Thank you very much! I will try my best to help her navigate her daily life dealing with this, and I will hopefully help her. Be safe out there
It is good that you recognize now that your need to support your friend. Don’t be too hard on yourself, you just didn’t understand before. Your support can go a long way in helping her now. Maybe you can encourage her to tell her doctor, school counselor or some trusted adult so she can get help. Even just having her watch this video can help her realize she’s not alone.
I imagine it like having an itch the more you ignore it the more annoying it gets, but you can scratch it. So, a simple irrational thought which is easily taken care of by a silly action, only the more you do that the more thoughts you get and the more the action seems necessary.
I'm diagnosed with severe OCD and I was really glad to see this video. The only thing I would like to point out is that Freud's ideas on OCD have been thoroughly debunked... people with intrusive thoughts about violent things for example do not secretly want to commit acts of violence, they are horrified by that thought. I think pointing that out is important because people with OCD sometimes commit suicide because they are convinced they are secretly monsters for having such thoughts.
Very true. I felt that way many years ago (I have severe OCD and at that point in time it manifested as violent thoughts) and I was so scared out of my mind that I was evil! Until a psychologist said to me that the reason I had those thoughts was because I CARED so much, because I DIDN'T want it to happen. I'm not quite sure if it's a downright scientific conclusion lol, but the psychologist said exactly what I needed to hear at the right time and a short while later, the thoughts disappeared :) (then a new toothbrush washing pattern started, because the anxiety wants out somehow, but it was much more manageable and less scary)
As someone with more mild ocd it always seems like the intrusive thoughts that seem the most horrible are the things I am most terrified to do, not things I want to do deep down
I remember when my OCD would send me into a panic attack at least five times a week. The stress and shame that OCD puts me through made every waking moment filled with anxiety and made me develop severe secondary depression. The worst thing about OCD is learning it will always be there, and you have to learn to deal with it. Even though I'm the most mental stable that I have been my whole life, my OCD can easily bring back the despair I felt at the lowest time in my life. OCD is not about being a perfectionist, its about obsession. Obsession ,shame ,fear and pure despair. It will get better if you look for help, but its a daily battle. You will get stronger though. You just need to keep pushing and find people who will love you for you and not your mental disorder. They exists. You are not a freak. Your mind is not broken. Your just wired differently and that's okay. You will be okay🙂
Yea.. mine pairs with a rare condition i have called Intermittent explosive disorder, four powerpacked disorders bombard me daily.. HFA. ADHD..IED.. im easily distracted from things, including conversations and such, as well as work, and theres a crap ton more but those are the key things, then what better to be distracted by then something im obsessed with!.. if something doesnt go as planned im filled with anxiety..i have rituals that include literally trying ro reverse psychology the universe or look away from something happening not because im bracing for failure but because i feel that if i look away it will go as planned, my adhd and ocd tag team my adhd hyperfocuses on an obsession my ocd keeps me hooked on it and my intermittent explosive makes me get very mad if something goes wrong or if someone tries to distract me, if i lose something and completely forget where i mightve put it, or if i forget something i someti es end up getting very angry at myself and begin hurting myself mentally and physically, i hate how the info online and the stigma there is about ied we are not murderers we are not evil or looking to fight we arent bullies we just have trouble recognizing that "your getting angry" feeling and once i overflow with anger i have extreme control problems in fact people with ied are very empathetic, and once an episode is over im not violent or planning on hurting anyone later its over! And i have never hurt another person by punching or hitting, ive thrown stuff at people but never hurting anyone, ive stolen thousands of dollars from my parents because of ocd.. it is likensomething possess you, and its awful
Whenever I mention about being neat and tidy, people often say “oh so you have OCD”, no, I don’t. My mum has it and i always knew I didn’t have it, this video has made me realise I probably don’t have it. People need to realise it’s a bigger thing than just being neat and organised. Thank you for this.
the funny thing is, i would be like, "no dw hahaha i dont have ocd"! and it was just my ocd telling me i didnt have ocd and then there would be times i would be like "okay no i need help" and then the next month i'd be back to trying to reassure myself i did not have a disorder lol
I don't know if you'll still see/reply to this comment but I wanted to ask if your Mom having an ocd has affected the way she treats you as her daughter, do you also have a hard time? What are some situations that makes it harder for you to understand how she feels? So sorry if this came out weird, I just really needed to ask.
i told my therapist i thought i had ocd (really bad intrusive thoughts, some compulsions, etc) and she was like “doesn’t everyone have a little ocd?” and that was that. imma go back and double down i think lmao
hearing "we all have a little [serious disability/disorder]" is the most annoying and hurtful thing you can ever hear, and to imagine a therapist telling me that makes me so angry. im so sorry you had to go through that
I have severe ocd, and this video made me feel like i wasn't the only one out here... the hardest part of ocd is eventually blocking out certain intrusive thoughts, and them coming back different. even more, when your rituals become unsafe to continue. life is tough. don't judge a book by its cover, be kind to everyone you meet, you never know the depth of what some people are going thru❤❤
It's taken me years to train my brain (like muscle memory) to feel the linkage between all my intrusive thoughts and dismiss/(desensitize myself to) them with (relatively) equal ease. But my OCD encompasses a lot of different things, from the nature of consciousness/existence, to my self worth in terms of appearance (height dysphoria), and intrusive/repugnant thoughts that often get political. So needless to say, it's taken a WHILE lol. Wishing you the best!
@@MachFiveFalconI have the existential intrusive thoughts too and it SUCKS. Maybe one of the worst things I've ever had to deal with concerning my OCD
@@irecordwithaphone1856 I became so obsessed with the nature of consciousness, evolution, the threat of AI replacing humanity, the possibility of alien life, and a universal purpose that united it all that I became psychotic for a brief period. The only thing that helped me was finally imploding in my own futile attempt at reaching certainty and letting go of it. It sounds like you've done better at handling your existential OCD, and I hope you continue to!
People use perfectionist to easily as well, a perfectionist normally isn’t necessarily someone who needs things to be super tidy and neat or anything but instead some1 who is extremely self aware and consequently self conscious. Somebody who holds them self to an extreme standard, going as far to critic themselves for wanting to achieve that standard and be perfect as often their idea of perfect is some1 who doesn’t care about being perfect. Being a true perfectionist is a vicious cycle of self loathing and awareness of skill level. You always want to show your best because you don’t want people underestimating your talent or you don’t want people thinking you don’t care about some1 or something. Often perfectionist will be people you might not expect, almost all perfectionist are big procrastinators and probably hate themselves for it because the reason they are avoiding doing something is because they are scared they won’t be able to do it to a standard they can accept. It’s subtle, brutal and all encompassing - often leading to or paired with eating disorders, depression and anxiety
@@marypoppins4617 hi. I may not be the best to ask but i do know from psychology class that perfectionism can trigger anxiety sometimes. And how to educate 🤔🤔 i would recommend maybe gathering information and show the differences about it as perfectionism is considered a personality trait and not a disorder I hope it helped if not i apologie
yes! I describe it like an addiction bc when an obsession is coped with a compulsion it alleviates your stress and you know if you give in to your compulsion it would relieve your anxiety.
They’re so brave. Speaking on our obsessions and intrusive thoughts is so personal and vulnerable, as someone with OCD I don’t think I could talk about mine with in front of the internet. I have a hard time even speaking with my therapist about them.
Speaking about mine anonymously feels really good. I don't want "trauma dumping" to become a compulsion of mine, too though, lol. Confronting (in the right way, when you can handle it) is amazing. Especially because guilt/shame/sexuality/past religious views/distrust have played such a strong role in my OCD. It's so freeing to finally say "I don't give a F*** who knows! I don't care what they think!"
I have perversion-related OCD. It started as "what if I'm gay" and once I accepted that being gay is normal, the topics became more taboo. Naturally, this lead to me thinking I have this horrible dark secret that nobody should know about. My dark secret is just that I have intrusive thoughts exactly like everyone else, but then the thoughts bother me so much that I give them space and attention. Don't know if it's healthy or compulsion, but I've taken to reassuring myself that there's a huge difference between thoughts and actions. If these thoughts make me upset and I choose not to act on them, then they aren't "honest" or "real" or "mine." They are thoughts that my animal brain summons from the void and it's up to me whether I dwell on them or move on.
@@NoiseDay If it helps you to not do compulsions, then it's healthy. But be careful because sometimes we unknowingly replace a compulsion with another.
maybe those that have already recovered? i know that people with anorexia/bulimia nervosa (maybe any eating disorder) can be really into body checking and being enabled in a youtube video might be a bit harmful. Just my thoughts!
@@clutterlilly I volunteer for this. I've recovered, relapsed, recovered, etc. I'm in a stable place now for sure, I'm at a healthy weight and I can look at older pictures of myself without wanting to look that skinny again. I would be honored to talk about it
Shame is a huge component. One of the most prominent ways in which my OCD manifests itself is through dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking). It’s awful to have to walk around covered in wounds because goddamn goosebumps were too much of an inconsistency in texture on my arms, or not wanting to shake people’s hands because I ripped all the skin off of my cuticles. And they just never heal, because of course scabs and scars aren’t uniform in texture, so they have to go too.
@Katie Cramton as someone who also has it, here's a life changing tip: wear clothing that covers your skin more. It seems really simple but even just wearing long sleeves can help. A major site of picking for me is my hands and recently I got fingerless compression gloves and they are the best, it's much easier to control the urge to pick if you have to go through a whole process like taking off gloves or rolling up your sleeves to start doing it and it's easier to catch yourself then. Also, if you are comfortable with it, try telling someone you spend a lot of time with to stop you whenever they catch you picking. It doesn't feel good in the moment to get basically called out but it's one of the best tactics I've found. Good luck, I hope this helps you!
I dont hear many who do this but would this also be a form of it.. I pick my lips till they bleed and scab. Its so ugly.. I also pick the dead skin on my head. It got so bad a couple years back that I had a bald spot because i kept picking a scab.
This is terrible, but if I wear tennis shoes to work, by the time I get home, my feet will have been trapped with the moisture enough that the soles will be that whiteish color from the moisture... And I peel them like crazy, and then I have to bandage it up so the wounds don't get infected. And then I get the joy of walking around on the wounds the next day. Which, I don't like the pain, but it isn't enough of a deterrent to stop me from the peeling. And, I love my mom, but she has contributed to my feelings of shame regarding the situation. I know she wants what is best for me and for me to stop hurting myself, but it doesn't make me less likely to do it - it makes me more likely to do it in a way that hides the evidence. My friends know about it, and if they catch me picking, they will encourage me to stop, but they have never made me feel ashamed of it, and I love them so much. The thing I am even more ashamed of, though, is that I also get the compulsion to collect things, and so I collect the peeled skin and hide it in a hidden spot, in old medicine containers. It makes me feel like an absolute freak, but it is also so relieving that I haven't been able to find a way to stop myself from doing it.
Yes! Mine presents itself in many ways but one of them is Trichotillamania (obsessive hair pulling) and it’s made my life a living hell! I’ve always felt ugly because of it and though it’s under control, it still comes in spurts and I hate it!
Can he please do “I spent a day with people who have ADHD.” I really wish people understood it isn’t fake and that it can actually be rly hard to live with
Can you explain ADHD cause I feel like my little sister might have it she gets distracted very easily I would be talking to her and she would get distracted she also has a lot of trouble in school she’s always getting distracted and zones out I don’t completely know what ADHD is but can you tell me
THIS! People think it’s all attention & SQUIRREL but the exhaustion it can take mentally & physically & all of the other symptoms are MUCH more relevant than “attention”. I feel like ADHD causes minor OCD, definitely anxiety, depression & many other disorders. I would send in an ESSAY to Anthony & crew to describe my experiences with it.
@@GirlConner Hi OTA here! ADHD does play a part in all of these disorders. ADHD is most primarily linked with anxiety because of inability to relax, difficult paying attention, and sometimes persistent negative thoughts. It’s also tied into sleep disorders, dyslexia, substance abuse, BPD, and autism!
@@berlincastro107 ADHD is most commonly known as not being able to focus, constantly moving/ fidgeting so in simple terms.. hyperactivity. It’s also being VERY forgetfulI but everyones adhd is different so i really recommend watching “ADHD in girls” by How To ADHD. As a girl with ADHD it’s extremely accurate but there also some other things I should tell you about ADHD because it’s usually not talked about. ADHD ties in with other illnesses like autism, tourettes or just tics (movements or sounds you can’t stop doing even if you want too, which sucks btw) insomnia or irregular sleeping patterns, eating disorders (most common with girls is BED, where we eat excessively) theres also a very high chance of depression and anxiety etc.
If I remember correctly, the majority of psychopaths are non-violent - like *very* few are actually violent. It sucks that they get such a bad reputation because of things like tv shows and whatnot😕 (Also interesting that you mentioned it! Hope Anthony sees it🤓)
@KILEI LACEY antisocial personality disorder is the only official name for the disorder. if you don't believe me, i suggest you check the DSM-5. please don't spread misinformation. psychopathy is not a real diagnosis, regardless of what age you are
@@aliceyue1754 It’s so fascinating tbh... they also make great business(wo)men, so I guess that’s good?😅 Really hoping he talks about sociopaths as well!!
@@Kaiexists966 Yeah, psychopath is just a term people started using and continued using since the majority of people know what a psychopath is rather than someone with antisocial personality disorder😬😋 thanks for mentioning it!
I’ve always been worried that I had OCD myself, as I’ve have thoughts of compulsion that was like a sudden competition for myself, like if I didn’t suddenly turn on a certain light within a small period of time, the worst things would happen to my family. But I know that my anxiety has been a main cause of the worst case scenarios, so it caused symptoms of OCD.
Same, I used to be the same way when I was a little kid. I’d constantly have thoughts about something bad happening if I don’t do something like 15 times or something. It literally went on every day all day. There was no resting from it unless I was asleep. For years. I grew out of it somehow though. I don’t remember how but I still did! As bad as it was, I still healed from it. Good luck boo, you can do it even though it’s hard as hell. Im not even sure if what I had was OCD but now that I’m watching this and reading comments, it sounds like OCD.
I have both OCD and anxiety and yeah I can confirm there’s an overlap with quite a few of the symptoms. Sometimes I struggle to know whether a symptom I’m experiencing is due to my anxiety or my OCD. But then again, although you can have anxiety separately too, I’m pretty sure it’s also considered a symptom as OCD. Anxiety’s interesting because it can be both a disorder and a symptom of over disorders. It can kinda go hand in hand with quite a few other mental illnesses.
So I don’t think I have ocd but when I was little, I had three different things I told myself I had to do in order to keep my parents from fighting. One thing was I couldn’t touch anything that was the color red. The second thing was I couldn’t say the number three or things couldn’t be in groups of three. The third one was if I touched something with my left hand, I had to immediately touch that same thing with my right hand
A lot of kids have those symptoms so please don’t worry... ‘Normal’ people can always have something that seems ocd but it is obviously not. Anxiety and ocd are quite close so it’s possible to get small hints here and there
I’d love to see one on hypochondria or health anxiety. I feel like it’s easy to blow off and make fun of, but I have it and it can destroy you emotionally, physically, and mentally
For anyone curious: “Pure O” is a misleading nickname because it *looks* like only obsessions (intrusive thoughts/images/urges or fears) are present, but the compulsions are mental and honestly it is hell to deal with especially because a lot of my fears (if not all) have to do with morality and the fear of seriously harming people.
@@poni_poki same here, it's a living hell, I don't even have a hope my ocd can ever stop anymore, I just wish the intrusive thoughts would transform into something less disturbing...
This ❤️ It truly is terrible. I get paralyzed in fear from my intrusive thoughts and obsessing over every single thought. And trying to get things done without obsessing over them
I have ADHD bipolar type Ii with pure o ocd it is a nightmare. Though treatment had been going well. But it comes and goes :( some weeks are better than others
Little fact, dyslexics actually make up about 5-15% of the US population. 14.5 to 43.5 MILLION people have this disorder. My boyfriend is also someone whom has it. People still have constant misconceptions about it all the time yet dyslexia has a coined term for 130+ years. Dyslexics happen to be some of the smartest people out there.
OCD is debilitating, I wish there was a way out. Them describing it as a never ending escape room is so true, thank you for making these videos. I finally feel heard and understood
You should do "I spent a day with people w/ Antisocial Personality Disorder." Some refer to them as sociopaths, but there's a large stigma around them and I think it'd be really interesting to have them speak their peace.
"Signs of antisocial personality disorder A person with antisocial personality disorder may: exploit, manipulate or violate the rights of others lack concern, regret or remorse about other people's distress behave irresponsibly and show disregard for normal social behaviour have difficulty sustaining long-term relationships be unable to control their anger lack guilt, or not learn from their mistakes blame others for problems in their lives repeatedly break the law "
I hate stereotypes of OCD, like people say "oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I have OCD, because I always want it to be clean", but there is so much more to it. Like people suffer from it everyday and it's horrible for many people. Please don't self-diagnose.
@@lightofthefire8171 that is true, I've done 3 years of research on it and I'm still not self diagnosing, it can be rly hard to get a diagnosis, so I'm waiting until I can get one, so I usually just say "I think" I might have it and not "I do", even tho I'm almost 100% sure I do I just dont like how I feel like I'm attention seeking so I avoid saying it.
OCD is literally debilitating. I totally relate to the shame / guilt of having intrusive thoughts. I don’t want to think of the things I’m thinking of whatsoever yet my OCD makes me.
It can be healed slowly bit by bit. I have ocd from 3 years old and the more I heal spiritually and mentally and emotionally it gets better. And i dropped school because my intrusive thoughts were so bad
I told my mom some of the thoughts I have and now she thinks I’m suicidal. I am not, and am not making fun in any way but like She was jumping to conclusions a bit-
I'm not sure if I have OCD but by watching this I think I need to consult my doctor. I also have intrusive thoughts. Sometimes I cried and slap my face because of it. 😢
i don’t have OCD but when i was in residential psych treatment (i was in there for BPD and substance use disorder), there was another resident with OCD who told me that they’d have terrible intrusive thoughts while driving where they’d become convinced that they’d run over someone if they didn’t tap the steering wheel 4 times. the way they described their symptoms to me helped me understand the disorder much better. thanks anthony for a great video! i feel like a lot of people don’t understand what OCD actually is.
I was only recently diagnosed with OCD but I didn't realize that having internal arguments over and over again that I can't stop was a compulsion. I have intrusive thoughts about conflicts that might happen and then can't stop repeating it over and over in my head
Omg are you me? I can relate to anyone who has OCD, but it's that "obsessing over my own ideas/catastrophic thinking" that I relate to overwhelmingly the most. My OCD is more existential/height dysphoria/self-worth related at times, but I fall into exactly the same traps you're talking about as well.
@@Elvings92 Can be. It can be a part of OCD. The difference is often anxiety. Perfectionism is mostly about enjoyment of having a clean place. someone with OCD perfectionism would clean to not get an anxiety attack
@@owen3721 You know only like .01% of people are the “wrong gender?” The chances you’re one of them is very, very slim. The problem is, you’re being exposed to too much absolute nonsense and it’s confusing you. Go watch a Candace Owens video about transgenderism.
@@planetearth9471 OCD is what I call the "phantom" disorder, because it only feels "real" if you give it fuel by reasoning with it, interacting with it, trying to figure it out, etc. Basically, if you pretend that there's no problem, there won't be. In other words, tell yourself that it MIGHT be true, but don't try to know for sure that it's not.
I would love to see “I spent a day with people with narcolepsy”. As someone with narcolepsy I find that so many people have this dramatic and theatrical idea of it when it’s not always the case. I really wish that people could learn about the symptoms and how it’s treated. Whenever I tell someone I have narcolepsy they assume I am completely useless and unproductive and will never function in society and that I live in my bed. Not true! I’m medicated and living my sleepy life more productive than most. Maybe due to my OCD that makes me overcompensate for my condition by being over-productive to the point of harm but still!!! 😝
I have NwC!!!! I tried to submit a video when they put it out but I got nervous so I stopped. But to the person down below about Cataplexy... it’s weird. Mine is triggered by laughter (I’m trying to catch some on video but man it’s hard lol) and frustration. Mine went from facial and small muscles being paralyzed to fully body, knees buckle, laying there like an idiot for a few seconds or minutes. But it’s sooooo much fun 🥲😅
My partner has narcolepsy and even though I have ASD and ADHD, I have a hard time keeping up with him! He has more hobbies than I have ever seen anyone have. I used to think that it was spontaneously passing out until I met him. I have never seen him pass out in the middle of physically doing something like driving, only during movies which I think a lot of us do. What I'd like to know is, if it is a spectrum or do some people with narcolepsy have more troubles than others? Like having cataplexy?
Id love to see him do some kind of reproductive disorders like PCOS & endometriosis. Get women, trans men, nonbinary people, & how much misinformation is out there. People think you can get cured of endo by just having a baby which is NOT true. Even doctors say this shit. Also how most of us don't get diagnosed for 10 yrs as thats the average time it takes to diagnose endo. We get so much flak from doctors & family its ridiculous. We suffer feeling like a tiger is attacking our uterus, extreme GI issues, give up sex, & how it has like no research or treatment. When I tell people I have endo they barely even know what it is. It gets like no money for research for treatments either. Most of us are backed into a corner with only birth control to manage symptoms which ISNT ENOUGH. PLEASE please PLEASEEE do endo & pcos! Please please please 🖤
For me at least, OCD is like living in a time loop, especially when it comes to checking compulsions. You just keep doing the same thing over and over and over again, and you know you've been there, you've been there for so long, but you have to do the thing _one more time_ because the last time you didn't do it in just the right way in order to get rid of the obsessive thought that's causing it. Fun times (:
Yeah it honestly sucks to deal with and I wish I could forever delete some image obsessions that I have in my head but sadly I don’t think I can but it’s fine I guess one just has to work on getting rid of certain obsessions but Ik ocd makes that incredibly hard.
@JERKSIMULATOR Hmmm... not quite? The Squidward clip feels more like the depression experience to me... and even though depression comes along with OCD a lot, technically OCD is more of an anxiety thing.
Oh my God! "The whole reason why something is classified as a mental disorder is that it impairs functioning and causes distress in someone's life. So there will never be--in history--a mental disorder where people point to it, and they're like, 'I wish I had that,' because that would defeat the whole point." Yeeeessssss!!!! Incredible. I love that comment.
He did one with ddlg practitioners but tbh, i dont think its a good idea 2 bring kink/bdsm 2 the mainstream, theres 2 much ground 2 cover 2 adequately fit in such a short video
@@societycrumbles I think it was a few years ago people were mainly complaining on FB about her attitude and how she talks to people if they disagreed on a topic with her. Ima guess her attitude has changed as she’s gotten older but I’m unsure tbh.
For the majority of my life, I thought I was crazy. I didn’t realize that intrusive thoughts were a product of OCD. I’ve learned a lot about it since, and thought I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, I now find comfort in knowing I’m not alone. Thank you for sharing this. It is so important to shed light on a term that loosely gets tossed around.
ALSO EVERYONE PLZ REMEMBER THAT OCD IS NOT AN ADJECTIVE!!! IF YOURE VERY ORGANIZED USE A DIFFERENT WORD. ITS FRUSTRATING FOR OCD SUFFERERS TO SEE THEIR ILLNESS DOWNPLAYED.
@@DrNero7435 you could describe yourself as meticulous maybe. There’s hundreds of words in the English language and ocd should be used as an adjective bc it simply is not : )
Could you please do a “I spend a day with people with Eating Disorders”. EDs have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness and sadly- they are still very misunderstood. It would be nice to see other EDs other than anorexia or bulimia, like AFRID or Diabulimia. I’m also a POC and it’s sad that there are not enough documentaries about us or movies that we are the main protagonist in.
I'd like Anthony to tackle: "I spent a day w/ people who have depersonalization/derealization disorder". I thought I was the only one feeling like I was walking in an unreal world and feeling unreal myself, but after self-research, I've learned many people deal with this. It would be so beneficial for people who still feel alone to know that they aren't going insane (as I write this my hands look like someone else's haha). Thanks to my childhood I get to feel like I'm wearing VR glasses all day.
I've had this for a few months last year and it was absolute hell. Sending all my support as I know just how much it sucks, and you're so strong for going through this!
Same. I’ve been saying for so many years I just feel like I’m just floating outside my body watching from the outside. I don’t feel like I’m in my body.
It's weird how it gets worse when you talk or think about it, also looking in mirrors always freaks me out because I see myself moving but don't feel as though I am and I just look fake.
OH MY FREAKING GOSH.finally someone said it. it's been going on and off for me since i was like 10 (i'm 20 now). and yes, u can over come it, kinda difficult but it is possible guys
i have ocd and i find it SO frustrating when ppl are saying stuff like “im so ocd” or “why am i such a perfectionist” when it’s nothing compared to people with real ocs
I’ve been diagnosed with OCD for 6 years that’s been so severe I’ve had to go to full time treatment that took me out of school for over a year. People greatly underestimate the severity of the disorder because it is often used as an adjective. Thank you so much Anthony for bringing awareness to what OCD truly is.
I’m so sorry to hear that it got that bad, I really hope it gets better soon! OCD can be so severe, this isn’t as bad as what happened to you but I’ve had ocd since I was 10 and multiple times I found myself screaming because I couldn’t get these thoughts out of my head. I wish people were more aware of the effects.
@@gracie1901 I can’t speak on the ED treatment because I have never been in an official ED clinic, but I can honestly say the OCD residential I was in saved my life. I received very minimal treatment before and had never even heard of exposure therapy before attending, but it was so helpful. Im not sure if the place you’re going would revolve around exposure therapy, but that’s just my experience. At times, it will feel like absolutely hell while you’re in there because you are essentially just making yourself anxious over and over nearly every day, but the staff I worked with were extremely forgiving, recognized the days where I needed a break, and long term, the struggle while I was in there was worth it. I really didn’t believe I had a future at all until I had this treatment, but when I was released I realized I would actually be able to attend college! Obviously, I can’t assume every treatment facility is as fabulous at treating everyone, but in my experience if you go in with an open mind (which I absolutely did not and this held me back for awhile) you will find yourself in the uphill as a result
Oooh that sounds really cool! There's an email you can send suggestions for videos officially (in the description). That might be if you want to be in the video you're proposing, though. I'm not 100% sure but I think he should definitely do an episode on derealization/depersonalization.
Correct me if im wrong, but aren't those usually symptoms of different mental health issues. So if he did that it'd just me a mix of people with different mental health issues since usually people don't just have depersonalization and derealization
@@ihavetopowerofgodandanimeo2551 in no way am i a professional, but based on my own research, its usually the body’s way of dealing with, for most, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some, including myself, it can feel like an issue just within itself. Some other topics he covered also stem from other mental health issues as well but I completely understanding what youre saying. I just wanted it to be covered because im learning more and more people suffer from it just like me and it would be great to see others talking about it especially with him
I have this and it’s a symptom of my anxiety and depression but many people don’t understand how it feels so they look at me like I’m crazy when I say that I feel like I’m on autopilot or I feel like I’m looking through a tunnel or feel like I’m in a dream like state. It’s scary for me and I completely agree that the world needs to understand this form of dissociating better.
As someone who has OCD my goal is to learn to make it work for me and form a sort of symbiotic relationship with it. Instead of trying to ignore it or let it control me I'll use it as a reminder. A good example would be me forgetting something. OCD would remind me and tell me you forgot something. Then I'll think about it and if I think I left something I'll go to check. This could cause me to grab something I would have otherwise forgotten.
@@aaronrodriguez9376 Trying to adapt around it while reducing symptoms and leveraging the "positives" if there are any is a great way to go! When I can still see the forest for the trees, my OCD can help me analyze things - which is great as long as I'm not analyzing things to death lol
I can’t stand when people talk about “being ocd” when they just like organization. As someone who suffers from ocd, it’s really invalidating and it’s not fun. Thank you for educating everyone.
Like I get it but unless you are claiming to actually have OCD when you don’t i don’t see the problem. People do the same thing with tons of other mental disorders and it literally doesn’t do anything. It’s just words.
It’s harmful because people who don’t know anything about ocd will hear someone who’s just organized say they have it for that reason, and in turn, those uneducated on ocd will think that’s what ocd is. And just as with any disorder it’s wrong to invalidate someone’s suffering just be “cute and quirky”
Claiming that you have OCD in order to be ‘quirky’ and ‘different’ is so debilitating to people who actually suffer. Everyone who has OCD would give anything to not struggle so much every day. The disparity between what OCD is actually like and what most people think it is is extremely saddening. I remember in middle school envying the innocence of those who made jokes about OCD. They were ignorant, but that meant that they weren’t suffering.
Yes! My teacher who is undiagnosed told the whole class “I think I have OCD because I like to clean”...I was so disgusted and I felt invalid! People need to educate themselves because OCD is so much more than that...
Me watching the video. Anthony: “This disease affects 2% of the worlds population” Me: “oh that’s not so bad” Anthony: “that’s about 150 million people worldwide” Me: “HOLY SHITTT!!!!!”
Every time you hear something described as happening to “only 1-2%” of Earth’s population, remember that that’s also the percentage that ginger people make up. If you’ve seen someone with red hair chances are you’ve seen just as many people with whatever else has been described
@@gretablackwell495 that depends a litttttle on where you live tho. i live in scandinavia so i see people with red hair a lot more than someone who lives in f. ex. ghana or thailand
I always think about it as "how many people I know are likely to be affected". So, if I interact with 50 coworkers, 1 of them is statistically likely to have OCD. Out of the 200 people in my class, 4 are likely to have it, and at least one person in my extended family in my city as well (genetics not withstanding).
Some places have it more than others. Also, we are with billions here . That's still less than 1/4 if not even less of the population having this disorder however. We have to not forget about who is and who isn't diagnosed with the disorder officially
I can totally relate to the 'wanting to do good' point. My intrusive thoughts almost always revolve around whether or not I'm doing the right thing. I was diagnosed with OCD when I was a kid, though didn't really realize it until I was an adult. I didn't think I had it because I wasn't a clean freak. Then, I saw a video on OCD and someone mentioned that people with OCD may have immense interests or obsess over faith-based issues. Then it clicked. As a Jesus follower, I remember getting stuck in a 5-month loop where I was having some terrifying faith-based obsessions. Waking up EVERY DAY with this weight on my mind, worried that I wasn't going to be okay. I want to clarify, the intrusive thoughts were not warranted by family members or anything like that; in fact, my family was very supportive and tried to help me in the best way they could. I know many people have negative experiences coming from religious backgrounds, but my experience was very positive. I had lots of loving church members who prayed with me, and my parents paid to get me counseling during that time. Good news is I was able to get stuck out of the loop and get back on track. The psychologist taught me some effective coping techniques, such as talking back to the intrusive thoughts or putting the spotlight on them. Still living my life as a Christian and I'm now writing a cartoon on mental health based on my experiences (String Theory TV on TH-cam). It will also include coping mechanisms and ways to handle your mental health struggles ☺
I get caught in Ocd loops that go for days leaving me in a extended panicked state. I’ve had people laugh at me as I tug at my front door handle 16 times or go around my car 7 times pulling at all the doors to make sure they’re locked. I’ve been late to work multiple times because I could not convince myself the stove was off and would not burn my apartment down. Ocd is a debilitating mental illness and I applaud Anthony for shedding light on it cause it’s stigma as the ‘ mental illness that makes you clean and neat’ needs to die.
ugh, my family makes fun of me for checking doors all the time. My former colleagues had especially fun when I every day after the work day was over would stand and stare at my empty desk for several minutes to reasure myself that my computer was in fact not forgotten there.
YES. I literally tried to reach out to my doctor about my ED and she said I didn't have one. I had to turn to the internet to find out that I do, in fact, have an eating disorder. Mine just happens to be one that alternates between two very different eating disorders and you'd think she'd be educated in eating disorders if she were a doctor. Because I explained to her how some days I either eat nothing or have like a cracker or something when I take my meds so it's not taken on an empty stomach, then other days I just binge and eat anything I can. She said it wasn't an eating disorder when in actuality, it is and it's called Anorexic Binge Eating type disorder. I go days without eating and then when I do eat, I binge like crazy. But she's obviously one of those "ED are for skinny girls" type people.
@@Charmynox that is so fucking sick, that is actually one of the reasons why I have never reached out for help with my eating disorder, I used to do more of what you described but now I feel so disgusted by myself that I barely eat anything. I wish you a safe recovery and I hope you get the support you need.
i think eating disorders can be related to ocd. for example my aunt is diagnosed is ocd. she is very careful about what foods she eats and has to walk 10,000 steps a day.
@@caelyn2873 yeah, i don’t struggle with anything close to OCD but very often they do relate. I do have problems with perfectionism though, like nothing will ever be good enough
My boyfriend has OCD and the intrusive thoughts are literally so difficult sometimes. I am always willing to help if I can, but those thoughts can be very dark sometimes. I don't wanna reveal too much to maintain his privacy when it comes to this stuff. I love him so much, and I'll do whatever it takes to make him feel safe and happy.
The hardest part of OCD for me is the constant battle in my head because I can acknowledge that something I’m doing is because of my OCD but I can’t stop it. It’s so bad right now. I’m sleeping on the couch and haven’t slept with my fiancé in weeks because I’m convinced I can hear the neighbors through the wall. OCD is so much more than just being a clean freak
@@Emily-ol2mk ok thank you for your help, I have found out it's not and it's just me thinking stuff. Also I'm only 14 so I think I'm fine thanks for your help
Respect dude honestly I can understand why you are sleeping one the couch it’s just so you can’t affect your fiancé look I know that OCD is a bitch I honestly wish we had a cure for this I really do but the best thing to do right now is just find a way to not affect other people around us!! I honestly wish I had an answer to this OCD
I've never had diabetes, (not technically, anyway.) but I have had high blood sugar before, and as a result, have to do and go through a lot of things diabetics would probably do; So I'd be interested in that tbh
@@Teudlanif i’ve never heard of someone having a high blood sugar without being diagnosed! did you see a doctor or anything? my blood sugar was 400 when i was diagnosed. i’m just curious!
@@itsPayton358 The high blood sugar was just an effect of the disease I was already diagnosed with beforehand, (which I'd imagine isn't too suprising in my case, plus the treatment didn't help) hence not being diabetes _exactly,_ but being in that diabetic-like condition. Sorry if I confused you-
@@Teudlanif no you’re fine! i’m glad to have learned something new! i never knew that a high blood sugar could just be an effect of another disease. thanks for the insight :)
Maybe you could do something like “I spent a day with children of drug addicts.” Or maybe even former addicts. It would be really cool to see, as someone whose been through pain caused by drug use of a loved one.
Damn, that sounds very not-fun :/ I hope you’re doing alright despite the circumstances, or at least that you have a good support network if you’re not
@@Unholyspirit ok and that still means people die, I honestly could give 2 shits less about covid but I wear a mask and social distance because my irresponsible actions could cause someone to die
People still don't talk about Mental illness as a real illness.. And that is sad.. Here in India it's still not easy to talk about Mental health.. We've lost a few popular stars to depression and all..just bcz they weren't able to talk about it.. Love from India 🇮🇳.. You're doing great
i was very recently diagnosed with OCD (like, not even a month ago i was diagnosed), and as i start to unpack what of my behaviors are attributed to OCD, i realize how much it affects me, primarily my sleep and emotions. saying i have a "beehive" brain honestly feels right. for me i have a few different strong intrusive thoughts, most of which have been from childhood. my strongest intrusive thought is that im being watched or stalked, that someone is going to pop out and hurt me if i turn my back, so i have to check multiple times. at night, ill get out of bed multiple times to check hiding spots around my room or make sure my door is locked, i cant leave my room after dark no matter what, and many times now ive woken up at midnight with such awful intrusive thoughts that i cannot go back to sleep. its still hard for my family/friends and even my therapist to understand. i really cant describe how distressing it is to feel unsafe in your own home, especially when everyone else feels perfectly fine. i also struggle heavily with depression and a few other issues, so another intrusive thought is that im faking it or being dramatic or convincing myself im worse off than i actually am (despite having multiple diagnosises). when this thought occurs, i mentally start to list off everything thats wrong with me as if i need to prove myself to someone, and i end up spiraling into a negative space, which has led me to some very bad "coping" skills. i also struggle with morality based intrusive thoughts, partially relating to a past trauma. i get convinced that im an awful person and hurting everyone i love, so i distance myself, or i have to routinely check with people and ask them "do you hate me?" or "am i a bad friend to you?" another is the fear of my technology being accidentally shared with someone else. i cant use certain apps because i become convinced that the private things i do on them (like drafting scripts, private convos with friends, or writing down my feelings, or even casual things like watching youtube videos) are actually public and everyone is going to see them. i have to shut my phone off at night multiple times because im convinced its accidentally broadcasting to my parents tv and bothering them. like most disorders, some people have it harder than others. i think for me its fairly mild, but its still very hard to deal with. im just glad that now that im diagnosed, i dont have to feel ashamed or embarrassed, and i can start looking into coping mechanisms and medical help.
Hi there I hate to hear what u have gone thru and ur daily constant struggles that never goes away. I never in a billion yrs would I thought someone can actually have the same exact fear factors intrusive thinking and depression. Do u mind sharing with me ways or what helps u. I have no one that could possibly understand relate or even comprehend a si gle thing nor gain some knowledge and awareness to get insight. I'm so drained living is exhausting and I cry all the time cuz I'm angry with no legit resources
I can really empathise with this and I've been struggling with what my psych likes to call "obsessive compulsive tendencies" ever since I was a kid. I really hate her because she doesn't treat me like a human and completely invalidates me. I really want to know if I actually have ocd or not because I get really bad intrusive thoughts about faking my disorders that will not leave my head:( I have other symptoms too and I've been researching about ocd since towards the start of last year but I've convinced myself I'm making this up and if I am I'm so sorry I don't want to self-diagnose I'm so sorry if i offended you or anything:(
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You should do a interview with people with adhd!
@@ThatRoseBush he is going to!
hiii could you reply im a big fan!!
“If you don’t like it then just stop” that’s like telling someone who’s having an asthma attack to “just breathe”
having an anxiety attack or panic attack “calm down”
or when someone’s has tics🌚
@@xifuu fr I have Tourette’s so when I tic ppl tell me just stop put your hands down like how I’m not controlling anything
YES
@@xifuu I get tics sometimes (doubt I have tourettes) and my mom keeps telling me to stop and it's really annoying
Pettion for “Anthony spends a day with whoever fixes his ceiling after each video”
Yeah they work hard
Haha ya
Yes they must work very hard cause their fixing it every time
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@iyzz beach love your profile pic! Lol
i hope the people who are like “ugh i’m such a perfectionist...i’m so ocd right now!” watch this... 😐
SERIOUSLY. Beyond frustrating.
I used to say that about my mum and I am watching closely haha. Glad Anthony is shedding light on this :)
My teachers say that and it makes me so angry
What pls explain what u just said
@@thegreatestgaming6400 there are people who use OCD as just a synonym for a perfectionist, saying “omg I’m SO OCD!” Which is just glamorizing the disorder
Having OCD honestly makes you feel like you're possessed. It's like you have a demon in your head who is constantly trying to outsmart you, find your weak points, and tear you apart however it can. It's pure Hell, and makes you constantly feel alone. Nobody deserves to go through OCD and I have nothing but respect for the soldiers who are still fighting in spite of it. I wish you all luck.
Thank you, yeah it's like a bully in my head thar won't leave me alone.
I thought I was posessed when I was younger because of it :( so I really relate to this comment
@stella ☆ yeah same here
Thank you ❤ ocd has been hell I broke down in tears watching this. It's so mentally draining and scary but it's not me it's my brain. It makes me sad this is happening to me but I wake up every day fighting through it. A month ago I was 10 out of 10 anxiety for no reason now I'm a 1 out of 10 thanks to Ali greymond
I couldn't agree more, I have OCD, it is so terrible I had to be sent to the mental hospital twice, I prevent me from kms 😕
You have to do “I spent a day with wrongfully convicted people”
Wow yeah
100% I think that the law system in USA is so messed up it would certainly be a very eye opening episode especially in the times we are living in now
YES
Yes, that’s a good idea.
That’s actually a great idea tbh
I’d like him to do “I spent a day with Pathological liars”
That would be really great
Since a lot of people think that’s not a real thing
And “I spent a day with people with Antisocial Personality Disorder”.
my boyfriend has that, especially with numbers. Whenever someone asks him "how many times did you try that?" "how many did you get?" etc, he will feel an extreme urge to say the wrong number and over-exaggerate. But often he will also just say a wrong number without even doing it on purpose
That would be a really interesting episode!
I might get my ex to reply! But no I think this would be hella interesting
I can not stress this enough, OCD IS NOT JUST BEING NEAT.
YES THAT IS JUST BEING A PERFECTIONIST
Exactly.
It’s not: it makes me happy when things are nice and tidy
It is (example): I need to keep this clean, to help alleviate the thought that my family will get sick, suffer and die because of germs
Right Someone Needs To Tell The Kadashian/Jenner’s This
YES PEOPLE ROMANTICIZE DISORDERS LIKE THIS TOO MUCH, MY CONDITION ISN'T QUIRKY
LITERALLY I have recently been diagnosed with ocd and the thing is is that I can have my room a mess but when It comes to doing school It’s extremely bad and my friends where saying well if you have ocd your home has to be clean and I was like what
OCD has affectively ruined my life since I was six years old. I am diagnosed with it, so I can speak about this from an inside perspective. It takes everything out of you, and seeing people pretend to have this disorder to be cute and quirky is awful for people who really have this. Anyone who has OCD, my love goes out to you. I hope you’re all okay.
I have had ocd since I was 7 so I know how you feel, it’s extremely tiring and trapping.
Sending love your way! ❤
I have a family member with it and it’s so heart breaking
Cute and quirky?????????
I have OCPD. I can pinpoint incidences in childhood that scream OCPD. It’s… difficult.
I've was diagnosed with OCD when I was 4 or 5 and seeing people faking it really pisses me off. Most people act like it's not a big deal but it really is,OCD can mess up someone's life. I hope anyone else who's got it is doing ok,ik it can be tough but you just have to hang on as best you can❤️
I hope you have a great day/night,stay safe out there❤️
you gotta do "i spent a day with suicide hotline dispatchers"
that would be so interesting
he did lol
@@andyleikind I think that was 911 dispatchers.
I just came back to this comment to say that ahh so sorry
@@andyleikind no that’s ok lol
it’s crazy how Anthony hasn’t won a Streamy yet for how eye-opening his series is
Hopefully soon, this series is legendary
With streamys still nominating people like Kati Morton, they could eat their award
2021 streamy award baby!
@@danigirii who is Katie Martin? Never heard of her?
I don't know what Streamy is, but YES
It makes me so angry when clean “freaks” and organised people are like “OMG I have OCD”. It’s not that simple.
y e s.
omg this suddenly reminded me of that one anime about a soccer player with ocd BUT they portray it as a gag because like “hE’s a sOcCeR pLaYer bUt hEs sOo oRGaNised uWu sO qUirky” although i never got to finish it so I can’t speak for the series as a whole (the title of the anime is Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun)
I like to have my room clean and neat, when friends come over they always say “ you’re such a cleanfreak you must have OCD “ just because something is clean doesn’t mean the person has OCD. It’s annoying when people make these comments or when they self diagnose without knowing what it is
YES. I have OCD and being organized is not something that affects me, being tidy does, I want everything to look a certain way but its just that something is 'clean'
Ikr
ocd has to be the most misunderstood disorder out there. i remember in school, my classmates all thought it meant "obsessive cleaning disorder" and would say that had ocd when they wanted desks to be perfectly lined up, pencils to be organized, etc
Idk I think bulimia is the most misunderstood
That’s and ADHD
Literally a girl told me that and after I just thought I was crazy because they had taken over ocd as a “neatness disorder” when I really went through it with my mind telling me to do certain things or else something would happen which had driven me nuts for so long
that and bipolar, people are like "omg i'm so bipolar" like shut up jessica you were sad yesterday and happy today that's just being a person with emotions
honestly though it's just hard to say, since there's so much misinformation on so many disorders, we just need better information on mental health out there, i'm glad anthony is makin these videos
@@raggedyanne9631 saying its thebmost misunderstood problem its false from a young age we have been exposed to so many documentaries about people suffering from ocd that its notbjust about being neat
So saying its the worst it isnt .
Adhd its pretty confusing .
People are suffering from adhd and still cant get proper help as its not a well known disability .
Adhd is worste of course because if you have a sever adhd it can mess your whole life .
Having job problem, always pooor having emotionnal dysregulation. Depression generalised anxiety, homelessness, extreme lack of motivation due toblack of dopamine in the brain, having executive fonction undevelloped to the point that people will judge you, call you lazy ect ect .
So yes adhd compare to ocd is way worse as it mess your whole life .
Not only adhd .
ocd is far less worse than bipolar, bpd and the rest .
People always think they have it worse
We are all suffering in our own ways
Let’s please end the “cleaning freak” stigma.
yes. please.
yesss, I literally went undiagnosed with OCD for so long because my parents didn't understand OCD could be anything other than obsessions about cleanliness and neatness
U guys do know that OCD is not only bout cleaning right?
@@shazam1334 exactly lol that’s what let’s end the stigma means
@@katesawyer1151 yeah😅
I saw the word "cleaning freak" and wrote the comment
My bad
I died at “just a dude vibing in the world”... just the way he phrased that was funny
Yeah really lol
I died from the Rainbow Road analogy LIKE SERIOUSLY IT WAS ALREADY HARD ENOUGH AND THEN YOU PUT IT ON MIRRO MODE AND 200CC
i read this right as he said that
Any disorder exists:
People of 16th century: DEMON POSSESSION
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as someone with ocd i can confirm we are possessed
a lil late but as someone with ocd it rly does feel like that
I basically sobbed throughout this entire video. Ocd is so miserable, I hate it so much. It is comforting to know that you’re not alone.
My fiancee has had severe OCD since she was six years old...though she's lucky to have found medications that work (she takes a high dose of SSRIs and another medication that's prescribed for anxiety and OCD,) she literally goes through mental hell on the rare occasions I've seen her off her meds. I've seen her in fetal position, in tears, the one time she had to wait two days to get her OCD meds refilled. I hope you're able to find treatment that works wonderfully for you and eases your symptoms, and know you're never alone 💛
I remember feeling this way myself. I promise that (though hard) there are ways to overcome it❤️
I strongly dislike people who go around saying when they are ordering colored pencils in class saying they have OCD. People don't understand how serious this is.
I feel like I can relate but this never happens
I think it's important to remember: Hate the game, not the player. It's really hard not to use disabilities as metaphors. It's so integrated into our culture that it might take a while for things to heal. I make the mistake all the time too. We gotta try and be understanding of it, and kindly correct people who do it, or the message will be muddled.
Edit: grammar fix
Pffffft this guy wanted to ask me out once and I refused to respond to him until I finished my Rubik's cube. But the thought kept on distracting so I kept on messing up and starting again, still refusing to respond to him
I felt really bad for making him wait, just to friendzone him anyway. But my obsession of finishing the cube was too high
I haven't been diagnosed for OCD, ADHD/ADD but I definitely have a mix of them. I just haven't been diagnosed because in my culture therapy/mental illnesses prove that you are a defect
@@andrewcotter2036 Yes, I agree with you on some level. I always tell people nicely not to mention those types of things unless you know what you are talking about. I try to explain to them that it is serious. And to go around saying things like that just bother me.
Ahhhh, I hate it when people do this!
One of my friends does this with adhd.
Like, she says ‘Oh, I used 5 emojis! I feel like such a dumb adhd kid’
THATS A DIRECT QUOTE
I hate when people say, “oh, I’m so OCD!” because they like to organize shit. .... Thank you for showing that OCD is so much more than that. It is hard and it takes so many hours out of my day and it sucks when people make it less than it is.
Also, try having issues with things being contaminated during a pandemic. My hands aren’t even the same color as the rest of my body anymore.
Almost everyone will have a similar ocd to what I see everyone here talking about. It’s the most common cases it seems. I’d like to see him interviewing someone who has some of the worst levels of it. And how it affects their ability to maintain a job or peace of mind
Same with autism. A lot of autistic folks like having stuff organised. (not me, I am a chaotic autistic person, thanks adhd)
And people are like: I put my books in alphabetical order, I am so autistic.
No, you're not, you don't get a meltdown if your books aren't in order anymore (yes, this is generalised)
@@m.janski I am autistic and if everything isnt organised I cannot function
As someone who likes to advocate for mental disorders- thank you ❤ even if i dont have that disorder it deserves to be properly respected
Also OCD doesn't go with orginizing or tidyness. Like me verifying my door for minutes and getting back to it at the middle of the road and verifying every small administration things for minutes has nothing to do with orginizing
I want him to do “I spent a day with people with Eating Disorders”. I had both Anorexia and Bulimia and it’s absolutely horrifying.
I'm glad you came over it☺️
I don’t know you. But I know how hard it can be. I’m proud of you!💜
I hope your doing well, stay strong and I hope your doing better!
I could’ve sworn there was a community post for ARFID (which is what I have) and I would’ve loved to talk about that one
Congratulations on your recovery!
I have this oddly specific compulsion that my eyes have to be perfectly positioned and staring 100% parallel at the ceiling before I can close my eyes to go to sleep. If it didn’t feel 100%, I open my eyes and do it all over again. I’ve spent nights just sobbing because I couldn’t get it right. I have this overwhelming fear about my eyes crossing when I’m trying to fall asleep and I legit still can’t make sense of it 20 years later lmao
I’m so sorry you have to go through this. I’ve definitely done things 100’s of times trying to get them right only to not get them right. 🥺
It’s pure torture.
i have NEVER seen anyone put this feeling into words ,,,,, THANK YOU,,,,,, i struggled with this during all of my childhood and teen years but it got a lot better when i was around 20 (i have no clue what caused it to disappear, but maybe this can be a little glimpse of hope for you that it can go away and that you wont have to struggle with it forever)
It's the same thing but I've to close my eyes while staring at night bulb and then without thinking about anyone's faces I've to remember someone who's been good to me faces and if not I'll have to do it again It's getting better day by day though
Aw :( that sounds so unpleasant!
It's important to remind yourself that you're going to be okay.
I have religious ocd so the little intrusive thoughts disguise themselves as “the voice of God”. Extremely stressful and tiring.
my mom and sister have that to
im not diagnosed w ocd by all means but i do this and i get worried that god will get upset w me over certain things and i ask for forgiveness a few times a day but i’m pretty sure it’s religious paranoia for me
I have religious ocd too, it sucks.
this is exactly what I have. I never see it get enough attention. Stay strong.
I'm actually the opposite I have OCD symphtoms that are against mostly Cristianity and any kind of God in general, though I also have many other types of obsessions and compulsions. My antireligious part of my OCD comes from past trauma and I kind of consider myself a Satanist. However I have friends who are Christians and I usually don't judge people based on religion. Just don't talk to me about god and stuff like that and we can get along just fine.
“Just a dude, vibing in the world.”
And at that moment I knew i was gonna love this guy
What can I say :0
I'm Just vibin
Hoarding is a form of OCD. it's weird how OCD is portrayed as being such a "cleanliness disease" when in reality OCD is a huge spectrum like autism almost. Just thought I'd add my 2 ¢.
Yes!! As someone with ocd I hate how it’s portrayed as a “clean everything disease” because obsessiveness revolves around soooooo many things, being thoughts, whether something is clean enough or not... And for me, I obsessively wash my hands, and obsess over thoughts, but it makes me mad on how it’s misunderstood and marked as “a disorder where you want to clean everything “, because while people can obsessively clean things, ocd is so much more than cleaning things, I couldn’t agree more
Definitely! I have intrusive thoughts and excoriation disorder, but my house is a mess most of the time.
@@gomyminions ocd should be known as more than a stereotype making everything physically perfect, ocd is so much more
@@gomyminions and I agree, cleaning doesn’t apply to all people>< for me it applies to hand washing, usually when I clean my room it’s an act of self care and it’s not obsessive, like my hand washing and intrusive thoughts
@@hallowthepeach Same on the room thing, I have depression as well so it's really hard some days to organize my life, but when I get the will to clean the house it's because it gives me peace of mind for a minute, it feels like the organization outside softens the caos inside, but it's not related to the OCD. Hardly anyone I know understands so I feel seen lol
Looking at the good effects of psilocybin mushrooms on OCD and depression I had a test, the effects of just one dose of psilocybin mushroom gave me an encouraging result.
I learned more about myself on one trip than I have through over a year of therapy.
psilocybin mushrooms is a way to connect with our natural self and gain a deeper appreciation for our place within it.
I have been treating using EMDR, but have never heard of this.
𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖒
doc.felchshrooms
As someone who suffers from OCD i think its important to educate people that OCD is more than just 'being neat'. I truly thank you for what you do Anthony.
@@flandin_ um what? Nobody said you did..don’t be rude please. My edit: and just because you don’t suffer doesn’t mean others are the same. People are different, so do not invalidate someone else’s problems simply because you don’t feel the way they do.
flandin_ think about what u say before u speak I have ocd and this is exactly what he was talking about people don’t see inside there thoughts it’s just the outside
@@flandin_ your OCD is different from mine. And mine is different from every person's in this video. Just because YOU don't suffer doesn't mean I don't. You have no right to dictate how i talk about what i experience. If you want to talk about yours then write your own comment.
@@flandin_ Hey, even though I myself don’t suffer from OCD, I know it’s a hard thing for others, and saying that it’s “not that bad” really devalues the efforts of the people who have to deal with it. Please don’t say such insensitive things about something you don’t understand.
@@flandin_ edit: nice of you to owe up to your mistake!
I completely agree re: how upsetting it is when people say that OCD is a ‘beneficial disorder’ - my boss once told me that I was lucky to have OCD because it probably made me the organized person that I am. This was upsetting because a) having OCD sucks and b) it made me feel like my actual work ethic and attention to detail wasn’t really appreciated because it was incorrectly attributed to this horrible thing that I have to live with
Im so sorry they said that. You‘re valid and amazing.
Wow I’m so sorry. I have OCD too and I’ve been told similar things...
I dealt with something similar at my last job. My managers would come to me specifically to organize stuff because they knew I have OCD and it would always look really nice when I was done. I told them several times that that kind of thing takes me a lot longer to do, and when I have to stop for any reason before I’m done, it’s extremely triggering for me. They still did it, and I felt pretty used. Not cool when people do stuff like that.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that
My entire family says that. Nobody knows what OCD is and how much of a burden it is
CAN WE TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE HOW HE GIVES VOICES TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES
Yup hes like a god send
Yeah he’s amazing
I mean he got a shoutout for it in rewind
We always do that
Everyone is doing that on all of his videos. Thats the whole purpose of his videos...
Please, can you do "I spent a day with dyslexics" because there are lots of misconceptions about it and I feel it would be interesting for people who don't have dyslexia.
I so need this
I really need this
I would love to see auditory dyslexia included as well. I struggled w spelling and understanding people for years and spent hours researching dyslexia until I found that there's an auditory form of it
dyslexia is so easy
@@helenaduarte60 shut up
Thanks for educating people on this issue and highlighting the debilitating side of it. As someone who also suffers from OCD, it drives me crazy seeing it being romanticised so much. Keep up the great work!
I didn't know you had OCD! I love your channel, I've been watching for years. I hope you're doing well during these crazy times
they always think its about being clean and washing ur hands and thats it as someone with OCD its so annoying because its so different
Your channel is amazing~ you're so meticulous with your beautiful dolls, I am sorry to hear you suffer from OCD.
Also when people are just like oh I have a little ocd drives me fuckin nuts
Just about to write it
I feel horrible, because my best friend always repeats actions that take so much of her time, and I simply would get mad at her because it bothered me. I didn't stop to think about how she was feeling. She goes back and forth and jumps every time she passes certain spots in the sidewalk by where we live, she opens and closes all doors multiple times, touches her mirrors with her face before she leaves her home, kisses her phone 10 times exactly (but it went up,) taps her car, pauses videos/movies every few minutes, and so many more. We are neighbors and have grown up together, so go places with her often. It takes a VERY long time to get into the car, because she has a very tedious ritual she sometimes repeats for "safety." One time, after she almost missed the bus because of running and jumping back and forth on the sidewalk, so I sat down with her at her house after school. I asked her why she did all this stuff. She said she felt like herself and specifically her family was in serious danger if she didn't do this stuff. She said she didn't know why and began to cry. I always see her touching things over and over. I am so disappointed in myself for only thinking of myself at first. Her mother doesn't understand, she says it's annoying. It broke my heart every time after that conversation when I saw repeatedly touching her face to her phone while she was on call with her mom. I still blame myself for forcing her to start trying to hide her compulsions. When her and I are able to hangout again, we'll watch a movie, and I will not yell at her for pausing the movie every couple minutes. This video was very informative, thank you!
@Sadie Turner Thank you very much! I will try my best to help her navigate her daily life dealing with this, and I will hopefully help her. Be safe out there
It is good that you recognize now that your need to support your friend. Don’t be too hard on yourself, you just didn’t understand before. Your support can go a long way in helping her now. Maybe you can encourage her to tell her doctor, school counselor or some trusted adult so she can get help. Even just having her watch this video can help her realize she’s not alone.
I imagine it like having an itch the more you ignore it the more annoying it gets, but you can scratch it. So, a simple irrational thought which is easily taken care of by a silly action, only the more you do that the more thoughts you get and the more the action seems necessary.
You're such a great friend for wanting to help her. If she needs help getting a dr or meds hope you can support her in talking to her family
You should tell her family for her to get checked out so she can see she has ocd
I'm diagnosed with severe OCD and I was really glad to see this video. The only thing I would like to point out is that Freud's ideas on OCD have been thoroughly debunked... people with intrusive thoughts about violent things for example do not secretly want to commit acts of violence, they are horrified by that thought. I think pointing that out is important because people with OCD sometimes commit suicide because they are convinced they are secretly monsters for having such thoughts.
Very true. I felt that way many years ago (I have severe OCD and at that point in time it manifested as violent thoughts) and I was so scared out of my mind that I was evil! Until a psychologist said to me that the reason I had those thoughts was because I CARED so much, because I DIDN'T want it to happen.
I'm not quite sure if it's a downright scientific conclusion lol, but the psychologist said exactly what I needed to hear at the right time and a short while later, the thoughts disappeared :) (then a new toothbrush washing pattern started, because the anxiety wants out somehow, but it was much more manageable and less scary)
As someone with more mild ocd it always seems like the intrusive thoughts that seem the most horrible are the things I am most terrified to do, not things I want to do deep down
@@goudanuff6451 Yes, exactly! OCD often feeds on the fact that we are moral people who don't want to cause harm.
@@Ali-kf5bd stay strong out there champ
@@goudanuff6451 Thank you. Same to you ❤
I remember when my OCD would send me into a panic attack at least five times a week. The stress and shame that OCD puts me through made every waking moment filled with anxiety and made me develop severe secondary depression. The worst thing about OCD is learning it will always be there, and you have to learn to deal with it. Even though I'm the most mental stable that I have been my whole life, my OCD can easily bring back the despair I felt at the lowest time in my life. OCD is not about being a perfectionist, its about obsession. Obsession ,shame ,fear and pure despair. It will get better if you look for help, but its a daily battle. You will get stronger though. You just need to keep pushing and find people who will love you for you and not your mental disorder. They exists. You are not a freak. Your mind is not broken. Your just wired differently and that's okay. You will be okay🙂
Thank you, sincerely:)
💙💙💙
Yea.. mine pairs with a rare condition i have called Intermittent explosive disorder, four powerpacked disorders bombard me daily.. HFA. ADHD..IED.. im easily distracted from things, including conversations and such, as well as work, and theres a crap ton more but those are the key things, then what better to be distracted by then something im obsessed with!.. if something doesnt go as planned im filled with anxiety..i have rituals that include literally trying ro reverse psychology the universe or look away from something happening not because im bracing for failure but because i feel that if i look away it will go as planned, my adhd and ocd tag team my adhd hyperfocuses on an obsession my ocd keeps me hooked on it and my intermittent explosive makes me get very mad if something goes wrong or if someone tries to distract me, if i lose something and completely forget where i mightve put it, or if i forget something i someti es end up getting very angry at myself and begin hurting myself mentally and physically, i hate how the info online and the stigma there is about ied we are not murderers we are not evil or looking to fight we arent bullies we just have trouble recognizing that "your getting angry" feeling and once i overflow with anger i have extreme control problems in fact people with ied are very empathetic, and once an episode is over im not violent or planning on hurting anyone later its over! And i have never hurt another person by punching or hitting, ive thrown stuff at people but never hurting anyone, ive stolen thousands of dollars from my parents because of ocd.. it is likensomething possess you, and its awful
thank you for this
i feel bad for the person who has to fix Anthony's ceiling after every video
eh, they probably make a good profit from it & i imagine they’re professionals at this point
He should interview that person lol.
I desperately want to know how he films that
@@shaliekk same
Whenever I mention about being neat and tidy, people often say “oh so you have OCD”, no, I don’t. My mum has it and i always knew I didn’t have it, this video has made me realise I probably don’t have it. People need to realise it’s a bigger thing than just being neat and organised. Thank you for this.
the funny thing is, i would be like, "no dw hahaha i dont have ocd"! and it was just my ocd telling me i didnt have ocd and then there would be times i would be like "okay no i need help" and then the next month i'd be back to trying to reassure myself i did not have a disorder lol
Thank you sooo much for saying that's not what it is to them
Ikr symmetry obsessions is only sometimes
for me it doesn’t have anything to do with being clean at all so thank you for saying this
I don't know if you'll still see/reply to this comment but I wanted to ask if your Mom having an ocd has affected the way she treats you as her daughter, do you also have a hard time? What are some situations that makes it harder for you to understand how she feels? So sorry if this came out weird, I just really needed to ask.
i told my therapist i thought i had ocd (really bad intrusive thoughts, some compulsions, etc) and she was like “doesn’t everyone have a little ocd?” and that was that. imma go back and double down i think lmao
wow, i’m so sorry. you deserve someone who can truly help you. i always had trouble opening up to therapists because my thoughts were so awful
Or try a different therapist that’s shitty, ocd is no fucking joke when your in it’s grasps
hearing "we all have a little [serious disability/disorder]" is the most annoying and hurtful thing you can ever hear, and to imagine a therapist telling me that makes me so angry. im so sorry you had to go through that
that’s a really shitty therapist. i’ve been there - you should try finding one who specializes in ocd
@@pompill Exactly! find one who specializes in OCD. Good advice, Leo!
I have severe ocd, and this video made me feel like i wasn't the only one out here... the hardest part of ocd is eventually blocking out certain intrusive thoughts, and them coming back different. even more, when your rituals become unsafe to continue. life is tough. don't judge a book by its cover, be kind to everyone you meet, you never know the depth of what some people are going thru❤❤
It's taken me years to train my brain (like muscle memory) to feel the linkage between all my intrusive thoughts and dismiss/(desensitize myself to) them with (relatively) equal ease. But my OCD encompasses a lot of different things, from the nature of consciousness/existence, to my self worth in terms of appearance (height dysphoria), and intrusive/repugnant thoughts that often get political. So needless to say, it's taken a WHILE lol. Wishing you the best!
@@MachFiveFalconI have the existential intrusive thoughts too and it SUCKS. Maybe one of the worst things I've ever had to deal with concerning my OCD
@@irecordwithaphone1856 I became so obsessed with the nature of consciousness, evolution, the threat of AI replacing humanity, the possibility of alien life, and a universal purpose that united it all that I became psychotic for a brief period. The only thing that helped me was finally imploding in my own futile attempt at reaching certainty and letting go of it. It sounds like you've done better at handling your existential OCD, and I hope you continue to!
I hate when people just say " my ocd is triggered" without them actually having it... They are often perfectionists or simply like having things neat
People use it as an adjective far too often and it’s really damaging as to educating people for what the disorder actually is
@@marypoppins4617 same I have a lot of people saying do you have OCD and I'm like no that's not what OCD is im just a perfectionist
People use perfectionist to easily as well, a perfectionist normally isn’t necessarily someone who needs things to be super tidy and neat or anything but instead some1 who is extremely self aware and consequently self conscious. Somebody who holds them self to an extreme standard, going as far to critic themselves for wanting to achieve that standard and be perfect as often their idea of perfect is some1 who doesn’t care about being perfect. Being a true perfectionist is a vicious cycle of self loathing and awareness of skill level. You always want to show your best because you don’t want people underestimating your talent or you don’t want people thinking you don’t care about some1 or something. Often perfectionist will be people you might not expect, almost all perfectionist are big procrastinators and probably hate themselves for it because the reason they are avoiding doing something is because they are scared they won’t be able to do it to a standard they can accept. It’s subtle, brutal and all encompassing - often leading to or paired with eating disorders, depression and anxiety
@@marypoppins4617 hi. I may not be the best to ask but i do know from psychology class that perfectionism can trigger anxiety sometimes. And how to educate 🤔🤔 i would recommend maybe gathering information and show the differences about it as perfectionism is considered a personality trait and not a disorder
I hope it helped if not i apologie
@@sadthumb6633 i agree to that too
It’s refreshing to hear OCD explained. It’s extremely misunderstood. I struggle daily and I hear people romanticize the disorder.
yes! I describe it like an addiction bc when an obsession is coped with a compulsion it alleviates your stress and you know if you give in to your compulsion it would relieve your anxiety.
"oh i'm such a neat freak, i for SURE have ocd" i hate when people glamorize it and say things like that smh
Same I’m so glad it’s been more in depth explained it’s so much more to it then people realize and really hard to deal with
Nah cause who 😂 this shit SUCKS
To all those who think having ocd is some quirky personality trait, didn’t spend half my life in therapy for a fucking quirky personality trait 🙃
Honestly same
it is a great personality trait if you want no friends and possiblity lose your job because you obsess about everyone hating you.
@@caelyn2873 being quirky is great ❤️
IKR
Toney can i ask you how many times did you go to therapy and did it help you a lot with your OCD?
They’re so brave. Speaking on our obsessions and intrusive thoughts is so personal and vulnerable, as someone with OCD I don’t think I could talk about mine with in front of the internet. I have a hard time even speaking with my therapist about them.
Speaking about mine anonymously feels really good. I don't want "trauma dumping" to become a compulsion of mine, too though, lol. Confronting (in the right way, when you can handle it) is amazing. Especially because guilt/shame/sexuality/past religious views/distrust have played such a strong role in my OCD. It's so freeing to finally say "I don't give a F*** who knows! I don't care what they think!"
Proud of you.
I have perversion-related OCD. It started as "what if I'm gay" and once I accepted that being gay is normal, the topics became more taboo. Naturally, this lead to me thinking I have this horrible dark secret that nobody should know about. My dark secret is just that I have intrusive thoughts exactly like everyone else, but then the thoughts bother me so much that I give them space and attention. Don't know if it's healthy or compulsion, but I've taken to reassuring myself that there's a huge difference between thoughts and actions. If these thoughts make me upset and I choose not to act on them, then they aren't "honest" or "real" or "mine." They are thoughts that my animal brain summons from the void and it's up to me whether I dwell on them or move on.
@@NoiseDay If it helps you to not do compulsions, then it's healthy. But be careful because sometimes we unknowingly replace a compulsion with another.
Maybe you could do a “I spent a day with people who had eating disorders”
maybe those that have already recovered? i know that people with anorexia/bulimia nervosa (maybe any eating disorder) can be really into body checking and being enabled in a youtube video might be a bit harmful. Just my thoughts!
@@clutterlilly agree!
I volunteer for this one!!!
@@clutterlilly I volunteer for this. I've recovered, relapsed, recovered, etc. I'm in a stable place now for sure, I'm at a healthy weight and I can look at older pictures of myself without wanting to look that skinny again. I would be honored to talk about it
Im not sure how he could talk about this without it sounding bad though. what questions would there be?
The ceiling repair guy is probably making a living off anthonys ceiling alone
ceiling repair guy after inventing anthony padilla: business is booming!
Could you suicide attempt survivors I feel like that’s something that a lot of people don’t want to talk about, but can help a lot of people.
Or people who have witnessed or known people that have tried to take their lives
He has actually already done a video spending time with suicide attempt survivors. It’s a really eye opening video!
@@taylorwarrander8524 what’s the video called? I looked back through his “I spent a day with...” playlist and didn’t see it
If he does that, I'm signing up. It is important to talk about, but so hard to do.
THIS PLS
Shame is a huge component. One of the most prominent ways in which my OCD manifests itself is through dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking). It’s awful to have to walk around covered in wounds because goddamn goosebumps were too much of an inconsistency in texture on my arms, or not wanting to shake people’s hands because I ripped all the skin off of my cuticles. And they just never heal, because of course scabs and scars aren’t uniform in texture, so they have to go too.
@Katie Cramton as someone who also has it, here's a life changing tip: wear clothing that covers your skin more. It seems really simple but even just wearing long sleeves can help. A major site of picking for me is my hands and recently I got fingerless compression gloves and they are the best, it's much easier to control the urge to pick if you have to go through a whole process like taking off gloves or rolling up your sleeves to start doing it and it's easier to catch yourself then. Also, if you are comfortable with it, try telling someone you spend a lot of time with to stop you whenever they catch you picking. It doesn't feel good in the moment to get basically called out but it's one of the best tactics I've found. Good luck, I hope this helps you!
I dont hear many who do this but would this also be a form of it.. I pick my lips till they bleed and scab. Its so ugly.. I also pick the dead skin on my head. It got so bad a couple years back that I had a bald spot because i kept picking a scab.
This is terrible, but if I wear tennis shoes to work, by the time I get home, my feet will have been trapped with the moisture enough that the soles will be that whiteish color from the moisture... And I peel them like crazy, and then I have to bandage it up so the wounds don't get infected. And then I get the joy of walking around on the wounds the next day. Which, I don't like the pain, but it isn't enough of a deterrent to stop me from the peeling. And, I love my mom, but she has contributed to my feelings of shame regarding the situation. I know she wants what is best for me and for me to stop hurting myself, but it doesn't make me less likely to do it - it makes me more likely to do it in a way that hides the evidence. My friends know about it, and if they catch me picking, they will encourage me to stop, but they have never made me feel ashamed of it, and I love them so much.
The thing I am even more ashamed of, though, is that I also get the compulsion to collect things, and so I collect the peeled skin and hide it in a hidden spot, in old medicine containers.
It makes me feel like an absolute freak, but it is also so relieving that I haven't been able to find a way to stop myself from doing it.
Yes! Mine presents itself in many ways but one of them is Trichotillamania (obsessive hair pulling) and it’s made my life a living hell! I’ve always felt ugly because of it and though it’s under control, it still comes in spurts and I hate it!
Can he please do “I spent a day with people who have ADHD.” I really wish people understood it isn’t fake and that it can actually be rly hard to live with
Can you explain ADHD cause I feel like my little sister might have it she gets distracted very easily I would be talking to her and she would get distracted she also has a lot of trouble in school she’s always getting distracted and zones out I don’t completely know what ADHD is but can you tell me
THIS! People think it’s all attention & SQUIRREL but the exhaustion it can take mentally & physically & all of the other symptoms are MUCH more relevant than “attention”. I feel like ADHD causes minor OCD, definitely anxiety, depression & many other disorders. I would send in an ESSAY to Anthony & crew to describe my experiences with it.
@@GirlConner Hi OTA here! ADHD does play a part in all of these disorders. ADHD is most primarily linked with anxiety because of inability to relax, difficult paying attention, and sometimes persistent negative thoughts. It’s also tied into sleep disorders, dyslexia, substance abuse, BPD, and autism!
I just posted this lmao. also so many people think it's just fidgeting which it's not.
@@berlincastro107 ADHD is most commonly known as not being able to focus, constantly moving/ fidgeting so in simple terms.. hyperactivity. It’s also being VERY forgetfulI but everyones adhd is different so i really recommend watching “ADHD in girls” by How To ADHD. As a girl with ADHD it’s extremely accurate but there also some other things I should tell you about ADHD because it’s usually not talked about. ADHD ties in with other illnesses like autism, tourettes or just tics (movements or sounds you can’t stop doing even if you want too, which sucks btw) insomnia or irregular sleeping patterns, eating disorders (most common with girls is BED, where we eat excessively) theres also a very high chance of depression and anxiety etc.
"I spent a day with diagnosed non-violent psychopaths" pls do this. its a thing look it up
If I remember correctly, the majority of psychopaths are non-violent - like *very* few are actually violent. It sucks that they get such a bad reputation because of things like tv shows and whatnot😕 (Also interesting that you mentioned it! Hope Anthony sees it🤓)
@KILEI LACEY antisocial personality disorder is the only official name for the disorder. if you don't believe me, i suggest you check the DSM-5. please don't spread misinformation. psychopathy is not a real diagnosis, regardless of what age you are
@@sugakookies8063 Ikr, sociopaths too. They are able to, and mostly do live normal lives. They've got self restraint.
@@aliceyue1754 It’s so fascinating tbh... they also make great business(wo)men, so I guess that’s good?😅 Really hoping he talks about sociopaths as well!!
@@Kaiexists966 Yeah, psychopath is just a term people started using and continued using since the majority of people know what a psychopath is rather than someone with antisocial personality disorder😬😋 thanks for mentioning it!
I’ve always been worried that I had OCD myself, as I’ve have thoughts of compulsion that was like a sudden competition for myself, like if I didn’t suddenly turn on a certain light within a small period of time, the worst things would happen to my family. But I know that my anxiety has been a main cause of the worst case scenarios, so it caused symptoms of OCD.
Same, I used to be the same way when I was a little kid. I’d constantly have thoughts about something bad happening if I don’t do something like 15 times or something. It literally went on every day all day. There was no resting from it unless I was asleep. For years. I grew out of it somehow though. I don’t remember how but I still did! As bad as it was, I still healed from it. Good luck boo, you can do it even though it’s hard as hell. Im not even sure if what I had was OCD but now that I’m watching this and reading comments, it sounds like OCD.
I have both OCD and anxiety and yeah I can confirm there’s an overlap with quite a few of the symptoms. Sometimes I struggle to know whether a symptom I’m experiencing is due to my anxiety or my OCD. But then again, although you can have anxiety separately too, I’m pretty sure it’s also considered a symptom as OCD. Anxiety’s interesting because it can be both a disorder and a symptom of over disorders. It can kinda go hand in hand with quite a few other mental illnesses.
I have anzity OCD and ADD and a bit of Depresson im just a hot reck
So I don’t think I have ocd but when I was little, I had three different things I told myself I had to do in order to keep my parents from fighting. One thing was I couldn’t touch anything that was the color red. The second thing was I couldn’t say the number three or things couldn’t be in groups of three. The third one was if I touched something with my left hand, I had to immediately touch that same thing with my right hand
A lot of kids have those symptoms so please don’t worry... ‘Normal’ people can always have something that seems ocd but it is obviously not. Anxiety and ocd are quite close so it’s possible to get small hints here and there
I’d love to see one on hypochondria or health anxiety. I feel like it’s easy to blow off and make fun of, but I have it and it can destroy you emotionally, physically, and mentally
YESS PLEASEEE
I hope he does that🥲
And also one video about eating disorders would be great
hypochondria is usually coming from OCD.
From a “Pure O” OCD sufferer - thank you so much for helping to destigmatize this illness to a wide audience.
For anyone curious: “Pure O” is a misleading nickname because it *looks* like only obsessions (intrusive thoughts/images/urges or fears) are present, but the compulsions are mental and honestly it is hell to deal with especially because a lot of my fears (if not all) have to do with morality and the fear of seriously harming people.
@@poni_poki same here, it's a living hell, I don't even have a hope my ocd can ever stop anymore, I just wish the intrusive thoughts would transform into something less disturbing...
@@poni_poki I have both mental and physical compulsions, would that mean both pure o and ocd? something else? or just ocd?
This ❤️ It truly is terrible. I get paralyzed in fear from my intrusive thoughts and obsessing over every single thought. And trying to get things done without obsessing over them
I have ADHD bipolar type Ii with pure o ocd it is a nightmare. Though treatment had been going well. But it comes and goes :( some weeks are better than others
You should spend a day with ADHD people next. That should be interesting.
I saw it in the Community tabs! It may be coming soon 👀
@@lykhra2178 oo yes
I'd be down to participate fr, I love to see it
it’s coming soon!
as someone who had severe adhd i don’t think he should as it really isn’t that unique it’s a very common thing
Please make a “I spent a day with dyslexic people” I want people to know more about the learning disorder I have.
I would enjoy learning about this more
And Dyspraxia omg
Oh my gosh Yes. It’s so misunderstood!!!!
Little fact, dyslexics actually make up about 5-15% of the US population. 14.5 to 43.5 MILLION people have this disorder. My boyfriend is also someone whom has it. People still have constant misconceptions about it all the time yet dyslexia has a coined term for 130+ years. Dyslexics happen to be some of the smartest people out there.
@@elledowling267 YES PLS OMG- I have that and no-one ever talks about it!!
OCD feels like their is another person in your head controlling you, people don't recognize that it is on the top 10 debilitating mental disorders
Exactly i always feel like some who is always against me is controlling my mind and body :(
"OCD is a disorder of degree, not difference." I love that so much.
It's not true though, people with OCD show up in a myriad of ways not in a myriad of degrees
“I spent a day with endometriosis patients”
A chronic disease that needs a lot more attention and research
YES
PLEASE!
YES PLEASE
Yes yes yes yes yes
what is it?
Anthony: Falls from ceiling
Everyone: Doesn't care
You clearly do haha
@@davidlindsay6274 si
Literally everyone: Hmmmm.... chile, anyways...
I want to like this but it's at 420 mmmmmmmmmmm
OCD is debilitating, I wish there was a way out. Them describing it as a never ending escape room is so true, thank you for making these videos. I finally feel heard and understood
You should do "I spent a day with people w/ Antisocial Personality Disorder." Some refer to them as sociopaths, but there's a large stigma around them and I think it'd be really interesting to have them speak their peace.
No, they're called antisocial now
There's a high stigmas round people who actively manipulate for personal gain with little to no remorse? No fucken way?
@@Unholyspirit did you know that's not how everyone with aspd acts
@@enviisyk It is.
"Signs of antisocial personality disorder
A person with antisocial personality disorder may:
exploit, manipulate or violate the rights of others
lack concern, regret or remorse about other people's distress
behave irresponsibly and show disregard for normal social behaviour
have difficulty sustaining long-term relationships
be unable to control their anger
lack guilt, or not learn from their mistakes
blame others for problems in their lives
repeatedly break the law
"
I hate stereotypes of OCD, like people say "oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I have OCD, because I always want it to be clean", but there is so much more to it. Like people suffer from it everyday and it's horrible for many people. Please don't self-diagnose.
Self diagnose is fine as long as you do alot of research into it, but other than that, I agree.
@@lightofthefire8171 it depends how bad the condition is like if I keep swearing I can “self diagnose” myself with trets
@@lightofthefire8171 that is true, I've done 3 years of research on it and I'm still not self diagnosing, it can be rly hard to get a diagnosis, so I'm waiting until I can get one, so I usually just say "I think" I might have it and not "I do", even tho I'm almost 100% sure I do I just dont like how I feel like I'm attention seeking so I avoid saying it.
@@waveiiyt good news I'm going for a diagnosis test for ocds and depression, so I can finally know for sure if I have it!
@@synkimiko730 that’s amazing!! hope it goes well
OCD is literally debilitating. I totally relate to the shame / guilt of having intrusive thoughts. I don’t want to think of the things I’m thinking of whatsoever yet my OCD makes me.
Same
It can be healed slowly bit by bit.
I have ocd from 3 years old and the more I heal spiritually and mentally and emotionally it gets better. And i dropped school because my intrusive thoughts were so bad
I feel the exact same
I told my mom some of the thoughts I have and now she thinks I’m suicidal.
I am not, and am not making fun in any way but like
She was jumping to conclusions a bit-
I'm not sure if I have OCD but by watching this I think I need to consult my doctor. I also have intrusive thoughts. Sometimes I cried and slap my face because of it. 😢
i don’t have OCD but when i was in residential psych treatment (i was in there for BPD and substance use disorder), there was another resident with OCD who told me that they’d have terrible intrusive thoughts while driving where they’d become convinced that they’d run over someone if they didn’t tap the steering wheel 4 times. the way they described their symptoms to me helped me understand the disorder much better. thanks anthony for a great video! i feel like a lot of people don’t understand what OCD actually is.
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Sam's pronouns: he/him
Luke: just a dude
You mean pronouns
Luke: I have no pronouns. Please do not refer to me
Tbh if you don't wanna be referred by pronouns then oki it doesn't matter
Dead ass thought you said patronus...
@@messibessi11 💀💀
AS SOMEONE WITH OCD THANK U FOR THE RECOGNITION
IKR
yesss
The way they explained is right on point and its comforting to know you’re not alone.
IKRR
SAME THANKS ANTHONY
I was only recently diagnosed with OCD but I didn't realize that having internal arguments over and over again that I can't stop was a compulsion. I have intrusive thoughts about conflicts that might happen and then can't stop repeating it over and over in my head
Omg are you me? I can relate to anyone who has OCD, but it's that "obsessing over my own ideas/catastrophic thinking" that I relate to overwhelmingly the most. My OCD is more existential/height dysphoria/self-worth related at times, but I fall into exactly the same traps you're talking about as well.
I have this also
I really want him to do “I Spent a Day with People with Prosopagnosia.”
Eyyy! Thats me :D happy to answer questions. Its a really strange thing, and itd be cool to see how other people cope.
that sounds wild, definitely interested to learn more about it.
What's prosopagnosia?
@@yara1896 i wanna know but don't want to look it up
@@yara1896
I looked it up
Its face blindness
An “I spent a day with morticians” episode would be cool
What ya wanna know
@@rainbowdeathhearts1466 what’s your favourite condiment?
Yes! With Caitlin Doughty!
tysm for this anthony, ocd is overlooked so much as just perfectionism.
Is perfectionism a mental disorder?
True, but perfectionism is also misunderstood often.
Yeah it is!
Thank u. I don't feel like ppl take me seriously when I say I have several OCDs. They're like oh yeah cool. Like they don't think it is anything.
@@Elvings92 Can be. It can be a part of OCD. The difference is often anxiety. Perfectionism is mostly about enjoyment of having a clean place. someone with OCD perfectionism would clean to not get an anxiety attack
Do you guys ever stay up at night alone and just wonder if things are ever gonna get better or is that just me?
I had a rough night last night. Doing ERP consistently, and I think it's making my mind more exposed to my fear of being the wrong gender.
@@owen3721 You know only like .01% of people are the “wrong gender?” The chances you’re one of them is very, very slim. The problem is, you’re being exposed to too much absolute nonsense and it’s confusing you. Go watch a Candace Owens video about transgenderism.
Yea
@@owen3721 BRO HOLY SHIT SAME DUDE I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY
@@planetearth9471 OCD is what I call the "phantom" disorder, because it only feels "real" if you give it fuel by reasoning with it, interacting with it, trying to figure it out, etc. Basically, if you pretend that there's no problem, there won't be. In other words, tell yourself that it MIGHT be true, but don't try to know for sure that it's not.
I would love to see “I spent a day with people with narcolepsy”. As someone with narcolepsy I find that so many people have this dramatic and theatrical idea of it when it’s not always the case. I really wish that people could learn about the symptoms and how it’s treated. Whenever I tell someone I have narcolepsy they assume I am completely useless and unproductive and will never function in society and that I live in my bed. Not true! I’m medicated and living my sleepy life more productive than most. Maybe due to my OCD that makes me overcompensate for my condition by being over-productive to the point of harm but still!!! 😝
I think he made a post about looking for ppl like that as an announcement, or maybe comment like that.
Yeeees!!!! I have narcolepsy too and I’d love to see a vid like that💌
I have NwC!!!! I tried to submit a video when they put it out but I got nervous so I stopped. But to the person down below about Cataplexy... it’s weird. Mine is triggered by laughter (I’m trying to catch some on video but man it’s hard lol) and frustration. Mine went from facial and small muscles being paralyzed to fully body, knees buckle, laying there like an idiot for a few seconds or minutes. But it’s sooooo much fun 🥲😅
My partner has narcolepsy and even though I have ASD and ADHD, I have a hard time keeping up with him! He has more hobbies than I have ever seen anyone have. I used to think that it was spontaneously passing out until I met him. I have never seen him pass out in the middle of physically doing something like driving, only during movies which I think a lot of us do. What I'd like to know is, if it is a spectrum or do some people with narcolepsy have more troubles than others? Like having cataplexy?
Id love to see him do some kind of reproductive disorders like PCOS & endometriosis. Get women, trans men, nonbinary people, & how much misinformation is out there. People think you can get cured of endo by just having a baby which is NOT true. Even doctors say this shit. Also how most of us don't get diagnosed for 10 yrs as thats the average time it takes to diagnose endo. We get so much flak from doctors & family its ridiculous. We suffer feeling like a tiger is attacking our uterus, extreme GI issues, give up sex, & how it has like no research or treatment. When I tell people I have endo they barely even know what it is. It gets like no money for research for treatments either. Most of us are backed into a corner with only birth control to manage symptoms which ISNT ENOUGH. PLEASE please PLEASEEE do endo & pcos! Please please please 🖤
Everyone gangsta until Anthony does not spend a day with someone
For me at least, OCD is like living in a time loop, especially when it comes to checking compulsions. You just keep doing the same thing over and over and over again, and you know you've been there, you've been there for so long, but you have to do the thing _one more time_ because the last time you didn't do it in just the right way in order to get rid of the obsessive thought that's causing it.
Fun times (:
So fuckig accurate
it feels like an addiction to me but in the worst ways possible
this explains it so well
Yeah it honestly sucks to deal with and I wish I could forever delete some image obsessions that I have in my head but sadly I don’t think I can but it’s fine I guess one just has to work on getting rid of certain obsessions but Ik ocd makes that incredibly hard.
@JERKSIMULATOR Hmmm... not quite? The Squidward clip feels more like the depression experience to me... and even though depression comes along with OCD a lot, technically OCD is more of an anxiety thing.
Oh my God! "The whole reason why something is classified as a mental disorder is that it impairs functioning and causes distress in someone's life. So there will never be--in history--a mental disorder where people point to it, and they're like, 'I wish I had that,' because that would defeat the whole point." Yeeeessssss!!!! Incredible. I love that comment.
“I spent a day with people with ADD/ADHD” would be a really good addition to this series!
I have both OCD and ADHD
I agree because there are so many misconceptions of people with ADHD/add and it should be addressed!
I almost just commented that loll
I'm surprised there hasn't been one already tbh!! I really hope howtoadhd would be interviewed!! 😊
As someone with OCD, I was super excited to see your video on this! Thank you Anthony for shedding light on this topic! 💕 Amazing work as always :)
I have ocd too
i have ocd too! i’ve only recently been diagnosed and this made me happy to see representation
Same! I saw the notification and was really happy that he did this
I have ocd too!!
Was really glad he did this video
He should do “I spent a day with kinksters” I think that would be such an interesting and eye opening video for many
I think that Kat Blaque would be an awesome guest too
He did one with ddlg practitioners but tbh, i dont think its a good idea 2 bring kink/bdsm 2 the mainstream, theres 2 much ground 2 cover 2 adequately fit in such a short video
@@leahr.5876 Isnt Kat blaque problematic or is that someone else
@@moony2647 yeah she's problematic.
@@societycrumbles I think it was a few years ago people were mainly complaining on FB about her attitude and how she talks to people if they disagreed on a topic with her. Ima guess her attitude has changed as she’s gotten older but I’m unsure tbh.
For the majority of my life, I thought I was crazy. I didn’t realize that intrusive thoughts were a product of OCD. I’ve learned a lot about it since, and thought I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, I now find comfort in knowing I’m not alone. Thank you for sharing this. It is so important to shed light on a term that loosely gets tossed around.
ALSO EVERYONE PLZ REMEMBER THAT OCD IS NOT AN ADJECTIVE!!! IF YOURE VERY ORGANIZED USE A DIFFERENT WORD. ITS FRUSTRATING FOR OCD SUFFERERS TO SEE THEIR ILLNESS DOWNPLAYED.
My mom always says “omg I’m having ocd rn” stuff like that she only says it at the house not around ppl
What should I use? Just curious. I'm not really a clean freak, but there's some things I just need to fix
@@DrNero7435 you could describe yourself as meticulous maybe. There’s hundreds of words in the English language and ocd should be used as an adjective bc it simply is not : )
@@spaceoddity3982 Just looked up meticulous and that fits really well! Thank you
@@DrNero7435 awesome! Glad I could help
Could you please do a “I spend a day with people with Eating Disorders”. EDs have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness and sadly- they are still very misunderstood. It would be nice to see other EDs other than anorexia or bulimia, like AFRID or Diabulimia.
I’m also a POC and it’s sad that there are not enough documentaries about us or movies that we are the main protagonist in.
I'd like Anthony to tackle: "I spent a day w/ people who have depersonalization/derealization disorder". I thought I was the only one feeling like I was walking in an unreal world and feeling unreal myself, but after self-research, I've learned many people deal with this. It would be so beneficial for people who still feel alone to know that they aren't going insane (as I write this my hands look like someone else's haha). Thanks to my childhood I get to feel like I'm wearing VR glasses all day.
I've had this for a few months last year and it was absolute hell. Sending all my support as I know just how much it sucks, and you're so strong for going through this!
It feels like you're watching a television show about your life and not actually participating in it.
Same. I’ve been saying for so many years I just feel like I’m just floating outside my body watching from the outside. I don’t feel like I’m in my body.
It's weird how it gets worse when you talk or think about it, also looking in mirrors always freaks me out because I see myself moving but don't feel as though I am and I just look fake.
OH MY FREAKING GOSH.finally someone said it. it's been going on and off for me since i was like 10 (i'm 20 now). and yes, u can over come it, kinda difficult but it is possible guys
i have ocd and i find it SO frustrating when ppl are saying stuff like “im so ocd” or “why am i such a perfectionist” when it’s nothing compared to people with real ocs
may sound stupid but how does he do his intro does he like jump off a ladder or something????
yess i've always been wondering that!!
Edits, duh.
@@ramonamango2276 I agree
Nahhh he just jumps through the ceiling then fixes it after every video.
[obvious sarcasm]
@@animal_lover7159 No shit Sherlock but how
I’ve been diagnosed with OCD for 6 years that’s been so severe I’ve had to go to full time treatment that took me out of school for over a year. People greatly underestimate the severity of the disorder because it is often used as an adjective. Thank you so much Anthony for bringing awareness to what OCD truly is.
I’m so sorry to hear that it got that bad, I really hope it gets better soon! OCD can be so severe, this isn’t as bad as what happened to you but I’ve had ocd since I was 10 and multiple times I found myself screaming because I couldn’t get these thoughts out of my head. I wish people were more aware of the effects.
Hey, I'm going to residential treatment for my OCD and ED soon. Does it help?
@@gracie1901 I can’t speak on the ED treatment because I have never been in an official ED clinic, but I can honestly say the OCD residential I was in saved my life. I received very minimal treatment before and had never even heard of exposure therapy before attending, but it was so helpful. Im not sure if the place you’re going would revolve around exposure therapy, but that’s just my experience. At times, it will feel like absolutely hell while you’re in there because you are essentially just making yourself anxious over and over nearly every day, but the staff I worked with were extremely forgiving, recognized the days where I needed a break, and long term, the struggle while I was in there was worth it. I really didn’t believe I had a future at all until I had this treatment, but when I was released I realized I would actually be able to attend college! Obviously, I can’t assume every treatment facility is as fabulous at treating everyone, but in my experience if you go in with an open mind (which I absolutely did not and this held me back for awhile) you will find yourself in the uphill as a result
@@awesomeabby4 Thanks so much! I have the option of taking either the ED track or the OCD track and I'm leaning towards OCD
@@gracie1901 it’s a hard decision to make, but I’m happy you’re getting help! I’m sure wherever you decide will work out in the end :)
“I spent a day with peoplewho has derealization and depersonalization" PLEASE PLEASE
Oooh that sounds really cool! There's an email you can send suggestions for videos officially (in the description). That might be if you want to be in the video you're proposing, though. I'm not 100% sure but I think he should definitely do an episode on derealization/depersonalization.
Yes please I have this and I really wanna hear other people's experiences
Correct me if im wrong, but aren't those usually symptoms of different mental health issues. So if he did that it'd just me a mix of people with different mental health issues since usually people don't just have depersonalization and derealization
@@ihavetopowerofgodandanimeo2551 in no way am i a professional, but based on my own research, its usually the body’s way of dealing with, for most, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some, including myself, it can feel like an issue just within itself. Some other topics he covered also stem from other mental health issues as well but I completely understanding what youre saying. I just wanted it to be covered because im learning more and more people suffer from it just like me and it would be great to see others talking about it especially with him
I have this and it’s a symptom of my anxiety and depression but many people don’t understand how it feels so they look at me like I’m crazy when I say that I feel like I’m on autopilot or I feel like I’m looking through a tunnel or feel like I’m in a dream like state. It’s scary for me and I completely agree that the world needs to understand this form of dissociating better.
As someone who has OCD my goal is to learn to make it work for me and form a sort of symbiotic relationship with it. Instead of trying to ignore it or let it control me I'll use it as a reminder. A good example would be me forgetting something. OCD would remind me and tell me you forgot something. Then I'll think about it and if I think I left something I'll go to check. This could cause me to grab something I would have otherwise forgotten.
Now it would still hamper and impair me Many ways. But, eventually I can learn to use it to my benefit sometimes.
@@aaronrodriguez9376 Trying to adapt around it while reducing symptoms and leveraging the "positives" if there are any is a great way to go! When I can still see the forest for the trees, my OCD can help me analyze things - which is great as long as I'm not analyzing things to death lol
I can’t stand when people talk about “being ocd” when they just like organization. As someone who suffers from ocd, it’s really invalidating and it’s not fun. Thank you for educating everyone.
Like I get it but unless you are claiming to actually have OCD when you don’t i don’t see the problem. People do the same thing with tons of other mental disorders and it literally doesn’t do anything. It’s just words.
It’s harmful because people who don’t know anything about ocd will hear someone who’s just organized say they have it for that reason, and in turn, those uneducated on ocd will think that’s what ocd is. And just as with any disorder it’s wrong to invalidate someone’s suffering just be “cute and quirky”
Claiming that you have OCD in order to be ‘quirky’ and ‘different’ is so debilitating to people who actually suffer. Everyone who has OCD would give anything to not struggle so much every day. The disparity between what OCD is actually like and what most people think it is is extremely saddening. I remember in middle school envying the innocence of those who made jokes about OCD. They were ignorant, but that meant that they weren’t suffering.
Yes! My teacher who is undiagnosed told the whole class “I think I have OCD because I like to clean”...I was so disgusted and I felt invalid! People need to educate themselves because OCD is so much more than that...
@@Chalk.... "its just words" man, if my cousin just remembered that it was just words when he was cyberbullied, he wouldn't have killed himself.
“As recently as the 16th Century”
Internet culture: *2015 is nostalgic.*
I was literally thinking the same thing lol
HAHAHAHAHAA! Love that.
Yeah I was an actual child in 2015.
Me watching the video.
Anthony: “This disease affects 2% of the worlds population”
Me: “oh that’s not so bad”
Anthony: “that’s about 150 million people worldwide”
Me: “HOLY SHITTT!!!!!”
Every time you hear something described as happening to “only 1-2%” of Earth’s population, remember that that’s also the percentage that ginger people make up. If you’ve seen someone with red hair chances are you’ve seen just as many people with whatever else has been described
@@gretablackwell495 that depends a litttttle on where you live tho. i live in scandinavia so i see people with red hair a lot more than someone who lives in f. ex. ghana or thailand
I always think about it as "how many people I know are likely to be affected". So, if I interact with 50 coworkers, 1 of them is statistically likely to have OCD. Out of the 200 people in my class, 4 are likely to have it, and at least one person in my extended family in my city as well (genetics not withstanding).
Some places have it more than others. Also, we are with billions here . That's still less than 1/4 if not even less of the population having this disorder however. We have to not forget about who is and who isn't diagnosed with the disorder officially
Sometimes I forget how big the world is-
I can totally relate to the 'wanting to do good' point. My intrusive thoughts almost always revolve around whether or not I'm doing the right thing.
I was diagnosed with OCD when I was a kid, though didn't really realize it until I was an adult. I didn't think I had it because I wasn't a clean freak. Then, I saw a video on OCD and someone mentioned that people with OCD may have immense interests or obsess over faith-based issues. Then it clicked. As a Jesus follower, I remember getting stuck in a 5-month loop where I was having some terrifying faith-based obsessions. Waking up EVERY DAY with this weight on my mind, worried that I wasn't going to be okay. I want to clarify, the intrusive thoughts were not warranted by family members or anything like that; in fact, my family was very supportive and tried to help me in the best way they could. I know many people have negative experiences coming from religious backgrounds, but my experience was very positive. I had lots of loving church members who prayed with me, and my parents paid to get me counseling during that time. Good news is I was able to get stuck out of the loop and get back on track. The psychologist taught me some effective coping techniques, such as talking back to the intrusive thoughts or putting the spotlight on them. Still living my life as a Christian and I'm now writing a cartoon on mental health based on my experiences (String Theory TV on TH-cam). It will also include coping mechanisms and ways to handle your mental health struggles ☺
JESUS AND GOD BLESS YOUU. I’m currently experiencing the same thing with religious ocd.
It's said that the thoughts often target what we really value and what's the most important to us.
I get caught in Ocd loops that go for days leaving me in a extended panicked state. I’ve had people laugh at me as I tug at my front door handle 16 times or go around my car 7 times pulling at all the doors to make sure they’re locked. I’ve been late to work multiple times because I could not convince myself the stove was off and would not burn my apartment down.
Ocd is a debilitating mental illness and I applaud Anthony for shedding light on it cause it’s stigma as the ‘ mental illness that makes you clean and neat’ needs to die.
ugh, my family makes fun of me for checking doors all the time. My former colleagues had especially fun when I every day after the work day was over would stand and stare at my empty desk for several minutes to reasure myself that my computer was in fact not forgotten there.
I 100% understand that!
I feel you
lol i wonder how they feel when people are like “omggg my pencil has to be straight your triggering my ocd😤🙄🤪”
it has the same energy as "i'm so hyper i have adhd 😜 "
Its both annoying and legitimately hurtful, since it belittles everything we have gone through.
I hate it. It's annoying.
fr people need to learn mental illness isn’t a personality trait
@@enviisyk this pisses me off
Please do eating disorders, a large amount of people are misinformed about all of the types of eds
YES. I literally tried to reach out to my doctor about my ED and she said I didn't have one. I had to turn to the internet to find out that I do, in fact, have an eating disorder. Mine just happens to be one that alternates between two very different eating disorders and you'd think she'd be educated in eating disorders if she were a doctor. Because I explained to her how some days I either eat nothing or have like a cracker or something when I take my meds so it's not taken on an empty stomach, then other days I just binge and eat anything I can. She said it wasn't an eating disorder when in actuality, it is and it's called Anorexic Binge Eating type disorder. I go days without eating and then when I do eat, I binge like crazy. But she's obviously one of those "ED are for skinny girls" type people.
@@Charmynox that is so fucking sick, that is actually one of the reasons why I have never reached out for help with my eating disorder, I used to do more of what you described but now I feel so disgusted by myself that I barely eat anything. I wish you a safe recovery and I hope you get the support you need.
i think eating disorders can be related to ocd. for example my aunt is diagnosed is ocd. she is very careful about what foods she eats and has to walk 10,000 steps a day.
YES PLZ
@@caelyn2873 yeah, i don’t struggle with anything close to OCD but very often they do relate. I do have problems with perfectionism though, like nothing will ever be good enough
My boyfriend has OCD and the intrusive thoughts are literally so difficult sometimes. I am always willing to help if I can, but those thoughts can be very dark sometimes. I don't wanna reveal too much to maintain his privacy when it comes to this stuff. I love him so much, and I'll do whatever it takes to make him feel safe and happy.
It’s good you’re supportive of him, so many people aren’t when people they are in relationships with have mental disorders. 👍
Thank you for being understanding of what he's going through and loving him ni matter what 💖
@@Jackjackspice He deserves the world in my eyes.
The hardest part of OCD for me is the constant battle in my head because I can acknowledge that something I’m doing is because of my OCD but I can’t stop it. It’s so bad right now. I’m sleeping on the couch and haven’t slept with my fiancé in weeks because I’m convinced I can hear the neighbors through the wall. OCD is so much more than just being a clean freak
Knowing nothing about OCD if you feel like a feeling when you touch a kinfe or a sharp object you feel you might die?? Is that OCD
@@jshoes8912 I honestly don’t know if that’s OCD, it sounds maybe like anxiety. But I’m not a professional so I’m not sure! ❤️
@@Emily-ol2mk ok thank you for your help, I have found out it's not and it's just me thinking stuff. Also I'm only 14 so I think I'm fine thanks for your help
Respect dude honestly I can understand why you are sleeping one the couch it’s just so you can’t affect your fiancé look I know that OCD is a bitch I honestly wish we had a cure for this I really do but the best thing to do right now is just find a way to not affect other people around us!! I honestly wish I had an answer to this OCD
@@dcomain3389 I’m with you, I wish I had the answers on how to cure it. I just started a different medication so fingers crossed it helps!
“I spent a day with type ONE diabetics” would be amazing. People really only know about type 2 diabetes and think type 1 is the same.
I've never had diabetes, (not technically, anyway.) but I have had high blood sugar before, and as a result, have to do and go through a lot of things diabetics would probably do; So I'd be interested in that tbh
@@Teudlanif i’ve never heard of someone having a high blood sugar without being diagnosed! did you see a doctor or anything? my blood sugar was 400 when i was diagnosed. i’m just curious!
@@itsPayton358 The high blood sugar was just an effect of the disease I was already diagnosed with beforehand, (which I'd imagine isn't too suprising in my case, plus the treatment didn't help) hence not being diabetes _exactly,_ but being in that diabetic-like condition. Sorry if I confused you-
@@Teudlanif no you’re fine! i’m glad to have learned something new! i never knew that a high blood sugar could just be an effect of another disease. thanks for the insight :)
As a Type 1 myself, Yes please!!Though I feel like doing both would be good because both get stereotyped.
Maybe you could do something like “I spent a day with children of drug addicts.” Or maybe even former addicts. It would be really cool to see, as someone whose been through pain caused by drug use of a loved one.
It’s debilitating. I have OCD, if anyone wants to ask me anything about it I’m an open book. Stay strong friends.
I have Contamination OCD and let me tell you: Covid made it 10× worse
Damn, that sounds very not-fun :/ I hope you’re doing alright despite the circumstances, or at least that you have a good support network if you’re not
Me too. It's honestly so exhausting.
Covid has a death rate of 0.02%,max...
@@Unholyspirit ok and that still means people die, I honestly could give 2 shits less about covid but I wear a mask and social distance because my irresponsible actions could cause someone to die
@@Unholyspirit and 9/11 killed .0000002% of people. Your point?
People still don't talk about Mental illness as a real illness.. And that is sad..
Here in India it's still not easy to talk about Mental health.. We've lost a few popular stars to depression and all..just bcz they weren't able to talk about it..
Love from India 🇮🇳.. You're doing great
video idea: “i spent a day with teen moms”.
Yes!!
Oh that would actually be great
I think he already did it
@@clouddreamer954 pretty sure he didn’t, but Michelle Khare did and Jubilee and HiHo Kids both did videos asking teen mums questions :)
Yeeeessss
i was very recently diagnosed with OCD (like, not even a month ago i was diagnosed), and as i start to unpack what of my behaviors are attributed to OCD, i realize how much it affects me, primarily my sleep and emotions. saying i have a "beehive" brain honestly feels right.
for me i have a few different strong intrusive thoughts, most of which have been from childhood. my strongest intrusive thought is that im being watched or stalked, that someone is going to pop out and hurt me if i turn my back, so i have to check multiple times. at night, ill get out of bed multiple times to check hiding spots around my room or make sure my door is locked, i cant leave my room after dark no matter what, and many times now ive woken up at midnight with such awful intrusive thoughts that i cannot go back to sleep. its still hard for my family/friends and even my therapist to understand. i really cant describe how distressing it is to feel unsafe in your own home, especially when everyone else feels perfectly fine.
i also struggle heavily with depression and a few other issues, so another intrusive thought is that im faking it or being dramatic or convincing myself im worse off than i actually am (despite having multiple diagnosises). when this thought occurs, i mentally start to list off everything thats wrong with me as if i need to prove myself to someone, and i end up spiraling into a negative space, which has led me to some very bad "coping" skills. i also struggle with morality based intrusive thoughts, partially relating to a past trauma. i get convinced that im an awful person and hurting everyone i love, so i distance myself, or i have to routinely check with people and ask them "do you hate me?" or "am i a bad friend to you?"
another is the fear of my technology being accidentally shared with someone else. i cant use certain apps because i become convinced that the private things i do on them (like drafting scripts, private convos with friends, or writing down my feelings, or even casual things like watching youtube videos) are actually public and everyone is going to see them. i have to shut my phone off at night multiple times because im convinced its accidentally broadcasting to my parents tv and bothering them.
like most disorders, some people have it harder than others. i think for me its fairly mild, but its still very hard to deal with. im just glad that now that im diagnosed, i dont have to feel ashamed or embarrassed, and i can start looking into coping mechanisms and medical help.
This is just so me
Hi there I hate to hear what u have gone thru and ur daily constant struggles that never goes away. I never in a billion yrs would I thought someone can actually have the same exact fear factors intrusive thinking and depression. Do u mind sharing with me ways or what helps u. I have no one that could possibly understand relate or even comprehend a si gle thing nor gain some knowledge and awareness to get insight. I'm so drained living is exhausting and I cry all the time cuz I'm angry with no legit resources
I can really empathise with this and I've been struggling with what my psych likes to call "obsessive compulsive tendencies" ever since I was a kid. I really hate her because she doesn't treat me like a human and completely invalidates me. I really want to know if I actually have ocd or not because I get really bad intrusive thoughts about faking my disorders that will not leave my head:( I have other symptoms too and I've been researching about ocd since towards the start of last year but I've convinced myself I'm making this up and if I am I'm so sorry I don't want to self-diagnose I'm so sorry if i offended you or anything:(
I do most of this ....
I struggle with this aswell, it gets in the way of my sleep, please know you aren’t alone