Since I was a person that had OCD and OCPD I still kinda have along with that I am a thinker and a planner and sometimes I get lost in my thoughts when I am in the shower. It doesn't help that I have longer thick hair and that I do my grooming in the shower. Usually I take 25mins but when I'm grooming since I'm a perfectionist and every hair under my pits,above my d,etc has to be the same length I can take up to 45min or 1h. I feel like this is a waste of time and that I should be done in 25mins tops along with grooming. I need to work on this, a lot. Great video I left a big like fam.
Hey, how are you doing? I'm the same in many ways. I have OCD and I'm trying to get my showers down to about half an hour, ideally 15 - 20 minutes would be ideal. I'm taking an hour lately but that can include shaving my head / neck and other body hair trimming etc but the washing itself can take so long... It's mentally exhausting.
I spend 1 hour in shower last year, early this year 2 hours, now currently it's 3 hours. I shower everyday when I wake up before I eat breakfast. I need to go back to 1 hour. Showers used to be fun now they are a pain. I'm gonna try to shorten it when I hop in.
Russell B thank you very much for the advice, I haven’t looked into CBT but I’ll definitely bring it up with my therapist because it sounds like its very effective and I hope it will help me with all my bathroom habits
Just think about how much of fresh, limited water you waste by being in the shower that long. Usually that helps me. Just take navy showers. It feels great yet it makes me feel cleaner. Wet yourself, off, lather, rinse. ta daa! Barely a gallon used and feel great. If everyone did this you’d be surprised with your water bill.
@@ceciliaxx5429 any improvements on your shower time? I would love any tips that you can share because I am struggling to keep my showers less than 45 minutes to 1 hour everyday. I feel so doomed. I really need help 🙏🏾
Glad to see I am not alone! The problem is long hair takes maintenance! Wash twice to really feel clean, then condition it while I wash something else, then rinse VERY WELL with cool water! I’ve never timed my shower but trying to get through it fast is HARD!!!
I really believe in hitting that sweet spot for most showers, where you have a good balance between time and effort/stamina. I could see long hair driving someone to exhaustion and madness if they’re focusing too much on time reduction Lol. It could help to time how long it takes to wash just your hair (then time the rest), and then you can take that on independently from everything else if need be. Wishing you the best on your time-reduction journey!
i end up taking like 30 minute showers a lot lol, i can wash my body and hair in shorter than that but then i end up just sitting in there for ages daydreaming or something
i’m kind of freaked out by the fact some people in these comments and in the video take like over 2 or even 3 hours?!!!? How? I came to this video looking at how to shorten my average 10 minutes in the shower….
I thought when I'm int he shower for 39 minutes was long until I saw these comments... yall take showers for hours?! But uh now I take showers for 12-15 minutesss!!@
Omg! This is exactly what I do ! This is hilarious! I thought I was the only one! That damn soap and conditioner just won't wash off lol I swear it doesn't even seem that long but I'm definitely exhausted after!
Long showers, or even just really busy, short ones, really are exhausting! And of course one of the problems we often have when we try to shorten our shower time is that we do everything we normally do during a long shower - only faster. Doesn’t really help our fatigue level afterwards Lol.
🐈 I've been taking 3 minute shower inside the rehabilitation center for 10 months haha compared to my normal 20?mins to 1 hour. Overall it was an experience that i'll never forget and I'm glad I've people I can call whenever I want someone to talk to when I need something to get off my chest (aside from yt commenting lol) that's their job ik but it makes a difference. And if I finish what they call program I'll have them for good and I'll be connected to the community of completionist there with monthly meet up and activities like going to charity institutions which is nice to look forward to.
That's awesome 😀 Being part of a community can be such an essential part of happiness and wellness! (YT communities are great too of course, but the IRL stuff is hard to replace.)
I’m gonna have a quick shower, a fringe doing then straight into the fresh sheets, gotta be on the ball for my lovely drive to work with hardly any traffic in the morning 😤😤😤
Technically I did cover the “how,” according to my POV at the time, I just didn’t go into much detail. So I partly agree :) Because it was roughly my first vid, the title isn’t dishonest, and enough people have found it useful, I’ve left the video up. But I’d like to revisit the topic one day and do it justice and hopefully help more folks. Either way, hope everyone is able to get the shower-time help they need, wherever they end up getting it.✌️
Shit... I thought I took long in the shower. But you guys in here be taking 30-60 minute showers while I’m over here taking 10 minutes without washing my hair. 15 if I do. XDXD
Thanks, James! I appreciate the constructive feedback and agree that it falls short of offering as much help as it could. It was my first attempt at scripting and editing a video for the channel so I was just learning the ropes and couldn’t have imagined it would go on to get tens of thousands of views. Thanks for watching and commenting. It’s an important topic and I do plan to revisit it eventually. Whether you ever come back for that or not, I do hope you’re able to find all the help and info you’re looking for.
HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!! I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/ No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug. The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded. I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad. I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point. Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some people: th-cam.com/video/qTfuhKWWbGU/w-d-xo.html They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still able to cognitively function. I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations with me, and I really do feel like a victim :( I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess. I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two. I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do. I'm just so scared.
When you go here because you feel guilty about the water bill.
Because I am late to class Everydau
Yep, 3 hour shower yesterday
@@LucLexi that used to be me but now its like 1h 30 min
@@rihannabrown3627 that's great. I'm gonna hop in the shower now and try to reduce the time.
@@rihannabrown3627 just took one, 1 hour and 25 minutes. I reduced it by half. I feel so good right now, I'm happy.
I take about 30 minutes by the time my foot hits the shower 5 minutes is gone i don’t get how people take five minutes
Thanks
marieo vassar EXACTLY
My mom takes 5 to 7 minutes in the shower and I just wonder what could you really lather up in so little time
marieo vassar ...nothing.
That’s right
For me, I take hour showers for some reason like no matter how fast I shower It takes half an hour or more it's so weird
same
Bro same here
I take 1 hour when I'm hurrying
Same.
i take 20 - 30 mins every shower LOL. Even 40 mins sometimes 😭😭😂
Same 😐 How do people do it i 5-10 mins?! I spend that much time on my hair alone 😳
I broke the recors by showering for 1 hour its good tho you feel clean
Most people in my family expect me to shower in five minutes. It takes me 15-20 minutes.
I take like 2 and a half hours in the shower
How y'all get 2 hrs of hot water . I can barely get 10 min of the hot water
@@russellbyt I was about to say you must be rich to have 2 hours of hot water😂lol
Apartment building with a giant hot water tank
Idk how I have that much hot water I have done a 45 minutes shower once.. nvm I just remembered I took cold showers
I have 20 mins
have you ever heard of electric showers?...as long as you have water and electricity there will be hot water hahaha
I spend 30-50 minutes in the shower
Since I was a person that had OCD and OCPD I still kinda have along with that I am a thinker and a planner and sometimes I get lost in my thoughts when I am in the shower. It doesn't help that I have longer thick hair and that I do my grooming in the shower. Usually I take 25mins but when I'm grooming since I'm a perfectionist and every hair under my pits,above my d,etc has to be the same length I can take up to 45min or 1h. I feel like this is a waste of time and that I should be done in 25mins tops along with grooming. I need to work on this, a lot.
Great video I left a big like fam.
@@russellbyt thank you and yes you shouldnt rush the shave because of cuts and irritation.
Hey, how are you doing? I'm the same in many ways. I have OCD and I'm trying to get my showers down to about half an hour, ideally 15 - 20 minutes would be ideal. I'm taking an hour lately but that can include shaving my head / neck and other body hair trimming etc but the washing itself can take so long... It's mentally exhausting.
I spend 1 hour in shower last year, early this year 2 hours, now currently it's 3 hours. I shower everyday when I wake up before I eat breakfast. I need to go back to 1 hour. Showers used to be fun now they are a pain. I'm gonna try to shorten it when I hop in.
I went from 3 hour shower yesterday and now today I was in there for 1 hour and 25 minutes. I'm surprised, I can't believe I did it.
@@LucLexi hey how are you doing now? ive always been a 30-40 min person but im trying to be less harmful to the environment and my parents' wallet :)
@@LucLexi way to go! I’m proud of u!! I need someone to look up to.
I take nearly 2 hours in the shower and it’s a serious problem to me that I desperately want to resolve
Russell B thank you very much for the advice, I haven’t looked into CBT but I’ll definitely bring it up with my therapist because it sounds like its very effective and I hope it will help me with all my bathroom habits
Have you been diagnosed with OCD? I think usually us longer shower takers lean towards it.
Just think about how much of fresh, limited water you waste by being in the shower that long. Usually that helps me. Just take navy showers. It feels great yet it makes me feel cleaner. Wet yourself, off, lather, rinse. ta daa! Barely a gallon used and feel great. If everyone did this you’d be surprised with your water bill.
@@russellbyt sorry if the joke is offensive, but you had CBT? 😳😳
@@ceciliaxx5429 any improvements on your shower time? I would love any tips that you can share because I am struggling to keep my showers less than 45 minutes to 1 hour everyday. I feel so doomed. I really need help 🙏🏾
This video spoke to me so deeply. Stamina conservation... thousands of attempts...sweet spot.
Bless you for this amazing video.
Glad to see I am not alone! The problem is long hair takes maintenance! Wash twice to really feel clean, then condition it while I wash something else, then rinse VERY WELL with cool water! I’ve never timed my shower but trying to get through it fast is HARD!!!
I really believe in hitting that sweet spot for most showers, where you have a good balance between time and effort/stamina. I could see long hair driving someone to exhaustion and madness if they’re focusing too much on time reduction Lol.
It could help to time how long it takes to wash just your hair (then time the rest), and then you can take that on independently from everything else if need be.
Wishing you the best on your time-reduction journey!
How do people take 5 minute showers? I take 30-40min showers. Most of the time because I keep thinking too much
Takes me 45 minutes if I'm washing my hair
How is your skin?
I like your style of jokes and video editing; great job!
i end up taking like 30 minute showers a lot lol, i can wash my body and hair in shorter than that but then i end up just sitting in there for ages daydreaming or something
I take 10-15 min showers every morning but i procrastinate waking up until i have 20 mins to leave the house so im trying to take 7 minute ones
OMG THE COMMENTS!! AM NOT ALONE!!!!!
I'm watching it in the shower
good one
I saw posts where people say they only shower 5-10 minutes and man I bet they smell like booty😂 I take about 20 minutes to clean EVERYTHING.
i’m kind of freaked out by the fact some people in these comments and in the video take like over 2 or even 3 hours?!!!? How? I came to this video looking at how to shorten my average 10 minutes in the shower….
Sounds like a bit of OCD?
I take about a 30 minute shower
How is your skin?
@@pawansidharth8778 don't worry i take 40 to 50 minutes everything is ok
Me: showering
Not even about to step foot in the shower
Mom: HURRY THE F UP
Man that's the EXACT words of my mom when I get i just step foot in the shower. Like damnnnnnn
damn and I thought 10 minutes for a shower was long
I thought when I'm int he shower for 39 minutes was long until I saw these comments... yall take showers for hours?! But uh now I take showers for 12-15 minutesss!!@
Holy shit now I know why I hated bathing so much. Because I take a GAZILLION HOURS EVERYDAY of COURSE I would hate it!!!
15-20 minutes a day or 2x/day is all that's needed
I take a shower in 20 minutes
I was looking how to shower in 5 minutes
Im here bc i take 1hour for some reason bc i could not MANAGE my time in the shower 👁〰️👁
Same dw
So...
I could've showered in the time it took me to watch this
As a teenager, taking long showers is embarrassing, i feel like my dad thinks I'm fapping 😂😂😂
No matter how fast I try to shower it always takes me 45 mins
Damn we’re starting school I’m August 18 like in the school not online and be taking like 50 minutes in the showers
I went from 50 minutes to 30 to 15 to 10 you can do anything
When u come here to be prepared for the army shower times
Good water pressure is essential, helps you blast everything, my old gym had legendary water pressure, it hurt the skin its was awesome
Omg! This is exactly what I do ! This is hilarious! I thought I was the only one! That damn soap and conditioner just won't wash off lol I swear it doesn't even seem that long but I'm definitely exhausted after!
Long showers, or even just really busy, short ones, really are exhausting!
And of course one of the problems we often have when we try to shorten our shower time is that we do everything we normally do during a long shower - only faster. Doesn’t really help our fatigue level afterwards Lol.
@@russellbyt Exactly! Sometimes I actually have to take a nap after lol I started setting a timer so hopefully that will help...
My record is 35 seconds.
That's why you stink
Nice, but you didn't tell us How to take a shorter shower.
right? i was waiting for him to get to that
🐈
I've been taking 3 minute shower inside the rehabilitation center for 10 months haha compared to my normal 20?mins to 1 hour. Overall it was an experience that i'll never forget and I'm glad I've people I can call whenever I want someone to talk to when I need something to get off my chest (aside from yt commenting lol) that's their job ik but it makes a difference. And if I finish what they call program I'll have them for good and I'll be connected to the community of completionist there with monthly meet up and activities like going to charity institutions which is nice to look forward to.
That's awesome 😀 Being part of a community can be such an essential part of happiness and wellness!
(YT communities are great too of course, but the IRL stuff is hard to replace.)
It is more helpful for us if you make a practical video of your shower routine i am suffering from ocd
I’m gonna have a quick shower, a fringe doing then straight into the fresh sheets, gotta be on the ball for my lovely drive to work with hardly any traffic in the morning 😤😤😤
You never said how though...
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Technically I did cover the “how,” according to my POV at the time, I just didn’t go into much detail. So I partly agree :) Because it was roughly my first vid, the title isn’t dishonest, and enough people have found it useful, I’ve left the video up. But I’d like to revisit the topic one day and do it justice and hopefully help more folks. Either way, hope everyone is able to get the shower-time help they need, wherever they end up getting it.✌️
I can't take long showers, my bathroom doesn't get very much hot water AT ALL!
I take 2 hours..
Ngl but I still don’t know how people stay in a hot bathtub or take a shower for so long
When you are contemplating on your life you never realise how much time you spend in the shower
At least for me
Shit... I thought I took long in the shower. But you guys in here be taking 30-60 minute showers while I’m over here taking 10 minutes without washing my hair. 15 if I do. XDXD
Actually philosophical. Also I hate that I’m the 70th comment. Sorry guys lol
Great video but it would be greater if some more detailed tips would be added.
Thanks, James! I appreciate the constructive feedback and agree that it falls short of offering as much help as it could. It was my first attempt at scripting and editing a video for the channel so I was just learning the ropes and couldn’t have imagined it would go on to get tens of thousands of views.
Thanks for watching and commenting. It’s an important topic and I do plan to revisit it eventually. Whether you ever come back for that or not, I do hope you’re able to find all the help and info you’re looking for.
I’ve been watching these videos, and I COULD do that.. BUT THOSE PEOEPLE DONT PUT DAMN CONDITIONER ON 😤
Quick shower , blow dry then bed I think, got another marvelous Monday to head into 😤😤😤
SAVES MORE GALLONS OF WATER
Why the fuck does this have so low views and comments? Keep on making videos, guy!
I take like 10 minutes and it feels like 8 hours 😭🖐
bruh how? i take like 1h and 30min
Epic video
im watching this on 1perce
i shower with cold water everyday
.... that is a gazillion hours long hehe 😂😂😂
Wtf did i just watch 😂😂😂
This is fax
Lol
?
HELPP!!!! PLEASE HELP!! GOD, PLEASE READ THIS I NEED HELP!!!
I'm a 19 year old who had a temporary anxiety. My physician offered another anxiety medication like it was nothing, (i've previously been on chlonodine hcl which helps for both hypetension and anxiety). I found out it was a psychiatric(Buspar/Buspirone) :/
No talk about how to use it, side-effects, how it works. And never told me it mitigates the brain. Never said it was a psychiatric drug.
The first time I took it, I definitely noticed a decline in cognitive-faculties. As I kept taking it however, I seemed to regain the ability to think, however, my memory
and the way I read (I tend to be VERY high in IQ, and read chunks ultra fast instead of slowly linearly from left to right) were downgraded.
I will admit I took them all over the place. I tried to stick with taking it at morning (4am when I wake up) and then another in the afternoon. But honestly sometimes I'd
forget and only ingest one. I made a follow up with my doctor once after the prescription and he told me it's until my brain adjusts. He had some point in there because i did kind of start seeing to regain my ability to think creatively but my way of reading was still changed from fast to slow and my memory was still bad.
I had a realization realizing wtf I was taking and realizing it alters my brain and noticing my memory not as good and reading linearly instead of how I normally read. I then decided to search this thing up. I found out it's a psychiatric drug that mitigates the brain and I just got
so fucking scared. I started searching up "buspar lowers intelligence." I've read some posts on quora about people feeling as smart as they were before and on when going on even more powerful
things such as SSRI's (but then everyone is different). And other people saying "well if we define intelligence as the neurochemistry which is impacted by these drugs..." you get the point.
Generally I'm hyper-aware with my eyes always looking everywhere and ever since this medicine, it has gone away. Also, I stumbled upon these videos claiming that psychiatric medicatinos can be the devil for some
people: th-cam.com/video/qTfuhKWWbGU/w-d-xo.html
They say that it impedes cognitivie abilities, but what makes me think I can stay this sane is because my very High IQ (Stanford Binet 149) took the hit and I'm still
able to cognitively function.
I quit cold turkey. 10 days ago was the last time I took it, after taking it for 3weeks/month. However, I did not know that quitting cold turkey was a bad thing. No one ever had these conversations
with me, and I really do feel like a victim :(
I'm scared that quitting Cold Turkey will do brain damage, but I searched it just lists the withdrawal side effects as more severe. I just don't know what to do man. Please someone just tell me what to do to get out of this mess.
I don't want to feel hopeless. Please don't put any blame on me, I admit that I was ignorant. In fact, I grew up in a bubble of my ethnic community (Mexican) and
didn't really find out the difference between an entree and an appetizer til like a month ago or two.
I've also seen other posts on reddit about brainfog on buspirone/buspar, and no one believing them. But I do.
I'm just so scared.
Lol
Lol