Mine has changed theme so many times over the years that it’s hard to keep up but what sparked it originally was the thought ‘what if I’m a bad person?’ And then it went from there 🥲
Till yesterday, it was my romantic relationship. Today morning, it was due to a black mark I spotted underside my tongue & boom cancer was decided even though I have been beating chances of cancer since I was 20 but as always this time, it can be real & it's certainly real. Sorry if you asked about what sparked it for the first time as I can't really remember. I've been doing compulsions since I didn't even know the spelling
One of the last things I remember pre OCD was the vacation me and my family took to Disney World. It was about a week or two before I first noticed the OCD maybe that’s one of the reasons I still remember it after all these years.
Genesis 14 New International Version Abram Rescues Lot 14 At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,[a] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, 2
This OCD unwanted thoughts is ruining my life. I can't live a normal life because of it , i'm scared and having a nervous breakdown.Thanks for this video.
@nuhali5917 the ocd circle, I am 66years old and find what bothers you 1 day does not the next. Piece of advice, learn to laugh at yourself, peace from Steve from Cape Breton
The one thing that somewhat calms me down when I’m struggling w/ those thoughts and images, is reminding myself I’m not my thoughts. I absolutely wish I heard this when I was 10 and undianosed. I know I’m so fortunate I found out about it when I hit 12 yrs old, but it still was debilitating and hearing “you control your thoughts” just reenforced all my fears. I still question if people would think I’m crazy if they knew what continously pops up in my head; but I wouldn’t beileve someone else with OCD is, so I try to be less harsh on myself. Just remember that yall are not crazy, and my heart sincerly goes out to all of you. And you are not your thoughts, nor are you alone in all this
Just hopping on to say I usually watch these videos thinking “man I’m not going to be able to do treatment for this” and as we speak I’m doing a super hard exposure while also enjoying something I WANT to do. I know you’re reading this thinking “great for you, I can’t wait until I can do that” I thought the same thing! You are more capable than you think!
Me too - I used to get so freaked out and plagued I would literally slap my head in a panic wanting to smack the thoughts out of my head. I'd say I'm 80% healed now. I'll always have OCD but with treatment (and I do all mine solo and at home - no therapist, not that I'm against it, I just didn't), I'm healing much more rapidly that I anticipated. I'd say deep relief happened week by week. It was fast. I just wanted to share in case you needed any encouragement. Prayers for your every blessing and healing.
@@natalieerickson5519how did you helped yourself? I have lot of thoughts like bad words about god, pictures from past wgen I done something bad, 1000 of thoughts what if I cheated on my boyfriend, than scenes with ex comes to my mind and ehat if this was while I was in a relationship, my head hurts i want rest
@Marijana555-q4o oh, you poor thing! Truly, I get it! God HAS you, so you HAVE this. He is no respector of persons and He will help you, I know because He helped me. He knows you have a different brain and isn't holding anything against you. Don't let the enemy tell you that...but you'll soon see how to fight. A) you have to know: this will ONLY get better IF you do the work (which I'm sure you're ready for but we get so exhausted in the trauma that it can feel like, 'not another thing...I'm so tired'). If you do these things you'll feel relief soon. If you keep doing them then you will feel better for good...but it is like being an alcoholic and not being able to have one drink, you have OCD and need to do a little work every single day. B) I began with the book Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive thoughts. Get it and read it cover to cover. It begins your journey. C) Subscribe to this channel - there are other good ones too, but keep it easy on yourself: stick with this, watching at least one video that applies to you per day, and the book for a month and follow the advice without variance. OR pick whatever channel you trust most. Katie D'Ath is also amazing...and Traci Marks...I just found another great new one but can't remember her name. D) know this - if you do this it clears up pretty quickly but the first week of ERP and allowing the thoughts to be there is rough. Be easy on yourself - give yourself grace. E) this last one is strange and outside the norm but I am telling you doing it made me aware of what 50-90% of my problems have stemmed from all along: consider doing the Lion Diet (meat, salt, and water only) for a few weeks....again, a little hard in the first few days (weeks for some) but the inflammation we incur with our diets is the reason the US has the highest level of mental health issues. When I did that for my healing, and my husband with me,both of us experienced and immediate drop in anxiety and depression and an increase of happiness to the point of euphoria. Try it and see if it works as well for you but I've never met an unhappy person on this diet. Nothing will ever get me off the diet permanently again (I take a small cheat day every once and awhile because it's better for my balance). Please let me know if younneed anything else. I'm praying for you. Be so blessed in Jesus' name.
Very interesting. Thank yout for your job. It's so helpful. My ocd symptoms started 2 years ago, when I was 36. I was taking antidepressant for 2 years, and I wanted to take it down, and at the same time my gynecologist prescribed a tablet, that could cure my hormonal problems, That was the time, when I started experiencing unusual intrusive thoughts and pictures in my mind. One year later I can say I'm fine now, I'm still having these thoughts, but now I can handle them. Thank you!
Ohh, and I was always afraid of the dark, in my entire life. Non ocd times, too. But with your method I could teach my brain that dark is no danger. And I'm no longer afraid. It's gorgeous how our brain can learn.
Same situation. My gynecologist prescribed me stuff for hormonal issues and things started to get bad a few months later. In another video of this channel the doctor says that hormonal changings (like the ones produced by tablets) can actually interfehere with OCD.
That's the most frustrating aspect for me with dealing with OCD. Being bothered by things that before OCD, I would never give a second thought too. But I also try to use that when I am triggered by something. Asking myself, how would I react to this if I didn't have OCD?
My OCD is so bad that everytime I have a negative thought while watching any video, movie or TV show, I go back a few seconds and restart the scene, to try and watch the scene again but without having any negative thoughts, but it just makes it even worse, and I end up repeating and repeating until I watch the whole scene without any negative thought, to the point is hard for me to finish any video. 😢😢
I can really relate to that. I don't know how many times I've hit the pause button while watching something, so I could "deal with" the intrusive thought before restarting the show. Of course dealing with it means I just did a mental compulsion to relieve the anxiety
The best thing to do is just realize you might have negative thoughts while doing anything and just ignore them let them pass by. Why is it bad to you if you do have a “negative thought?”
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u Because it feels so real, way too much anxiety if I don't do something to cope with it and is annoying but it used to be even worse years ago, since the day I learned that what I had is an actual psychological condition called OCD and not just my brain messing with me, I started to reduce my compulsions to stop the anxiety of thinking negative thoughts because they feel so real, but still sometimes I do compulsions, I am doing my best to ignore those negative thoughts.
@@Wisdopia-coolness I have ocd too, the best thing is not to do compulsions and just say “I had a negative thought, oh well,” and just keep watching the video amidst your anxiety. If you keep re-starting because of your “fear of a negative thought,” you’ll be stuck giving into fear and compulsions.
hi so I'd like to let you know that I have sort of the same thing you have. with me it's I have to read every sort of text in every scene so for example if there is a sign on the wall in the scene of the film I would have to read it perfectly until it sounded right to me. so I would have do the same thing I would reverse the scene and look at it again until it was perfect. god that was tedious if I think about the time back 😂😂 listen I can only tell you response and prevention therapy. which basically I think for you would mean sitting through each scene and taking in the thoughts and not giving them any meaning, so even that thought you have in your head say yes to it. ( am I going to die if I can't do this or am I not normal etc) . for example I would explain these intrusive thoughts like this in my head : I can die from stress, we don't know when we're going to die. am I normal no prob not but who wants to be. say yes to your thoughts that's what I'm trying to say to you or it could be (maybe) like Mr Peterson says.
Thank you for all you are doing❤ I owe you every moment I live. Thanks to you I learn about my ocd enemy and its tricks, this is a tremendous help to face this devil. Thank you again❤
I feel like I’m wasting my life with my OCD compulsions that I’m physically tired and not getting enough sleep. I’m getting therapy and trying to do HRT but I am scared of it and just want to do the compulsions to feel safe, so I’m not improving 😢
You are a blessing, thank you for this small snippets you leave us on TH-cam… I wish I was able to afford the full package, because I am certain that it’s worth it… I just know it is…
this vedio literally described what i coudn't put into words i am so grateful i found this vedio everything in this vedio is perfectly resonating with how i think.
Hi. I am relieved to have found your channel. After the course of three years, I have already overcome several obstacles in my OCD. Currently, what I have now is this irrational fear of getting food on my belongings. For example, I think I might have dropped some crumbs on my chair because I accidentally allowed the end of my plastic bag of bought bread to come into contact with it.
I have the ocd of noticing what I am saying while I am saying it, self consciousness. I sometimes don't finish sentences or forget things, my concentration is not good and I have no confidence in myself, I can feel like i,m waiting for what I will say next. Anyone else feel like this
Have had ocd all my life, eight years ago I went on disability from neck injury and then hypothyroidism, my wife has cancer 4 years and I have osteoarthritis. All caused symptoms to overcome me. Too much time on my hands,no money and can't work
I'm wondering - is this false memory ocd? -I get false memories of me doing bad stuff, and I've never had these false memories in the past (I've never thought about/recalled these false memories until now) -I avoid places that may trigger my false memories -the more I think/ruminate about these false memories, the more real they seem and the more they warp/more false memories created -I feel a sense of guilt with it even if these memories are fake -its hard to complete tasks/do things when ruminating about false memories -these false memories seem hyperrealistic and vivid, but when i compare it to an actual real memory that did happen, the false memories seem almost dreamlike (nightmarelike more like)/blurry/cloudy -when I try asking my parents about these false memories, they keep on insisting/telling me that it's all false but it feels so real to me -the false memories stay dormant in my head from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed, and I have dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of these false memories Also I go through each and every false memory in my mind and reassure myself that each one is false and get a sense of relief, but suddenly the false memories come back in my mind and my mind tells me they're real even though I just told myself that they're false??
the best advice but the hardest to accept is that doing compulsions is only gonna get you more wrapped up in your ocd. You’ve named a few that you participate in like avoidance, checking, and rumination. Notice how even after trying to decipher if they are real memories or not (trying to compare them to “real” ones, checking details) you’re not any closer to figuring it out. that’s ocd ! the reality is that you need to become comfortable with not being certain. You need to move your attention slowly into not completing those compulsions no matter how tempting it may be (your brain may scream “HEY YOU NEED TO BE SURE! THIS IS TERRIBLE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IF THIS IS REAL) but you need to starve that monster. The first baby step is trying to not fix or solve the problem for a certain amount of time & start small. “ okay for the next minute or two I won’t try and figure it all out. I’m going to wash dishes” you may fail over and over again but that’s okay 👍🏼 you can try again ! it’s normal to struggle when you have done these compulsions for a long time. It’s gonna make you sweat but in the long run you free yourself and get back to living 🦦
@@mitchieee143I didn’t go to college because of this, I cried because of my cat because I could have harmed her. Should I just try not to solve the problem?
Confused. My psychologist says I should be aiming for detached awareness but says I’m allowed to think about whatever thoughts come to mind. I thought I wasn’t allowed to ruminate with ocd. We are doing erp too. Just feeling stressed about doing this right. She says I just need to do the erp.
i have health OCD, most recently blindness themed OCD due to eye problems. i have autoimmune disorders and i don't trust my body to do things the right way. how do i learn to trust? how do i give in to that? my body has betrayed me so many times over the years.
the only solution is to leave this on almighty God, beacuse He is the one who can cure it and change your mind. And stop engrossed in it too much,,,,,only pray and engage yourself in rememberance of Almighty Lord......I could surely say it would work.
I'm struggling Contamination OCD for 18 years. Now its getting severe that I'm avoiding people. What break my heart is I avoid my own family from come near me or touching me. I don't feel comfortable in my own house anymore. Pleaseeeee I need help. 😭😭😭
Lately i feel like my thoughts turned into urges and im trying my best not to act on them. im not talking about compulsions i mean the thoughts themself. It feels as if i WANT to do them but im trying NOT to when in reality when i properly think about them i get stressed and anxious and i DO NOT want to do them. Im really scared and i dont know what to do
is this normal? Is this even OCD?? im terrified of my thoughts turning into urges or me liking and acting on them in the future and the idea alone is ruining my life
Can you please do one on, cancers, brain aneurysms and other fatal life threatening things that can pop up in your head. Like i had earlier tonight, i got a little angry, tensed then thought i might have a brain aneurysm lol. Writing helps, but google search doesnt
It's called health anxiety, health OCD and hypochondria. It's OCD all the same. I have it. It's terrible! DO NOT GOOGLE!!! I promise that is one step to help. That is my hard and fast rule. No googling. Other than that, therapy and for me, medication has helped immensely
So, my issue is that i feel like these super natural things are happening to me, and if i cant find a logical explanation, it freaks me out. Like some of my meds are missing from my weekly med container, and im wondering what happened to them. Im telling myself that the doc just simply forgot to fill those ones, but Im uncertain. How do i cope with stuff like this? Does everything that keeps happening have a logical explanation? 😊thanks!
I feel like i cannot identity what i am scared of, so i worry that it means i cannot recover if i dont know what tought am i supposted to work on:/ is this okay?
Is there someone in the comment section who have harmful intrusive thoughts and tried not to do any mental compulsions and then found out that it did not cause any uneasiness or anxiety or distress and then felt "Are my thoughts Egosyntonic, and I'm just pretending to be anxious so that I should not feel like I'm a bad person"... Please reply 😢
I have intrusive thoughts ocd and I haven’t been doing compulsions for 28 days but the intensity of the intrusive thoughts is not going away it’s the same as before I still cannot concentrate without doing compulsions how do I concentrate without doing compulsions
What SPARKED your OCD?
Mine has changed theme so many times over the years that it’s hard to keep up but what sparked it originally was the thought ‘what if I’m a bad person?’ And then it went from there 🥲
Till yesterday, it was my romantic relationship. Today morning, it was due to a black mark I spotted underside my tongue & boom cancer was decided even though I have been beating chances of cancer since I was 20 but as always this time, it can be real & it's certainly real. Sorry if you asked about what sparked it for the first time as I can't really remember. I've been doing compulsions since I didn't even know the spelling
One of the last things I remember pre OCD was the vacation me and my family took to Disney World. It was about a week or two before I first noticed the OCD maybe that’s one of the reasons I still remember it after all these years.
Wish I knew lol
Genesis 14
New International Version
Abram Rescues Lot
14 At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,[a] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, 2
This OCD unwanted thoughts is ruining my life. I can't live a normal life because of it , i'm scared and having a nervous breakdown.Thanks for this video.
Yes, I feel the same...
@@helenajob2464 Sending love and hugs to you. This is a horrible experience to our life. Very distressing. I hope we can recover from this situation.🙏
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same. i have health OCD and i'm terrified all the time. constantly late to work and then i have panic attacks at work.
Nobody has ever described my brain better ,,it's like a broken record playing the same song over and over and over.
@nuhali5917 the ocd circle, I am 66years old and find what bothers you 1 day does not the next. Piece of advice, learn to laugh at yourself, peace from Steve from Cape Breton
The one thing that somewhat calms me down when I’m struggling w/ those thoughts and images, is reminding myself I’m not my thoughts.
I absolutely wish I heard this when I was 10 and undianosed. I know I’m so fortunate I found out about it when I hit 12 yrs old, but it still was debilitating and hearing “you control your thoughts” just reenforced all my fears.
I still question if people would think I’m crazy if they knew what continously pops up in my head; but I wouldn’t beileve someone else with OCD is, so I try to be less harsh on myself.
Just remember that yall are not crazy, and my heart sincerly goes out to all of you. And you are not your thoughts, nor are you alone in all this
My ocd preys on the positive things in my life that make me happy,threatening to take it away
@@Spoonfeede this has happened to me as well. You're not alone.
@Wkumar07 Really man?Must be so strenous.Moreover the feeling it gives feels so real you think it actually will take away whatever it wants
Im exhausted. Its like everyday my mind switches fears and theyre so gross and it makes me so upset
❤ you are not alone, please get therapeutic support. Love
@polyglotfrog Thank you for your support! I am currently in therapy and I have been for a few months now. 🥰❤️ your words mean a lot. Take care
I hate having ocd :(
Just hopping on to say I usually watch these videos thinking “man I’m not going to be able to do treatment for this” and as we speak I’m doing a super hard exposure while also enjoying something I WANT to do. I know you’re reading this thinking “great for you, I can’t wait until I can do that” I thought the same thing! You are more capable than you think!
Thank you for this 😊
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I've got pure ocd. I struggle every day. It's mainly about things I have done in the past, or things done to me. I'm exhausted.
Me too - I used to get so freaked out and plagued I would literally slap my head in a panic wanting to smack the thoughts out of my head.
I'd say I'm 80% healed now. I'll always have OCD but with treatment (and I do all mine solo and at home - no therapist, not that I'm against it, I just didn't), I'm healing much more rapidly that I anticipated. I'd say deep relief happened week by week. It was fast.
I just wanted to share in case you needed any encouragement. Prayers for your every blessing and healing.
@@natalieerickson5519how did you helped yourself? I have lot of thoughts like bad words about god, pictures from past wgen I done something bad, 1000 of thoughts what if I cheated on my boyfriend, than scenes with ex comes to my mind and ehat if this was while I was in a relationship, my head hurts i want rest
@Marijana555-q4o oh, you poor thing! Truly, I get it! God HAS you, so you HAVE this. He is no respector of persons and He will help you, I know because He helped me. He knows you have a different brain and isn't holding anything against you. Don't let the enemy tell you that...but you'll soon see how to fight.
A) you have to know: this will ONLY get better IF you do the work (which I'm sure you're ready for but we get so exhausted in the trauma that it can feel like, 'not another thing...I'm so tired'). If you do these things you'll feel relief soon. If you keep doing them then you will feel better for good...but it is like being an alcoholic and not being able to have one drink, you have OCD and need to do a little work every single day.
B) I began with the book Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive thoughts. Get it and read it cover to cover. It begins your journey.
C) Subscribe to this channel - there are other good ones too, but keep it easy on yourself: stick with this, watching at least one video that applies to you per day, and the book for a month and follow the advice without variance. OR pick whatever channel you trust most. Katie D'Ath is also amazing...and Traci Marks...I just found another great new one but can't remember her name.
D) know this - if you do this it clears up pretty quickly but the first week of ERP and allowing the thoughts to be there is rough. Be easy on yourself - give yourself grace.
E) this last one is strange and outside the norm but I am telling you doing it made me aware of what 50-90% of my problems have stemmed from all along: consider doing the Lion Diet (meat, salt, and water only) for a few weeks....again, a little hard in the first few days (weeks for some) but the inflammation we incur with our diets is the reason the US has the highest level of mental health issues. When I did that for my healing, and my husband with me,both of us experienced and immediate drop in anxiety and depression and an increase of happiness to the point of euphoria.
Try it and see if it works as well for you but I've never met an unhappy person on this diet. Nothing will ever get me off the diet permanently again (I take a small cheat day every once and awhile because it's better for my balance).
Please let me know if younneed anything else. I'm praying for you. Be so blessed in Jesus' name.
@@Marijana555-q4owhen the thoughts come, don’t fight them. Let them just move on by
yeah it’s not the best isn’t it I pray for you and everyone else with this disease
Very interesting. Thank yout for your job. It's so helpful.
My ocd symptoms started 2 years ago, when I was 36. I was taking antidepressant for 2 years, and I wanted to take it down, and at the same time my gynecologist prescribed a tablet, that could cure my hormonal problems, That was the time, when I started experiencing unusual intrusive thoughts and pictures in my mind. One year later I can say I'm fine now, I'm still having these thoughts, but now I can handle them. Thank you!
Ohh, and I was always afraid of the dark, in my entire life. Non ocd times, too. But with your method I could teach my brain that dark is no danger. And I'm no longer afraid. It's gorgeous how our brain can learn.
Same situation. My gynecologist prescribed me stuff for hormonal issues and things started to get bad a few months later. In another video of this channel the doctor says that hormonal changings (like the ones produced by tablets) can actually interfehere with OCD.
Check you vitamine D3, its defieciency cause OCD, I have the same problem,
That's the most frustrating aspect for me with dealing with OCD. Being bothered by things that before OCD, I would never give a second thought too. But I also try to use that when I am triggered by something. Asking myself, how would I react to this if I didn't have OCD?
Same with me every time
My OCD is so bad that everytime I have a negative thought while watching any video, movie or TV show, I go back a few seconds and restart the scene, to try and watch the scene again but without having any negative thoughts, but it just makes it even worse, and I end up repeating and repeating until I watch the whole scene without any negative thought, to the point is hard for me to finish any video. 😢😢
I can really relate to that. I don't know how many times I've hit the pause button while watching something, so I could "deal with" the intrusive thought before restarting the show. Of course dealing with it means I just did a mental compulsion to relieve the anxiety
The best thing to do is just realize you might have negative thoughts while doing anything and just ignore them let them pass by. Why is it bad to you if you do have a “negative thought?”
@@user-hx7mi7ml8u Because it feels so real, way too much anxiety if I don't do something to cope with it and is annoying but it used to be even worse years ago, since the day I learned that what I had is an actual psychological condition called OCD and not just my brain messing with me, I started to reduce my compulsions to stop the anxiety of thinking negative thoughts because they feel so real, but still sometimes I do compulsions, I am doing my best to ignore those negative thoughts.
@@Wisdopia-coolness
I have ocd too, the best thing is not to do compulsions and just say “I had a negative thought, oh well,” and just keep watching the video amidst your anxiety. If you keep re-starting because of your “fear of a negative thought,” you’ll be stuck giving into fear and compulsions.
hi so I'd like to let you know that I have sort of the same thing you have.
with me it's I have to read every sort of text in every scene so for example if there is a sign on the wall in the scene of the film I would have to read it perfectly until it sounded right to me.
so I would have do the same thing I would reverse the scene and look at it again until it was perfect.
god that was tedious if I think about the time back 😂😂
listen I can only tell you response and prevention therapy.
which basically I think for you would mean sitting through each scene and taking in the thoughts and not giving them any meaning, so even that thought you have in your head say yes to it. ( am I going to die if I can't do this or am I not normal etc) .
for example I would explain these intrusive thoughts like this in my head : I can die from stress, we don't know when we're going to die.
am I normal no prob not but who wants to be.
say yes to your thoughts that's what I'm trying to say to you or it could be (maybe) like Mr Peterson says.
Exactly. That feeling when you KNOW something is not even remotely true but you still doubt it. It's exhausting to say the least.
Thank you for all you are doing❤
I owe you every moment I live. Thanks to you I learn about my ocd enemy and its tricks, this is a tremendous help to face this devil.
Thank you again❤
Amen! Prayers for your every healing to continue and compound!
@@natalieerickson5519 yours too❤️
Honestly guys the only way to beat ocd is to stop caring all together 🙏🏾 i wish you all luck
Give it to God
Y'all get through it, don't worry, God bless you all ❤️
As always, thank you for your videos! ERP changed my life.
I feel like I’m wasting my life with my OCD compulsions that I’m physically tired and not getting enough sleep. I’m getting therapy and trying to do HRT but I am scared of it and just want to do the compulsions to feel safe, so I’m not improving 😢
Thanks for being so detailed in your explanation!
You are a blessing, thank you for this small snippets you leave us on TH-cam… I wish I was able to afford the full package, because I am certain that it’s worth it… I just know it is…
I’m so grateful for your detailed explanations!
You make all the horrids of it sound so relazing. thank u so much!! it helps. please keep these videos coming
this vedio literally described what i coudn't put into words i am so grateful i found this vedio everything in this vedio is perfectly resonating with how i think.
Your videos are excellent and I appreciate all the work you put into them.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!! U HELPED ME A LOT!!!👏👏👏👏👏
God bless you sir for this video 😊i wish everyone who watching this video , the video gonna help them
Like having a bully in your brain! 😮
Hi. I am relieved to have found your channel. After the course of three years, I have already overcome several obstacles in my OCD. Currently, what I have now is this irrational fear of getting food on my belongings. For example, I think I might have dropped some crumbs on my chair because I accidentally allowed the end of my plastic bag of bought bread to come into contact with it.
Why would it be bad or a fear to you if you got “food on your belongings?”
I have the ocd of noticing what I am saying while I am saying it, self consciousness. I sometimes don't finish sentences or forget things, my concentration is not good and I have no confidence in myself, I can feel like i,m waiting for what I will say next. Anyone else feel like this
Have had ocd all my life, eight years ago I went on disability from neck injury and then hypothyroidism, my wife has cancer 4 years and I have osteoarthritis. All caused symptoms to overcome me. Too much time on my hands,no money and can't work
I'm wondering - is this false memory ocd?
-I get false memories of me doing bad stuff, and I've never had these false memories in the past (I've never thought about/recalled these false memories until now)
-I avoid places that may trigger my false memories
-the more I think/ruminate about these false memories, the more real they seem and the more they warp/more false memories created
-I feel a sense of guilt with it even if these memories are fake
-its hard to complete tasks/do things when ruminating about false memories
-these false memories seem hyperrealistic and vivid, but when i compare it to an actual real memory that did happen, the false memories seem almost dreamlike (nightmarelike more like)/blurry/cloudy
-when I try asking my parents about these false memories, they keep on insisting/telling me that it's all false but it feels so real to me
-the false memories stay dormant in my head from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed, and I have dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of these false memories
Also I go through each and every false memory in my mind and reassure myself that each one is false and get a sense of relief, but suddenly the false memories come back in my mind and my mind tells me they're real even though I just told myself that they're false??
the best advice but the hardest to accept is that doing compulsions is only gonna get you more wrapped up in your ocd. You’ve named a few that you participate in like avoidance, checking, and rumination. Notice how even after trying to decipher if they are real memories or not (trying to compare them to “real” ones, checking details) you’re not any closer to figuring it out. that’s ocd ! the reality is that you need to become comfortable with not being certain. You need to move your attention slowly into not completing those compulsions no matter how tempting it may be (your brain may scream “HEY YOU NEED TO BE SURE! THIS IS TERRIBLE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IF THIS IS REAL) but you need to starve that monster. The first baby step is trying to not fix or solve the problem for a certain amount of time & start small. “ okay for the next minute or two I won’t try and figure it all out. I’m going to wash dishes” you may fail over and over again but that’s okay 👍🏼 you can try again ! it’s normal to struggle when you have done these compulsions for a long time. It’s gonna make you sweat but in the long run you free yourself and get back to living 🦦
@@mitchieee143I didn’t go to college because of this, I cried because of my cat because I could have harmed her. Should I just try not to solve the problem?
Can "Maybe, Maybe Not" become a compulsion?
Sir, Very good explanation.
Confused. My psychologist says I should be aiming for detached awareness but says I’m allowed to think about whatever thoughts come to mind. I thought I wasn’t allowed to ruminate with ocd. We are doing erp too. Just feeling stressed about doing this right. She says I just need to do the erp.
i have health OCD, most recently blindness themed OCD due to eye problems. i have autoimmune disorders and i don't trust my body to do things the right way. how do i learn to trust? how do i give in to that? my body has betrayed me so many times over the years.
God bless you man
Thank you for all
You rock!
the only solution is to leave this on almighty God, beacuse He is the one who can cure it and change your mind. And stop engrossed in it too much,,,,,only pray and engage yourself in rememberance of Almighty Lord......I could surely say it would work.
I'm struggling Contamination OCD for 18 years. Now its getting severe that I'm avoiding people. What break my heart is I avoid my own family from come near me or touching me. I don't feel comfortable in my own house anymore. Pleaseeeee I need help. 😭😭😭
Lately i feel like my thoughts turned into urges and im trying my best not to act on them. im not talking about compulsions i mean the thoughts themself. It feels as if i WANT to do them but im trying NOT to when in reality when i properly think about them i get stressed and anxious and i DO NOT want to do them. Im really scared and i dont know what to do
is this normal? Is this even OCD?? im terrified of my thoughts turning into urges or me liking and acting on them in the future and the idea alone is ruining my life
Can you please do one on, cancers, brain aneurysms and other fatal life threatening things that can pop up in your head. Like i had earlier tonight, i got a little angry, tensed then thought i might have a brain aneurysm lol. Writing helps, but google search doesnt
It's called health anxiety, health OCD and hypochondria. It's OCD all the same. I have it. It's terrible! DO NOT GOOGLE!!! I promise that is one step to help. That is my hard and fast rule. No googling. Other than that, therapy and for me, medication has helped immensely
So, my issue is that i feel like these super natural things are happening to me, and if i cant find a logical explanation, it freaks me out. Like some of my meds are missing from my weekly med container, and im wondering what happened to them. Im telling myself that the doc just simply forgot to fill those ones, but Im uncertain. How do i cope with stuff like this? Does everything that keeps happening have a logical explanation? 😊thanks!
So. How I’m thinking is ocd. My god thank you. I’ll work on living and being blaza when those worries get me
Will OCD go away if my fear about literally everything goes away???
Is telling yourself ''the thoughts aren't real'' a kind of compulsion?
It is. You have to try and exist with them. Just let the thoughts pass like flowing water
I feel like i cannot identity what i am scared of, so i worry that it means i cannot recover if i dont know what tought am i supposted to work on:/ is this okay?
Do y'all get stickier thoughts after a panick attack (like a thought that Triggered anxiety)
OCD ruined my life 😢 am not the same I wish I could born again
Me too.
Sir how to contact you?? Should we believe our gut feeling in our ocd?? Bcoz I have gut feeling that my sister will die after 3 years
No do not believe it
Is there someone in the comment section who have harmful intrusive thoughts and tried not to do any mental compulsions and then found out that it did not cause any uneasiness or anxiety or distress and then felt "Are my thoughts Egosyntonic, and I'm just pretending to be anxious so that I should not feel like I'm a bad person"... Please reply 😢
No I haven’t. That’s high level
Hi, i wanted to try the free version of the bfrb but it said page not found.
Strange. Here's the link: www.ocd-anxiety.com/bfrb-optin
I have ocd of cronic iching , something about , Thanks 😊
I have intrusive thoughts ocd and I haven’t been doing compulsions for 28 days but the intensity of the intrusive thoughts is not going away it’s the same as before I still cannot concentrate without doing compulsions how do I concentrate without doing compulsions
This ruined my entire year. I hate this
Ocd +videogames addiction+clown father=misery