Sir I always found women attractive. Everytime but on day when I was mastrubating I don't know why my mind gave me thought of a boy and then mastrubated . And after that I am under great stress and have these intrusive thought everytime. So is this the sign of ocd .
Thanks I have HOCD and it used to be what happens if your lesbian and I got rid of that now it's what if your bi and I'm still going through that and whenever I don't have anxiouty but I try to tell myself it's nothing my mind is like omg your agreeing then I'm back to stage one this is scarying me
thank you, its so frustrating that my parents doesnt believe that I have them and said that this is just a phase and that it will go after weeks but I've been suffering for a long time
@@logicss2893 you may say so...but obviously this is not a good option. Just "accept" being a monster and "feel" this monster . I think eventually we can find our comfortable place to live with
Hey, there. So I saw your comment and my heart reached out to you, and I couldn't help but share with you what has worked for me, and perhaps it can work for you. I used to feel so guilty, too, about the evil thoughts that would come into my mind. I couldn't explain why they were coming so I almost convinced myself that I was an evil person, when in retrospect, I wasn't at all. I used to think, "Are all these my own personal thoughts?" This war ran in my mind until I came across this one truth. All the bad thoughts that popped in my mind that I thought were evil sins are ALL forgiven by my creator Jesus Christ! He died on the cross and (later came back to life) by doing so endured the punishment for all of my sins including sins in my mind. So this means I never have to feel guilty ever again! Even if all of the evil thoughts that ever entered my mind were all my own, it would not matter because they are all forgiven by Jesus regardless. If we accept Jesus Christ, God looks at me and you as sinless and righteous, because even as the bad thoughts come in my mind, they have already been forgiven. Every time an evil thought entered my mind I said, "I won't feel guilty because I am forgiven." It took some time getting used to thinking and feeling differently, but after a while, I got drastically better. I know this was a really long message, but the point is you don't ever have to feel guilty again because of Jesus' love for you that will never change!
@@laurenphillips8746 I appreciate it I really do. Unfortunately my family and I aren't religious. I do believe in God and have asked for guidance, but it is just something that didn't work for me. I'm really, really, really sorry you had to go through that. I really am. I'm very glad to hear you are getting better and have found a way to get better. I wish you the best, and hopefully one day I can find a way to get better too.
@@wolvesgirl1565 Okie dokie. 😉 I appreciate your openness. Not trying to cram religion down your throat or anything, but if it means anything, I will definitely be praying for you and will hope with you that you find what you're looking for.
I was almost tearing up while watching this because what you said at the beginning of the video hit right at home. As an OCD sufferer, I can’t help but to research solutions when my anxiety hit its peak. I’m glad I found this video, as it was super informative and beneficial. I’m doing my best to conquer this demon, and not let it stop me for achieving great things. I’ve got nothing to lose. Thank you so much for sharing these tips!
I suffered from severe obsessive compulsive disorder 2016 to June 2021. Changing my mind, how I lived my life, watching helpful TH-cam videos, reading books about OCD, refocusing on my happiness, doing something important helped me. I'm good and healed now. I didn't discover this channel until this year. For people struggling with OCD you can heal and recover. You can overcome OCD. It takes time, will power, discipline, hope, a consistent plan, and taking action. I never thought I would be good again. And I'm good now.
I am so glad for you. Intrusive thoughts can be so overwhelming. I just began therapy 3 weeks ago. I really hope I can overcome this. These videos have helped me more than my therapist.
@edithdlp8045 I realized and told myself I don't have to control my thoughts. I can't control my thoughts. Imagination fear worry are parts of the human mind. But I will no longer allow my thoughts to control me and make me endlessly suffer afraid worried insane. Remind yourself of these things my friend. It may not solve your problems. But you have to remember everything in life is temporary. Fears and worries are imagination. Life is too unpredictable for anyone to accurately predict
Hey anyone reading I just wanted to put this comment out there as I don’t usually comment on videos. OCD is horrific and so incredibly hellish, if you’re going through some bad times just know it will get better. Coming from somebody who had been suffering silently for 2 years over the pandemic, seeking help is your 2nd step for recovery as the 1st for me at least was finding out I had OCD and look where we are, well done 😂.The reasoning behind my OCD was because of the pandemic, whilst also my sister was diagnosed with anorexia at the very start, but she’s now recovering after 2 years thank god. Whatever you’re going through has absolutely nothing to do with you and is just OCD reflecting your deepest fears. Don’t give into the compulsions and don’t feed the thought any of your time. After being on medication for about 3 months I have noticed a significant lift in mood and just a more positive outlook on life. Please just know that it WILL get SO much better as life is to short to be worried away.
I agree with you. It is a horrible mental disease that took years from my life. I’m 51. So all this new ways of treating it were not there. I will say at 21 years old I was put on Prozac and it saved my life
I wish I could explain my OCD to my family better. I think I always want their approval and as I uncover having OCD I wish I had their support. I’m 37. Thanks for sharing this video 💚
My treatment has been so hard, I'm 17 and my Dad isn't involved or aware I'm getting help because he doesn't support therapy. Doing this alone is so hard, doing exposures alone for therapy homework is a catastrophe haha
@@chelzyramirez3663 I've been dealing my symptoms/disorder for about a year and a half. They came on suddenly about 6 months after I left a traumatic situation, and they were very severe. I've been in therapy and doing this alone for almost a year exactly.
I have what I call emotion spirals where I just can’t shake strong feelings of guilt and anxiety. So instead of trying to avoid it, I invite it in. I “sit vigil with it” so to speak. I try to journal what I’m feeling, do some yoga, cry a bit and remind myself that the wave will eventually pass, even if it takes a day. I am just starting to explore if OCD is some thing I might have, I just kind of developed this practice on my own, but I’m glad to hear that it’s not as weird of a practice as I thought!
Two years ago OCD started to take a toil on me. I was 21 back then and a very different person. Looking back it seems like I have most definitely been suffering from OCD my whole life. It was just that OCD found a very sneaky and scary way to get to me. And from then on I seem to unlock a new fear every new year. It is almost like the themes seem to exponentially become scarier and harder to handle. This year in January I had no idea that the next two months would be horrible. I was crying my eyes out each night and hating myself. Three months later and I finally know what I am dealing with. I am so glad I dared to do some research read articles and see a professional. However, even with help it is really hard sometimes. You just want it to disappear. I have bad days and videos like these really help.
I've decided to write all of these steps down so it will be easier for me and the others to remember them.All of that is super helpful. Personally I really wasn't sure about step 4 but seems like it's working. Thanks :)) #1 Always expect the unexpected #2 Be willing to accept the risk #3 Never seek reassurance from yourself or others #4 Always try hard to agree with all intrusive thoughts without much details #5 Don't prevent thoughts #6 Try not to be an all or nothing thinker - making mistakes is normal #7 Dealing with your symptoms is your responsibility #8 Don't get too impatient #9 When you have a choice always go toward anxiety #10 When faced with two possible choices - choose the more difficult #11 Review your therapy assignments daily #12 Speak up - let your therapist know if you think you are not ready #13 Don't wait for the perfect moment to start your therapy/assignments #14 Don't be perfect #15 Start your day off right #16 Don't give yourself reassurence while doing your homework #17 Give your homework your full atention #18 Think positively about challenges #19 Don't rush exposures #20 Tell therapist your step is too easy #21 Trust in the treatment #22 Never forget that you have OCD #23 The problem is not the anxiety - it's the compulsions #24 Be proud of yourself #25 OCD doesn't make sense - Move closer to the anxiety
@@rajanarasimhan I have some questions also I've been doing this with tiny setbacks like the rituals I've for the most part let it go and now all I have is anxiety from the ocd thoughts but I'm not doing anything to calm myself down I'm just riding out the anxiety I even agreed with the ocd thoughts which made the anxiety 10x worse and now it's causing stress I feel like the not getting reassurance thing is working because I don't have the urge to do the rituals to calm myself down anymore and if I find myself doing them out of habit I stop doing it it does feel nice that I've stopped doing the rituals and nothing bad happens but the ocd thoughts are still there and now I feel like I dont have anything to grab onto for help it's been days with nothing but anxiety and stress my head hurts my body feels stuck at times I know for a fact this gave me depression but I'll work on that latter for now I'm riding this anxiety out I mean it can't last forever I don't even think the rituals can get rid of the anxiety and fear now so I'm not even gonna don't them anymore wait I'm actually feeling better a sense of hope like I know my family is gonna be safe it's gonna be OK wow I'm feeling this as I type rn I feel like a huge weight is slowly lifting off me I can breathe I love u all God Bless
I’m crying right now as after I was watching it. I don’t feel lonely and being alone anymore. It feels like a hand show up pull me up when I’m in the quicksand right now. Thank you so much for these ocd treatment videos. I’ll make a schedule and fight and deal with my ocd. I’ve been ocd diagnose for 10 years. It was so bad then I got better and now it came back to me severely nearly 1 month ago after a shock in feelings. I have ocd and anxiety complex with lots of ocd symptoms
Made me cry this one. So difficult to get through these fears but you are right. Especially with facing the fear that is most scariest. As bad as it is it will really help for you to face it! Thanks!
Hi there, I am 26 and i had OCD since I was 8. I found it really feels like "normal" if I accept those thought. The more "open" of my mind to "outside" , the more relaxing i feel. I feel like i am doing well to handle this situation.
You are right, the thoughts do not have to be scary. Like anything scary, they are only scary at first, and the more you run away. The dark is only scary until you sit in it for a bit, and after a while, you realize it isn't so scary afterall. Same with the thoughts. Good stuff, man. Discovering this kind of stuff is a sign of strong self-awareness, which is the the only shield against any demon, including OCD :)
Hey! I watched this video a month or two ago when I was feeling really unstable and distressed, step 3 don’t seek reassurance and step 4 agree with the thoughts helped me so much!! Thank you 🙏🏽😭💖💖
WOW this video helped me immensely. Especially the "Avoid safe places and non-safe places", and "Accept the risk", and "Don't seek reassurance", all of which I do so that I don't have to deal with the anxiety that comes with OCD thoughts. I will not do these things anymore. I will work on myself. I am currently getting treatment with NOCD and my therapist is wonderful. I feel so grateful and so blessed to know you guys exist. THANK YOU FOR THIS AND FOR ALL YOU DO
Wow this has left me in tears. Happy tears. I’m actually glad to know I’ve been doing things backwards so I can now March forward the right way. What got me in tears though was the ending, “ocd doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t have to” great video, thank you for these tips.
I've did 1 compulsion today about saying I'm straight to rinsure myself and all that and now my mind is just trying to get me to say it and I hate it kinda I don't hate it but it hasn't made it any better
I suffer from OCD so much and feel angry, guilty, anxious most of the time. I am a mother and always doubt my value, my contribution to the family my whole identity... I feel so lost and alone in this especially when people around me don't understand the pain and sadness I go through...
I can understand how you feel. I often feel like the people around me wouldn't understand my OCD. I hope you are doing better and/or on your way to getting help. You are not alone.
Hello, I want to thank you with all my heart. I am so glad that I found you on TH-cam. I have OCD and Contamination OCD almost as long as I live (I'm 57 now) I believe that your approach of treating OCD is the right way for me the cope with it. These 25 tips are so important for me. I'm changing my life right now. Thank you very much Nathan!
I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like it’s something that really pertains to me. The intrusive thoughts I get have gotten so bad I start to question my character, beliefs, and morals. To question it makes it feel so real, like I want to give in to the awful thought and urge my brain is telling me to. However, after watching this video, learning to “love” the thought your having lessens the amount of anxiety that comes with the thought. Allowing your brain to continue to ruminate over the thought and make you think that this thought is truly what you want, is where most of the anxiety comes from. So when you allow yourself to love this thought and only stay positive of the thought, you lessen the amount of questioning and go along with the positive thinking. Just know that you’re going to get past this no matter how impossible the feeling is!!
Didn't discover this guy until this year. I suffered from severe OCD 2016 to June 2021. I'm healed and much better now. If you are suffering like I was, you can overcome this. If your mind is powerful enough to create these illusions your mind is powerful enough to destroy them. My fears and worries are all my imagination. They are not reality. They don't exist in reality. Everything in life is temporary. I have to do something important and meaningful with my life before I die.
Hi, thank you so much for your video and these tips. I find them very helpful. I also appreciate how calm and well-paced you talk, I find it very soothing (especially when I'm anxious). Have a good day!
I want to say (as you probably heard so many times before) that this channel is one of the best things you could do. The fact that there is a concentrated, passionate, good will youtube channel that provides such information, is a game changer for many people for sure. I would also want to emphasis that in OCD, visiting a good, professional doctor and getting a correct prescription of SSRI's can be truly life changing. I know that it's not your role as a psychologist, but I would definitely make a video that explains the importance of that + the possible hard phases when starting / transitioning to a new medication. This can also be life saving. Thanks! You are truly the bets
I'm the kind of person who probably has ocd, but when they decide to get help, they think that they're in the wrong place, or that they dont actually have a problem, they just need to do x, y, or z. I've managed to "convince" myself that I have ocd and i need to go to a therapist, but when they call to set up an appointment, I've convinced myself that I dont have it.
I do the same! Mine is so debilitating to the point that I can’t work anymore, and yet when my therapy appointments finally roll around, I’m completely convinced that I’m over-exaggerating and don’t really need help. I’m sure that’s some kind of obsession in itself.
Would you be able to do a video touching on when your passions become your obsessions? One of my passions is home organization and interior design but It has become an obsessive passion. My initial thought would be cut out interior design completely, but then I'm cutting out something that I loved and still love, but ocd has mucked up the waters for me and it's hard to pursue any of my passions or creative hobbies anymore without me obsessing over them trying to make them perfect. And lack of having hobbies/interests/passions=depression and that's where I've been for years, kind of stuck between a rock and hard place.
I'm 32, have OCD from childhood, and it only got much worse. Sometimes just want to end life so I can stop suffering. This video is really helpful and gives hope.
I am 40, have had OCD since the age of 13 and it did get worse A LOT. I am also severely depressed. I am thinking about suicide all the time as it seems like the only way to end my suffering.
I will pray for you I’m currently battling with this since about 1.5 weeks ago but we will be victorious because of GOD!! Remember ONLY HIM can cure it completely there is nothing impossible for him!
an easily excited fear system in the mind.. easily triggered/pinged asking for reaction by releasing stress hormones. Even with small trivial things that dont induce stress in others. You get put on the wrong track sortasay by the initial reaction to 'it' ocd has many forms... but id guess all of them start with an initial worry, a fear...a bit of anxiety to which you do 'something' (compulse) to make it better/bearable/to fix it etc... and then you are in the ocd cycle. Where the obsession keeps pinging you and act out your compulsion to make it better and round we go.
OCD is a terrible disorder, my thoughts take my energy which takes my motivation . They infiltrate every relationship, I agree completely with analyzing the thought as if it’s neutral, but being okay with the thought makes it pile onto many more compulsive questions which eventually turns into a story . You said “we do not use logic … it just doesn’t work” well that is keeping someone in a temporary state of gratification. Saying that means that it’ll stop working when there logic starts working . Which makes sense, cause a lot of the people i know with OCD that’s got a lot of therapy are always in a imaginative/ floating state like everything’s just okay . Then once a day once they realized they agreed with all the terrible things in there head, they lash out terribly. The terrible questions they agree with doesn’t always feel right excepting when they’re ego isn’t in the right state to handle it. YOU CAN STOP THOUGHTS ITS CALLED MEDITATION!!!! THEY WONT TELL U THAT THO BECAUSE MEDITATION CANT BE PROMOTED AND SOLD
I’ve beat this OCD issue many times before… but as I’m still barely newly fresh I end up meeting a narcissist who brought it back. But I won the battle before will win again and I will forever have control of my mind
I have OCD and I am trying to solve it with the help of a LCSW. If someone triggers your OCD, try to avoid them as much as possible. Take care, I hope you can win this battle once more 💪.
@@edithdlp8045 I have to stay positive because I’m in a situation that does trigger it a lot and at this moment the only thing I can control is if I let it control me or I control it. Thank you! Good luck on your journey too 🫶🏻
I didn’t think you would answer after all of this time. Thank you. I’m trying to stay optimistic. I’m just tired of being scared all of the time; usually of things that don’t matter or haven’t happened
Good morning, your videos have truly changed my life. I am still trying to find a good therapist but through your videos workshops it’s not as hard anymore. I had a few weeks of feeling so much better but last night it hit me again and I had a night mare based on my fear. It made me feel back at the bottom it also made me forget all my tools and watching this has reminded me of them thank you so much for this. 💕
Your videos are amazing and are really helping me understand what my friend is going through. I’m talking to a guy with ocd and he deals with all of this stuff and your videos are really giving me insight into how to best support him! Thank you!
Omg I was procrastinatong my ocd therapy prep homework which was to read some papers he had given me.. I had gotten through half and it was making me anxious so I stopped... And legit the one I stopped on was this entire list xD lol thank you for walking me through that :P I'll go read the rest now
I am 51 and I’ve suffered from OCD from as long as I can remember. I think this is great and I wish people would just realize mental illnesses are just the same is physical but you just can’t see it. I don’t know if I would be able to get past my anxiety without getting the reassurance I need. I know that’s what they say works etc. but mine gets so bad I feel like I would do anything even if I knew I was humiliating myself I would do anything and then as soon as I do whatever I have to do, or I call person that’s going to say something to reassure me instantly takes away the anxiety. I give you credit so much. What I’ve been doing I’ve been helping me lately it’s just avoiding my triggers and I don’t care if I have to stay in the house forever and I know that’s not the right way, but I have kids. I enjoy them, I’m doing better bless you
Okay this is gonna be a long comment and I hate commenting but lets just call it exposure and if you all think im obnoxious then SO BE IT. I don’t know if I have OCD (ill have to talk to a therapist to find that out), but this videos comment on how reassurance is a compulsion was SOOO helpful. I just tried the step where i tell my brain that all the bad stuff is actually going to happen, and i felt a lot of anxiety for a second but then I felt RELIEF. Something i haven’t felt in ages it feels. I always try not to talk about bad things happening out loud (ie my grandmas going to die) because im convinced it will happen then. So i just announced all the catastrophic things that will happen and it took every ounce of me to not knock on wood. It felt like a lot of relief, again not diagnosed or anything, but i feel a lot better so thank you so much!
You too! My ocd is pretty out of control at the moment and is latching on to everything. To a point where I’m just wanting to sleep all the time. When I tell myself the thoughts are true etc, I find this is quite compulsive (turns into a compulsion) and I feel bad or guilty if I don’t do it. Any suggestions?
@@ocdandanxiety hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
Thank you, some of these I'm already doing, some of these are difficult or going to be difficult, but I've gone most of my life without actually knowing I had this or just living with it, but now with these tools? I'm confident I can beat it!
One night, I got home late and we were out of hot water. I had 8 hours before I needed to go to work, and had to make the choice between taking a freezing shower or sleeping on the floor, because sleeping in my bed without taking a shower felt like wasn't a possibility because of my OCD, it felt like my world would end if I tried. The next day I found your videos, and a few days later I was able to start sleeping in my bed without showering. It's amazing how effective ERP has been, and I credit much of that to the way you describe it and the way you talk to us in your videos. You make it feel like a meditative process instead of a clinical one, and you've helped change my life.
I think I have OCD and I want to reach out and get help. My intrusive thoughts have been really bad lately but I'm scared to talk to someone about them. I'm worried someone is going to see me as these thoughts even though they arent me and I can't control them. My intrusive thoughts scare me and I want to get therapy to manage them
Is it normal to hear someone talk about their ocd fear and then just adopt that fear for yourself? For example, I saw someone saying their child is scared everyone is wants to hurt them, so now I’m scared of that too.
When my intrusive thoughts come I just say ''no'' or ''shut up''/''I don't care'' but this lead me to not having anxiety about it anymore, which worrys me. Why does it worry? Because I depended on my anxiety to say that I don't like the thoughts or images, and not having anxiety will make me question if it will really happen, thank you.
hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
@@vksharma3730It’s okay, OCD has many forms. My sister is more compulsive, but I’m more like what you’re describing, lots of thoughts but not so compulsive.
i suffer from OCD thoughts.. its scary.. hate the feeling they bring out,and sometimes i feel lost when this feelings and thoughts appear. Your videos help.please do more about this topic.
hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
Thanks for another excellent professional video and thanks to Dr Penzel for his tips! I'm sure I could rewatch this again in a month and different tips would stick out to me as very relevant depending on the moment. Something that's really difficult is when the person with OCD feels they want reassurance or relief and that doing a compulsion or getting reassurance will be the only way to reduce the anxiety they feel. As a partner, I'm trying hard to understand what it must be like. Your video helped explain how OCD "doesn't make sense" 😅
Listening to this I realize I've become so sneaky at avoiding the task I'm supposed to do to actually get better. Like "Yeah I can't do ERP today because I have a thing later where I want to be happy and not anxious" or "I'll do ERP for this less scary fear instead of my current obsession" or "I just got over an anxious phase, I don't want to risk triggering one again". There's always gonna be another thing. Another excuse. Another reason why I can't face my fear right now. But I can. I have to if I want to get better. Thank you for the tips! That was exactly what I needed to hear right now!
Here's my story when I started watching ur videos: I had OCD but I couldn't figure it out for sometime. I wondered what was wrong with me but when I figured out I had OCD everything came together. One day I was wondering how to get rid of it like FOREVER I found out this thing on Google while doing research obsession to compulsion to relief then to obsession again I figured out that was what was wrong with me because anytime I thought I forgot it, it came back stronger so I decided to help myself with a video I saw so many videos the ones I clicked weren't my type like I love interesting videos with humour so I clicked on ur video was just giving me the vibes as I watched it I felt calm I couldn't think of that OCD obsession and when it did want me to think of it I followed some of ur tips or I just forgot. I felt calm and when watching the video I actually felt treated if OCD although it came back after the video I followed ur tips. Thank you for being so amazing
1.Expect the unexpected- we don’t need safe places/times etc 2.Be willing to accept the risk 3.never seek reassurance from others - tell yourself the worst is already happening/ logic doesn’t work in treatments 4. Agree with thoughts- even if the thoughts are scary ( it means you don’t really care about the thought gives it less power) 5. Don’t prevent thoughts- it will have the opposite effect 6. Try not to be a black or white thinker- don’t wait until the next day to start over 7. Take responsibility- don’t let others help you you have to do it on your own 8. Don’t get too impatient with progress 9. Move towards anxiety- face it 10. Choose the more difficult route- you can handle it. 11. Review your homework daily 12. Speak up if you can do your homework 13. Don’t wait for the perfect moment- You will never feel “ready” 14. Don’t be perfect- be imperfect ( do things incorrectly on purpose if you feel you need to obsess over perfection) 15. Start the day off right - wake up and “risk” your OCD 16. Don’t give yourself reassurance “it’s only homework” “ my therapist wouldn’t make me do this if it could cause harm” take the logic and reassurance out of it. 17. Give your homework your full attention- Dont tune out the anxiety or distract. Feel it. Stay in the moment 18. When faced with an unexpected challenge - think positively - say yes!! Great practice time 19. Don’t rush exposures- the goal is to retrain brain. Don’t get out of the anxiety as fast as possible. That gives it power 20. Tell therapist if your exposures aren’t hard enough. 21. Trust in the treatment- “maybe I should do acupuncture instead” “maybe I need to try something else” this is the doubting disease. 22. Never forget you have OCD- sometimes you can’t trust yourself anxious +urge to fix =OCD 23. The problem isn’t the anxiety it’s the way you react to perceived threats - be ok feeling the anxiety 24. Be proud of yourself ! 25. OCD doesn’t make sense. We don’t need to make it make sense. The things you think may work might now. Move towards the threats
I was told by my therapist that I had the tendency of OCD so she told me to consult it with my Psychiatrist and he told me to feel the anxiety and be ok with it just don’t act (compulsion) ,I tried my best and I thought I became ok. but after that something happened that made me doubt myself a lot more and it worsen. But I weren’t able to go to therapy and also to my psychiatrist for a long time. When I get back to therapy she suggested to me to see my psychiatrist again but I said no for now. Lately I’m starting to get worse again and I doubt it too if Its OCD or its just me. But my family is getting worried of me and I am not being able to treat them the way they deserve.That is why next week I am thinking of seeing my psychiatrist and I feel like I do need help now….
Im so tired fr. Once a thought im exposed to is no longer bugging me and i feel normal again, a new one comes in and ruins it. One step at a time i guess..
I have a therapist but guess what, it doesn't help me and I feel completely missunerstood, but in my country you have to wait up to 1,5 years to get a therapy session with a new therapist. So I keep on seeing her, cause at least she helped me a little bit with my anxiety, and do some self therapy. I feel so desperate and alone with it 😒
I depends. Some therapists/doctors get bonus's based on medications and stuff they give to patients, and don't care. Some people actually do care a lot. Its something you gotta go and try to find.
I suffer from OCD and I diagnosed myself after tons of research and study , I’m a registered nurse and midwife, i have Nosophobia and i keep having a compulsive thought about a certain disease and make up scenarios and tragedy out of my thoughts, it’s really scary and overwhelming i live in a refugee camp in the middle east and I don’t have access to any help financially or technically, psychology here especially OCD effect in ones life is so underestimated , i suffer alone cry alone and pray a lot sometimes i find some peace but when the thoughts come back i feel so disappointed and sad and scared , I can’t get any medication so I just drink coffee and read books about CBT it helps a bit , i wish there was some kind of treatment IM ready to undergo a surgery in my brain to get rid of it , anyways alhamdu lil Allah always and forever.
Anxiety and excitement produce the same changes in the body. Anxiety = fear of the future - elevated heart rate and cortisol release Excitement = maybe your going on holiday so your excited it will produce the same result - elevated heart rate, cortisol etc reframe the question instead of saying I'm feeling anxiety say you feeling excited . research it yourself to get information. peace love stay blessed
I just got freaked out by him saying if you get a new thought tell your therapist. I don’t want to tell my therapist every weird thought I have. It’s too embarrassing. I’ve heard so many times that it’s not the content of the thought that matters , but how it makes you feel. .
I love you all, especially you others with OCD. We love things in life, or even life itself, this is why we're afraid of certain things want things to feel right, because we don't want to lose them or ruin anything. Satan has chosen us to pick on with these thoughts of OCD because he knows we're so positive deep down and have a lot of light to bring to the world. You've got this, I've got this. We'll beat it one day at a time.
What things help you with your OCD? 👍🏻👍🏻
Didn't you say you are licensed in Utah?
Can you do a video on health ocd?
Sir I always found women attractive. Everytime but on day when I was mastrubating I don't know why my mind gave me thought of a boy and then mastrubated . And after that I am under great stress and have these intrusive thought everytime. So is this the sign of ocd .
@@philosphergaming6954 sounds like it
@@freedomartsandcrafts7965 I didn't understand what you are trying to say.
anybody that suffers from OCD, you have my heart. We are not alone, and we will be happy.
Thanks I have HOCD and it used to be what happens if your lesbian and I got rid of that now it's what if your bi and I'm still going through that and whenever I don't have anxiouty but I try to tell myself it's nothing my mind is like omg your agreeing then I'm back to stage one this is scarying me
My OCD targets my relationships now so they tend to not work out because the anxiety drives me to react badly with my words oof
thanks
Thanks. Its much time consuming, and sometimes it's hell to deal with.
thank you, its so frustrating that my parents doesnt believe that I have them and said that this is just a phase and that it will go after weeks but I've been suffering for a long time
OCD is seriously an uncontrollable monster in our head with many more cons than pros
yes... But this "monster" is yourself. I think we ,OCD sufferer can only "beat" it by communicating to "monster" well....
@@tommywong4689 no
there are pros?
@@tommywong4689 damn so if i kill myself i officially kill the monster thats deep😳
@@logicss2893 you may say so...but obviously this is not a good option. Just "accept" being a monster and "feel" this monster . I think eventually we can find our comfortable place to live with
It's always scary when the thoughts come back and I always feel so guilty. This helped a little bit. Thank you.
Hey, there. So I saw your comment and my heart reached out to you, and I couldn't help but share with you what has worked for me, and perhaps it can work for you. I used to feel so guilty, too, about the evil thoughts that would come into my mind. I couldn't explain why they were coming so I almost convinced myself that I was an evil person, when in retrospect, I wasn't at all. I used to think, "Are all these my own personal thoughts?" This war ran in my mind until I came across this one truth. All the bad thoughts that popped in my mind that I thought were evil sins are ALL forgiven by my creator Jesus Christ! He died on the cross and (later came back to life) by doing so endured the punishment for all of my sins including sins in my mind. So this means I never have to feel guilty ever again! Even if all of the evil thoughts that ever entered my mind were all my own, it would not matter because they are all forgiven by Jesus regardless. If we accept Jesus Christ, God looks at me and you as sinless and righteous, because even as the bad thoughts come in my mind, they have already been forgiven. Every time an evil thought entered my mind I said, "I won't feel guilty because I am forgiven." It took some time getting used to thinking and feeling differently, but after a while, I got drastically better. I know this was a really long message, but the point is you don't ever have to feel guilty again because of Jesus' love for you that will never change!
@@laurenphillips8746 I appreciate it I really do. Unfortunately my family and I aren't religious. I do believe in God and have asked for guidance, but it is just something that didn't work for me. I'm really, really, really sorry you had to go through that. I really am. I'm very glad to hear you are getting better and have found a way to get better. I wish you the best, and hopefully one day I can find a way to get better too.
@@wolvesgirl1565 Okie dokie. 😉 I appreciate your openness. Not trying to cram religion down your throat or anything, but if it means anything, I will definitely be praying for you and will hope with you that you find what you're looking for.
@@laurenphillips8746 And I really appreciate that. Thank you.
@@wolvesgirl1565 You're welcome. Have a good night.
I was almost tearing up while watching this because what you said at the beginning of the video hit right at home. As an OCD sufferer, I can’t help but to research solutions when my anxiety hit its peak. I’m glad I found this video, as it was super informative and beneficial. I’m doing my best to conquer this demon, and not let it stop me for achieving great things. I’ve got nothing to lose. Thank you so much for sharing these tips!
How is it going now?
@@Itieisitireie Can’t say I’m doing significantly better, but I’m doing my best. It’s daunting, you know! 😔
Praying for you.
I do the same!
@@khaledali6410Any improvements? Sending lots of love! ❤
I suffered from severe obsessive compulsive disorder 2016 to June 2021. Changing my mind, how I lived my life, watching helpful TH-cam videos, reading books about OCD, refocusing on my happiness, doing something important helped me. I'm good and healed now. I didn't discover this channel until this year.
For people struggling with OCD you can heal and recover. You can overcome OCD. It takes time, will power, discipline, hope, a consistent plan, and taking action. I never thought I would be good again. And I'm good now.
My healing began when I noticed that I used insane amouts of caffaine.
I am so glad for you. Intrusive thoughts can be so overwhelming. I just began therapy 3 weeks ago. I really hope I can overcome this. These videos have helped me more than my therapist.
@edithdlp8045 I realized and told myself I don't have to control my thoughts. I can't control my thoughts. Imagination fear worry are parts of the human mind. But I will no longer allow my thoughts to control me and make me endlessly suffer afraid worried insane. Remind yourself of these things my friend. It may not solve your problems. But you have to remember everything in life is temporary. Fears and worries are imagination. Life is too unpredictable for anyone to accurately predict
So happy for you! Wish you all the love and happiness from now to forever 🩷
Hey anyone reading I just wanted to put this comment out there as I don’t usually comment on videos. OCD is horrific and so incredibly hellish, if you’re going through some bad times just know it will get better. Coming from somebody who had been suffering silently for 2 years over the pandemic, seeking help is your 2nd step for recovery as the 1st for me at least was finding out I had OCD and look where we are, well done 😂.The reasoning behind my OCD was because of the pandemic, whilst also my sister was diagnosed with anorexia at the very start, but she’s now recovering after 2 years thank god. Whatever you’re going through has absolutely nothing to do with you and is just OCD reflecting your deepest fears. Don’t give into the compulsions and don’t feed the thought any of your time. After being on medication for about 3 months I have noticed a significant lift in mood and just a more positive outlook on life. Please just know that it WILL get SO much better as life is to short to be worried away.
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I’ve had ocd for 6 years, it doesn’t go away on its own, it’s so hard
I agree with you. It is a horrible mental disease that took years from my life. I’m 51. So all this new ways of treating it were not there. I will say at 21 years old I was put on Prozac and it saved my life
@@rahatahmed6188 why didnt you go to a phycologist?
@@jjj515 mixture of embarrassment, denial and financial issues.
I wish I could explain my OCD to my family better. I think I always want their approval and as I uncover having OCD I wish I had their support. I’m 37. Thanks for sharing this video 💚
Im 33 and just got diagnosed. 20 years of reassurance seeking from therapists and i dont think my family would even believe it if i told them.
My treatment has been so hard, I'm 17 and my Dad isn't involved or aware I'm getting help because he doesn't support therapy. Doing this alone is so hard, doing exposures alone for therapy homework is a catastrophe haha
How long have you been dealing with this?
@@chelzyramirez3663 I've been dealing my symptoms/disorder for about a year and a half. They came on suddenly about 6 months after I left a traumatic situation, and they were very severe. I've been in therapy and doing this alone for almost a year exactly.
@@haeleighmoore1038 I’m so sorry I hope you are doing well! You’ll get through this
i’m 17 too and my dad also doesn’t know!! im really scared, but i know we’ll get through this
I’m 17 too bro. Going through too. We got this
Very good tips. What helps me with my OCD prob. the most is sitting with the anxiety, which is also very painful but worth it in the end.
I have what I call emotion spirals where I just can’t shake strong feelings of guilt and anxiety. So instead of trying to avoid it, I invite it in. I “sit vigil with it” so to speak. I try to journal what I’m feeling, do some yoga, cry a bit and remind myself that the wave will eventually pass, even if it takes a day. I am just starting to explore if OCD is some thing I might have, I just kind of developed this practice on my own, but I’m glad to hear that it’s not as weird of a practice as I thought!
Two years ago OCD started to take a toil on me. I was 21 back then and a very different person. Looking back it seems like I have most definitely been suffering from OCD my whole life. It was just that OCD found a very sneaky and scary way to get to me. And from then on I seem to unlock a new fear every new year. It is almost like the themes seem to exponentially become scarier and harder to handle. This year in January I had no idea that the next two months would be horrible. I was crying my eyes out each night and hating myself. Three months later and I finally know what I am dealing with. I am so glad I dared to do some research read articles and see a professional. However, even with help it is really hard sometimes. You just want it to disappear. I have bad days and videos like these really help.
I hope you’re doing okay 💜
@@Kejfnsnsmsksk Actually, the last few months starting from June were really good. Thanks for asking. ❤️
Hope you are well. I had the same happen this year. Amazon has some great books on ocd too and a few workbooks
Hey..did u take any therapy??
how are u now?:)
I've decided to write all of these steps down so it will be easier for me and the others to remember them.All of that is super helpful. Personally I really wasn't sure about step 4 but seems like it's working. Thanks :))
#1 Always expect the unexpected
#2 Be willing to accept the risk
#3 Never seek reassurance from yourself or others
#4 Always try hard to agree with all intrusive thoughts without much details
#5 Don't prevent thoughts
#6 Try not to be an all or nothing thinker - making mistakes is normal
#7 Dealing with your symptoms is your responsibility
#8 Don't get too impatient
#9 When you have a choice always go toward anxiety
#10 When faced with two possible choices - choose the more difficult
#11 Review your therapy assignments daily
#12 Speak up - let your therapist know if you think you are not ready
#13 Don't wait for the perfect moment to start your therapy/assignments
#14 Don't be perfect
#15 Start your day off right
#16 Don't give yourself reassurence while doing your homework
#17 Give your homework your full atention
#18 Think positively about challenges
#19 Don't rush exposures
#20 Tell therapist your step is too easy
#21 Trust in the treatment
#22 Never forget that you have OCD
#23 The problem is not the anxiety - it's the compulsions
#24 Be proud of yourself
#25 OCD doesn't make sense - Move closer to the anxiety
many thanks for you and blessed
@@rajanarasimhan I have some questions also I've been doing this with tiny setbacks like the rituals I've for the most part let it go and now all I have is anxiety from the ocd thoughts but I'm not doing anything to calm myself down I'm just riding out the anxiety I even agreed with the ocd thoughts which made the anxiety 10x worse and now it's causing stress I feel like the not getting reassurance thing is working because I don't have the urge to do the rituals to calm myself down anymore and if I find myself doing them out of habit I stop doing it it does feel nice that I've stopped doing the rituals and nothing bad happens but the ocd thoughts are still there and now I feel like I dont have anything to grab onto for help it's been days with nothing but anxiety and stress my head hurts my body feels stuck at times I know for a fact this gave me depression but I'll work on that latter for now I'm riding this anxiety out I mean it can't last forever I don't even think the rituals can get rid of the anxiety and fear now so I'm not even gonna don't them anymore wait I'm actually feeling better a sense of hope like I know my family is gonna be safe it's gonna be OK wow I'm feeling this as I type rn I feel like a huge weight is slowly lifting off me I can breathe I love u all God Bless
I’m crying right now as after I was watching it. I don’t feel lonely and being alone anymore. It feels like a hand show up pull me up when I’m in the quicksand right now.
Thank you so much for these ocd treatment videos. I’ll make a schedule and fight and deal with my ocd.
I’ve been ocd diagnose for 10 years. It was so bad then I got better and now it came back to me severely nearly 1 month ago after a shock in feelings. I have ocd and anxiety complex with lots of ocd symptoms
I've had ocd from 5 and now I'm just 13 and I have had HOCD since I was 12
We are with you 😊 I so have ocd and struggling
How are you now?
Struggling with thoughts for 6 years trying my best to continue therapy and treatment
Made me cry this one. So difficult to get through these fears but you are right. Especially with facing the fear that is most scariest. As bad as it is it will really help for you to face it! Thanks!
Hi there, I am 26 and i had OCD since I was 8. I found it really feels like "normal" if I accept those thought. The more "open" of my mind to "outside" , the more relaxing i feel. I feel like i am doing well to handle this situation.
you're doing great :)
@@unknownarc and I realise if I do something that I really want to do (not because of money/other benefits) OCD doesn't affect me!
@@tommywong4689 great to hear this 🙂
@Tammy wong Great job
You are right, the thoughts do not have to be scary. Like anything scary, they are only scary at first, and the more you run away. The dark is only scary until you sit in it for a bit, and after a while, you realize it isn't so scary afterall. Same with the thoughts. Good stuff, man. Discovering this kind of stuff is a sign of strong self-awareness, which is the the only shield against any demon, including OCD :)
Hey! I watched this video a month or two ago when I was feeling really unstable and distressed, step 3 don’t seek reassurance and step 4 agree with the thoughts helped me so much!! Thank you 🙏🏽😭💖💖
Wonderful! Thanks for following up! I'm glad to hear you're doing well.
Bro i love you literally you are helping millions of people I wish I could get a hug from you and hear the word it will be alright
For years i believed my ocd was a side-effect of my anxiety and never realized it was the opposite until I found this channel.
Thank you very much man, I needed this today I realised my compulsions were the problem, thanks again.
You’re honestly the best man. God bless
WOW this video helped me immensely. Especially the "Avoid safe places and non-safe places", and "Accept the risk", and "Don't seek reassurance", all of which I do so that I don't have to deal with the anxiety that comes with OCD thoughts. I will not do these things anymore. I will work on myself. I am currently getting treatment with NOCD and my therapist is wonderful. I feel so grateful and so blessed to know you guys exist. THANK YOU FOR THIS AND FOR ALL YOU DO
good clinical no nonsense advice for 15 mins, thanx
Wow this has left me in tears. Happy tears. I’m actually glad to know I’ve been doing things backwards so I can now March forward the right way. What got me in tears though was the ending, “ocd doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t have to” great video, thank you for these tips.
"Motivation comes from doing the thing you don't wanna do"
Genius
That equation you wrote at the end make so much sense to me! Anxiety + urge=compulsion
I've did 1 compulsion today about saying I'm straight to rinsure myself and all that and now my mind is just trying to get me to say it and I hate it kinda I don't hate it but it hasn't made it any better
I suffer from OCD so much and feel angry, guilty, anxious most of the time. I am a mother and always doubt my value, my contribution to the family my whole identity... I feel so lost and alone in this especially when people around me don't understand the pain and sadness I go through...
I can understand how you feel. I often feel like the people around me wouldn't understand my OCD. I hope you are doing better and/or on your way to getting help. You are not alone.
I wish you were my neighbor so we could help each other out. I'm a mother and feel the same as you have described.
Hello,
I want to thank you with all my heart.
I am so glad that I found you on TH-cam.
I have OCD and Contamination OCD almost as long as I live (I'm 57 now)
I believe that your approach of treating OCD is the right way for me the cope with it.
These 25 tips are so important for me. I'm changing my life right now.
Thank you very much Nathan!
Did you get over it
Follow what this man says and you will see the results you've always wanted!
I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like it’s something that really pertains to me. The intrusive thoughts I get have gotten so bad I start to question my character, beliefs, and morals. To question it makes it feel so real, like I want to give in to the awful thought and urge my brain is telling me to. However, after watching this video, learning to “love” the thought your having lessens the amount of anxiety that comes with the thought. Allowing your brain to continue to ruminate over the thought and make you think that this thought is truly what you want, is where most of the anxiety comes from. So when you allow yourself to love this thought and only stay positive of the thought, you lessen the amount of questioning and go along with the positive thinking. Just know that you’re going to get past this no matter how impossible the feeling is!!
These comments from other people with the same affliction are so heartwarming and encouraging and helpful!!. ❤
You are the person who has finally made me see 'the light' and now i have the tools, and the answer to how to finally beat this thing. Thank you
Didn't discover this guy until this year. I suffered from severe OCD 2016 to June 2021. I'm healed and much better now. If you are suffering like I was, you can overcome this. If your mind is powerful enough to create these illusions your mind is powerful enough to destroy them.
My fears and worries are all my imagination. They are not reality. They don't exist in reality. Everything in life is temporary. I have to do something important and meaningful with my life before I die.
Hi, thank you so much for your video and these tips. I find them very helpful. I also appreciate how calm and well-paced you talk, I find it very soothing (especially when I'm anxious). Have a good day!
Yes same
I'm addicted to trying get the toughts and the anxiety away but they just can't stop running in my head,you're an angel that's helping me so much
I want to say (as you probably heard so many times before) that this channel is one of the best things you could do.
The fact that there is a concentrated, passionate, good will youtube channel that provides such information, is a game changer for many people for sure.
I would also want to emphasis that in OCD, visiting a good, professional doctor and getting a correct prescription of SSRI's can be truly life changing.
I know that it's not your role as a psychologist, but I would definitely make a video that explains the importance of that + the possible hard phases when starting / transitioning to a new medication. This can also be life saving.
Thanks! You are truly the bets
I'm the kind of person who probably has ocd, but when they decide to get help, they think that they're in the wrong place, or that they dont actually have a problem, they just need to do x, y, or z. I've managed to "convince" myself that I have ocd and i need to go to a therapist, but when they call to set up an appointment, I've convinced myself that I dont have it.
I do the same! Mine is so debilitating to the point that I can’t work anymore, and yet when my therapy appointments finally roll around, I’m completely convinced that I’m over-exaggerating and don’t really need help. I’m sure that’s some kind of obsession in itself.
Would you be able to do a video touching on when your passions become your obsessions? One of my passions is home organization and interior design but It has become an obsessive passion. My initial thought would be cut out interior design completely, but then I'm cutting out something that I loved and still love, but ocd has mucked up the waters for me and it's hard to pursue any of my passions or creative hobbies anymore without me obsessing over them trying to make them perfect. And lack of having hobbies/interests/passions=depression and that's where I've been for years, kind of stuck between a rock and hard place.
Any solutions ? I'm having the same issue if you found a solution let me know please
That moment when your OCD attacks you, trying to convince you, that is not OCD what you have.
I'm 32, have OCD from childhood, and it only got much worse. Sometimes just want to end life so I can stop suffering. This video is really helpful and gives hope.
Please don't do it. There is always someone that can help you.
You. Got. This. Please know you have help. If you need to talk, we are here. Please message ❤
I am 40, have had OCD since the age of 13 and it did get worse A LOT. I am also severely depressed. I am thinking about suicide all the time as it seems like the only way to end my suffering.
I feel like I'm losing my mind 😢, it's like i don't understand my self anymore 😞, well i believe i will be fine
same burh ,iam 31
As far as my OCD goes this has probably been the most helpful advice I've ever received! 🙏
lifesaver of a channel my god
I hate my OCD and myself for having it, I'm losing myself because of it, I love my God, I love my family and my OCD is ruining it all for me
I will pray for you I’m currently battling with this since about 1.5 weeks ago but we will be victorious because of GOD!! Remember ONLY HIM can cure it completely there is nothing impossible for him!
Sir a much needed video for OCD Treatment. My question is that why does OCD happen in the first place?
i always have the same question :(
an easily excited fear system in the mind.. easily triggered/pinged asking for reaction by releasing stress hormones. Even with small trivial things that dont induce stress in others. You get put on the wrong track sortasay by the initial reaction to 'it' ocd has many forms... but id guess all of them start with an initial worry, a fear...a bit of anxiety to which you do 'something' (compulse) to make it better/bearable/to fix it etc... and then you are in the ocd cycle. Where the obsession keeps pinging you and act out your compulsion to make it better and round we go.
OCD is a terrible disorder, my thoughts take my energy which takes my motivation . They infiltrate every relationship, I agree completely with analyzing the thought as if it’s neutral, but being okay with the thought makes it pile onto many more compulsive questions which eventually turns into a story . You said “we do not use logic … it just doesn’t work” well that is keeping someone in a temporary state of gratification. Saying that means that it’ll stop working when there logic starts working . Which makes sense, cause a lot of the people i know with OCD that’s got a lot of therapy are always in a imaginative/ floating state like everything’s just okay . Then once a day once they realized they agreed with all the terrible things in there head, they lash out terribly. The terrible questions they agree with doesn’t always feel right excepting when they’re ego isn’t in the right state to handle it. YOU CAN STOP THOUGHTS ITS CALLED MEDITATION!!!! THEY WONT TELL U THAT THO BECAUSE MEDITATION CANT BE PROMOTED AND SOLD
Meditation isn't about stopping thoughts, it is about acknowledging them and letting them go. Very different.
“Not worrying about it is more worrying” I felt that so hard 😭
I swear every example he uses sends me into a spiral of "oh hes right" and what if scenarios-
I’ve beat this OCD issue many times before… but as I’m still barely newly fresh I end up meeting a narcissist who brought it back. But I won the battle before will win again and I will forever have control of my mind
I have OCD and I am trying to solve it with the help of a LCSW. If someone triggers your OCD, try to avoid them as much as possible. Take care, I hope you can win this battle once more 💪.
@@edithdlp8045 I have to stay positive because I’m in a situation that does trigger it a lot and at this moment the only thing I can control is if I let it control me or I control it. Thank you! Good luck on your journey too 🫶🏻
@@Ezra_savagethank you. Wishing you the best. Take care 👋
Hearing all of this, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed. I don’t think I can do this.
It can feel overwhelming, but recovery is SO possible. You are capable of doing it.
I didn’t think you would answer after all of this time. Thank you. I’m trying to stay optimistic. I’m just tired of being scared all of the time; usually of things that don’t matter or haven’t happened
@@11jraz I feel you so much
@@ocdandanxiety please help me son is possible
Good morning, your videos have truly changed my life. I am still trying to find a good therapist but through your videos workshops it’s not as hard anymore. I had a few weeks of feeling so much better but last night it hit me again and I had a night mare based on my fear. It made me feel back at the bottom it also made me forget all my tools and watching this has reminded me of them thank you so much for this. 💕
Your videos are actually the best videos on this topic in my opinion.
Sending all the love and prayers to those suffering from this ❤❤❤
Your videos are amazing and are really helping me understand what my friend is going through. I’m talking to a guy with ocd and he deals with all of this stuff and your videos are really giving me insight into how to best support him!
Thank you!
Omg I was procrastinatong my ocd therapy prep homework which was to read some papers he had given me.. I had gotten through half and it was making me anxious so I stopped... And legit the one I stopped on was this entire list xD lol thank you for walking me through that :P I'll go read the rest now
I am 51 and I’ve suffered from OCD from as long as I can remember. I think this is great and I wish people would just realize mental illnesses are just the same is physical but you just can’t see it. I don’t know if I would be able to get past my anxiety without getting the reassurance I need. I know that’s what they say works etc. but mine gets so bad I feel like I would do anything even if I knew I was humiliating myself I would do anything and then as soon as I do whatever I have to do, or I call person that’s going to say something to reassure me instantly takes away the anxiety. I give you credit so much. What I’ve been doing I’ve been helping me lately it’s just avoiding my triggers and I don’t care if I have to stay in the house forever and I know that’s not the right way, but I have kids. I enjoy them, I’m doing better bless you
Do you enjoy life🥺because I also have ocd from years and i hate it and you have it from many years
Okay this is gonna be a long comment and I hate commenting but lets just call it exposure and if you all think im obnoxious then SO BE IT.
I don’t know if I have OCD (ill have to talk to a therapist to find that out), but this videos comment on how reassurance is a compulsion was SOOO helpful.
I just tried the step where i tell my brain that all the bad stuff is actually going to happen, and i felt a lot of anxiety for a second but then I felt RELIEF. Something i haven’t felt in ages it feels.
I always try not to talk about bad things happening out loud (ie my grandmas going to die) because im convinced it will happen then. So i just announced all the catastrophic things that will happen and it took every ounce of me to not knock on wood. It felt like a lot of relief, again not diagnosed or anything, but i feel a lot better so thank you so much!
Thank you, recently discovered your content and is very helpful. Just want to thank you. You’re doing a great thing.
I appreciate that! I wish you the best!
You too! My ocd is pretty out of control at the moment and is latching on to everything. To a point where I’m just wanting to sleep all the time. When I tell myself the thoughts are true etc, I find this is quite compulsive (turns into a compulsion) and I feel bad or guilty if I don’t do it. Any suggestions?
@@ocdandanxiety hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
Pretty terrified to do it on my own, and my efforts have been pretty on/off. I'm actually starting therapy with this doctor in a few months though!
Lucky I'm to poor and can't afford one
@@paige15803 sorry :( good luck to you!
Thank you, some of these I'm already doing, some of these are difficult or going to be difficult, but I've gone most of my life without actually knowing I had this or just living with it, but now with these tools? I'm confident I can beat it!
You give so much peace! This is super helpful! ❤
thank you for this. some of these tips sound scary but i'm very excited to try and get better. ❤️
These, especially Agree with them, have been doing a lot of success for me.
One night, I got home late and we were out of hot water. I had 8 hours before I needed to go to work, and had to make the choice between taking a freezing shower or sleeping on the floor, because sleeping in my bed without taking a shower felt like wasn't a possibility because of my OCD, it felt like my world would end if I tried. The next day I found your videos, and a few days later I was able to start sleeping in my bed without showering. It's amazing how effective ERP has been, and I credit much of that to the way you describe it and the way you talk to us in your videos. You make it feel like a meditative process instead of a clinical one, and you've helped change my life.
I think I have OCD and I want to reach out and get help. My intrusive thoughts have been really bad lately but I'm scared to talk to someone about them. I'm worried someone is going to see me as these thoughts even though they arent me and I can't control them. My intrusive thoughts scare me and I want to get therapy to manage them
I feel you :/
Same and my family doesn’t really believe in therapy
I’m a minor and it’s HORRIBLE
Is it normal to hear someone talk about their ocd fear and then just adopt that fear for yourself? For example, I saw someone saying their child is scared everyone is wants to hurt them, so now I’m scared of that too.
i thought i was the only one.
When my intrusive thoughts come I just say ''no'' or ''shut up''/''I don't care'' but this lead me to not having anxiety about it anymore, which worrys me. Why does it worry? Because I depended on my anxiety to say that I don't like the thoughts or images, and not having anxiety will make me question if it will really happen, thank you.
Same
I cannot wait to try these out! Thank you so much!
I guess Taylor is definitely good to give people freedom to listen to her songs
Your a pretty good dude. You have some skills and are funny. Thanks for the videos.
Why didn’t I find this video sooner😭🙏🏼Thank you so so much!!!!
You saved my life…
God bless you🤲🏻
hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
@@vksharma3730It’s okay, OCD has many forms. My sister is more compulsive, but I’m more like what you’re describing, lots of thoughts but not so compulsive.
i suffer from OCD thoughts.. its scary..
hate the feeling they bring out,and sometimes i feel lost when this feelings and thoughts appear.
Your videos help.please do more about this topic.
This is all he does on this channel 🤣
How are you
@@Lock_outPLAYZ im ok now
I went to therapy :) it helps
@@YoungDumBased Yes this channel is to help people with OCD
Your Awesome! I like your style.
Thank you Jane!
Great tips, thanks so much
Jeez I needed this thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you so much ^^ I may start CBT tommorow!
Best of luck! I hope you do well! 👍🏻
@@ocdandanxiety thank you very much 😆😆😆🌌!!!
Thank you for this video. OCD and Health Anxiety are very similar.
hey Can It be called OCD when one doesn't have any compulsions like i fall into anxiety cycle and due to that i have intrusive thoughts like what if I jump off the third floor where I live.... what if I cut the veins of my hand with a knife... what if I start crying in a public place......do these symptoms sign OCD....rest i have no compulsions at all..... would like to know your take on this please....
Wow that was soo helpful for me thank you very very muchhh God bless you
Thank You this video was so helpful 🙏🏻
Thanks for another excellent professional video and thanks to Dr Penzel for his tips! I'm sure I could rewatch this again in a month and different tips would stick out to me as very relevant depending on the moment.
Something that's really difficult is when the person with OCD feels they want reassurance or relief and that doing a compulsion or getting reassurance will be the only way to reduce the anxiety they feel. As a partner, I'm trying hard to understand what it must be like. Your video helped explain how OCD "doesn't make sense" 😅
Thanks for your comment. I always appreciate your continued support! 😃
Listening to this I realize I've become so sneaky at avoiding the task I'm supposed to do to actually get better. Like "Yeah I can't do ERP today because I have a thing later where I want to be happy and not anxious" or "I'll do ERP for this less scary fear instead of my current obsession" or "I just got over an anxious phase, I don't want to risk triggering one again".
There's always gonna be another thing. Another excuse. Another reason why I can't face my fear right now. But I can. I have to if I want to get better.
Thank you for the tips! That was exactly what I needed to hear right now!
This guy is a saviour ❤😍
Love everyone who reads this
Here's my story when I started watching ur videos: I had OCD but I couldn't figure it out for sometime. I wondered what was wrong with me but when I figured out I had OCD everything came together. One day I was wondering how to get rid of it like FOREVER I found out this thing on Google while doing research obsession to compulsion to relief then to obsession again I figured out that was what was wrong with me because anytime I thought I forgot it, it came back stronger so I decided to help myself with a video I saw so many videos the ones I clicked weren't my type like I love interesting videos with humour so I clicked on ur video was just giving me the vibes as I watched it I felt calm I couldn't think of that OCD obsession and when it did want me to think of it I followed some of ur tips or I just forgot. I felt calm and when watching the video I actually felt treated if OCD although it came back after the video I followed ur tips. Thank you for being so amazing
1.Expect the unexpected- we don’t need safe places/times etc
2.Be willing to accept the risk
3.never seek reassurance from others - tell yourself the worst is already happening/ logic doesn’t work in treatments
4. Agree with thoughts- even if the thoughts are scary ( it means you don’t really care about the thought gives it less power)
5. Don’t prevent thoughts- it will have the opposite effect
6. Try not to be a black or white thinker- don’t wait until the next day to start over
7. Take responsibility- don’t let others help you you have to do it on your own
8. Don’t get too impatient with progress
9. Move towards anxiety- face it
10. Choose the more difficult route- you can handle it.
11. Review your homework daily
12. Speak up if you can do your homework
13. Don’t wait for the perfect moment- You will never feel “ready”
14. Don’t be perfect- be imperfect ( do things incorrectly on purpose if you feel you need to obsess over perfection)
15. Start the day off right - wake up and “risk” your OCD
16. Don’t give yourself reassurance “it’s only homework” “ my therapist wouldn’t make me do this if it could cause harm” take the logic and reassurance out of it.
17. Give your homework your full attention- Dont tune out the anxiety or distract. Feel it. Stay in the moment
18. When faced with an unexpected challenge - think positively - say yes!! Great practice time
19. Don’t rush exposures- the goal is to retrain brain. Don’t get out of the anxiety as fast as possible. That gives it power
20. Tell therapist if your exposures aren’t hard enough.
21. Trust in the treatment- “maybe I should do acupuncture instead” “maybe I need to try something else” this is the doubting disease.
22. Never forget you have OCD- sometimes you can’t trust yourself anxious +urge to fix =OCD
23. The problem isn’t the anxiety it’s the way you react to perceived threats - be ok feeling the anxiety
24. Be proud of yourself !
25. OCD doesn’t make sense. We don’t need to make it make sense. The things you think may work might now. Move towards the threats
I was told by my therapist that I had the tendency of OCD so she told me to consult it with my Psychiatrist and he told me to feel the anxiety and be ok with it just don’t act (compulsion) ,I tried my best and I thought I became ok. but after that something happened that made me doubt myself a lot more and it worsen. But I weren’t able to go to therapy and also to my psychiatrist for a long time. When I get back to therapy she suggested to me to see my psychiatrist again but I said no for now.
Lately I’m starting to get worse again and I doubt it too if Its OCD or its just me. But my family is getting worried of me and I am not being able to treat them the way they deserve.That is why next week I am thinking of seeing my psychiatrist and I feel like I do need help now….
Im so tired fr. Once a thought im exposed to is no longer bugging me and i feel normal again, a new one comes in and ruins it. One step at a time i guess..
You are so right about it. If we agree with the thought, mind shuts up. 😍 It’s powerful to call those intrusive thoughts for party. 😁 It worked.
Ty much for this Video. Very good To have such a Compact Video.
Very helpful videos! Thank you! 🩵💙🩵
Thank you you are a savior
I don't have a therapist, I'm doing self therapy, is it the best? And also I feel like I don't really know how to do erp
I have a therapist but guess what, it doesn't help me and I feel completely missunerstood, but in my country you have to wait up to 1,5 years to get a therapy session with a new therapist. So I keep on seeing her, cause at least she helped me a little bit with my anxiety, and do some self therapy. I feel so desperate and alone with it 😒
@@mariellarusso2268 I feel you. I can't find a therapist that does this treatment in my city so i'm going to have to conform me with a CBT therapy.
I depends. Some therapists/doctors get bonus's based on medications and stuff they give to patients, and don't care. Some people actually do care a lot. Its something you gotta go and try to find.
Thank you very much sir 🙏🏻
Lots of useful information
Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This was most helpful video. Thankyou.
Thanks a lot for your tips.it helps me in a diffrent level.😊
I cant be the only one who feels very overwhelmed right?
nope ur definitely not the only one i feel like that sometimes to
Amazing information and advice ,,,cannot find a therapist,,,,this really helps me
I suffer from OCD and I diagnosed myself after tons of research and study , I’m a registered nurse and midwife, i have Nosophobia and i keep having a compulsive thought about a certain disease and make up scenarios and tragedy out of my thoughts, it’s really scary and overwhelming i live in a refugee camp in the middle east and I don’t have access to any help financially or technically, psychology here especially OCD effect in ones life is so underestimated , i suffer alone cry alone and pray a lot sometimes i find some peace but when the thoughts come back i feel so disappointed and sad and scared , I can’t get any medication so I just drink coffee and read books about CBT it helps a bit , i wish there was some kind of treatment IM ready to undergo a surgery in my brain to get rid of it , anyways alhamdu lil Allah always and forever.
How is it going
Anxiety and excitement produce the same changes in the body.
Anxiety = fear of the future - elevated heart rate and cortisol release
Excitement = maybe your going on holiday so your excited it will produce the same result - elevated heart rate, cortisol etc
reframe the question instead of saying I'm feeling anxiety say you feeling excited .
research it yourself to get information.
peace love stay blessed
I just got freaked out by him saying if you get a new thought tell your therapist. I don’t want to tell my therapist every weird thought I have. It’s too embarrassing. I’ve heard so many times that it’s not the content of the thought that matters , but how it makes you feel. .
Same!
Your videos are great and helpful.. thank you
I love you all, especially you others with OCD. We love things in life, or even life itself, this is why we're afraid of certain things want things to feel right, because we don't want to lose them or ruin anything. Satan has chosen us to pick on with these thoughts of OCD because he knows we're so positive deep down and have a lot of light to bring to the world. You've got this, I've got this. We'll beat it one day at a time.