You’re right, for sure! It has other functions related to cognitive functions and emotions but it’s most well known for movement coordination bc that’s what been easiest to study. It has been implicated in a number of anxiety disorders as well as movement disorders and OCD so there must be some other basic functions going on in there. I do research in immunology but I remember that from my study nights 😭
Hi Matt: I felt the same way and I found ERT (exposure response therapy). ERT made my life so much better. If you can find an ERT therapist, your life should get better.
Chrissie, you are a real gift to us OCD-ers - your videos have given me hope, and helped me feel less alone. Just when I think I found a loophole, which explains why MY OCD is different, I find a video of yours that addresses my "insights". Thank you for what you do!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard ocd explained as a communication barrier. It makes so much sense now. Thank you. I can’t express in words how helpful this video has been to me 🙏.
So is it the same as feeling like im faking it? Like, I feel like im faking that that I don't want my thoughts, which leads to me thinking it must be real
I treat these batches of thought as any other theme (what if it's not OCD?). Unwittingly, I trained my brain for years to be hyper-aware and sensitive to any and all sensations and if I stay there down in the muck wrestling with these thoughts, they're gonna win every single time. I put up the white flag, "hi brain, what up, think what you want," and go on with my day. I'm currently struggling with how much of my life has been lost (relationships, career, name it) thanks to OCD. Anyway, thanks for being an advocate for us.
I have quick intrusive thoughts which I can recognise. But there are ones when I need to assess and if I don't, I can spend the whole day convinced it was true which makes me so incredibly anxious and distressed. My worst one's are when I feel like I actively think of the thought and that i want to think of it, and they feel real and ideated, those ones kill me. No matter how much I resist compulsions I feel so anxious and doesn't dissipate ??
I've been learning about the feedback loop of OCD and how it functions, some observations I've been able to make while supporting someone else with OCD and discussing it with them. The last three weeks have been quiet and much less intense. Your videos and knowledge will help when the next done spike comes.
So I have a general question, I struggle with HOCD and I start to imagine scenarios in my mind with the same sex to see if I would like doing that said thing. However instead of feeling disgust or anxiety, I’m feeling like I enjoy the thoughts or scenarios and it concerns me. I know reassurance doesn’t help with ocd however I just was wondering if ocd is normal in causing this. I know erp is the treatment but when it feels like I enjoy/like the scenarios, it gets hard to determine if this is ocd or not. I grew up loving the opposite sex and in turn suffering a porn addiction. I also suffered extreme ocd as a kid and even now although I know what it is now. Any feedback would be extremely appreciated.
I noticed a few key words in your writing "to see if I would like doing that said thing..." Your verbiage of that sentence seems like you are checking to see if your feelings connected with the thoughts are actually real AND you are also comparing the 'feeling' by rating it on the pleasure scale. Another thing you wrote down, "However, instead of feeling disgust or anxiety, I'm feeling like I enjoy the thoughts or scenarios and it concerns me"- So it does not give you the feeling of full-blown anxiety right now but it seems like it cannot be easily dismissed because you are concerned enough that you brought it up on this page. Now, OCD makes it tricky because it makes you second guess yourself or doubt yourself, wonder if you are in denial, and so on and so forth it goes. Also, with all the sex that is being displayed on our media... it is hard not to have it on people's minds anymore. Random question, but did you know that there are homosexual people who are afraid they are not homosexual but are heterosexual? OCD affects everyone but themes may vary and it seems to aim in ways where we place our values high. So, whether that is sexual, relationships, responsibility of self and others, life/death, etc., it typically attacks one of those categories. So, anyways I was in your boat a long time ago and sought out help from a CBT mental health counselor. Pretty much exactly what you said, I told her. I did not understand why my feelings were the way they were. She did state that anyone can get turned on to any sexual thing- why? Because we are sexual beings and that is the truth! I hope I am not scaring you, but getting turned on can be anything and it can be ANYONE. Now, looking at a person that does not have OCD would more than likely take your thoughts and say.. "Okay. Maybe I will experiment with it and maybe I won't." They don't pounder on their thoughts. But, OCD takes our thoughts AND feelings to the point where something is "wrong with ME." Because your wording here seems to be a little bugged about it-- to me that is more along the lines of anxiety (even though it is not a full-blown feeling). It sounds like sneaky OCD. The last thing you said was that you have had "extreme" OCD in you past, it just seems like this is adding up. Take care!
@@ajdeming4416 I appreciate the reply, I actually suffered from HOCD when I was really young, probably around 10 or 11. I had been extremely addicted to pornography and to the opposite sex. I can’t remember how I got hooked up on the fear of if I was gay but I was terrified of it for at least a year and a half. However I had the intrusive thoughts but was always disgusted and had anxiety through the roof. I managed somehow to get over it because at the time I had no idea it was ocd. I would obsess over things from just stomach aches to being terrified of the world ending. The difference I guess now is that instead of getting unwanted thoughts or images, I would make up scenarios in my mind to see if I would like to do things with the same sex. I would also look at my own “parts down there” to see if I would like to do anything to something like that and sometimes I can’t tell if I like it or if I’m thinking so deep that I’m tricking myself. I found people of the opposite sex attractive in middle and high school but never really had crushes with the opposite sex anymore but then again I’m super shy too. It felt like it was harder to develop crushes to the opposite sex after my first bout with hocd, but before I was many girls (I’m a guy) that I had crushes on. There was only one girl in high school that felt like a real crush but never for guys or any that I’m aware of.
@@taylorwhite9963 Gotcha. It seems like there are a couple of variables that could be contributing to these thoughts. Relating to the information you placed below- I can relate to what you are saying. I have not had as many crushes since before my OCD spouts as well (before 13 years). I think that it was a combination of hormonal changes, the trauma scared me to kind of go "numb", and because I got more mature. I do have crushes here and there, but again as I get older, expectations go up as well. Therefore, the less amount of crushes I have. I am a female. So, there is a difference with that too.
@@ajdeming4416 Yeah I had a feeling it might just be because I have gotten more mature since then, I just turned 21 so I haven’t worried about anything sexual in a long time. I guess the most thing I am concerned about is dating a girl and not enjoying it or something. I haven’t had a lot of experience with girls not that I didn’t want to in the past but because I was so nervous. I didn’t want to look like an idiot. I’m happy to here I’m not the only one that has and is going through this.
I know how you feel. I personally don’t have HOCD but with other themes I also imagine scenarios to see if I like it and it feels like I do. Glad to know that someone else has experienced this too tho
Keep a journal. When u see ur thought on paper, u will realise how funny it actually is. Feel the fear, laugh at it. Listen too ur second brain. Your stomach. Chrissies right tho. 26 year an my episodes are horrible. Amygdala, trauma, relearn what trauma did too you.your well come. Ask any time, anything lol
Definitely feels good to give in to temptations. And then while their briefly away and pretend it's a normal day. Pretty intense though if you're the one in the story involved.
Hello, Chrissie, thank you for your video 🙏❤️Is it possible for people with OCD to feel like they LIKE their intrusive thoughts? And you start worrying more about OMG what if I really like my OCD theme and you actually don't wanna feel like this and suffer?
I have a question, why can’t we cure it? I mean if we keep doing erp, eventually it will lead to full recovery, do you see what I mean? Especially when we know that neural pathways can be erased and re created (like when you change habits) like people when they quit smoking etc , it all comes down to the neuroplasticity of the brain. If you can not react once and dismiss it, why wouldn’t you be able to do it several times? We can’t suppress intrusive thoughts because these are thoughts everybody have and curing ocd isn’t about suppressing them but learn not to care about them anymore like everyone else do and we do this by doing erp . It takes time. I had OCD for 7 years and I’ve been doing erp for 1 year and a half now. It will take time but you will get to a point where ocd will be of the past . I hope you will be able to response . Let’s try to look at ocd from a different angle and try to re ask the real questions and really understand why OCD would be chronic
I think the reason people say it’s chronic is because it’s just like someone quitting smoking. If an ex smoker has a stressful situation pop up and they decide to have just ONE cigarette it can lead them back down the path of addiction. Same with OCD. If you do one compulsion it can lead you back into a spiral. But I agree with you that I think we should reframe the language around “recovery”.
Hai, may i know how to apply for a treatment from u online? I'm from Malaysia and been suffering from ocd since the age of 14-16 and it recovered completely. now I'm 24 and it came back even more severe
@@Ma-tu2jd No, just manage the disorder. I believe it's our upbringing way of thinking that gave us OCD. Trust me concentrate on stopping Compulsions and the disorder will be extremely manageable but give it time.
@@MultiMagnumforce i know I’ve been doing erp for 1 year and a half and I can say that we can do more than manage ocd because it comes down to neuroplasticity and neural pathways. Why do you think you can only manage it? I am really interested in your point of view
@@Ma-tu2jd I'm not an expert or medical professional but I believe it's learned behavior so it is something manageable. If it was something that caused a malfunction latter in life that might be resolved somehow. Plus that's why ERP is effective because it's behavioral if it wasn't ERP would not work. So I think it's life long.
@@MultiMagnumforce but if ocd is learned behaviour , with erp, that is a behavioural method, it should be even more treatable and not life long , do you see what I mean?
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Does anyone else know the function of the basal ganglia off hand or am I just stupid? hahahahahahahah
coordination of movement.... I think! (I'm a Psych grad)
You’re right, for sure! It has other functions related to cognitive functions and emotions but it’s most well known for movement coordination bc that’s what been easiest to study. It has been implicated in a number of anxiety disorders as well as movement disorders and OCD so there must be some other basic functions going on in there. I do research in immunology but I remember that from my study nights 😭
@@cleverhandle420 dude! be my mentor. I'll hire you 😁
The what.......... 🤔😂💜
OCD just ruined my life... I honestly feel I've died and gone to hell....!
Hi Matt: I felt the same way and I found ERT (exposure response therapy). ERT made my life so much better. If you can find an ERT therapist, your life should get better.
@@anthonystitt3052 Ali greymond is Great and has a TH-cam channel
Same.
Same
@@Ma-tu2jd Ali Greymond is one of the best. She does not perpetuate that OCD is chronic and she has fully recovered.
Your body can perceive imagination as real
Chrissie, you are a real gift to us OCD-ers - your videos have given me hope, and helped me feel less alone. Just when I think I found a loophole, which explains why MY OCD is different, I find a video of yours that addresses my "insights". Thank you for what you do!
"BECAUSE THE AMYGDALA FUCKED UP!" 😂😂 I laughed so hard but it all made perfect sense!
I love that you bring up topics that aren't really discussed as much but I'm sure most of us can totally relate. Thanks for all you do Chrissie ♡
Be honest with urself and a mentor. Be honest with you. Ocd goes after soft caring people. Why it has us. Like a bully
26 ocd pure. Oh the madness. Its hell until u realise the key too freedom is in your pocket
Have you heard of Ali greymond
Our mind is sooo Effing confusing, beautiful, nd complex
I don’t think I’ve ever heard ocd explained as a communication barrier. It makes so much sense now. Thank you. I can’t express in words how helpful this video has been to me 🙏.
So is it the same as feeling like im faking it? Like, I feel like im faking that that I don't want my thoughts, which leads to me thinking it must be real
I treat these batches of thought as any other theme (what if it's not OCD?). Unwittingly, I trained my brain for years to be hyper-aware and sensitive to any and all sensations and if I stay there down in the muck wrestling with these thoughts, they're gonna win every single time. I put up the white flag, "hi brain, what up, think what you want," and go on with my day.
I'm currently struggling with how much of my life has been lost (relationships, career, name it) thanks to OCD.
Anyway, thanks for being an advocate for us.
I am currently going through the same thing.
@@cespo77 I hope that you're doing OK 👍, you're not alone.
Chrissie! could you do a peer support group about real event OCD!
I fucking hate my HOCD theme i get no anxiety at all which is great but the groinal responses are getting way too much
Hi bro same how you feel now please reply
I have quick intrusive thoughts which I can recognise. But there are ones when I need to assess and if I don't, I can spend the whole day convinced it was true which makes me so incredibly anxious and distressed. My worst one's are when I feel like I actively think of the thought and that i want to think of it, and they feel real and ideated, those ones kill me. No matter how much I resist compulsions I feel so anxious and doesn't dissipate ??
I've been learning about the feedback loop of OCD and how it functions, some observations I've been able to make while supporting someone else with OCD and discussing it with them.
The last three weeks have been quiet and much less intense. Your videos and knowledge will help when the next done spike comes.
That was an exquisite explanation of OCD. STOP 🛑 communicating with the argument. ❤️
So I have a general question, I struggle with HOCD and I start to imagine scenarios in my mind with the same sex to see if I would like doing that said thing. However instead of feeling disgust or anxiety, I’m feeling like I enjoy the thoughts or scenarios and it concerns me. I know reassurance doesn’t help with ocd however I just was wondering if ocd is normal in causing this. I know erp is the treatment but when it feels like I enjoy/like the scenarios, it gets hard to determine if this is ocd or not. I grew up loving the opposite sex and in turn suffering a porn addiction. I also suffered extreme ocd as a kid and even now although I know what it is now. Any feedback would be extremely appreciated.
I noticed a few key words in your writing "to see if I would like doing that said thing..." Your verbiage of that sentence seems like you are checking to see if your feelings connected with the thoughts are actually real AND you are also comparing the 'feeling' by rating it on the pleasure scale. Another thing you wrote down, "However, instead of feeling disgust or anxiety, I'm feeling like I enjoy the thoughts or scenarios and it concerns me"- So it does not give you the feeling of full-blown anxiety right now but it seems like it cannot be easily dismissed because you are concerned enough that you brought it up on this page. Now, OCD makes it tricky because it makes you second guess yourself or doubt yourself, wonder if you are in denial, and so on and so forth it goes. Also, with all the sex that is being displayed on our media... it is hard not to have it on people's minds anymore. Random question, but did you know that there are homosexual people who are afraid they are not homosexual but are heterosexual? OCD affects everyone but themes may vary and it seems to aim in ways where we place our values high. So, whether that is sexual, relationships, responsibility of self and others, life/death, etc., it typically attacks one of those categories. So, anyways I was in your boat a long time ago and sought out help from a CBT mental health counselor. Pretty much exactly what you said, I told her. I did not understand why my feelings were the way they were. She did state that anyone can get turned on to any sexual thing- why? Because we are sexual beings and that is the truth! I hope I am not scaring you, but getting turned on can be anything and it can be ANYONE. Now, looking at a person that does not have OCD would more than likely take your thoughts and say.. "Okay. Maybe I will experiment with it and maybe I won't." They don't pounder on their thoughts. But, OCD takes our thoughts AND feelings to the point where something is "wrong with ME." Because your wording here seems to be a little bugged about it-- to me that is more along the lines of anxiety (even though it is not a full-blown feeling). It sounds like sneaky OCD. The last thing you said was that you have had "extreme" OCD in you past, it just seems like this is adding up. Take care!
@@ajdeming4416 I appreciate the reply, I actually suffered from HOCD when I was really young, probably around 10 or 11. I had been extremely addicted to pornography and to the opposite sex. I can’t remember how I got hooked up on the fear of if I was gay but I was terrified of it for at least a year and a half. However I had the intrusive thoughts but was always disgusted and had anxiety through the roof. I managed somehow to get over it because at the time I had no idea it was ocd. I would obsess over things from just stomach aches to being terrified of the world ending. The difference I guess now is that instead of getting unwanted thoughts or images, I would make up scenarios in my mind to see if I would like to do things with the same sex. I would also look at my own “parts down there” to see if I would like to do anything to something like that and sometimes I can’t tell if I like it or if I’m thinking so deep that I’m tricking myself. I found people of the opposite sex attractive in middle and high school but never really had crushes with the opposite sex anymore but then again I’m super shy too. It felt like it was harder to develop crushes to the opposite sex after my first bout with hocd, but before I was many girls (I’m a guy) that I had crushes on. There was only one girl in high school that felt like a real crush but never for guys or any that I’m aware of.
@@taylorwhite9963 Gotcha. It seems like there are a couple of variables that could be contributing to these thoughts. Relating to the information you placed below- I can relate to what you are saying. I have not had as many crushes since before my OCD spouts as well (before 13 years). I think that it was a combination of hormonal changes, the trauma scared me to kind of go "numb", and because I got more mature. I do have crushes here and there, but again as I get older, expectations go up as well. Therefore, the less amount of crushes I have. I am a female. So, there is a difference with that too.
@@ajdeming4416 Yeah I had a feeling it might just be because I have gotten more mature since then, I just turned 21 so I haven’t worried about anything sexual in a long time. I guess the most thing I am concerned about is dating a girl and not enjoying it or something. I haven’t had a lot of experience with girls not that I didn’t want to in the past but because I was so nervous. I didn’t want to look like an idiot. I’m happy to here I’m not the only one that has and is going through this.
I know how you feel. I personally don’t have HOCD but with other themes I also imagine scenarios to see if I like it and it feels like I do. Glad to know that someone else has experienced this too tho
Keep a journal. When u see ur thought on paper, u will realise how funny it actually is. Feel the fear, laugh at it. Listen too ur second brain. Your stomach. Chrissies right tho. 26 year an my episodes are horrible. Amygdala, trauma, relearn what trauma did too you.your well come. Ask any time, anything lol
I’ve been seeing a therapist for 9 months and you have explained it so much better in 18 minutes! Thank you!
Definitely feels good to give in to temptations. And then while their briefly away and pretend it's a normal day. Pretty intense though if you're the one in the story involved.
Hello, Chrissie, thank you for your video 🙏❤️Is it possible for people with OCD to feel like they LIKE their intrusive thoughts? And you start worrying more about OMG what if I really like my OCD theme and you actually don't wanna feel like this and suffer?
My sexual thoughts feels so real
So grateful for your channel! 💗
I have a question, why can’t we cure it? I mean if we keep doing erp, eventually it will lead to full recovery, do you see what I mean? Especially when we know that neural pathways can be erased and re created (like when you change habits) like people when they quit smoking etc , it all comes down to the neuroplasticity of the brain. If you can not react once and dismiss it, why wouldn’t you be able to do it several times? We can’t suppress intrusive thoughts because these are thoughts everybody have and curing ocd isn’t about suppressing them but learn not to care about them anymore like everyone else do and we do this by doing erp . It takes time. I had OCD for 7 years and I’ve been doing erp for 1 year and a half now. It will take time but you will get to a point where ocd will be of the past . I hope you will be able to response . Let’s try to look at ocd from a different angle and try to re ask the real questions and really understand why OCD would be chronic
I think the reason people say it’s chronic is because it’s just like someone quitting smoking. If an ex smoker has a stressful situation pop up and they decide to have just ONE cigarette it can lead them back down the path of addiction.
Same with OCD. If you do one compulsion it can lead you back into a spiral.
But I agree with you that I think we should reframe the language around “recovery”.
Love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you for your time and I hope you have a great day 💜
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you !
I see alot of people as for a peer group here chrissie. I've 26 Yr learning too give, throughout my recovery life. Save alot a people
Thank you so much for the videos 🙏🏽
Hai, may i know how to apply for a treatment from u online? I'm from Malaysia and been suffering from ocd since the age of 14-16 and it recovered completely. now I'm 24 and it came back even more severe
Sooooooo informative !
Great video, thank you. Your gut feeling comment resonated with me. Reminds me of Jeffrey Schwartz’s wise advocate.
Thanks Chrissie!
You are a queen
The beaver and banana in the background!!!!!!
Stop Compulsions Stop OCD.
And cure it definitively
@@Ma-tu2jd No, just manage the disorder. I believe it's our upbringing way of thinking that gave us OCD. Trust me concentrate on stopping Compulsions and the disorder will be extremely manageable but give it time.
@@MultiMagnumforce i know I’ve been doing erp for 1 year and a half and I can say that we can do more than manage ocd because it comes down to neuroplasticity and neural pathways. Why do you think you can only manage it? I am really interested in your point of view
@@Ma-tu2jd I'm not an expert or medical professional but I believe it's learned behavior so it is something manageable. If it was something that caused a malfunction latter in life that might be resolved somehow. Plus that's why ERP is effective because it's behavioral if it wasn't ERP would not work. So I think it's life long.
@@MultiMagnumforce but if ocd is learned behaviour , with erp, that is a behavioural method, it should be even more treatable and not life long , do you see what I mean?
Fucking amygdala. Smh...thanks...
Im going to compulsively watch your videos until I find out why you have a picture of a banana.