My OCD has made me Have thoughts about going crazy Getting sick Dying Developing schizophrenia Something bad happening to my family Someone trying to hurt me Me being a bad person Me being stuck in a dream Going to hell Being punished My OCD has made me Not wear the color green Hate the # 3 couldn't do anything is 3s Wash my hands till they bleed Walk a certain way Walk up the stairs a certain way Not eat or drink certain things Check the doors over and over at night Check windows Do things over and over till I get them a certain way Pinch myself Have panic attacks Now I'm not delusional, I know they way I think and the things I do are unreasonable, it's just the thoughts dont go way and it creates this terrible anxiety. Lucky most of the things I listed up there have gone away cause I worked at. I suffer with really only the obsession at this point in my life.
Dude same but people noticed I had ocd at work and they started messing with me and my ocd got worse and I had to go to a mental hospital, but same thing with 3, and me thinking I was a bad person, going to hell, etc and I would obsess over people like what they did
When I was getting treated for OCD, I told my therapist that it is like I have a bully in my head 24/7 and that bully knows all my deepest, darkest secrets worries and fears and that bully lives to torment me all the time. It's like a bully you can never escape because the bully is in your own head.
historyfreak 65 omg yessssssss you explained it SO perfectly!!!! It’s like my own mind is constantly finding ways to torture itself and find problems when there are none. It’s so fucking exhausting. 😭
People forget OCD with doubts, guilts, ruminating on intrusive thoughts, past, future, which infuse compulsions of avoidance ect. It bugs me when people think its all external compulsions not internal or its cleaning and not self deconstruction of normal things. I see a therapist once a week. My house is a mess. I spend most my time researching things to make me feel better about the intrusive thoughts and fears and why I must not touch certain things for no reason. If I hear another person say they are "so ocd" for wanting their clothing color coded I'm going to hit them. But then I have ptsd for several forms of trauma and anxiety. But 90% of the people I come across don't clean or have contamination fears. Its usually compulsions related to intrusive thoughts of harm, sexual, phobic natures. Its not who we are and our fears and obsessions don't mean anything bad will happen but we still overthink it for days and weeks on end. I constantly sing songs in my head to distract. Ugh. (Update, down to therapy twice a month lol. Feel a lot better and go days without compulsions or ruminating too long or even thinking about it. But maybe I just got used to giving it the finger so now its second nature to ignore it and see no meaning. Still have flares but it really does get better with help! I feel more me then ever after a lifetime or sntruggles and a complete explosion of it years ago. It gets better!)
Even contamination fear OCD (the "cleaning" one) doesn't necessarily follow the stereotype. I have contamination fear ocd and although I hate mess and it stresses me, when my OCD gets really bad I actually have a hard time with cleaning because I have to fight almost panic level anxiety everytime I do, and when it swung into severe I was so afraid of contaminating myself and stressed out with the compulsions and rituals I had to do after which would take hours, and my skin, especially on my hands, got so sore from the constant scrubbing to make them feel clean again that I outright avoided going anywhere near "contaminated "areas where possible, and I used to spray dettol disinfectant absolutely everywhere when I did clean. ...I clawed back some ground into moderate but it still flares up, although I have had brief periods of remission in the past, something eventually triggers it back again, and it snowballs very quickly if I'm not careful. I also have the checking type of OCD but that's milder.
Jannicke Kiland because the medicine is not meant to cure it. It’s a chemical imbalance in the brain that constantly has to be regulated. They aren’t antibiotics....
often times medications is crucially helpful to allow people to do the work that therapy/ERP/CBT takes to be successful in managing your OCD - so I'd say both together are best until you can learn to cope and manage without the medication, or one day without therapy too
My son was diagnosed with OCD at age 17 last year. His obsessions have manifested by having intrusive thoughts about blasphemy, and then turned into digital matrix type of thoughts, and now it about death. I really feel like someone is inside his head, luckily he is very in tuned with reality, and his surroundings. In his case I don't see actual compulsions, other than closing his eyes at times, to avoid dealing with his thoughts. I wish I could take them and relieve him of this horrible psychological disorder.
My OCD is a curse. I have the urge to repeat what I say over and over again in fear that someone misunderstood me or wasn’t listening. I feel like I’ve run my course with it. I feel like I’m the only person with this specific ritual, but I know there must be others out there that suffer from the same thing.
Counting? Like driving down the road and counting telephone poles, fence posts, cars? Pisses me off when my cars are dirty, or house, or something isn’t nice and clean? Or lining things up, putting things in order, etc. Maybe not, people that do have it, u guys are amazing people.
My OCD is like a fly that's there: but you really wish it wasn't. It bothers me a lot: because sometimes the things I do are things that are INSANELY unnecessary, but I have to do it to make my body happy.
This was a very insightful video. I was diagnosed with it in 2020, and it's very debilitating. The part where you mentioned talking yourself out of doing rituals made so much sense to me. I've always been skeptical about CBT, but I feel like I need to give it a try. Much love! ❤️
I'm pretty sure I barely escaped developing this. When I was young and had more anxiety, it kept pushing me to do things that weren't directly related to the things I was worried about, but thankfully my baseline state calmed down before it could do any damage.
I'm in a place where I m living without friends and hardly have a support group if at all. Been mostly dealing with my OCD through weed and fluvaxamin. But the loneliness makes it worse
I had anorexia and now I kind of understand everything better because when I was little I had to touch things like multiple times because if I didn't I felt so anxious and weird and now it doesn't happens that often but it still does at times. Some things I do now are that I have to clean and have everything organized, check if the door is locked, check on notes I take multiple times etc... And if I don't do it get to feel very uncomfortable and anxious.
I was diagnosed with this at the age of 12 but had symptoms since I was 10 when I look back at it. I would have to say a set of words in my head otherwise I’d fear that extremely bad things were going to happen to me, Like losing my intelligence. This along with adhd made it near impossible to focus on anything in school or even talk to people. It annoys me that ocd has got the rap of just being clean and nothing more. When in reality there’s so many different obsessions and compulsions you can experience. And not even to mention how extremely stressful it is to have this. I honestly wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I'm so sick of my friend saying "The things being out of order messes with my OCD. If I was feeling better, I'd fix it." Makes me want to punch her everytime. I watched my 12 yr old neighbor start freaking out because she didn't take the right number of steps to the door. I'm so, so sick of people keep generalizing mental disorders.
I don't have OCD, but I have a social anxiety disorder and a social anxiety disorder. Whenever I stretch one part of my body, I have to stretch the other part. When I have ear buds in and it feels like one ear bud is louder than the other, I get angry and I have to take the ear bud out and put it back in to make the music sound 'even' if that makes sense. When my sink is dirty, I cannot stand it. I just think about it a lot. So I have to clean it. But I am for sure that I don't have OCD.
I am not sure weather I have OCD or not but I don't like the number 4 and I would not do things four times and I also don't like 13 and 24. Also, when I accidentally hit something with an object, I will rub the area of the object that I hitted which is kind of like blending in when drawing.
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but I wanted to see if this sounds like it? I'm pretty paranoid about being sick all the time. I never share food with anyone, I must have a hand-sanitizer on me, I don't eat with my hands or try not to if I can. If I do eat with my hands I don't eat the part I touched. I'm scared of irrational things that are very unlikely to happen. I remember one time I traveled to a foreign island, and someone gave us free samples of a drink and I was worried it was poisoned. I also repeat little habits I guess bc I feel like I have to maintain a routine. Like for instance, I have to post on social media once a day. I have to check certain profiles every day. And I wouldn't go as far as to say I become obsessed with people, but I think about some people way more often than I should. I'm positive I have it but I've never gotten professional help
I have kept this link for a very long time. I think you can learn a lot from it. I also believe the breathing technique is one of the best. psychcentral.com/lib/9-ways-to-reduce-anxiety-right-here-right-now/
I am obsessed with sweets and sugar. Always been, since the very young age. I feel I need to eat candy all the time, and I'm doing it every day. I am a super sensitive person too, and I feel emotional pain very deeply, so eating sugary food kind of helps me to cope with the painful life. But it's unhealthy way, and I don't know how to stop myself doing it
I think when I was younger I used to have a form of OCD, at the time I didn't know what it was so I never mentioned it to anyone because I thought it was weird. Mine used to be both mental obsessions and complusions. For example, if I used to think the phrase "I love my mum" with my mouth open then something really bad would happen and the only way I could reverse it would be to close my mouth and think to myself "daisy, daisy, daisy" over and over again, and the more times I said it the less likely it was that the bad thing would happen? I also used to have overwhelming thoughts and anxiety that I might be a lesbian (I'm not and in no way have anything against anyone who is, I was just a kid at the time, like 7/8) and I used to think it about it ALL the time and worry until I got sick to my stomach.... I kind of just grew out of it after some time though
Ohh challenge accepted!! because it says "mental health video" I will! I couldn't before though when it said "eating disorder video" because I don't want my facebook friends to know about mine even though someday I really want to be able to talk about it and not be ashamed.
I have OCD and let me tell you a story about one time I touched a pan that was hot and inside my head something said touch it again and it kept on telling me to touch it touch it won’t stop bothering me until I touched it.A thing about OCD you could sometime hurt yourself from OCD.OCD will just pops up if you don’t have savear OCD
Sammy they can be, for example I had trichotillomania, which can be classified as either. Icd are anything ending in -mania (ex. kleptomania), almost like addictions, whereas ocd are about needing things to be a particular way. Though both involve practically irresistible urges and usually come from a need for control in your life.
Not sure if I have OCD, but the vertical blinds are not perfectly aligned to each other to the right of her head, as they are on the left. And her mic is left of center of her blouse "V". And I see the top right corner of her chair disproportionately more compared to the left corner, as she moves around. And her pillows. Well, enough said.
I've been told by therapists that I have ocd but I'm not sure because my obsession is where I need everything to be equal on each side of my body. Like if a scratch my left arm, I have to scratch my right arm in the exact spot. Sometimes when I can't achieve it I freak out and it's really weird. I don't know if that's ocd though
OCD is just uhhhhahhhhhhuhhhhh. Walking backwards and touching the walls, crossing my fingers in 3s, Tapping earphones in 3s multiple times otherwise something will change for the worse or I or someone will die. Honestly I think that my OCD came from my Hypochondria.
#KatiFAQ Should I be hesitant to bring up a concern about OCD if I am already diagnosed with social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and my therapist recognizes that I'm depressed? Is all that even possible? For me things have to be aligned at 90 or 180 degrees, my music volume has to be an even number, and I have to wash my hands after touching anything that's not mine. Sorry for rambling.
Katie, I don't think that there is such a large difference between the OCD and OCPD in all cases. For example, I don't think that OCPD don't feel bad and/or recognize their somewhat difficult personality. They might hide it in their indifference. Additionally, there seems to be compulsions that, just like OCD, take their mind off of what they are doing and that order in general offers them comfort. Perhaps in SOME cases the difference isn't much of a difference, but that the OCPD person has more control over those obsessive thoughts than someone that has "pure" OCD and/or they can control the voice inside and have somewhat higher functioning CBT options. The indifference might be just another layer of defense similar to avoiding answering questions. There may be a medical component or predisposition, but they both seem to come from some sort of reaction to trauma. As a whole, though, they OCPD might be better able to function at some level. Both seem to focus on needing order.
I obsess over intrusive thoughts and do things to combat them as the compulsion - like being sick, picking skin, singing a melody, counting in 8s. All sort of outward things like something is coming off or out of me
I've been getting really bad intrusive thoughts lately. I'm.not quite sure what my compulsion is tho. But these thoughts are getting too much, stress guilt 😑
Talking back to it logically doesn’t seem to help because it’s not logical. It’s made from irrational fear. As far as I can see, the only way out is to go through the fear; face it rather than avoid it, bit by bit. Naturally, that’s near the last thing I want to do. I have to retrain my brain by doing what I don’t believe I can do, so that I learn otherwise.
Friend: I need to be so clean I have ocd Me: have you tried checking to see if the door is locked 30 times? Have you tried having to to pat your pillows before you bed before you go to sleep or you think your parents will die have you Friend: ok I get it
I have an obsession with organization. I. Have all of my school subjects color coded and organized from first to last hour. If anyone messes it up I freak out. Is that OCD?
Is there a chance that OCD could be tied with self harm and ADHD? I've been diagnosed officially with PTSD and ADHD, but I've been told by others that I have ocd behaviors. And then anxiety and depression are all mixed together with everything.
Im very confused. I have a lot of sever symptoms that seem like ocd but i don't know if they really are. Like generally people with ocd tend to wash their hands a lot, check things over and over again and more. But the stuff im expirencing is really, odd. 1. I have certain "rituals" i have to go through at certain times of the day. 2. I somehow make myself believ that if i dont do this, i will be murdered. Like if i dont stop the microwave at one second i will die. Idk its just weird.
I don't know if this would be ocd... I always have to say things in a certain order when I say goodnight or goodbye to anyone e.g 'goodnight, I love you, see you tomorrow' and if I don't do this I worry so much that something bad will happen to that person. Then I also touch things in a certain order that I determine in my head whenever thoughts of people dying come into my head and I do that regularly. I also make bets with myself of 'if I do ... Then ... Won't happen' and these are pretty constant. I could just be randomly walking and I'd have to do something to avoid anything bad happening. Also whenever the phone rings I run through loads of these bets before answering so that nothin bad happens. I always check letters and things over and over again in case I've made a mistake and I also check locks, boxes and things to make sure they still open and I repeat light switches (always to an even number) I have some hygiene tendencies too, like I always have to wash cups before use etc
I also have a thing about even and odd numbers so I only like even (preferably non multiples of three and ones that are divisible by four, otherwise I class them as 'odd even number')
My therapist says I don’t have this. But I think I do. She says I have some ocd traits coupled with negative affect (but that I don’t have enough of the traits of ocd to get that diagnosis). But what’s the difference between that and just run of the mill OCD?
what do i do if it's apparently not ocd because it doesn't take up an hour, but im still a slave to the issue? i constantly take my earbuds in and out and check that my right earbud says "r" even though i already KNOW it's my right earbud. if i don't, my brain will "make" my song not sound as good. i also used to have to restart a song or youtube video over and over again. i still do that with songs. i'll let it play for 5 seconds, then restart it, say, 5 times. it's hard when im around other people and i have to force myself not to do that. what's REALLY distracting is counting numbers in my head, or lightly biting my tongue a certain number of times....
So I'm sure that I have the OCD! But the bad thing .. let me explain .. If .. I go to a shopping centre or something and see a dude coming out of toilet without washing his hands and then we shake hands and somehow I touch everything in my bag ! But I Touched his hands before right? So here's the point .. should I clean everything in my bag or maybe go to shower or something??? Pls help
i always wanted a ocd group, but could never find it. what about when some compulsions gives you pleasure beacause you really had to do it and then you are finaly do it, but others gives you pain/suffer? OCD or OCPD?
What do you think about the DSM 5 kicking OCD's classification as an anxiety disorder to the curb? I don't agree with it and neither does my therapist.
So, if I eat a lot and I know that is wrong and I will become soo fat if I still that way and I don't enjoy it at all, and almost all the time I'm thinking in food (that I have to stop eating it, the calories that I consume all the days, why I can't stop eating, etc.), how fat I am and I'll be if I don't stop eating, and searching things about food, but all those thoughts don't make me stop eating that much, could I have an OCD?? Please, someone answer this.
is it an obsessive/compulsive thing if i don't really want to clean sometimes (exhausted and want to rest, do it another day etc.) but I'll still do it because I feel like I have to have the apartment a certain way at all times? sometimes I literally cry or get distressed because even though I might want to do it another time I feel I don't have a choice. It's weird. It doesn't seem as severe as what would qualify as OCD but is this an issue? it causes me distress a lot and I feel pressure to control my environment and I do get late for things from cleaning
but it really isn't a counting thing and I know nothing bad will happen if I don't do it I just feel I must do it....If I don't I can't be happy/relaxed- I will think about until I can't take it anymore and just give in and clean. Sometimes I do it until late hours at night even though I want to sleep.
Kimberly Wheeler I don't do the counting thing either and I am diagnosed with OCD. It's possible that you have it. There are different forms of OCD and we don't all have them all.
paulapoetry thanks for your response- I have decided to go see a new doctor about my anxiety so I'll let them know about my thoughts/feelings and see what they think. Take care! hope you are doing well
Kimberly Wheeler I'm glad to hear that, Kimberly. I hope you will get the support that you need. I did hit a low, but I ended up having a better day today. There is always hope. :-)
When I write essays for school and after it has been peer-edited I can't just fix the mistakes on the computer,I have to start the paper all over again.Would those thoughts be obsessive and the starting over be compulsive?
+Kate Rentz Yes!! Pure OCD is the hardest. You can have intrusive thoughts and images, it's a nightmare to watch someone you love suffer with is. Medications can either help a little or make you much worse. They have a new DNA testing that will show what medications you can and cannot take. It's an important break through.
Sean Pettit I'm so sorry that you have this and I know the daily struggles. I pray for you, my heart breaks for you and others who suffer with this 24/7. Do not give up. Try the DNA testing that will give you a better match with meds and also try to find a CBT clinic. Talk to others who suffer with this where you can get the true support you need. God Bless.
I hate it when people say "oh I have ocd LOL" and I'm like "What's your obsession? Haha" and their like "Since I haven't gone grocery shopping I can only eat mac and cheese so now it's the only thing I eat" 🙄
I hate that too! People tell you don't worry about it, it's not a big deal. Well it's a f!@%ing big deal to me at this current moment! Also, don't say I have OCD super casually like that. people who actually have it have a problem and it's not funny
Animateddreamer Disclaimer: I don't have a diagnosis for ocd. I have a strong suspicion I have it though. In 2017-2018, I was extremely scrupulous about everything, from washing my hands out of fear that any particle on them would contaminate me or my family/friends to making sure my grammer was exactly perfect in regular speech and even text messaging to ensure that I wasn't confusing them or being deceitful. You might think it's evil to resist the compulsions but if you question anything, you can almost always give yourself the benefit of the doubt. For me, this started as not washing my hands when I came inside. I still have "dilemmas" every now and then but they're much less frequent, and I have a far greater awareness of when they are irrational.
@Kirsty Birsty not just take control but fully recover look into ali greymond and wonderbro , mark freeman & Restored minds are also channels made by people who have fully recovered and no longer suffer from intrusive thoughts ,ocd and anxiety disorder are not chronic.
Before I got treatment for my ADHD and OCD, the two of them together made each other worse! It’s a terrible combination. On one hand I had the impulsive, unfocused, irritability, and hyperactivity from the ADHD, and on the other hand the OCD was causing extreme anxiety and rituals. I literally thought about killing myself until I started treatment. Now I’m so much happier.
what can be quite annoying and forms a stigma about OCD is that everyone who is clean or tidy thinks they have it. less the 1% of the population has it so everyone claiming they have it on OCD videos doesnt add up. it trivilaises one of the most complicated and misunderstood mental illnesses! people meed to stop jumping to conclusions. OCD is crippling so if you need to be tidy but can function normally odds are you don't have it.
The view count on this video is almost 60,000 and 1% of that would be 600 participants or OCD sufferers and there are less than 300 comments on this video. So while I agree with you, that it is frustrating that people either self-diagnose or confuse such a debilitating illness with just being clean or tidy. It is still common that people will seek out comfort online and hence it is possible that some people in the comments of this video are probably being honest about their condition and just require some external support. Less than 10% of people with OCD seek our treatment because either they are scared of being reported or they are not actually aware that they have it (this is because of the false stigma that has developed around this illness). So while your comment does carry validity, it is also important to keep in mind that some people here probably just want some help or support and telling them that they do probably do not have this difficult illness comes across as a little harsh, it might be kinder to simply recommend that they seek out a formal diagnosis instead of attempting to self-diagnosis. Most of the people here are probably watching this video or ones like these because they are either in pain or are confused, whether they have OCD or not, a little compassion goes a long way. Saying that I do not know if you were specifically referencing this video or another one, so please let me know if I am wrong.
Isn’t there a thing where u will look at any object and imagine urself killing yourself with it and u believe it and keep replaying the thought in ur head people don’t understand how scary ocd is
One of my OCDs was that whatever i touched I had to touch it twice. Say if I was about to write something, being a right handed, i would hold the pencil with my left hand first and then I would pass it to my right hand to write. Basically, it meant that if I touched the edge of a table with the tip of my left index finger, I had to touch it with the tip of my right index finger. In the beginning it was extremely strict, literally almost everything I touched I had to do this ritual. I even got to the point of thinking that when I bathe the water particles I that touched me made me.... uneven (that's what I call it when I don't touch things twice). It was really hard to tone down, I got it when I was around 10 and still have it to this day but its not as compulsive as before( I ended up becoming extremely neurotic instead). Sometime it was so bad that a random lady's shirt sleeve on the street brushed the nail on my pinkie finger while I was walking down the street with some classmates and I stopped speaking mid-sentence just to follow the lady and touch my pinkie finger's nail to her shirt.I also had to make it look accidental so she wouldn't think I was trying to rub her. It was annoying.Even if I don't do the compulsion, I would think about it all the time.
OMG I do that too! I cannot believe it I seriously thought I was the only person to do that! I don't have it as bad as yours but if I touch like the edge of a table with one finger on my left hand I have to do the same on my right hand , it's so weird! I didn't think it was OCD until now though..
I do that too like if i stretch and get that strain in my right shoulder I will lean and get that feeling on my left one too. or my clothes feel uneven so so i'mconstintly moving my shoulders trying to make it even, so if soeone leans against me i think they think that i dont want them to lean against me because i will start wrigling because i feel uneven. this strated for e when i was like 5
faith wilson same overhere the only difrence whit me is that whenever i get compulsive to touch something twice it whas to make it equal cause "i dint whant the one touch to feel lonley or all by itself "
I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like I have it . Every time I have take out a plug and turn of the switch I have to constantly repeat to myself that I turned it off and take a picture to proof that I did it as I’m afraid if I don’t turn the switch off that the house will go on fire and it will be my fault . Ut happens with a lot of stuff I do like turning the oven off and on , or closing the freezer and opening and closing windows
Is skin picking an OCD behavior or self harm? I have done it for as long as I can remember I do it more when I am stressed. One major "trigger" for me is any kind of rough or dead skin. I can't have any rough dried out or dead skin without picking at it especially on my hands.
Sarah Fountain My mum has dermotillomania and that's what it is, obsessive picking. It's related to OCD and a form of it but not completely OCD. You should get it checked out.
I do the same. I have been picking my skin since I was five. I pick at my lips, dry skin, rough skin, fingers, toes, face, and acne. I just can't stop it and my mom says that I am ruining my lips especially.
Derma and trichotillomania can be classified as obsessive compulsive disorders or as impulse control disorders, as it’s different for different people. I considered my trich to be an icd.
I've recently been diagnosed w/OCD due to skin picking & started taking a rx that's supposed to help stop the urge. My legs are so scarred that I won't wear shorts anymore & I started on my arms-much harder to hide. It's embarrassing when people ask about it-it's hard for me to lie so I usually answer "it's a thing I do"-a non-answer that lets them know the 'discussion' is over. I'm a 'counter' too. Driving by mailboxes I have to add up numbers & turn them into 1 number(such as 1476=1+4+7+6=18,8+1=9). Now I purposely avoid looking(much of the time)so I can enjoy scenery instead of adding. I still count the numbers of times I scrub dishes I clean,number of swipes I use to take mascara off,etc.,but I choose the number-usually 50,75 or 100,when I reach the number I stop. I don't fear anything bad will happen if I fail,even praying every night,but it makes me feel incomplete if I don't follow my schedule. Only day 2of my rx & I hope they help!
Yas! especially those ones that believes that something wrong is gonna happen, and that they have to do certain things to avoid it, so... someone might think that there's gonna be an explosion and that what they had to do is to run over wherever they are, around 3 or 4 times, if someone else try to stop them, they will act aggressively, bc they're avoiding a catastrophe. So yeah, it's not rational and they can't control it
I obsess over things, for example, I bought some hermit crabs so I obsessed with finding out what I need to do for them to be healthy, etc. etc. and I couldn't sleep or do anything besides google and find out about this and then I went and blew all my money on them, and after I had their habitat set up, It went onto something else, like buying stuff for college and making sure I had the perfect list for it, anyways would that be considered under this? I hate it
I have OCD and I am also transgender. So basically born in a wrong body, and guess what? Having OCD is more painful of the two. Just to put it in perspective. Hate it when people take it lightly.
I have an issue that really bothers me and I want to know if its a feature of OCD or just weirdness. I take forever when Im shopping. For example, recently I bought a new lamp for my bedroom. I spent over 30mins in the one isle of the store trying to pick the right one. It also happens when grocery shopping or online shopping. Especially with the latter, I can spend HOURS looking for the right product. It has to be perfect. Its like I have a fear of picking the wrong one to the point where It become utterly frustrating and overwhelming sometimes.
Yes that can be a part of OCD. Everyone has some quirks like this so you have to ask yourself if it is life consuming. How you would feel if there was a time limit. Best wishes xoxo
I do the same thing or before I buy an item while shopping I have to inspect it so many times to make sure it is perfect, or there is nothing wrong with it.
Ruin Or Rapture you and I should be friends. Sounds like your stuck on the obsessive part and I’m good at the impulsive part/impatient. I hate being in stores too long.
I do have OCD that pertains to me talking to myself. I will say completely random things that do not make any sense at all. Normally, I could be at school and I could whisper to myself, "Yes! Is Jicama! The physics of the eye! Eeeeee!" I know it's very weird, but I consistently feel like I've got to say these things.
That reminds me of Torret's syndrom. Sufferers feel compelled and have no control over saying/shouting certain words, usually swearwords though. I don't really know any other criteria, but maybe you should look it up? It also shows how similar lots of mental illnesses actually are, despite being different.
Thanks Kati- I have OCD, ED's and Depression my psychiatrist in high school said these usually go hand in hand. That it's not uncommon for people who have OCD first to develop eating disorders and depression later as well as still having the ocd! it's so time consuming and im really ashamed for having them!! even though my old psychiatrists said it isn't my fault and I don't do it on purpose!
I don’t know if I have ocd or not because I’m really messy and unorganised but I have so many habits like how I can’t place my feet or foot in the midde of any object or area. For example if I’m walking past a radiator or something I can’t put my feet half way across the length of the radiator therefore I have to place my foot at one end of it. And it’s really annoying because it’s literally everything I walk past like walls door frames sofas cars and I have to try really hard not to step in the middle of it so I look really weird walking and people are starting to notice but I don’t want to say anything to my mates or family in case they find it funny. Even with technology when I’m changing the volume on something the diagram of the amount of volume the bar can never be half way across the diagram.
I don't if this is because of my OCD or not but i get these impulses to touch something and i have been burnt or cut multiple times in the process of touching something hot or sharp. Does anybody else get this?
I have horrible OCD. It’s the kind that, if I don’t do this or move a certain way or if I touch a subject object, someone (or me) will get sick or hurt or die. I hate it, and it’s getting so bad I’m not sure how many more months I can live. And the scary thing is, I’m only 16. Is anyone else out there like this???????
P.S I fully agree with what you say about talking yourself out of it,there's been times where im like "stop it this is ridiculous, this is going too far, if i keep doing this (eg washing feet after going into the garage) its going to destroy or fully take over my life because ile have to keep doing it once ive done it a bit. Also maybe i dont have ocd but i find distraction helps ALOT, my fears of certain dirt are alot less intense or first& foremost if im doing something i love or around people
I'm a little confused on what OCPD is... Can you clear up how they're different? I don't understand what you meant about how they don't have remorse for what they do?
When I was a kid, I’d go with my dad in the car to get drinks out of the vending machine. He’d let me hold the quarters, but I would HAVE to touch the coins with each of my fingertips (it wasn’t balanced if I didn’t touch with each one) WHILE the coins were in the palm of my hand. Being clumsy, I’d often drop one or more of the coins in between the seats and my dad would get slightly annoyed, but I’d feel SO BAD about it every time. I always did it anyway though.
The thing about personality & OCD was really interesting, could this connection also exist in combination with other disorders? Because I know someone who has an ED, OCD and some social issues, and she is comletely open about all of these and she is fine with it, she actually thinks we are too stupid to understand the reasons/what's really going on in the world. I was just always confused about how she could be so "happy" with all her issues, especially because I have an ED as well..xoxo
I was diagnosed with OCD but now I’m wondering if it is OCPD instead. But a lot of it depends on the situation. My constant compulsion to check things several times is definitely something that gets annoying as well as recurrent thoughts about certain things. But then I actually enjoy certain things like choosing what color of chair to sit in or the order of which I do things. I also have an eating disorder and GAD so that can contribute to the anxiety but it’s interesting because certain rituals feel safe and others cause anxiety and just frustrate me.
When I was very little I'd spend hours everyday looking at the toys in my room to make sure they were in the right spot... No one could touch them, I wouldn't even play with them, they had to be exactly where they were supposed to be and I could just FEEL if they weren't and have multiple anxiety attacks, had stuff like that my whole entire childhood with organization and having patterns. Then that just started fading away I think... I mean, my room's a mess right this second and I don't care lol but when I was about 13 I started having VERY VERY intrusive thoughts and my mind would just obsess over something and I couldn't function until that thing was ''resolved'', it was usually school stuff back then. About two years ago (I'm 20 now) I started having intrusive thoughts about sickness, I find a symptom and spend over 5 hours researching, watching videos, reading articles, emailing doctors, then call every single important person in my life (my mom, my boyfriend, my best friends) and tell them everything I found out and make them tell me their opinion on the matter (I say make because if they don't I'll just keep asking until they do). I've gone to so many doctors these past two years, I ask them to have me do exams and when everything comes back normal I ask again, and again, and again, and if they refuse I just look for another doctor. It feels like I can't get the thoughts out of my head so I keep looking for someone or something to make it stop, to give me the answers I was expecting. I have other types of intrusive thoughts but this is the worse one, I don't know what to do anymore, my health plan doesn't cover therapy and I feel like I'm dying just a little bit every day. It's the fucking worst, man
I was diagnosed when I was 3 or 4, and I had to do CBT therapy. Which that had to be the single most best thing I could have ever done. There are still some things I struggle with, but I understand how irrational it is. When I get really stressed out, my symptoms get insanely worse. Usually I get an intrusive thought of people I care about getting decapitated, and the only way to avoid that, I would have to do something until it was right. One time, I thought my family were going to get decapitated in a car wreck, and at the time, I was misusing medications to deal with my OCD, and other problems. I had stolen about 35 2mg Valium. In order for my family to be safe, I had taken 100mg of muscle relaxers, and 30mg of Valium... that was 25 pills I had swallowed. I then proceeded to drive to school and long story short, I’m surprised I’m not dead. I’m doing so much better now though.
My ocd core obsession is "I'm not ok and I won't be ok", and my compulsion is to hide in some form. Hiding has been mostly isolating myself either before or after running away from something full of despair. As I matured and found that physically running away was damaging to others and myself my compulsion turned into wanting to die. I have since had many many intrusive ideas of how to commit suicide. I usually get these responses from professionals when I explain this obsession and compulsion: "That's unusual" or "That's not ocd". Can anyone relate to my experience?
Hi Kati I got question what is the difference between OCD and addiction of fetishism they all obsessive and although the last two may bring pleasure people want to get red of it because of shame or any other reason..?
My OCD has made me
Have thoughts about going crazy
Getting sick
Dying
Developing schizophrenia
Something bad happening to my family
Someone trying to hurt me
Me being a bad person
Me being stuck in a dream
Going to hell
Being punished
My OCD has made me
Not wear the color green
Hate the # 3 couldn't do anything is 3s
Wash my hands till they bleed
Walk a certain way
Walk up the stairs a certain way
Not eat or drink certain things
Check the doors over and over at night
Check windows
Do things over and over till I get them a certain way
Pinch myself
Have panic attacks
Now I'm not delusional, I know they way I think and the things I do are unreasonable, it's just the thoughts dont go way and it creates this terrible anxiety. Lucky most of the things I listed up there have gone away cause I worked at. I suffer with really only the obsession at this point in my life.
what did you do to work at it?
Naomi D me to
Dude same but people noticed I had ocd at work and they started messing with me and my ocd got worse and I had to go to a mental hospital, but same thing with 3, and me thinking I was a bad person, going to hell, etc and I would obsess over people like what they did
@@alfreddoncarlo9004 Yeah my friends have been noticing my OCD and it kinda sucks and its embarrassing because they dont really understand
Same here..
When I was getting treated for OCD, I told my therapist that it is like I have a bully in my head 24/7 and that bully knows all my deepest, darkest secrets worries and fears and that bully lives to torment me all the time. It's like a bully you can never escape because the bully is in your own head.
historyfreak 65 omg yessssssss you explained it SO perfectly!!!! It’s like my own mind is constantly finding ways to torture itself and find problems when there are none. It’s so fucking exhausting. 😭
This is a perfect description tbh
That bully is often described as your Gremlin. I read the book “Taming your Gremlin” which my therapist recommended and it was very helpful.
People forget OCD with doubts, guilts, ruminating on intrusive thoughts, past, future, which infuse compulsions of avoidance ect. It bugs me when people think its all external compulsions not internal or its cleaning and not self deconstruction of normal things. I see a therapist once a week. My house is a mess. I spend most my time researching things to make me feel better about the intrusive thoughts and fears and why I must not touch certain things for no reason. If I hear another person say they are "so ocd" for wanting their clothing color coded I'm going to hit them. But then I have ptsd for several forms of trauma and anxiety. But 90% of the people I come across don't clean or have contamination fears. Its usually compulsions related to intrusive thoughts of harm, sexual, phobic natures. Its not who we are and our fears and obsessions don't mean anything bad will happen but we still overthink it for days and weeks on end. I constantly sing songs in my head to distract. Ugh. (Update, down to therapy twice a month lol. Feel a lot better and go days without compulsions or ruminating too long or even thinking about it. But maybe I just got used to giving it the finger so now its second nature to ignore it and see no meaning. Still have flares but it really does get better with help! I feel more me then ever after a lifetime or sntruggles and a complete explosion of it years ago. It gets better!)
+TaltosGirl Very well explained! God Bless you!
+mrip75 💜
You don't know the relief i felt when reading your comment. thank you
Even contamination fear OCD (the "cleaning" one) doesn't necessarily follow the stereotype. I have contamination fear ocd and although I hate mess and it stresses me, when my OCD gets really bad I actually have a hard time with cleaning because I have to fight almost panic level anxiety everytime I do, and when it swung into severe I was so afraid of contaminating myself and stressed out with the compulsions and rituals I had to do after which would take hours, and my skin, especially on my hands, got so sore from the constant scrubbing to make them feel clean again that I outright avoided going anywhere near "contaminated "areas where possible, and I used to spray dettol disinfectant absolutely everywhere when I did clean. ...I clawed back some ground into moderate but it still flares up, although I have had brief periods of remission in the past, something eventually triggers it back again, and it snowballs very quickly if I'm not careful.
I also have the checking type of OCD but that's milder.
Aarin yes yes you said it!
The bad thing about medication for OCD is that the symtomps often return, when you stop taking them! So the therapy is a better idea!
Jannicke Kiland because the medicine is not meant to cure it. It’s a chemical imbalance in the brain that constantly has to be regulated. They aren’t antibiotics....
often times medications is crucially helpful to allow people to do the work that therapy/ERP/CBT takes to be successful in managing your OCD - so I'd say both together are best until you can learn to cope and manage without the medication, or one day without therapy too
also wow oops i thought this 3 weeks ago not 3 years ago - my bad!
My son was diagnosed with OCD at age 17 last year. His obsessions have manifested by having intrusive thoughts about blasphemy, and then turned into digital matrix type of thoughts, and now it about death. I really feel like someone is inside his head, luckily he is very in tuned with reality, and his surroundings. In his case I don't see actual compulsions, other than closing his eyes at times, to avoid dealing with his thoughts. I wish I could take them and relieve him of this horrible psychological disorder.
My OCD is a curse. I have the urge to repeat what I say over and over again in fear that someone misunderstood me or wasn’t listening. I feel like I’ve run my course with it. I feel like I’m the only person with this specific ritual, but I know there must be others out there that suffer from the same thing.
YES! For example, i’ll have to eat exactly 10 bites, or get up and touch the tv or ill die. it’s terrible
My sister has been diagnosed with OCD. Thank you for this video it is helpful to understand her better.
Counting? Like driving down the road and counting telephone poles, fence posts, cars? Pisses me off when my cars are dirty, or house, or something isn’t nice and clean? Or lining things up, putting things in order, etc. Maybe not, people that do have it, u guys are amazing people.
My OCD is like a fly that's there: but you really wish it wasn't. It bothers me a lot: because sometimes the things I do are things that are INSANELY unnecessary, but I have to do it to make my body happy.
This was a very insightful video. I was diagnosed with it in 2020, and it's very debilitating. The part where you mentioned talking yourself out of doing rituals made so much sense to me. I've always been skeptical about CBT, but I feel like I need to give it a try. Much love! ❤️
Thank you for uploading this.
I've been diagnosed with OCD and I've been waiting for you to post a video about it.
I'm pretty sure I barely escaped developing this. When I was young and had more anxiety, it kept pushing me to do things that weren't directly related to the things I was worried about, but thankfully my baseline state calmed down before it could do any damage.
I'm in a place where I m living without friends and hardly have a support group if at all. Been mostly dealing with my OCD through weed and fluvaxamin.
But the loneliness makes it worse
I had anorexia and now I kind of understand everything better because when I was little I had to touch things like multiple times because if I didn't I felt so anxious and weird and now it doesn't happens that often but it still does at times. Some things I do now are that I have to clean and have everything organized, check if the door is locked, check on notes I take multiple times etc... And if I don't do it get to feel very uncomfortable and anxious.
I was diagnosed with this at the age of 12 but had symptoms since I was 10 when I look back at it. I would have to say a set of words in my head otherwise I’d fear that extremely bad things were going to happen to me, Like losing my intelligence. This along with adhd made it near impossible to focus on anything in school or even talk to people. It annoys me that ocd has got the rap of just being clean and nothing more. When in reality there’s so many different obsessions and compulsions you can experience. And not even to mention how extremely stressful it is to have this. I honestly wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Please do a video on ocd and intrusive thoughts
I'm so sick of my friend saying "The things being out of order messes with my OCD. If I was feeling better, I'd fix it." Makes me want to punch her everytime. I watched my 12 yr old neighbor start freaking out because she didn't take the right number of steps to the door. I'm so, so sick of people keep generalizing mental disorders.
I don't have OCD, but I have a social anxiety disorder and a social anxiety disorder. Whenever I stretch one part of my body, I have to stretch the other part. When I have ear buds in and it feels like one ear bud is louder than the other, I get angry and I have to take the ear bud out and put it back in to make the music sound 'even' if that makes sense. When my sink is dirty, I cannot stand it. I just think about it a lot. So I have to clean it. But I am for sure that I don't have OCD.
I am not sure weather I have OCD or not but I don't like the number 4 and I would not do things four times and I also don't like 13 and 24. Also, when I accidentally hit something with an object, I will rub the area of the object that I hitted which is kind of like blending in when drawing.
I have a control of the breathing process
I love that dress
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but I wanted to see if this sounds like it?
I'm pretty paranoid about being sick all the time. I never share food with anyone, I must have a hand-sanitizer on me, I don't eat with my hands or try not to if I can. If I do eat with my hands I don't eat the part I touched. I'm scared of irrational things that are very unlikely to happen. I remember one time I traveled to a foreign island, and someone gave us free samples of a drink and I was worried it was poisoned.
I also repeat little habits I guess bc I feel like I have to maintain a routine. Like for instance, I have to post on social media once a day. I have to check certain profiles every day. And I wouldn't go as far as to say I become obsessed with people, but I think about some people way more often than I should.
I'm positive I have it but I've never gotten professional help
that sounds like paranoia not ocd.
For severe OCD like mine I have to do hypnosis
Hello. may you talk comprehensively about intrusive thoughts and what to do at high anxiety time.
I have kept this link for a very long time. I think you can learn a lot from it. I also believe the breathing technique is one of the best. psychcentral.com/lib/9-ways-to-reduce-anxiety-right-here-right-now/
I am obsessed with sweets and sugar. Always been, since the very young age. I feel I need to eat candy all the time, and I'm doing it every day. I am a super sensitive person too, and I feel emotional pain very deeply, so eating sugary food kind of helps me to cope with the painful life. But it's unhealthy way, and I don't know how to stop myself doing it
I think when I was younger I used to have a form of OCD, at the time I didn't know what it was so I never mentioned it to anyone because I thought it was weird. Mine used to be both mental obsessions and complusions. For example, if I used to think the phrase "I love my mum" with my mouth open then something really bad would happen and the only way I could reverse it would be to close my mouth and think to myself "daisy, daisy, daisy" over and over again, and the more times I said it the less likely it was that the bad thing would happen? I also used to have overwhelming thoughts and anxiety that I might be a lesbian (I'm not and in no way have anything against anyone who is, I was just a kid at the time, like 7/8) and I used to think it about it ALL the time and worry until I got sick to my stomach.... I kind of just grew out of it after some time though
Ohh challenge accepted!! because it says "mental health video" I will! I couldn't before though when it said "eating disorder video" because I don't want my facebook friends to know about mine even though someday I really want to be able to talk about it and not be ashamed.
I have OCD and let me tell you a story about one time I touched a pan that was hot and inside my head something said touch it again and it kept on telling me to touch it touch it won’t stop bothering me until I touched it.A thing about OCD you could sometime hurt yourself from OCD.OCD will just pops up if you don’t have savear OCD
Have you done a video on ICD (Impulsive control disorder) and is it similar to OCD?
Sammy they can be, for example I had trichotillomania, which can be classified as either. Icd are anything ending in -mania (ex. kleptomania), almost like addictions, whereas ocd are about needing things to be a particular way. Though both involve practically irresistible urges and usually come from a need for control in your life.
Not sure if I have OCD, but the vertical blinds are not perfectly aligned to each other to the right of her head, as they are on the left. And her mic is left of center of her blouse "V". And I see the top right corner of her chair disproportionately more compared to the left corner, as she moves around. And her pillows. Well, enough said.
It'd be cool if, in some future video, you went over the different kind of therapies and their effectiveness :)
I've been told by therapists that I have ocd but I'm not sure because my obsession is where I need everything to be equal on each side of my body. Like if a scratch my left arm, I have to scratch my right arm in the exact spot. Sometimes when I can't achieve it I freak out and it's really weird. I don't know if that's ocd though
OCD is just uhhhhahhhhhhuhhhhh. Walking backwards and touching the walls, crossing my fingers in 3s, Tapping earphones in 3s multiple times otherwise something will change for the worse or I or someone will die. Honestly I think that my OCD came from my Hypochondria.
#KatiFAQ Should I be hesitant to bring up a concern about OCD if I am already diagnosed with social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and my therapist recognizes that I'm depressed? Is all that even possible? For me things have to be aligned at 90 or 180 degrees, my music volume has to be an even number, and I have to wash my hands after touching anything that's not mine. Sorry for rambling.
Can you talk about ocpd and a BPD livening together
Katie, I don't think that there is such a large difference between the OCD and OCPD in all cases. For example, I don't think that OCPD don't feel bad and/or recognize their somewhat difficult personality. They might hide it in their indifference. Additionally, there seems to be compulsions that, just like OCD, take their mind off of what they are doing and that order in general offers them comfort. Perhaps in SOME cases the difference isn't much of a difference, but that the OCPD person has more control over those obsessive thoughts than someone that has "pure" OCD and/or they can control the voice inside and have somewhat higher functioning CBT options. The indifference might be just another layer of defense similar to avoiding answering questions. There may be a medical component or predisposition, but they both seem to come from some sort of reaction to trauma. As a whole, though, they OCPD might be better able to function at some level. Both seem to focus on needing order.
I was told I have ocd with magical thinking can you do a video about magical thinking? X
Mind blow
I have somatic OCD. It sucks!!!
Thanks for the video Kati :)
What if we just have obsessive thoughts without the compulsion...is there a different name for that?
My obsession is intrusive thoughts and my compulsion is imagining a fight-back to that thought whilst twitching and.. i can't explain it ._.
I obsess over intrusive thoughts and do things to combat them as the compulsion - like being sick, picking skin, singing a melody, counting in 8s. All sort of outward things like something is coming off or out of me
I've been getting really bad intrusive thoughts lately. I'm.not quite sure what my compulsion is tho. But these thoughts are getting too much, stress guilt 😑
I was diagnosed with ocd today
I’m going to go to cbt soon
Talking back to it logically doesn’t seem to help because it’s not logical. It’s made from irrational fear. As far as I can see, the only way out is to go through the fear; face it rather than avoid it, bit by bit. Naturally, that’s near the last thing I want to do.
I have to retrain my brain by doing what I don’t believe I can do, so that I learn otherwise.
Friend: I need to be so clean I have ocd Me: have you tried checking to see if the door is locked 30 times? Have you tried having to to pat your pillows before you bed before you go to sleep or you think your parents will die have you Friend: ok I get it
I have an obsession with organization. I. Have all of my school subjects color coded and organized from first to last hour. If anyone messes it up I freak out. Is that OCD?
Is there a chance that OCD could be tied with self harm and ADHD? I've been diagnosed officially with PTSD and ADHD, but I've been told by others that I have ocd behaviors. And then anxiety and depression are all mixed together with everything.
Possibly. I know that depression can be linked to a ton of other mental disorders. Get evaluated just in case :3
Im very confused. I have a lot of sever symptoms that seem like ocd but i don't know if they really are. Like generally people with ocd tend to wash their hands a lot, check things over and over again and more. But the stuff im expirencing is really, odd. 1. I have certain "rituals" i have to go through at certain times of the day. 2. I somehow make myself believ that if i dont do this, i will be murdered. Like if i dont stop the microwave at one second i will die. Idk its just weird.
I don't know if this would be ocd...
I always have to say things in a certain order when I say goodnight or goodbye to anyone e.g 'goodnight, I love you, see you tomorrow' and if I don't do this I worry so much that something bad will happen to that person. Then I also touch things in a certain order that I determine in my head whenever thoughts of people dying come into my head and I do that regularly. I also make bets with myself of 'if I do ... Then ... Won't happen' and these are pretty constant. I could just be randomly walking and I'd have to do something to avoid anything bad happening. Also whenever the phone rings I run through loads of these bets before answering so that nothin bad happens. I always check letters and things over and over again in case I've made a mistake and I also check locks, boxes and things to make sure they still open and I repeat light switches (always to an even number)
I have some hygiene tendencies too, like I always have to wash cups before use etc
I also have a thing about even and odd numbers so I only like even (preferably non multiples of three and ones that are divisible by four, otherwise I class them as 'odd even number')
And I'm so scared to talk to anyone I don't want them to judge me
Yeah that's ocd
+Suzanna Dinga that's what I was afraid of... :( thank you! I should probably see someone
My therapist says I don’t have this. But I think I do. She says I have some ocd traits coupled with negative affect (but that I don’t have enough of the traits of ocd to get that diagnosis). But what’s the difference between that and just run of the mill OCD?
what do i do if it's apparently not ocd because it doesn't take up an hour, but im still a slave to the issue? i constantly take my earbuds in and out and check that my right earbud says "r" even though i already KNOW it's my right earbud. if i don't, my brain will "make" my song not sound as good. i also used to have to restart a song or youtube video over and over again. i still do that with songs. i'll let it play for 5 seconds, then restart it, say, 5 times. it's hard when im around other people and i have to force myself not to do that. what's REALLY distracting is counting numbers in my head, or lightly biting my tongue a certain number of times....
So I'm sure that I have the OCD!
But the bad thing .. let me explain ..
If .. I go to a shopping centre or something and see a dude coming out of toilet without washing his hands and then we shake hands and somehow I touch everything in my bag ! But I Touched his hands before right? So here's the point .. should I clean everything in my bag or maybe go to shower or something??? Pls help
Kati Morton should be my counselor and how do i do that ? 🤔
Hello, I looked for the CBT workbook, and I can’t find it. Could you please provide a link? I really need it. I’m driving myself crazy. 😭
i always wanted a ocd group, but could never find it.
what about when some compulsions gives you pleasure beacause you really had to do it and then you are finaly do it, but others gives you pain/suffer? OCD or OCPD?
What do you think about the DSM 5 kicking OCD's classification as an anxiety disorder to the curb? I don't agree with it and neither does my therapist.
I have a lot of intrusive thought and I obsessed about lazy people it makes me angry. How do I get diagnosed with OCD!
Would religiously following superstitious to the point you can't leave your house because you saw a black cat hours ago be OCD or something else?
paranoia.
So, if I eat a lot and I know that is wrong and I will become soo fat if I still that way and I don't enjoy it at all, and almost all the time I'm thinking in food (that I have to stop eating it, the calories that I consume all the days, why I can't stop eating, etc.), how fat I am and I'll be if I don't stop eating, and searching things about food, but all those thoughts don't make me stop eating that much, could I have an OCD?? Please, someone answer this.
is it an obsessive/compulsive thing if i don't really want to clean sometimes (exhausted and want to rest, do it another day etc.) but I'll still do it because I feel like I have to have the apartment a certain way at all times? sometimes I literally cry or get distressed because even though I might want to do it another time I feel I don't have a choice. It's weird. It doesn't seem as severe as what would qualify as OCD but is this an issue? it causes me distress a lot and I feel pressure to control my environment and I do get late for things from cleaning
but it really isn't a counting thing and I know nothing bad will happen if I don't do it I just feel I must do it....If I don't I can't be happy/relaxed- I will think about until I can't take it anymore and just give in and clean. Sometimes I do it until late hours at night even though I want to sleep.
Kimberly Wheeler I don't do the counting thing either and I am diagnosed with OCD. It's possible that you have it. There are different forms of OCD and we don't all have them all.
paulapoetry thanks for your response- I have decided to go see a new doctor about my anxiety so I'll let them know about my thoughts/feelings and see what they think. Take care! hope you are doing well
Kimberly Wheeler I'm glad to hear that, Kimberly. I hope you will get the support that you need. I did hit a low, but I ended up having a better day today. There is always hope. :-)
thanks paulapoetry ! sending good vibes your way!!
*ticks*
I done a job for a guy with ocd never again lol.
How’d you cure
When I write essays for school and after it has been peer-edited I can't just fix the mistakes on the computer,I have to start the paper all over again.Would those thoughts be obsessive and the starting over be compulsive?
i will admit it i have gaven my self self harm
my intrusive obsessive thoughts have made me want to actually stop living numerous times
I know how you feel. Many times I have thought about just dying so the thoughts would stop.
Me right now.
Same
1-800-273-8255
Same and I cry bcs idk what's going on
It would be great to also discuss Pure O OCD. It's not talked about enough and people think OCD only has to do with cleanliness and germs.
Yes!!!
For sure!!! Fear of something can happen as well!!!
+Kate Rentz Yes!! Pure OCD is the hardest. You can have intrusive thoughts and images, it's a nightmare to watch someone you love suffer with is. Medications can either help a little or make you much worse. They have a new DNA testing that will show what medications you can and cannot take. It's an important break through.
+mrip75 yeah it sucks having it. I can't stop it.
Sean Pettit
I'm so sorry that you have this and I know the daily struggles. I pray for you, my heart breaks for you and others who suffer with this 24/7. Do not give up. Try the DNA testing that will give you a better match with meds and also try to find a CBT clinic. Talk to others who suffer with this where you can get the true support you need. God Bless.
I hate it when people say
"oh I have ocd LOL" and I'm like
"What's your obsession? Haha" and their like
"Since I haven't gone grocery shopping I can only eat mac and cheese so now it's the only thing I eat" 🙄
*they're
I hate it when also people act like ocd is this cleaning disorder and they will like use it as an excuse to get their way that always makes me so mad
I hate that too! People tell you don't worry about it, it's not a big deal. Well it's a f!@%ing big deal to me at this current moment! Also, don't say I have OCD super casually like that. people who actually have it have a problem and it's not funny
@@historyfreak6591 totally! People state self diagnosis so casually, pisses me off
That is not OCD what the heck.
I just keep asking "why me", the fact that it'll never go away is really depressing.
Animateddreamer Disclaimer: I don't have a diagnosis for ocd. I have a strong suspicion I have it though. In 2017-2018, I was extremely scrupulous about everything, from washing my hands out of fear that any particle on them would contaminate me or my family/friends to making sure my grammer was exactly perfect in regular speech and even text messaging to ensure that I wasn't confusing them or being deceitful. You might think it's evil to resist the compulsions but if you question anything, you can almost always give yourself the benefit of the doubt. For me, this started as not washing my hands when I came inside. I still have "dilemmas" every now and then but they're much less frequent, and I have a far greater awareness of when they are irrational.
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Before I got treatment for my ADHD and OCD, the two of them together made each other worse! It’s a terrible combination. On one hand I had the impulsive, unfocused, irritability, and hyperactivity from the ADHD, and on the other hand the OCD was causing extreme anxiety and rituals. I literally thought about killing myself until I started treatment. Now I’m so much happier.
what can be quite annoying and forms a stigma about OCD is that everyone who is clean or tidy thinks they have it. less the 1% of the population has it so everyone claiming they have it on OCD videos doesnt add up. it trivilaises one of the most complicated and misunderstood mental illnesses! people meed to stop jumping to conclusions. OCD is crippling so if you need to be tidy but can function normally odds are you don't have it.
The view count on this video is almost 60,000 and 1% of that would be 600 participants or OCD sufferers and there are less than 300 comments on this video. So while I agree with you, that it is frustrating that people either self-diagnose or confuse such a debilitating illness with just being clean or tidy. It is still common that people will seek out comfort online and hence it is possible that some people in the comments of this video are probably being honest about their condition and just require some external support. Less than 10% of people with OCD seek our treatment because either they are scared of being reported or they are not actually aware that they have it (this is because of the false stigma that has developed around this illness). So while your comment does carry validity, it is also important to keep in mind that some people here probably just want some help or support and telling them that they do probably do not have this difficult illness comes across as a little harsh, it might be kinder to simply recommend that they seek out a formal diagnosis instead of attempting to self-diagnosis. Most of the people here are probably watching this video or ones like these because they are either in pain or are confused, whether they have OCD or not, a little compassion goes a long way. Saying that I do not know if you were specifically referencing this video or another one, so please let me know if I am wrong.
Absolutely true! You said the things I wanted to
Thank you! Finally someone understands that ocd isn't this cleaning disorder when you want everything perfect
Jordan.D yessssss!!!!!!
Isn’t there a thing where u will look at any object and imagine urself killing yourself with it and u believe it and keep replaying the thought in ur head people don’t understand how scary ocd is
One of my OCDs was that whatever i touched I had to touch it twice. Say if I was about to write something, being a right handed, i would hold the pencil with my left hand first and then I would pass it to my right hand to write. Basically, it meant that if I touched the edge of a table with the tip of my left index finger, I had to touch it with the tip of my right index finger. In the beginning it was extremely strict, literally almost everything I touched I had to do this ritual. I even got to the point of thinking that when I bathe the water particles I that touched me made me.... uneven (that's what I call it when I don't touch things twice). It was really hard to tone down, I got it when I was around 10 and still have it to this day but its not as compulsive as before( I ended up becoming extremely neurotic instead). Sometime it was so bad that a random lady's shirt sleeve on the street brushed the nail on my pinkie finger while I was walking down the street with some classmates and I stopped speaking mid-sentence just to follow the lady and touch my pinkie finger's nail to her shirt.I also had to make it look accidental so she wouldn't think I was trying to rub her. It was annoying.Even if I don't do the compulsion, I would think about it all the time.
OMG I do that too! I cannot believe it I seriously thought I was the only person to do that! I don't have it as bad as yours but if I touch like the edge of a table with one finger on my left hand I have to do the same on my right hand , it's so weird! I didn't think it was OCD until now though..
i don't think you have OCD, i assume its your willing thought
I do that too like if i stretch and get that strain in my right shoulder I will lean and get that feeling on my left one too. or my clothes feel uneven so so i'mconstintly moving my shoulders trying to make it even, so if soeone leans against me i think they think that i dont want them to lean against me because i will start wrigling because i feel uneven. this strated for e when i was like 5
i used to have this. except the water bit but i used to call iyuneven as well
faith wilson same overhere the only difrence whit me is that whenever i get compulsive to touch something twice it whas to make it equal cause "i dint whant the one touch to feel lonley or all by itself "
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I think I have OCD because I spend several hours doing repetitive things... I also get worried that people can hear my thoughts.
Do you think people can hear your thoughts ?
Or are you just worried
I have OCD and generalized anxiety, and CBT was really helpful for me in high school.
I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like I have it . Every time I have take out a plug and turn of the switch I have to constantly repeat to myself that I turned it off and take a picture to proof that I did it as I’m afraid if I don’t turn the switch off that the house will go on fire and it will be my fault . Ut happens with a lot of stuff I do like turning the oven off and on , or closing the freezer and opening and closing windows
Is skin picking an OCD behavior or self harm? I have done it for as long as I can remember I do it more when I am stressed. One major "trigger" for me is any kind of rough or dead skin. I can't have any rough dried out or dead skin without picking at it especially on my hands.
It can be, you may have dermotillomania.
Sarah Fountain My mum has dermotillomania and that's what it is, obsessive picking. It's related to OCD and a form of it but not completely OCD. You should get it checked out.
I do the same. I have been picking my skin since I was five. I pick at my lips, dry skin, rough skin, fingers, toes, face, and acne. I just can't stop it and my mom says that I am ruining my lips especially.
Derma and trichotillomania can be classified as obsessive compulsive disorders or as impulse control disorders, as it’s different for different people. I considered my trich to be an icd.
I've recently been diagnosed w/OCD due to skin picking & started taking a rx that's supposed to help stop the urge. My legs are so scarred that I won't wear shorts anymore & I started on my arms-much harder to hide. It's embarrassing when people ask about it-it's hard for me to lie so I usually answer "it's a thing I do"-a non-answer that lets them know the 'discussion' is over. I'm a 'counter' too. Driving by mailboxes I have to add up numbers & turn them into 1 number(such as 1476=1+4+7+6=18,8+1=9). Now I purposely avoid looking(much of the time)so I can enjoy scenery instead of adding. I still count the numbers of times I scrub dishes I clean,number of swipes I use to take mascara off,etc.,but I choose the number-usually 50,75 or 100,when I reach the number I stop. I don't fear anything bad will happen if I fail,even praying every night,but it makes me feel incomplete if I don't follow my schedule. Only day 2of my rx & I hope they help!
can people with ocd become physcally aggressive if you get in the way of their compultions
Samantha wh I have OCD and I get anxiety attacks and very violent. I think everybody's different though
i wouldnt be suprised
Yas! especially those ones that believes that something wrong is gonna happen, and that they have to do certain things to avoid it, so... someone might think that there's gonna be an explosion and that what they had to do is to run over wherever they are, around 3 or 4 times, if someone else try to stop them, they will act aggressively, bc they're avoiding a catastrophe. So yeah, it's not rational and they can't control it
I don’t, only sometimes if I’m super stressed but I guess it depends on the person
Sometimes I can if someone is directly stopping me on purpose from doing something I have to do. Mostly just pushing people out of the way.
I obsess over things, for example, I bought some hermit crabs so I obsessed with finding out what I need to do for them to be healthy, etc. etc. and I couldn't sleep or do anything besides google and find out about this and then I went and blew all my money on them, and after I had their habitat set up, It went onto something else, like buying stuff for college and making sure I had the perfect list for it, anyways would that be considered under this? I hate it
I have OCD and I am also transgender. So basically born in a wrong body, and guess what? Having OCD is more painful of the two. Just to put it in perspective. Hate it when people take it lightly.
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I have an issue that really bothers me and I want to know if its a feature of OCD or just weirdness. I take forever when Im shopping. For example, recently I bought a new lamp for my bedroom. I spent over 30mins in the one isle of the store trying to pick the right one. It also happens when grocery shopping or online shopping. Especially with the latter, I can spend HOURS looking for the right product. It has to be perfect. Its like I have a fear of picking the wrong one to the point where It become utterly frustrating and overwhelming sometimes.
Yes that can be a part of OCD. Everyone has some quirks like this so you have to ask yourself if it is life consuming. How you would feel if there was a time limit. Best wishes xoxo
I do the same thing or before I buy an item while shopping I have to inspect it so many times to make sure it is perfect, or there is nothing wrong with it.
Ruin Or Rapture you and I should be friends. Sounds like your stuck on the obsessive part and I’m good at the impulsive part/impatient. I hate being in stores too long.
I'm the same I have to do a lot of research and have to be sure I get the best product for the cheapest price. Do a lot of overthinking I think :D
It's called being indecisive.
I do have OCD that pertains to me talking to myself. I will say completely random things that do not make any sense at all. Normally, I could be at school and I could whisper to myself, "Yes! Is Jicama! The physics of the eye! Eeeeee!" I know it's very weird, but I consistently feel like I've got to say these things.
That reminds me of Torret's syndrom. Sufferers feel compelled and have no control over saying/shouting certain words, usually swearwords though. I don't really know any other criteria, but maybe you should look it up? It also shows how similar lots of mental illnesses actually are, despite being different.
Seth Roberts I don't think it's OCD. Research Tourettes, it really seems like that and
Thanks Kati- I have OCD, ED's and Depression my psychiatrist in high school said these usually go hand in hand. That it's not uncommon for people who have OCD first to develop eating disorders and depression later as well as still having the ocd! it's so time consuming and im really ashamed for having them!! even though my old psychiatrists said it isn't my fault and I don't do it on purpose!
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it! Thank you for taking the time and talking about mental health!
I don’t know if I have ocd or not because I’m really messy and unorganised but I have so many habits like how I can’t place my feet or foot in the midde of any object or area. For example if I’m walking past a radiator or something I can’t put my feet half way across the length of the radiator therefore I have to place my foot at one end of it. And it’s really annoying because it’s literally everything I walk past like walls door frames sofas cars and I have to try really hard not to step in the middle of it so I look really weird walking and people are starting to notice but I don’t want to say anything to my mates or family in case they find it funny. Even with technology when I’m changing the volume on something the diagram of the amount of volume the bar can never be half way across the diagram.
I don't if this is because of my OCD or not but i get these impulses to touch something and i have been burnt or cut multiple times in the process of touching something hot or sharp. Does anybody else get this?
If you can I would really appreciate it if you could post more videos on OCD.
I have horrible OCD. It’s the kind that, if I don’t do this or move a certain way or if I touch a subject object, someone (or me) will get sick or hurt or die. I hate it, and it’s getting so bad I’m not sure how many more months I can live. And the scary thing is, I’m only 16. Is anyone else out there like this???????
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Can someone with harm ocd could not have contamination ocd ex: I have harm ocd but I Do not care for the contamination part is it plausible?
Great video... Would you say OCD is an anxiety disorder? Because my symptoms seem to be worse when I'm stressed out about something.
OCD is anxiety based.
yep. OCD is categorised as a psychological disorder, neurological disorder, anxiety disorder
If you have ocd you know the worst part is the muscle even outing
P.S I fully agree with what you say about talking yourself out of it,there's been times where im like "stop it this is ridiculous, this is going too far, if i keep doing this (eg washing feet after going into the garage) its going to destroy or fully take over my life because ile have to keep doing it once ive done it a bit. Also maybe i dont have ocd but i find distraction helps ALOT, my fears of certain dirt are alot less intense or first& foremost if im doing something i love or around people
I'm a little confused on what OCPD is... Can you clear up how they're different? I don't understand what you meant about how they don't have remorse for what they do?
When I was a kid, I’d go with my dad in the car to get drinks out of the vending machine.
He’d let me hold the quarters, but I would HAVE to touch the coins with each of my fingertips (it wasn’t balanced if I didn’t touch with each one) WHILE the coins were in the palm of my hand.
Being clumsy, I’d often drop one or more of the coins in between the seats and my dad would get slightly annoyed, but I’d feel SO BAD about it every time. I always did it anyway though.
The thing about personality & OCD was really interesting, could this connection also exist in combination with other disorders? Because I know someone who has an ED, OCD and some social issues, and she is comletely open about all of these and she is fine with it, she actually thinks we are too stupid to understand the reasons/what's really going on in the world. I was just always confused about how she could be so "happy" with all her issues, especially because I have an ED as well..xoxo
I was diagnosed with OCD but now I’m wondering if it is OCPD instead. But a lot of it depends on the situation. My constant compulsion to check things several times is definitely something that gets annoying as well as recurrent thoughts about certain things. But then I actually enjoy certain things like choosing what color of chair to sit in or the order of which I do things. I also have an eating disorder and GAD so that can contribute to the anxiety but it’s interesting because certain rituals feel safe and others cause anxiety and just frustrate me.
Sounds like OCD. I have OCD and it can be both annoying and enjoyable/comforting. Whereas someone with OCPD affects more the people around them.
Can you do a video on just germaphobia?
When I was very little I'd spend hours everyday looking at the toys in my room to make sure they were in the right spot... No one could touch them, I wouldn't even play with them, they had to be exactly where they were supposed to be and I could just FEEL if they weren't and have multiple anxiety attacks, had stuff like that my whole entire childhood with organization and having patterns. Then that just started fading away I think... I mean, my room's a mess right this second and I don't care lol but when I was about 13 I started having VERY VERY intrusive thoughts and my mind would just obsess over something and I couldn't function until that thing was ''resolved'', it was usually school stuff back then.
About two years ago (I'm 20 now) I started having intrusive thoughts about sickness, I find a symptom and spend over 5 hours researching, watching videos, reading articles, emailing doctors, then call every single important person in my life (my mom, my boyfriend, my best friends) and tell them everything I found out and make them tell me their opinion on the matter (I say make because if they don't I'll just keep asking until they do). I've gone to so many doctors these past two years, I ask them to have me do exams and when everything comes back normal I ask again, and again, and again, and if they refuse I just look for another doctor. It feels like I can't get the thoughts out of my head so I keep looking for someone or something to make it stop, to give me the answers I was expecting. I have other types of intrusive thoughts but this is the worse one, I don't know what to do anymore, my health plan doesn't cover therapy and I feel like I'm dying just a little bit every day. It's the fucking worst, man
Hi i think i have symptoms that you have could you overcome it?
My doctor told me that my Ed is a form of OCD and she put me on medication for it just last week
I was diagnosed when I was 3 or 4, and I had to do CBT therapy. Which that had to be the single most best thing I could have ever done. There are still some things I struggle with, but I understand how irrational it is. When I get really stressed out, my symptoms get insanely worse. Usually I get an intrusive thought of people I care about getting decapitated, and the only way to avoid that, I would have to do something until it was right. One time, I thought my family were going to get decapitated in a car wreck, and at the time, I was misusing medications to deal with my OCD, and other problems. I had stolen about 35 2mg Valium. In order for my family to be safe, I had taken 100mg of muscle relaxers, and 30mg of Valium... that was 25 pills I had swallowed. I then proceeded to drive to school and long story short, I’m surprised I’m not dead. I’m doing so much better now though.
My ocd core obsession is "I'm not ok and I won't be ok", and my compulsion is to hide in some form. Hiding has been mostly isolating myself either before or after running away from something full of despair. As I matured and found that physically running away was damaging to others and myself my compulsion turned into wanting to die. I have since had many many intrusive ideas of how to commit suicide. I usually get these responses from professionals when I explain this obsession and compulsion: "That's unusual" or "That's not ocd". Can anyone relate to my experience?
Hi Kati
I got question what is the difference between OCD and addiction of fetishism they all obsessive and although the last two may bring pleasure people want to get red of it because of shame or any other reason..?