I have struggled with mental illness and my mental health since I was a kid. Before I even knew what those terms were. After years of depression, anxiety, and even an attempt to take my life, I never thought I would be able to live without psych medications. I clung to them because it was the only thing that made my mind quiet, but it also made me a zombie. Microdosing has given me control of my mental health for the first time, and they essentially gave me my life back.
I’ve been researching on psychedelics and it’s benefits to individuals dealing with Anxiety, Depression, OCD, ADHD and from my findings, they really work and I’ve been eager to get some for a while but its been difficult to get my hands on them.
The Trips I've been having really helped me a lot. I’m now able to meditate and I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
@ohmakure4716 I feel the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels. I am also glad to be a part of this community.
I am so happy that I have found this. I have been dealing with this forever. And the first video I watched I cried, because it was truly the first time I really understood what was happening
It's so much harder when your ocd isn't physical compulsions, its all in your head. Its just thoughts that pop up in your head, and ruin everything you love.
Fun fact: fire and fire alarms is actually one of my triggers. Getting even more exposure by watching this. Not turning off the video where Nate talks about fire and smoke alarms.
One of the thing i was doing i always had a strong urge to call my parents after my anxious brain saw a situation as a red flag but in reality it was something small such as a small argument with my partner, or someone at work not being polite to me etc. At the therapy i learnt that over time as i was growing up myself and parents made a strong bond with each other where we always made decision about my life together (when i was like 16 and over) and this contributed to my strong urge to call parents as „they need to know“ or else i would feel uncomfortable. Now its much better and i got better at not calling to tell them every single/ small thing and my ocd got better bc of not doing reassurance. Thank you for your videos
Your method of doing it later helped me better than trying to resist the thought. I just tell my brain i will do the compulsion later but i end up tricking my mind and not doing it! I just started yesterday i will let you know when I will overcome it. I have been suffering for years. I will start writing them down too
Hello, I'm a new viewer. I was wondering if you have any content that deals with subtle forms of avoidance. It seems like many people get like 70% recovered but then reach a plateau. Avoiding subtle things, that could almost pass for 'normal', but actually have a significant impact on quality of life. Things like compartmentalising friends, avoiding certain situations or conversation topics, not making contact with people.
Thanks, great video. Going to try to keep this in mind when I get urges to do complusions. I know its not gonna be easy but I believe in myself, I know I can do it.
I struggled with anxiety And my compulsions were all mental I thought that my compulsions were only just rationalizing or explaining thoughts away but it turned out that i did some other mental compulsions without Me even realizing that they are compulsions.. These compulsions included stuff like thought blocking thought suppressing or pushing the thoughts away ..these compulsions kept my anxiety alive for some time before me realizing how dangerous they are and stopping them it is amazing how much one gets better when he learns about this stuff I had some faith doubts and my compulsions were explaining these doubts away because i felt like i would live my life with them totally horrible but i thankfully managed to pull through it all I truly love this channel and feel sorry for all the people suffering without even knowing about this channel ❤❤❤
Me personally I have deliberately thought about them and visualised them at points during the day, thought about the exposure and not done the compulsion, understood that I need the anxiety so welcomed it and encouraged it to appear. It’s hard at first but after a week I barely feel the heavy chest or fear. That’s just me though might not work for you
I’m so happy I found this, I’m gonna give it a go because before I watched this I was always in doubt, anger, lost, depressed and stressed out over thinking things abs it’s been happening bad through my relationship which hurts bad honestly made me feel suicidal, I was gonna see a doctor for meds but seeing this gives me hope but I’m scared ! But gonna face the fear to be free thanks !!!!
Thank you, but the problem in what you're saying like many therapists do is : from easier to harder. Big unexpected triggers happen randomly and they won't let you deal with easier then harder things
I constantly ruminate on if I like something. Do I like this book I just read? Do I like this picture that’s been hanging on my wall for years? Do I love my cats? I hate it, cos I know this judging doesn’t get me anywhere.
Hey this is really hard to talk about, but I have religious ocd which leads me to have mental compulsions about hell. I have a hard time doing exposures for my mental compulsions cause those “deliberate” (deliberate is meant very loosely since I don’t want any of this and it all feels mentally forced) thoughts feel scarier than the intrusive ones. What do I do?
Hi Nathan, I don't know if I have OCD. I actually made out with my cousin once, she was completely receptive and even wanted to go further but I stopped things at that. Afterward, she always acts normal around me but I feel this shame and guilt for having done that, even though she was totally OK with it. I get it in my head that I betrayed my whole family, and as the man in the situation, it was my responsibility not to do that. I avoid gatherings where she might be present, and I was so overwhelmed I confessed the whole thing to my brother. He was totally cool about it and forgave me and everything, and moves right past it all, and yet it still bothers me no matter how much I confess. It makes me feel like I need to apologize to her, rectify the whole thing by saying it was wrong, in order to "re-establish" my feelings about my family as a whole, and somehow fix things and make it all peaceful again. I want to fix things to make them perfect all of the time, I want everything to feel "right" on a spiritual level. It MUST feel right or I am somehow out of line with God, my purpose that He gave me, everything. I feel like I carry around these weights of things I may have done, even if they didn't harm anyone, even if I lusted for someone inappropriately in my mind, it brothers me my entire life if they don't know and if I can't rectify it because it would be TMI. I have never felt like I have a problem but now I wonder if all of this is OCD. It is overwhelming and causes me great distress and anxiety to not have things be how they "should be" spiritually. I don't do this with door locks or my shoe laces or anything like that, at all, but spiritually I am obsessive about things being "right", confessing, restitution, contrition, etc...All means the world to me. I neglect my physical fitness and even though I make good money I hate the physical world and need for money so I don't care. I only care about spiritual matters, period. I hope this didn't drag on to long but thank you for your videos it is all very helpful!!
i hope you feel better and beat whatever you're going through, remember good things starts by having a stressful headstart and a worthy good and a happy ending!
I have been exposing myself for a decade or more why is it not working!!. With some exposures I have had to wait an entire week end to do my rituals and the anxiety does not diminish!!! Is there some thing wrong?
I'm so sad I cannot find a therapist that specializes on ROCD in my country... 😢 I've been surviving just because of videos and sources like yours and I've been doing some ERP exercises hoping I'm doing a good job 😢😢😢
Is the urge to take revenge considered to be a compulsion? I get intrusive thoughts about people who hurt me and humiliated me and I can’t help but feel the urge to take revenge on them or start a fight with them, is it a compulsion?? Or is it the opposite, is choosing to stay silent when people hurt me cuz I’m afraid to cause problems considered to be a compulsion? and I must confront them as a way of ERP ?? Please answer me 🙏🏼
I have a question I have intrusive thoughts about my family and boyfriend not loving me . They are good people! But whenever my anxiety acts up I start to have these thoughts and they feel awful (I love my family and my boyfriend who I live with) I start to question my reality when I’m anxious I view everything differently and it feels scary or my relationship or think of breaking up even though when I wasn’t anxious I didn’t consider this . I’m not sure how to do exposure therapy to these thoughts because I’m scared that if I don’t reassure myself that my family/boyfriend loves me then I’ll start to believe it that they don’t . I’m really stuck and it’s affecting my relationship with them. So far I been trying “maybe they do love me maybe they don’t but I choose to believe that they love me “ idk if I’m doing it right ?
1. Don't argue with it 2. Don't fight it 3. Don't try to disprove it 4. Recognize thought 5. Allow yourself to feel anxious. 6. Let it be 7. Get on with your day the best you can!
Thanks much Nate❤ however my ocd thoughts r just random sometimes from criticizing on me, sometimes about how bad my family treats me, sometimes about tv drama or pop songs, sometimes about worry bad thing will happen…..Nate, pls can u help? I m so lost I don’t know what to do?😅
How about sometimes when i make a risk and ignore the compulsion and it happens and comes true i start blaming myself and doing the compulsion even more😢
It happened with me that was the darkest time of my life. U just allow your thoughts to come and go tolerate anxiety but dont do mental compulsions. Stop yourself from mental checkng it definitly increase your anxiety and may be give u panic attacks but that will not last forever. Compulsion may give you short term relief but i will come back with more urge. Once your brain got retrain your urges will slow down gradually and u gain long term relief. May Allah bless you with peace.
And this channel contain lots of videos on mental compulsions do check it will be very beneficial and in shaa Allah help you to gain your confidence back
1. Don't argue with it 2. Don't fight it 3. Don't try to disprove it 4. Recognize thought 5. Allow yourself to feel anxious. 6. Let it be 7. Get on with your day the best you can!
Will this help with death anxiety. I'm constantly thinking about being dead and in the ground decomposing. I'm in my 40s now. And I feel like I'm missing out on life in general.
Same here. Every day I feel that it is the day some catastrophic diagnosis of some horrible terminal disease will be given to me so every day I worry and plan what is gonna happen to my dogs if I’m given a few months to live, who is gonna tell my brothers that I died, that I don’t wanna die alone and blah blah blah, it’s exhausting living in my head with all the “what ifs”.
Hiii i love your vídeos, i'm depressed and obsesive existencially i'm improving. My positive thougts sometimes can be a fight with the obsesión but i want to know when should i start being positive because i try to avoid them and My ocd is getting better but i'm still very depressed
Thank u so much for the videos but I always get intrusive thoughts about dying not me but anyone else and my ocd is saying that if don’t the compulsion they will die or anything else I got so intrusive images pls help me
My partner and I will be apart for a full month and I am struggling with seperation anexity. I keep wanting to call/text all day throughout the day. I know it will annoy him...but I keep wanting to do it. Ugh.
When it comes to my personal things like to touch my mobile or laptop my hands must be clean & pure.... But whn other mobile when im touching its not mandatory to clean.. Why for personal things mind looking for purity & perfection...
I like this video but I don't thimk it was good on you to make fun of people who say "don't do the compulsions? Easy for you to say." While I get that they can be annoying, they are also just people who feel ceushed by the weight of OCD and feel like it's too heavy to lift.
bate video no method was disclosed, title said do this, but he just talked instead of givinng a one sentence answer. heck maybe the answer was in there somewhere with the weeds. one or two sentences next time bud
I have struggled with mental illness and my mental health since I was a kid. Before I even knew what those terms were. After years of depression, anxiety, and even an attempt to take my life, I never thought I would be able to live without psych medications. I clung to them because it was the only thing that made my mind quiet, but it also made me a zombie. Microdosing has given me control of my mental health for the first time, and they essentially gave me my life back.
I’ve been researching on psychedelics and it’s benefits to individuals dealing with Anxiety, Depression, OCD, ADHD and from my findings, they really work and I’ve been eager to get some for a while but its been difficult to get my hands on them.
The Trips I've been having really helped me a lot. I’m now able to meditate and I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
I was having this constant, unbearable anxiety due to work stress. Not until I came across a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly
His name is *DR Adolf Petter*
@ohmakure4716
I feel the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels. I am also glad to be a part of this community.
I am so happy that I have found this. I have been dealing with this forever. And the first video I watched I cried, because it was truly the first time I really understood what was happening
It's so much harder when your ocd isn't physical compulsions, its all in your head. Its just thoughts that pop up in your head, and ruin everything you love.
Try doing the same thing anyway
Hey blue I'm with you!!
Mines improving, Alhamdulillah.
Your efforts for ocd sufferers r comendable even without watchng frst i press like button then watch the whole vdeo. Keep motivated us
You're so awesome. Thanks so much for your support!
@@ocdandanxietywhat about existential ocd questions like why do i exist what is my purpose?😢
@@ocdandanxiety Sir age 46 recovery possiable
Fun fact: fire and fire alarms is actually one of my triggers. Getting even more exposure by watching this. Not turning off the video where Nate talks about fire and smoke alarms.
👑👑👑
You got this. Keep making progress. You'll get there one day.
Another great video for all ocd sufferers out there you will regain your strength
I hope so 😔
@@Lolalee87you will 💪
One of the thing i was doing i always had a strong urge to call my parents after my anxious brain saw a situation as a red flag but in reality it was something small such as a small argument with my partner, or someone at work not being polite to me etc. At the therapy i learnt that over time as i was growing up myself and parents made a strong bond with each other where we always made decision about my life together (when i was like 16 and over) and this contributed to my strong urge to call parents as „they need to know“ or else i would feel uncomfortable. Now its much better and i got better at not calling to tell them every single/ small thing and my ocd got better bc of not doing reassurance. Thank you for your videos
Your method of doing it later helped me better than trying to resist the thought. I just tell my brain i will do the compulsion later but i end up tricking my mind and not doing it! I just started yesterday i will let you know when I will overcome it. I have been suffering for years. I will start writing them down too
Hows your progress?
This is absolutely working for my compulsive overeating. Very helpful.
Best channel I found for ocd treatment please make more videos about these types of videos on avoiding and weakening ocd methods
Hello, I'm a new viewer. I was wondering if you have any content that deals with subtle forms of avoidance. It seems like many people get like 70% recovered but then reach a plateau. Avoiding subtle things, that could almost pass for 'normal', but actually have a significant impact on quality of life. Things like compartmentalising friends, avoiding certain situations or conversation topics, not making contact with people.
Alone the way you talk already makes it better. This "no big deal" kind of voice. Perfect for this stuff.
Thanks, great video. Going to try to keep this in mind when I get urges to do complusions. I know its not gonna be easy but I believe in myself, I know I can do it.
Thanks you channel is calming me i watch these to calm down so i can sleep
I've been doing this and its getting to a point where I'm super happy with my partner. I'm just loving it.
I struggled with anxiety
And my compulsions were all mental
I thought that my compulsions were only just rationalizing or explaining thoughts away but it turned out that i did some other mental compulsions without Me even realizing that they are compulsions.. These compulsions included stuff like thought blocking thought suppressing or pushing the thoughts away ..these compulsions kept my anxiety alive for some time before me realizing how dangerous they are and stopping them it is amazing how much one gets better when he learns about this stuff
I had some faith doubts and my compulsions were explaining these doubts away because i felt like i would live my life with them totally horrible but i thankfully managed to pull through it all
I truly love this channel and feel sorry for all the people suffering without even knowing about this channel ❤❤❤
What do you do if you’re constantly worried about a bunch of different obsessions all day without any exposures?
Me personally I have deliberately thought about them and visualised them at points during the day, thought about the exposure and not done the compulsion, understood that I need the anxiety so welcomed it and encouraged it to appear. It’s hard at first but after a week I barely feel the heavy chest or fear.
That’s just me though might not work for you
@@claycox3627 that’s super helpful thank you! I’m gonna try that out!
I’m so happy I found this, I’m gonna give it a go because before I watched this I was always in doubt, anger, lost, depressed and stressed out over thinking things abs it’s been happening bad through my relationship which hurts bad honestly made me feel suicidal, I was gonna see a doctor for meds but seeing this gives me hope but I’m scared ! But gonna face the fear to be free thanks !!!!
You crack me up! Love the humorous spin you put on your videos. Great info!
Thank you Nate for your videos! they're so refreshing.
Glad you like them! I'm going to keep on making them!
I just started watching your videos and I can't tell you how much you have helped me! Thank you for what you do!
Truly Appreciate Your Quirky Pattern Interrupts Sir.
*Respect
Your videos are so helpful.
You are really good therapist.❤❤❤
I will come back next week and check in my progress! This is something I need to start working on I got some homework to do!
What kind of exposures have you been doing?
Hows your progress
keep being awesome, man!
Thank you, but the problem in what you're saying like many therapists do is : from easier to harder. Big unexpected triggers happen randomly and they won't let you deal with easier then harder things
I constantly ruminate on if I like something. Do I like this book I just read? Do I like this picture that’s been hanging on my wall for years? Do I love my cats? I hate it, cos I know this judging doesn’t get me anywhere.
Hey this is really hard to talk about, but I have religious ocd which leads me to have mental compulsions about hell. I have a hard time doing exposures for my mental compulsions cause those “deliberate” (deliberate is meant very loosely since I don’t want any of this and it all feels mentally forced) thoughts feel scarier than the intrusive ones. What do I do?
Look up 'Religious Trauma Syndrome.' You may find some help there.
Thank. You for these. Tutorials.. They are. Helping me, immensely..
Hi Nathan, I don't know if I have OCD. I actually made out with my cousin once, she was completely receptive and even wanted to go further but I stopped things at that. Afterward, she always acts normal around me but I feel this shame and guilt for having done that, even though she was totally OK with it. I get it in my head that I betrayed my whole family, and as the man in the situation, it was my responsibility not to do that. I avoid gatherings where she might be present, and I was so overwhelmed I confessed the whole thing to my brother. He was totally cool about it and forgave me and everything, and moves right past it all, and yet it still bothers me no matter how much I confess. It makes me feel like I need to apologize to her, rectify the whole thing by saying it was wrong, in order to "re-establish" my feelings about my family as a whole, and somehow fix things and make it all peaceful again. I want to fix things to make them perfect all of the time, I want everything to feel "right" on a spiritual level. It MUST feel right or I am somehow out of line with God, my purpose that He gave me, everything. I feel like I carry around these weights of things I may have done, even if they didn't harm anyone, even if I lusted for someone inappropriately in my mind, it brothers me my entire life if they don't know and if I can't rectify it because it would be TMI. I have never felt like I have a problem but now I wonder if all of this is OCD. It is overwhelming and causes me great distress and anxiety to not have things be how they "should be" spiritually. I don't do this with door locks or my shoe laces or anything like that, at all, but spiritually I am obsessive about things being "right", confessing, restitution, contrition, etc...All means the world to me. I neglect my physical fitness and even though I make good money I hate the physical world and need for money so I don't care. I only care about spiritual matters, period. I hope this didn't drag on to long but thank you for your videos it is all very helpful!!
i hope you feel better and beat whatever you're going through, remember good things starts by having a stressful headstart and a worthy good and a happy ending!
I have been exposing myself for a decade or more why is it not working!!. With some exposures I have had to wait an entire week end to do my rituals and the anxiety does not diminish!!! Is there some thing wrong?
I'm so sad I cannot find a therapist that specializes on ROCD in my country... 😢 I've been surviving just because of videos and sources like yours and I've been doing some ERP exercises hoping I'm doing a good job 😢😢😢
Man i love you 😂❤
Today I am going to risk having parasite infection 🎉 We will see how it goes 😂
Ohhh. That would be fun. 😉
Is the urge to take revenge considered to be a compulsion?
I get intrusive thoughts about people who hurt me and humiliated me and I can’t help but feel the urge to take revenge on them or start a fight with them, is it a compulsion??
Or is it the opposite, is choosing to stay silent when people hurt me cuz I’m afraid to cause problems considered to be a compulsion? and I must confront them as a way of ERP ??
Please answer me 🙏🏼
I have a question I have intrusive thoughts about my family and boyfriend not loving me . They are good people! But whenever my anxiety acts up I start to have these thoughts and they feel awful (I love my family and my boyfriend who I live with) I start to question my reality when I’m anxious I view everything differently and it feels scary or my relationship or think of breaking up even though when I wasn’t anxious I didn’t consider this . I’m not sure how to do exposure therapy to these thoughts because I’m scared that if I don’t reassure myself that my family/boyfriend loves me then I’ll start to believe it that they don’t . I’m really stuck and it’s affecting my relationship with them. So far I been trying “maybe they do love me maybe they don’t but I choose to believe that they love me “ idk if I’m doing it right ?
Hi nate, i can see how this can be done for physical compulsions, but how do I do these for mental compulsions? They seem almost automatic
I have this problem too. I don’t have to expose myself to anything specific, the thoughts come all the time anyways
1. Don't argue with it
2. Don't fight it
3. Don't try to disprove it
4. Recognize thought
5. Allow yourself to feel anxious.
6. Let it be
7. Get on with your day the best you can!
Hey you pretty much just have to ignore the thought and refocus on what you were doing. Its pretty simple.
Thanks much Nate❤ however my ocd thoughts r just random sometimes from criticizing on me, sometimes about how bad my family treats me, sometimes about tv drama or pop songs, sometimes about worry bad thing will happen…..Nate, pls can u help? I m so lost I don’t know what to do?😅
How about sometimes when i make a risk and ignore the compulsion and it happens and comes true i start blaming myself and doing the compulsion even more😢
Thank you for this
My ocd turned into pure o after yrs of having it.
mental checking and tolarate to not thinking anything are hardest ones for me can anyone give me some tips about them
It happened with me that was the darkest time of my life. U just allow your thoughts to come and go tolerate anxiety but dont do mental compulsions. Stop yourself from mental checkng it definitly increase your anxiety and may be give u panic attacks but that will not last forever. Compulsion may give you short term relief but i will come back with more urge. Once your brain got retrain your urges will slow down gradually and u gain long term relief. May Allah bless you with peace.
And this channel contain lots of videos on mental compulsions do check it will be very beneficial and in shaa Allah help you to gain your confidence back
1. Don't argue with it
2. Don't fight it
3. Don't try to disprove it
4. Recognize thought
5. Allow yourself to feel anxious.
6. Let it be
7. Get on with your day the best you can!
thanks, good video
Does this work for tourettic OCD? Great video !
Will this help with death anxiety. I'm constantly thinking about being dead and in the ground decomposing. I'm in my 40s now. And I feel like I'm missing out on life in general.
Same here. Every day I feel that it is the day some catastrophic diagnosis of some horrible terminal disease will be given to me so every day I worry and plan what is gonna happen to my dogs if I’m given a few months to live, who is gonna tell my brothers that I died, that I don’t wanna die alone and blah blah blah, it’s exhausting living in my head with all the “what ifs”.
Same 😢 and I have two kids and I feel awful because I always feel sick or down and I feel I make myself sick over my thoughts
Hiii i love your vídeos, i'm depressed and obsesive existencially i'm improving. My positive thougts sometimes can be a fight with the obsesión but i want to know when should i start being positive because i try to avoid them and My ocd is getting better but i'm still very depressed
I feel like I might have mild ocd but I don't know if I'm in denial or conflating it with other stuff like adhd and autism
Thank u so much for the videos but I always get intrusive thoughts about dying not me but anyone else and my ocd is saying that if don’t the compulsion they will die or anything else I got so intrusive images pls help me
Will this work with sensorimotor ocd? I feel like this type is a tricky one
Yes the treatmeant for any type of ocd is pretty much exposure and response prevention. Hope that helps.
Creating 0.00001% uncomfortability to mind making compulsion back.. 100% perfection needs to maintain every very tough? May become yogi
My partner and I will be apart for a full month and I am struggling with seperation anexity. I keep wanting to call/text all day throughout the day. I know it will annoy him...but I keep wanting to do it. Ugh.
What if your compulsion is the same “reassurance” thoughts in different situations (ie being alone, driving
That what if thought is killing me cuz its very unnatural and impossible especially a random thought like then why it's killing me....
I have ROCD .... how do I even know what my compulsions are?
😢 thank you
When it comes to my personal things like to touch my mobile or laptop my hands must be clean & pure.... But whn other mobile when im touching its not mandatory to clean..
Why for personal things mind looking for purity & perfection...
Iam ocd patient completely recovered in 2022
Thank you.
thank you
Bro, let this man cook
Sir what to do about death ocd
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I like this video but I don't thimk it was good on you to make fun of people who say "don't do the compulsions? Easy for you to say."
While I get that they can be annoying, they are also just people who feel ceushed by the weight of OCD and feel like it's too heavy to lift.
Please help me
Im early
I feel completely hopeless
Stay strong man
Have you written an exposure hierachy yet and began facing your ocd fears?
@@SirDemonBeats not quite yet but I’m not sure how to.
Please sir thuda bata karana thhaa
Please help me sir lam orrisa
Hi I recommend writing an exposure hierachy and tackling your ocd fears. And also talk to your doctor about ocd and receiving treatment.
bate video
no method was disclosed, title said do this, but he just talked instead of givinng a one sentence answer. heck maybe the answer was in there somewhere with the weeds. one or two sentences next time bud
Rocd
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