Lately, my OCD has been horrific. It literally makes me cry to the point I hyperventilate. It makes me feel trapped.Thank you for this speech it helps me feel not alone. I know I need help I just need to find a way to get it. I am trying to be more honest with my family about it because I don’t want to deal with it alone anymore.

How am I just watching this now?? I just want to give you a hug! I've been struggling with OCD since 11 years old. My parents were the first to make me feel weird, guilty and crazy. They still do. Thank you so much. I identify myself so much with you!!!

One of the best talks about OCD I've heard

This made me cry so much. When you said about being stuck in the shower or washing your hands till they bleed. I'm struggling so bad. Having people help me do normal everyday things. The time I have felt the calmest in my life was on mushrooms and acid so it's interesting you said that

One of the best talks on TED. Superb delivery!

Such a great talk. I was diagnosed about a year ago and life is so much better after therapy. If you have it and are struggling, keep the faith. Trust the therapy.

This is incredibly inspiring :) Thank you so much

I've OCD but OCD does not have me

11:18 - 11:40 is exactly what I do and watching this video right now has calmed me down , my OCD has really been getting to me tonight because I haven't had a shower before bed I'm sitting on my bedroom floor because I don't want to put germs on my bed but this is calming me down I need this pep talk in person

Thank you Julia for an honest and inspiring story, its helping others feel less alone who have OCD and giving them support and reassurance. Your helping raise awareness for OCD as it is really hard to actually get it diagnosed. So if people see this and feel the same but didnt know what they may have, now they have an idea to at least try to go to a doctor with. This will help sufferers seek help and not shut themselves off from the world. Many thanks for your story and braveness in telling it as it must have been hard!

Thanks for this video and increasing public awareness of education of the nuances of having ocd.

her greatest blessing is being young...in age where there is solutions and openness...she is in college and has worked her OCD out to speak before a group...she is not in her 50s suffering an entire life and the consequences that follow...work issues, relationship issues, isolation...glad she has this awareness and got help

Amazing talk! Being someone who has been on the old OCD roller coaster I know exactly how she felt. I never have gone down the holistic route. I think you need to choose one or the other.

You're really inspiring and you must know that you are stronger than you think.Everybody doesn't have the guts to face this horrible thing.

Based on my personal experience I'm coming to realize that each human brain is unique in it's own way and forcing all people to think in the same format is one of the major factors which are causing stress, depression and mental illnesses. I believe that OCD is not the cause, but rather it's a side effect of the social systems people have constructed and into which people are being forced to fit in to the exclusion of their uniqueness. "It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BEAUTIFUL JULIA, YOU'RE SO BRAVE AND YOU HELPED ME!

Just letting you know i cried... your experiences, your life is different then mine but you took the words right out of my cursed head

Thank you for all you do Dr. Britz!!! You help so many!!!🙏

The most relatable OCD video ever...Thank you for sharing

speaks my heart out! every word of it!

I hate my ocd so much..

I feel this in my bones. I too, have to shower and wash my hands until I FEEL clean. I MUST disinfect my phone, iPad, and laptop if they touch the "wrong" surfaces. Which happens all too often because my husband (bless him) doesn't understand that just because he SAYS that he moved something of mine "for exposure therapy" doesn't mean he's helping. Often, it means that I'm left to disinfect and internally scream and want to rip out my own hair because I HATE that I feel like I MUST complete my compulsions. Because I know that my OCD is irrational. I know.

Julia, you are amazing :)

bless you Julia WELL DONE and spot on..i was hospitalized for OCD and fully get it

Thank You Julia You helped more than you know Sis :D

She's amazing ❤️ Inspires me

Thank you SO much!

this is amazing , the best talk I've ever heard relating to OCD. thanks so much

I do the washing my hands until the crack thing. When my hands are just red and dry instead of cracked and bleeding I am ridiculously proud of myself

What an inspiring talk. I'm proud of you. OCD may not be curable, it is probably something that will stay with us forever. But today, just by watching this I've met another person who has lived through the struggles. I don't think diet is the ONLY aspect to relieving our symptoms but everyone is different. Thanks once again.

Since I developed OCD related to disgust, a new world has opened up for me in which there is not a second of boredom. There are so many things to wash and clean that I literally don't have time to do it all. I usually spent three to four hours in the shower, but few days ago, I spent eight hours there and had as much satisfaction afterwards as after a day well spent at work...

Thank you, really

She should read the book, The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, MD. It is *not* a self-help book, but it discusses the peer-reviewed, scientific studies which demonstrate the brains neuroplasticity. Contrary to traditional thought, the brain is *not* hard-wired; it can and does rewire itself. Chapter 6 is dedicated to the studies on OCD. So yes, OCD is fully curable.

OMG! I thought I was the only person who said "1, 2, 3, 4" over & over to calm myself. LOL

OCD is quicksand is such a good analogy.

I have ocd and when I go down the stairs I would need to take every step right or else I would think that I would fall down the steps even if I was halfway down the stairs I would need to turn around and go back up the stairs and walk back down again

There are two types of people. Ones who will heed the words she speaks, and the ones who'll focus on the shorts she's wearing. And I honestly don't know where I stand cause I'm both types.

thank you!!

Thank you

So giving up sugar and gluten reduces OCD? How?

Pretty good presentation

Sounds pritty accurate

she's beautiful

Those 44 dislikes have to be bots. How can this no touch you, esp as someone who suffers from severe ocd.

Everyone is much more bothered with the clothes she is wearing than the powerful talk she is giving. This is the world we live in. People are happy to overlook a struggle someone is facing or a brave thing they accomplish to comment on the thin shirt on someones back or the shorts they have on. They're her clothes and she is doing a talk to help people not a fashion show.Focus on the message she's trying to convey not on the length of her shorts.

Regardless.. Good talk

Is it OCD if I constantly am always counting beats like maybe a song and it has a beat like 123456 and if it is 12345 that is an odd number and I can't do it so I change the beat somehow to make it even and even with what people say and I would be stuck on 1 part of a song or one thing a person said for like an hour until I found someway to make it even and I do this until I go to sleep like fully asleep and I wake up and keep doing this and with sidewalks I can't step on cracks and same thing the steps between each crack have to be even if it is odd I would restart and walk in the area until it is even. But my mind really hurts everyday with all the songs being uneven and things people say being uneven. So is that a type of OCD.

I hate my intrusive thoughts sm. They will continue for months and it is the stupidest thing

Love the shorts

Wow, she's gorgeous.

I have had ocd when I was a kid, and now I think I'm having it again because I cannot stop remembering those dark days, is that ocd as well? Or is it some kind of depression?

I keep on counting too to the bite and blinks I do 😭

I was waiting for her talk about the supplements...

I lose hours of sleep every night because I have to keep checking things around my room. I'm sick of this! how can I stop?

ocd is like shinigamy from death note nobody see it but you

Hello ...can u write this story in texting form ya translate in hindi

so nice to see this elegant goddess

Memory boosting tablets help in OCD.

Im having ocd from last 10 years.. Think about my position.. All the day i used to satisfy my OCD.. Now i am start loosing my Memory power.. May b my brain will become blank one day.. Atlast in that way I'll be normal may be.. 😕😣You know still i didn't type some words bcz of my ocd 💭 thoughts..

I bet her supplements included L-tryptophan (for serotonin production) and maybe its cofactors. Julia Ross in her The Mood Cure provides support for using this supplement for this condition.

Does quitting sugar help? I've suffered since age 8. It's horrible

I’m a sufferer myself,my peers could contact me for support .

usually only go to 3

This is final...

It seems we all got it here. I could calm it down 3 years ago by meditating, but now I realise that it is like a chained monster in my brain.. I can calm it down only but it is insane to kill it because that means I am killing my self.

I have OCD and I think that the shorts she's using are related to the disorder, because she probably always has to take a shower and wash all her clothes (when arriving at home) and smaller clothes are just easier to wash.

How to get over OCD, do a TED talk.

Ascwagandha, vit b6, magnesium. Do not drink coffee. Go and have a job. Do not think too much. Accept the worst, forget in 2 minutes to 2 days.

If u can answer me, what did u change in your diet?

This is so true, I had hOCD and then suddenly I didn’t. Don’t know how or why but I just get discomfort when true crime plays up on tv. Nothing more. I had anchored my life so much around not giving into compulsions and learning to be a third person to my thoughts and constantly just had it consciously or subconsciously when it’s gone, I don’t know what to fill that big spot and find myself searching for it now. I don’t know what I did before I got my OCD, I knew I had a life before it but i just can’t live like that anymore. Someone please drop suggestions kindly.

My ocd has been since 6 years 🥲

4’s were/are one of mine too. Weird.

My number is 4 also

Diet restriction? Which one?

11:03

THIS.

She looks like someone used the randomizer on the Sims. That outfit is like throwing darts at the wall

She makes me feel better because I suffer with BPD and just because I wear tiny tops and often hotpants (I am tall but my legs are getting a bit chunkier) and an ex-employee of Our ex-MP made a comment about my top because a female acquaintance/friend commented on it to make him think I walked around in a bra!!! He completely ignored my complaints about Social Care- serious failings and focussed on that. I am planning to go the Paper over these serious Health Care and NHS failings OVER TWO DECADES. I would like to tell this man if I ever see him that he offended me. If I want to bare my midriff I can. That could have been classed as sexual Harassment. That is the Government for you. Backwards PC- You can't flatter with a wolf whistle now but you can insult us women on our attire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me i count 123 12 1

What is she wearing?

Dude she walked of the red circle so many time ahhhhhhhhh

I've watched this video 46 - 47 - 48……..

1234 , 4321 1234 , 4321

OCD isn't only about germs

What's with hot pants and boots for a public speach.. is this part of ocd..

I was cured from OCD by believing in GOD and knowing the purpose of my life, and starting in achieving my goals and being involved in charity activities, HAVING OCD is one of the most bad experience you may face in your life, it ruins your life.

I found the therapy these legs on my wall

I am a muslim . Today I will like to introduce few aspects of religion Islam to you . Few of our beliefs are as follows 1. We believe God is one . He has no partners. He neither begets , nor is begotten. 2. We believe in all the prophets of God sent on earth for guidance of people . It includes many prophets, few of them are Hazrat Ibrahim ( peace be upon him ) , Hazrat Ismail ( peace be upon him, ) , Hazrat Eesa (Jesus)( peace be upon him) and finally Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) 3. We believe in all the angels , they are also creation of God. 4. We believe there is a day of Judgment 5. We believe , all mankind will be made alive again by God after death, on the day of judgment. 6. We believe that all mankind is answerable for the deeds which they do in this life in the afterlife. 7. We believe there is a Paradise made by God. 8. We believe Paradise is very beautiful and it has everything which gives comfort to a person. 9. We believe God has no son and no father. He is the only God. He forgives all sins whichever He wills but do not forgive shirk. Shirk means worshiping anyone other than God , may it be sun or fire or any personality. Also associating partners with God is shirk. Idolatry is also shirk. Shirk can be forgiven if someone ask forgiveness from God and decides to never do shirk in his life. 10. We believe God will enter believers with good deeds into Paradise in the afterlife. 11. We believe in all books sent by God . It includes Taurat given to Hazrat Musa( Moses) ( peace be upon him) , Zaboor given to Hazrat Daud ( peace be upon him), Injeel( Gospel ) given to Hazrat Eesa( Jesus ) peace be upon him) and Quran given to Muhammad ( peace be upon him). We have five obligations as a muslim to fulfill. 1. 1st is kalima , it is belief that there is only one God and Muhammad ( peace be upon him) is His messenger. After believing in this a person becomes a muslim. 2 . 2nd is Salah . We perform Salah five times a day. It is performed in arabic in a specific way . It is performed in mosque by men and at home by women , mostly . 3. 3rd is Fasting , it is done for 1 month in a complete year . In this we leave eating or drinking anything from early morning till evening. Then eat and drink till next early morning 4. 4th is zakat , it is giving 2. 5 percent of free wealth to poor people, once in a year . It is obligatory for those who have a certain amount of free wealth. 5 . 5th is Hajj . It is performed in a specific way in Mecca . It is obligatory once in a lifetime for those who can afford to go and come back from Mecca . We also believe in huqooq al ebad. Means rights of people . Means being nice to neighbors, do not harm an innocent, being obedient to parents except if they tell something against Islam . But in every case we will behave very nicely with them . And many more . I invite everyone of you to accept Islam . Thanks for reading.

What a set of legs!

how can someone so fked up behaviourally still have so many boyfriends even a husband and do so many "normal" things like go to college? makes one wonder

Not appropriate outfit for a talk

Who could take her seriously with that outfit!

This woman assaulted a 71 year old woman in Sedona this week.