hey dude i can help u msg me

I feel you:/

Do an OCD whatsapp group for chatting!

Abhishek sarkar we all have that battle, hence the two hemispheres that make us, us.

Yes bhai. It's hell.

@nickys34 Are you actually for real?

@nickys34 As someone with OCD I can attest that changing diets can help relieve stress, but I don't think that it is purely due to the lack of carbs. Ketosis for instance does help me feeling more energized and generally less stressed, but I think a big part of that is that I have to practice a degree of self discipline to do it, providing me with a sense of control over my life.

Exactly and also CBT usually cure the behaviours better than the thoughts.

@nickys34 Do you want to share to the class what you think OCD is? Because whatever you think it is... isn't it.

@nickys34 what do you mean?

That's how my OCD works

Z P ... that's called Pure O. It's hell... hell in your mind.

i have it this way . driving me nuts

When you have intense pain regarding a decision involving someone who you perceive to be manipulatory or a bully then the war in your head starts. High status people damage you - as the war is before and after whatever decision you make as they pick up on your vulnerability. 50/50 is every decision.

@@elpablo3728 it's Pure- O

ty man

Casual two-sentence youtube comment about OCD: shown as (edited). Telltale sign right there. I feel your pain, friend, even in writing and re-writing this reply.

Thanks

Just clicked the like button 50 times to make sure i did it.

Tenny Elbenny I want him to delete it and rewrite it without the “edit” being there because it looks imperfect to me. His ocd is triggering my ocd.

That's absolutely correctly brother.i do have all of these.

It feels as if my anxiety, depression, and OCD all back each other up reinforcing themselves.

same. i wish i can afford therapy or medications at least but it seems like only the rich can afford them in my country.

I think I kinda understand you...I really want to die, because there are times that I feel so dead inside of me. But if I did this, it would cause a lot of pain and I also want to fight, but sometimes it's just so hard to motivate yourself

Stay strong, we're in this together

Cheryl Smith yes so true what u have kids should be free from abuse

yeah. same :---(

This message will fall on deaf ears. Abusive people will not take responsibility for their actions or care. You have to take steps to put your past behind you. People will justify anything to be able to believe they are a hero or right.

Cheryl Smith is too ! Same in our family

nickys34 wtf?!

undefined Try to meditate, it may help you man

Intentionally refraining from giving in to the compulsions is one of the few proven ways to curb them. A personal example, for whatever it's worth, is that I'm compelled to eat things in an even number of bites. If things naturally work out to an odd number, I'll intentionally leave it at that, and refuse to break the last bite into two. Edit: just finished watching the video, and this comment is redundant. Derp.

What the video suggests worked for me. But, you have to be prepared to accept the possibility that your fears come true. OCD has a lot in common with addiction. Every time you engage in one of the behaviors, it just gets worse and if you allow yourself to indulge in them, you'll find yourself starting over again. Medication and dietary changes may also make the process easier.

You're all missing the point that the original poster focused upon. There are different types and levels of OCD. Some people are aware that there are real logical reasons behind the "disorder", while others may be even unaware they actually have a disorder. OCD is a matter of conditioning, and a lot of this conditioning happens ever since one's birth, so it is always the environment that creates the illness, even though some people are genetically prone to it, while others are not. The compulsions are ways to "vent", since the person is powerless to actually fix the actual problem. The concept of "irrational fear" is not a synonym to "unreal fear". Whenever someone fears something, is because they went through some traumatic event where this "something" was involved. What happens is that, many times, the "learned behavior" or the "acquired knowledge" becomes mostly inefficient or useless to the rest of the person's life. Like, for example, if you see someone get run over by a red Ford truck, then you get triggered every time you see a red truck, as if only red trucks are a potential danger. The person may know that all cars have the same potential danger, but the brain has a vivid registered memory of the red truck ripping someone apart, and even though you consciously know other red trucks will not present any more danger than black trucks or whatever, your brain sets you in the ultra-defensive mode, and if you can release the tension this created in your organism in some non-hazardous way, it is actually BETTER if you do it. So, what the original commenter means is that certain people will "develop" OCD because they're trapped in circumstances that makes their brain prompt them to get out or get away from, but they cannot, so they have to find alternative _useless_ actions that sort of "_tricks the brain_" into believing you're acting in your own interest and getting away from the threatening situation.

I just want to help because I've been in the same situation, change the environment and meditate can help you. I'm not trying to be a doctor or something but if a person watched this video maybe he wants to know something more about this topic

How did you get better?

Hoping that it’s the same for me. Currently doing better, but the OCD has just made my life a living hell

Mavis ocd is a nightmare and a unbearable unending curse

Hope this video helped.

Of course it is!! Mine is Profound and Refractory contamination OCD. How about others?

Yes. Yes it is

@@paula_morton912 I constantly think I've dropped important papers while I'm out and constantly looking back to make sure I didn't. I also have to check locked doors and I have to always make sure all lights on the inside of my vehicle are off

Psalm 55:22 22Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Thanks mate!

*you're

he's only the best because he is so OCD about making his videos great!

screw you

It would be great if you could do a video regarding tourettes. I think the brain abnormalities in OCD and tourettes are similar, but slightly different too.

Adi Buschu mine is counting letters in every word and putting on socks. It made college hell, but I made it to grad school.

Looking back or around for no reason. We both have it in common. ;) the worst part is, My brain already figured out all of these he mentioned in the video. But it's just so hard to actually stay with that. But I will ;)

Wiping to the point of bleeding sometimes? 😐

Vince Warren yes! I play with letters in words in my head too! I use to have to watch t.v. with subtitles just to see the words to play with them.

Adi Buschu how is your OCD now? I know it's not funny ( I have OCD too although comes in phases to some extent thankfully ) but the last two I thought were cute and funny.

has it gotten better?

That’s powerful.

I'm trying to tell myself that these are just thoughts and for about 5 minutes I can breathe again, I can feel a small sample of freedom...but then...it starts all over again...

Monica K Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

To the degree that the thoughts are happening, you are them. You’re biological organism isn’t those thoughts, but thinking can’t say it’s not the accumulation of thoughts. I have ocd too, watching thinking happening seems to be the only sane way out, but recognizing that I as the thinker am deceiving myself to say I’m not the total process of (desired and undesired) thinking. I am. I’m also the biological organism and environment. There’s a duality to thinking and an impulse to separate the thinker from the thoughts the thinker doesn’t like. But we are the total process of thinking and I believe to literally perceive that by the rest of your mind is what “frees” us from that process. By perception, not thinking. Otherwise, ocd will go on tricking itself that it’s not itself forever. Looping.

Darien Birkett.. ive had ocd since I was 17 years old. It kinda went away when I was about 23 years old. But now it's back with a vengeance and wayyy worse than before. I had two breakdowns yesterday and today. I have to go to work tomorrow and I'm afraid that I'll have to quit my job of 12 years. I feel like I'm literally... losing it to the point of no return.

Darien Birkett schenpranzia

G4nst4Ch33se ... I’m doing so much better after a year and 2 months of my first ocd episode. The anxiety is still there but I don’t let it get the best of me. How are you?

@@haajjabbaajaj768 no lmao research

You got it

Aku From the future yeah people are saying they’re cured lol there is no cure

Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

TOTALLY TRUE! Even the few movies made with a theme of OCD make a joke of this nightmarish hell on earth. On top of that is the fact there are different degrees of this illness, most ‘average normal’ people often have mild symptoms at some stage of their life which then resolves. These ones have no idea of the REAL disease. My sons life was taken away from him literally from the age of 12 and there is no word in the English language to begin describe the nightmare for him and myself as a single parent which never ends. The only reason I’m alive is that I have a very strong faith based on accurate knowledge and not credulity or emotion. There’s is nothing worse for a parent to see a child suffering terribly for decades pandemic being helpless to help. The OCD support groups offered very little, even some of these ones make a joke of it as though it’s something funny. In Australia there’s only the usual anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications. In the USA you are much more fortunate as there is much more help there but probably only if you mortgage most of your entire life to pay for it,

It's easier to be just mindful of it and paying attention. The urge to go and check results from not paying attention when locking it. If you pay attention, you can visualize yourself doing it when you get the urge and move on...

I just hum a tune or sing a little song about locking the door.

What you are describing is forgetfulness that many do have but this is not OCD since OCD person is already aware. Just can't shift his gear.

Yep, this is a good tactic. Another is just doing *anything* odd while locking the door. That way it's not part of a forgettable routine. You'll remember locking the door because of the unusual thing you did while locking it.

@thechosen, I've got OCD, well, I've gotten enough treatment and done enough work that it's probably OCPD. But, it's a failure to register, not forgetfulness. I've adopted the strategy with dimmer switches that are impossible to visually check to over turn them until my hand starts to slip. Then they're turned off. I have to accept the possibility that the condo will have a fire because if I let myself slip and do the checks, then I'm going to backslide. Similarly for the locks, I have to do it once really well, and then accept the possibility that it hasn't been locked at all or that the deadbolt only hasn't been locked. That being said, if TheTrivek42 isn't getting intense discomfort and anxiety from the unlocked door, then you're right about it being just forgetfulness.

+ma lama really like what do you mean?

I know that I'm late to respond to this, but that sounds a lot like dermatillomania. It's a relatively "new found" disorder and it can sometimes be grouped together with OCD. I have dermatillomania and also cleaning OCD and the thought-process feels similar but the OCD felt more like terror if i didnt perform the behaviour, whilst derma felt like it was building a stronger urge and frustration.

OCA Obsessive compulsive anonymous. Helps me.

Oh yeah... that imperfection thing :/ biggest challenge for me as well... loose skin and that stuff on the inside of ones cheeks. Can sometimes put me into a cycle of rinse repeat...

Same here

Hello how is you now ,

Laura Croft Mine usually gets worse when I am stressed out for the most part, so having days where you don't do anything will help, works for me anyway, just chill out at home and do something you enjoy =)

Jake Dew have you ever washed the knob with soap , and fear that the water will splash on my hands from the wash basin. Its so horriblr

Jake Dew That last part though!!! Couldn't have said it any damn better myself. Thank you so much!

Jake Dew I thought I was the only one who opened the door with my elbow... or a part of my shirt.... or my butt... or... lmao

Hey Jake, You are right OCD is a broad disorder, you can have people who hoard belongings, people who do rituals to decrease their anxiety to people who are clean. My therapist confided to me that Cleaning is one of the less common ocd disorders. I have only experienced it 8 months and it is horrible.

Very well said, at least one person on here knows what there talking about he's just a stereotype.

thank you for writing this. it's the only one who actually adressess the right treatment.

Well put

This is exactly it.

beautifully put

I agree with you. Its a real torment.

It's pure hell, your mind becomes the enemy that tortures you until it sees you break to tiny pieces.

@@floweryunicorn8888 try exposure im wa y calmer now

@@floweryunicorn8888 i wouldn't say hell id say annoying

Nah I would say it is In an extreme battle with severe ADHD but certainly hell is having both wondering if you locked the door both out of OCD compulsion and ADHD forget fullness can leave you going back and forth a hundred times literally I have both ADHD and OCD

Yeah, exactly right. Mine is music. The same 10-15 seconds of whatever song my mind has gripped to, repeating over and over for literally my ENTIRE. WAKING. EXISTENCE. Sometimes for days, the same segment of a song, the same piece, over and over, it’s torture man. My life and mind have become pretty dull and uneventful these past couple years, as I can’t think about things. It’s just basic survival, working and eating and paying the bills. I can’t imagine and structure a plan for a higher self, it’s like thinking through the thickest most evil fog.

for me everytime i forget it and i could be having no thoughts and it comes right back. and when i do music to help, the thoughts slowly creep into my things to get away from it and ruin that, when my brain goes wait, you don’t care ab this thing anymore? ok let’s worry ab this, it makes me not want to even have thoughts and it’s so debilitating in social situations where i have to mentally argue with my brain, try to listen to people, and think what i am trying to say at the same time

I agree

What do you mean by "traits" here?

@@danko5866 for example someone without ocd could need something to be symmetrical or positioned in an exact way or else they feel uneasy. My psychology professor demonstrated this by writing something “out of place” on the white board and it bothered most of the class. Although this is an experience that some ocd sufferers have (including myself) I was annoyed at the fact that this was his way of explaining the disorder in general, which is obviously inaccurate, not to mention that people with this subtype of ocd experience it constantly in a way that causes actual distress and can be disabling. Most people at some point in their life also experience intrusive thoughts from time to time but these are often just a result of being human and aren’t clinical ocd, however they may mirror the experiences of someone who does have clinical ocd. Because of this overlap non-ocd sufferers might confuse their experiences with the experiences of those with the actual mental illness.

Michael Sheridan May I ask, what are your symptoms? I hope I'm not imposing, but I really wanna understand OCD as much as possible!

Your comment is so on point! I have also OCD but I don't have an obsession about cleaning etc.

THANK YOU. I have pure-O and I hate it when people think OCD is just about obsessive cleaning..

Yeah im very messy aswell got pure 0,counting ocd and touch ocd

Ahhh i love you 😭

Hate it. It's like my brain trying to control me instead if me controlling "it".

Intrusive thoughts are included in obssessions , but yeah he did focus mostly on compulsions.

i have pure O. im sick of the media portrayal in germs!

Right, I'm pure o and it's hell.

Me same

My guess is that you could hypothetically use the power of habit for altering any long-term behavior. If you take a look at Mel Robbins's _5 Second Rule_ (or just search her name on UKposts), you can see this sort of thing applied specifically to anxiety.

there are various therapies and tools for both of these, i talk a bit about tips for anxiety and social anxiety on my channel but yes in theory you could do some behavioural stuff like this :)

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What sort of therapy exactly?

Hey how u got cured?

Howwwwww

Yeah, what kind of therapy? CBT is not working for me and I'm desperate

Which therapy?

please do not upload more often and keep the quality high instead. 😉 (it is indeed a really, really good educational channel! 👌 thanks for that! 😎)

Btw, my brothers typ 1 diabetes starts to get better and better everyday, since we quit sugar and carbohydrates :) *big thank you*

Wow that's fantastic, glad to hear that!

+Daniel Janetzke could ocd cone from being diabetic

Thanks Sue! It took a while to find that specific Obama clip B-)

Siddharth Kashyap brother control it for 5 min in starting then increase the time ......thank me later

Help me

Fight it, be brave. That's how I won. Mix of acute stress disorder and OCD, now almost absent. BTW I'm Indian too

@@MeenakshiDutta-cu5vi how u control it bro?

Iyan Eki Stop fighting the thoughts, it’s a hopeless fight, you can’t win. The more you resist the harder the thoughts will come back. You want to learn to accept the thoughts. You don’t have to agree with it, but just accept that it can be here present in your mind and you don’t have to make it go away. After accepting it you want to redirect your focus on something else, focus on the colors of the objects around you, focus on your breathe. The point is not to give attention to the thought, treat it as something unimportant! This is truly the way my friend

You comment really made me think about my struggles, so similar. I have actually just done a video on this as its close to my heart. Keep Strong

David Copperfield i reacted to that too..knowledge is the catalyst to change, but not without work!

daniel572 Sad but true. I did great after exposure aversion therapy - *until* I had a really awful life experience & everything came back... excessively so. Frustrating. :/

Have you heard of cognitive behaviour therapy? I have OCD and was referred for that last year. It mainly focused on proving that we don't have control over for the nature or frequency of our thoughts, and we're not responsible for intrusive/unwanted thoughts. Detached mindfulness was a technique we practiced, as well as exposure & response prevention therapy. From what I understand, this kind of tailored CBT is the recommended therapy for patients with OCD. Parts of it were very very challenging, but it changed the way I think about what I think. It did me a lot of good.

Ciara Hicks I'm personally fascinated! I have TS & OCD & I did exposure aversion - which worked til my life took a crap - and it ALL came back with a vengeance. Your comment gave me some hope :) TY :D

Elektric Skeptic I know it wasn't that long ago, but I've not had any sort of relapse up until this point and I have experienced quite extreme stress. I would definitely look into it! :) Last autumn I started to do a DBT course, and that's been brilliant too. It's different to CBT and focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Everyone can benefit from DBT, but it helped with my anxiety and motivation a great deal. It took me years after being diagnosed to find the right sort of help, I know how frustrating that time can be. Best of luck!

Ciara Hicks Thank you so very much - I'm DEFINITELY looking into it! :D xo (^_^)

HTES HCNUB Please seek help

Same

You are not your thoughts, listen to some Alan Watts and Terrence McKenna

It's going to be okay. You're stronger than your thoughts, and you can survive one day at a time. Just survive.

I get you bro, just never let into the thoughts and ignore it. Think it in a way it's there but you remind urself it is not you.

cooper c when you tweet about catching leukemia

I'm so cardiac arrest

"I so pale"

@@vinodkumaraug I'm pale too bro. My skin reflects from the light.

@@vinodkumaraug I remember that report 😂😂