Keep Your OCD Hostage! How To Keep It Trapped!
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Your OCD wants to keep you hostage. It tells you lies, negotiates with you, and tricks you. What if we turned that around and you had all the power? I'm going to teach you how to keep YOUR OCD HOSTAGE. I want you to feel like the boss. You've always had all the power, now is the time to recognize it.
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DISCLOSURE: Although I am a licensed therapist. This video is not intended to replace medical advice. This is for information purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a local mental health professional.⠀
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What are you going to do to keep your OCD hostage? 🤪
I'm four months into ERP/recovery work , thoughts still come but anxiety has mostly reduced. The video is spot on, as you do ERP OCD changes its storylines to try keep you in fear, but no matter what it tells you just do ERP for it. As you get stronger and anxiety reduces OCD then twists the story to, you have the thoughts but your not anxious so that must mean that the thoughts are real ... This is where I'm at now, it is hard but as Nathan says you just have to keep doing ERP even for the "what if it's not OCD" OCD. Hopefully one day soon I'll finally beat this thing. But I can honestly say this video is very very accurate as to how OCD works. Keep up the excellent work you do for us Nathan. Thank you.
You should look in what "waswasa" is
Fantastic video! I completely agree. Even as I write this, my OCD is hitting me with thoughts that make me feel very uncomfortable, trying to keep me hostage to it's tortuous ways.
But again, after seeing this video, I just had to smile because of how much myself and I'm sure others with OCD can relate to this. It's amazing how our "OCD minds" can get creative at keeping us wrapped up in fear, hard to escape it's grasp.
It's the combination of both the intellectual part mixed with the dynamic depths of emotion that make OCD so damn convincing. It creates almost an alternate, convincing reality which is part of why people that don't really understand mental illness (in this case OCD) can fully understand what's happening.
If it was so easy not to do this, or don't worry about that, etc etc etc.... People wouldn't even know what the term OCD is, because it wouldn't exist.
Anyways, love your videos. Great stuff man! Very helpful!! Thank you. :D
I’ve tried a couple times to reach out in comments on how to go about this prevention if I believe in the law of attraction, where as what we think becomes our reality? I need some thoughts on this please Dr.
@@kr1zm1tchell50 thanks for this comment! it helps me really especially the what is it's not ocd part.
The part that you mentioned where OCD attacks you when you're trying to heal was so realistic. Often when I'm not worrying about things my brain will go why!? Why aren't you worrying about it? What about this??
Yes! I will worry because I forgot what I was worrying about.
Omg Same
This is so true
I have been litterally doing the homework but like all the sudden I am completely in the anxiety so strong for a few days now is that normal?
Yes I had two week where I didn’t have anxiety and it hit me with guilt and I feel like I’m going back to those nights where I used to wake up crying…..ocd just wants us to live with it
This really helped me today. Especially the scrupulosity. I’m going to hold it hostage by saying .”maybe, maybe not” sitting with anxiety, and staying present.
Me too! It disarms ocd. I am not ruminating and not doing compulsions.
Every time when I feel I’m better, this is the exact thing happened every time, for health ocd
The brain is so good at making people find a "new" problem when things are going well. Hopefully the responses work well for you. "maybe, maybe not" tends to be my favorite.
@@ocdandanxiety Yes I just need to reply this Every time when ocd try me
”it wants all the glory” was an aha moment for me !
Your videos have helped my mental health immensely. I’ve never been diagnosed with ocd but gad. I’ve had crippling social anxiety, and a mean voice in my head that tells me everyone is paying attention to me or everyone is out to get me and I get stuck in an intense guilt and shame loop so when I found your videos it was life changing for me. I started trying exposure and response therapy and to my delight it has worked amazingly!!! It’s given me my power back! It’s given me my confidence back and released me from the chains of guilt! As soon as I have the money to I am purchasing your course! Thanks so much!!
You have changed my life, your videos make me laugh and make me see things from such a different perspective. Thank you Nathan!!! I would love to see a video on health anxiety ( hypochondria ) as I see this being so common among people including myself. Thanks!
I could also greatly benefit from a health anxiety video with an overarching focus on how to combat fear of sickness, uncertainty, bodily sensations, death, etc.
Please this would save a life
3:52 "Hello? I kept you safe this long!"
I always get this thought when I start to detach from the fears in my mind and feel "normal"
Been trying really hard, but this wave of it for some reason stuck really bad, the anxiety is the worst part this time, your videos have helped me learn so much about this.
Thanks for the kind words. The thing about waves is that they ALWAYS shrink. Things get better if we allow it. 😃
@@ocdandanxiety since we're all stuck in quarantine, for someone with pocd, would an example of exposure therapy be watching TV shows/movies?
"Putting OCD in jail" How nice it sounds! :) Thanks for making these videos, Nathan! They are really inspiring.
Thank you for your videos! They're funny, straightforward, and helpful! I started ERP with my therapist yesterday and I'm so excited to grow my world!
Thanks for the kind words! I wish you the best! 😃
Excellent video Nathan! Would love a video on controlling your mind chatter immediately after you have done an exposure and you start having a barrage of scary thoughts and OCD tries to make you do the compulsion
You are a Genius, thanks for your amazing work
Sometimes it feels like getting better from my ocd is scary because it makes me feel like I'll be losing a big piece of me! Or losing my identity! I've identified with perfection for so long and felt as though I was able to achieve perfection in most parts of my life for years (which makes me question if I even have ocd) but as the years went on, after high school real life set in and things happened, such as, I became overweight for the first time in my life, I lost alot of hair from trichotillomania, I didnt end up going to college like i thought...and so nothing felt perfect anymore or the way I thought it would be. OCD really hates to accept change. It makes me hate myself when things dont the way I want them to.
Has your situation improved? If so do you have any advice?
OMG, I almost want to cry. This is EXACTLY what OCD is like!! 💔
These days it’s under my hostage. It juggled me in my past for so long. Due to your videos it is fun to juggle ocd. 😍😁 I am loving it.
Really really really good video. I especially like the last line "with OCD, your job is to face the unknown"
Great video. Currently about every 4th thought I have is a question that is fueled by doubt in someway or another. Sometimes it’s every 2 thoughts, and sometimes it’s one doubtful thought after another and this happens maybe 30 times a day. It very rarely stops. To anyone else severely struggling I hope you can healthily distract yourself, that’s what I’m practicing!
@BigBoy-hy4vh distracting myself in good ways really helped me. It feels counterintuitive but it does help a lot.
Thank you for your videos, its like being able to breathe relief knowing its not hopeless
Who ever disliked this video, they gonna get a donkey as a girl friend..
Can’t lie, this is really triggering. I feel like exposing myself is making me MORE anxious.
I have heard that the key is to do the exposure as long as it takes for your anxiety level to peak. After that it will start to come down, and that's when your brain will start to learn that all that anxiety isn't needed. This is way easier said than done but I hope it helps, God bless
Thanks for the video, Nathan! You're helping us so much ♥️
My pleasure!
Face the unknown ! Nathan, I have watched videos from your channel and that of others. I keep getting motivated. I will do what I have to now.
It's so life changing when the anxiety gets weaker
I have obsessive thoughts about outer space and how we are speeding through space on a rock and it tears me down every day. These videos helps a bit.
Great post!
Is it weird that I almost feel sorry for my OCD? I mean, at one point I DID need it to feel safe...it did give me some kind of protection that I felt I needed at that time. Or is this just another lie that it's telling me?
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!
I have harm ocd, sometimes it even feels like I have an urge to hurt someone or myself, but I know that I would never do anything to anyone or myself, I have been practicing exposure with my thoughts, but it’s scary with ocd because it makes me feel like I am agreeing with the ocd to harm someone. Any advice?!
I can't really give advice on specific cases. I do have this video on harm OCD treatment. Seeing a therapist can help as well. ua-cam.com/video/hwkpqNpHfkE/v-deo.html
I have the same thing! I worry that I will never be able to control my OCD and it will lead me to harm myself
The best therapist!! Thank you!!
I've had ocd in many forms for three decades. I thought I could fix it by myself, and I've made some progress. But this week I'm going to see a therapist about it cause it's unmanageable at times. Thanks for the videos, they are very helpful. 👍
I am so thankful for you and your amazing efforts you did to help us with ocd thank you very much and I hope one I will return your favor
I like how you have given this advice with different spectrums of ocd. I could never tell myself to not pray/mess it up or leave my door unlocked. But rather concious acknowledge I did it. And for the other ocds I have I just need to do exactly what you said!
this is one if the best video I've ever watched about ocd.so inspiring and powerful. ive been watching your channel for 2 days now and ive learned so much thanks to you im working on my ocd and its looking good so far.i feel like im beating the beast and putting him back to his cage... all thanks to you
Hi man are you feeling good now?
3:25 is soooooo trueeee. My ocd was dormant back then but once that soab made his come back, he come up with ideas that i never ever thought about them before. Something that burdening me, that make my ocd to be even worse that i wish i will permanently being ignorant instead of finding those things out.
Bro, you're so insightful. I doubt you're ever going to acutely understand the value of your help. Thank you.
very powerful ! thanks a lot
Sir you are doing good job! your contain is very useful.
So nice of you
Your videos makes my life more easier x since i feel with ocd for more than 4 months, every situation and theme change. I will like to ask if u will make. Video for ocd of mental illness? Be afraid of have schizophrenia or any mental illness because you questioned your ocd too much that u can't control if u will be in danger in the future. I will be awesome
Totally! I have this one planned and in the works! Thanks for the kind words!
@@ocdandanxiety omg thanks so much for the deepest of my heart for that. Seriously if I didn't search for help and reach your videos and your tips and advices I will be done for. Thanks you again for make such an amazing helpful content for all of us your such an angel 🥺
@@SelLoove please help me out bro
Thank you sooo much!!! This is helping me so much! This analogy is incredibly accurate and paints the reality of OCD in a way that is absolutely genius! Thank you!!!
Sometimes I wonder endlessly if it's not just my intuition telling me to listen. But then, I'm afraid. Which leads me back again to asking if it's fear or just the intuition that I'm trying not to listen to. That's when the trouble usually starts. Then I think, well, I should have listened to the warning signal. But sometimes, it IS just imagination.
I don't want to keep ocd hostage. I want to execute it.
I don't blame you my friend! I hope you're doing well! 😃
OCD and Anxiety i am. Better then the last time we talked
@@solorhypercane5041 awesome to hear!
Thank you for the video I have pandas syndrome so lots of ocd . I have feelings that everyone hates me because of my disorder. Now I can try to label this just as ocd.
Please remember me in your prayers I also have ocd hopefully God most honorable most glorified besides whom there is no power wishes will help me overcome it easily.
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I didn't understand that
I don't mean to be rude
Men hua be strong... Keep trusting in God!
Very good and helpful video!
Glad to hear that!👍🏻
You are doing great job.
Love from Pakistan
Thanks so much for your support my friend! 😃
You are absolutely amazing!!!
Thanks for the kind words!!😃
Man this man helps me so much thank u mister
Hi, I have been having intrusive thoughts that just continue to come. I can not stop thinking about them. But I don't know how to tell my counselor. I just feel as though I'm insane and I don't want to tell her. Do you have any tips?
I'm sorry for what you're going through! Your counselor can't help if they don't know. If they are an OCD therapist, they should know what your experience. Treat it as an exposure to tell your counselor. It's for you, not them. 😃
OCD and Anxiety thank you I'll try to do that today!!
I'm sorry to hear that too bailie and you are so young. I found sometimes writing things out for myself helps before speaking to my therapist. They are there to help u and make you better. Lots of prayers for you
Literal lifesaver
This is one of my favs.
Thanks so much Chad!
@@ocdandanxiety you are very welcome. Thank you for all these videos!
Great video as always nathan
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this video
Hi Nathan. I wanted to ask you a question about using ERP to treat tourettic OCD. The last time we talked, you said that ERP worked great for some people, but not for others. Isn't exposing yourself to the urges the only way to treat tourettic OCD? If ERP didn't work, what methods did you use? Would you say that ERP is the best way to treat tourettic ocd? Thanks.
I'm starting my HOCD recovery today but it's so hard it seems so real but I'm still going 😁😭it's so hatd
You are funny but you are so helpful Thanks a lot May God bless you
Please l have a friend, every single ocd daily giving him panikattack and depression, if that any help for that? Ocd coming often to his dreams as well, new ocd every time he try to fix one, and new reason to new ocd.
Thanks if you responding!
Yes, sir !
Hey man really hoping if you could give me a little bit of help ,im definitely sure ive been struggling with rocd ,i used to have crippling anxiety and all the symptoms you said in your rocd video but i didnt know about rocd at that time until i saw your video 2-3 days back after which my anxiety and thoughts reduced so much realising what had been going on and i feel like i dont have a fear of breaking up w her anymore and this does not give me anxiety at all prolly because my friends and family told me that i really didnt like her or whatever ,all i need to know is that is it normal for the fear of breaking up to begone in rocd? Please help meee...
Yes google “backdoor spike” or you probably have been obsessed with it so much you are numb or depressed if you are not then I’m assuming you have gained some type of temporary reassurance and that it will come back.
Wow! Spot on!
My OCD runs my Life how do I gain my life back?
Thanks for help 😁
7:30 I been doing this and it helps a lot. I think I have real event ocd and each time I get the thought of “this task (at work) must be achieved or else you will do that thing again” I do it anyways. Hell it happened as I wrote this comment. Best of luck to everyone.
Awesome video Nathan!
Do you have any advice on stepping up from imaginal exposure to in vivo? Going to playgrounds, malls, etc. I’m very afraid my fears are true and I’m in denial.
A lot of times I say that we don't need to be "ready" to do hard things. OCD wants people to feel ready; it just doesn't happen. Most of the time if there is a plan in place or a hierarchy the person can be successful just jumping in.
OCD and Anxiety Thanks! It’s hard to tell the difference between me and the OCD. Time to show it who’s boss!
Thank you😀
Thanks. Very useful
Glad it was helpful!🤪
Thanks for this
My pleasure! Thanks for your support! 😃
Would you advise us to purposefully think the thoughts like let them infest our brains or is that unhealthy and dangerous to do because I keep getting a recurring thought over and over again so could purposefully thinking about it, help it dissipate over time?
For me the biggest fear is to start to believe my thoughts…
Thank you for helping me
It works for panic attacks too.
I relate to the part where i started my ERP and my ocd starts to doubt the treatment, the doubt that i may lose control, the doubt of ocd itself. I try to not resist it and im still learning
You mean im not the only one suffering from this
Thank you
How can I know if your therapist is specialist for ocd???
Hi, do you give online consultations?
So true!!!
Thanks Nathan
I’m literally in AW right now
Exactly 💯 WOW!!!👍
Tw might trigger someone Does anyone else’s ocd try to justify the thoughts or the thing your worrying about cause u say I’m a good person but then it says oh so pedos are good people then? And I hate it so much pls tell me someone relates, it hurts because I wish I just had the intrusive thoughts like I used to because now I realise how easy it is to get over the thoughts but now I get feelings that come with it, like I can’t sleep because my ocd has attached the feeling of comfort to an intrusive thought and it’s literally one thought that it’s attached to and I hate it, I feel like no one talks about this and I’m losing hope because this doesn’t feel like ocd, I cry every single day and i get so tired and my body wants comfort but I can’t get it because I know what’s going to happen, they say use exposure but with this it is so hard because it feels like I like it or something and I don’t, I had a big dream and this has ruined it, I literally can’t hold on anymore I’m only 16 and this shit has ruined my whole life, my therapist said that distorted thought turn into distorted feelings but I’m still so confused can someone help
And now I don’t want to feel good because I’ve related that to the feeling I get when the intrusive thought comes I hate it, if I don’t feel anxiety I have to freak out to get the anxiety back I hate it pls help me
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I can’t hold on anymore
i understand what you mean and i think we’re both going through along with many others, do you feel no anxiety with a thought that comes to your mind? i have that too right now i have a lot of evil thoughts about other people and i don’t get much anxiety or any at all but it still bothers me deeply. i don’t think just because you Don’t have anxiety when a “bad” thought comes to mind that you believe it or agree with it. i try to not let the thought/feeling absorb me but that’s a lot harder said than done but let’s keep fighting this, you’re not alone!!
@@allli3_756 yeah totally, a lot of the time I kind of feel like there’s nothing there when I get the thoughts and I have to physically freak out to actually get some anxiety there, tbh I can’t believe it’s been 2 months already since writing that comment, feeling like I’m wasting my life by worrying about this stuff, has this happened to you where having this and staying alert all the time even without realising it has become the norm and it feels like when you get out of it doesn’t feel right, I feel like I can only be happy if I get relief from compulsions now idk is
that for you too?
I can’t some focusing on my breathing and it’s effecting my sleep . it’s driving me insane .
A "hostage" is not a good metaphor because you have to take care of him for ever. A deceitful hungry beggar sounds better to me.
I have thoughts like do this if your a devil warshiper do this if your a Christian do this. And I want to do the Christian thing becouse I am one but I will feel bad if I do the devil warshiper thing. Any advice?
This is ocd and I’ve had the same thoughts. Talk to God and then do exposures. Don’t listen to it. God bless and help you in Jesus name 🙏
@@hayhayhay8582 thank you.
God bless you
Great 🌟
Thank you! Cheers!
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i’m gonna waterboard my OCD with spinal fluid in my lateral ventricles😂
It sounds like Satan the Devil.
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I seriously LOVE you. Thank you so much!!!
Thanks so much!!