Let me say something to anyone who came across this video. Rob has the best OCD content which you can possibly find. He has been helping me for a couple of months and I really moved foward with his help. I have Sensorimotor OCD related to eye discomfort and Fear of fear. Thanks Rob for everything you´ve been doing. God bless you
Hi Pedro, the eye discomfort is one that triggers me 2. It has been lingering on in the background for about 8y but now that i got under most off my fears and came of meds ocd is turning up the heat on sensorimotor. Off course i need to get back on my meds to get rid of this feeling (thats what ocd wants). But i am in the driving seat not ocd. It can rear its ugly head when it wants and i'll kiss it.
Your video is absolutely right, it’s all mind over matter. Had blinking for around 6 months and just eventually went away naturally. The key is, I didn’t stop thinking about it - but I definitely stopped worrying about it. It can seem very scary especially at the start but once you overcome it you’ll realise how silly it was to worry over something like that. Absolutely everyone is able to 100% break free from this it’s all in your head.
I love you for this comment man, I broke free of both saliva, tinnitus and breathing ocd but the blinking has stuck with me now for the longest time I've ever experienced any of these sensatiions
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. I found it today by coincidence. 2-4 years ago I struggled with a panic disorder with the fear of panic itself and shortly after the sensorimotor ocd with breathing and blinking followed. On the internet I have never been able to find out what I was suffering from until I found an article two weeks ago about sensorimotor ocd and this video today. You basically described my everyday thoughts and fears 1:1 even to the slightest detail, especially the part with "I'm an exception" "I'm different than everyone else" "with me it is the worst case because I'm mentally not strong enough, I can never be happy again". TODAY I experienced the least amount of distress in the past FOUR YEARS while actively focussing on my sensorimotor functions because of the things you said... It is not exhausting. It is not hurting. It is JUST the fear of the thought itself. thank. you. !
Yo, about breathing. Like how did you breath properly? Because i usually feel air hunger. Is this part of the discomfort that i should take? It feels like i dont know how to breath
@@xdxdd7402yea it feels similar to this for me. I’m able to feel quite a bit better for a few days but then I start manually breathing again and it goes back to being stuck in the manual breathing cycle. R u feeling better now?
I had a really hard couple months with anxiety and depression and I was feeling suicidal. Then randomly over a month ago like a light switch I noticed “why am I so aware of my breathing” and I’ve been stuck ever since. I have a 10 month old daughter and I want to get better for her. Feels like this thing has sucked all the joy out of my life. Never had ocd before so this has been terrifying, but I’ve watched this video and other videos on the channel and really trying to apply what I’ve learned. Just wish I could have 1 hour break from it. Praying for everyone else going through something similar 🙏🏻 There’s got to be a way out.
This is exactly me. But mine started with the OCD and because I feel it’s never going to end that’s caused me a lot of depression and anxiety I’m currently struggling with :(( I hope you’re doing better now tho!
@@munnidey7038 I’ve never been happier! It took me a little while to shake it but I finally did. I just had to force my self to find things that distracted me and I slowly started to get better and better. I haven’t dealt with it for probably 8-9 months now!!! It does get better just hang in there:(( because I know it was one of the hardest things for me to ever deal with
This video gave me hope. I have never heard someone explain this like this before. Thank you so much, brother! I am working on overcoming this area and feel like I am making progress.
Thank you so, so much! Few years ago it seemed like no one is ever gonna cover this topic. This is a fear of fear, indeed. Pro-level explanation. Certainly gives hope✨
Hello man, for the past 2 months or so I have been dealing with sensorimotor ocd, it all started with saliva then I looked up and got scared about all the type of other ocd there were, so I started thinking about my blinking, i looked it up and idk there's little information on it, but i watched a Ted talk "how to stop feeling anxious about anxiety" or smith like that, it helped me a lot with dealing with fear, and this video right here helped me a lot, I haven't feel scared for like the past week or so, it helps a lot to not fear it, it is really driven by fear and you are saying some really wise words, so thank you very much for just making a video out of it, and if someone struggling with this reads this, just know it gets better and you are doing the right thing looking for help, i really recommend the Ted talk video, explained very well on how I felt while dealing with this.. you just need to be kind to yourself, and accept it, i know the word "accept it" crawls fear but it's true, ignoring it won't fix it but accepting it and just being like ok do ur thing, it'll get boring eventually. Thank you for making this video and you saying there's no ocd cases where there are people un-treatable it's really encouraging so yeah thanks again, talking about it to other people helps a lot, remember there's always someone out there willing to help you, don't lose hope and move forward.
The is the best video I have ever seen in my life so far, I get on board with the breathing loop and go down in flames 100% debilitating. It really feels like I have figured out the one thing a psychologist can't solve ha u nailed it I love it, subscribed.
I can't really thank you enough. I am very happy that I can finally hear from someone who understands what I am going through. My sensorimotor ocd is mainly triggered when I doing something important that needs focusing such as answering exam questions or paying attention in lectures.
I'm back here after "having" this condition for 10 months now. And I have to say to all the people that are worried about having this condition. That the sentence in this video: "If I wasn't bothered by it, would it still be a problem?" Is the wisest thing I've heard about this. It's 100% true! Acceptance is the ultimate key! I notice it much less often than I used to. And most importantly, I notice it without fear. You will just get used to it! The beggining was the scariest part, but with time, it just vanishes. Don't fight it and accept it!
hi, i’ve been having it for a month now. I’m really worried about having it for a long time because i’m just begging to get my life back. do you think i will have it as long as you did?
@@msajidgamez734 I'm good! You may not believe it but this conditon is just a memory for me now. I really accepted it and today I rarely think about breathing. I just don't care anymore (my mind got bored of it I guess). Sometimes I notice it but don't remind myself about the obsession/anxiety I had. In the past I would think it's impossible but in reality it is! You can notice the sensation without even realizing that you just noticed it! I have no fear of it anymore, it's a part of me and my memories now, and because of that I just don't notice it as often. Now an important part. There is a difference between this obsesion being something new to you and it being something that happened in the past. If you had it alrady, it means you have an experience today. So it's not as scary as it being something new. It's just a memory for me, I don't even concider it as a bad memory (shocking, but I feel that way). Acceptance is the key. Sorry for late reply, it's not my main channel. God bless!
@@thewitchereye637 thanks for your response... actually I dont know why but my YT acc got blocked and i got it back just today.. and i read your msg.. brother can u plz answer my these questions? 1. Brother what actually acceptance is ? Everybody talked about acceptance here,? 2.and brother are u experiencing relapses now or u fully recovered? I saw many people who say that they had it from years and they get relapses amd they never recovered from it? I am confused after listening these comments.. 3# i know this qs is silly that is it can become addiction? Means can a person love to suffer from it or doesn't want to cure from it? Or it can become an addiction? I hope that u will reply..plz sir plz
You've given me hope that I can overcome my sensorimotor OCD involving saliva. I've had it for 2 weeks and you've helped me figure out that it IS driven by fear.
The beat video explaining my situation few days back i went to my village and i was facing hyper acidity and due to it i was focusing on my breathing and now i am facing ocd of breathing and you explained it the same way i am feeling. I like the thing you said that this all is just the fear that is driving you and now i am started to accept it that this is not a problem.
Absolutely Brilliant, you have made it so clear in 13 45 seconds, that I have spent with countless time with therapists, my problem is with constant Breathing, you are a very intelligent man, thankyou for this video
In otherwords the best comment I have ever seen towards this in breathing is, you can not hold your breath forever, therefore you will breath naturally, can you help?
Obsession of the act of thinking has been my hardest. I've been through breathing, heartbeat, vision and feeling stuck in my body. Every part of my body drives me crazy. But this video explains it perfectly. I have a long hard road but he did nail it. And assuming I am too far gone is exactly what Rob just said. Treatment resistance is a lie. No matter how hard. And it is very very hard.
Wow, obsession of the act of thinking is so hard for me too. There are days when it feels impossible to even have conversations without noticing my own speech and wondering “where did it all came from?”
Probably you can try to make it in the “good way”. The key factor is not to get scared. Scary is a feeling you can try not to estimularte scary feeling. It is more rational to make scary and ironical process. For example, imagine intrusive thinking like somebody pushing a gun into you, imagine the gone is a flower with water pressure… make it ironical, make it laughable and the scary will become a kind of innocent feeling. At the end we keep doing all this automatical behaviors day by day. So laugh a little bit about them. All feelings are flowing all the time
I think people also fear watching some videos because they fear they will hear about a new sensation to obscess about 1st of all this video is great watch it completely you will feel lot more confident as I did And I am absolutely free of my sensation I don't feel stressed at all with them 2nd - the key to successful treatment is to actually be fearless of whatever sensations are you don't need to make them quite you need to go as close as possible to the sensation Eg if u worry about breathing force yourself to notice it , initially it will be challenging also bit scary but with time your brain will figure out what the crap man it's nothing It takes time but not jst one but bring everything you can fear into your mind and jst let it be there it loses power Love u Robert
i have been dealing with this for over two decades and had never heard of the name for it until yesterday. thank god i know now that something can be done.
I am feeling emotional because you have described the very thing I am experiencing right now. It makes so much more sense, and I feel better knowing that I am not alone. Thank you.
Great video about this subject. I think my hardest thing now is getting myself to really decouple the anxiety with it. I can tell myself all day that I know I’m fine and I can breathe, and even that I know I won’t always feel like this. Yet I still wake up every day immediately thinking, “I wonder if I’ll be thinking about my breathing all day again”
Wonderful video. Thank you so much for this. My father had a heart attack and I’m so afraid of having one myself as a 26 year old. I’m learning to not give into avoidance behaviors and to say “fuck it” instead of denying myself the opportunity to live
I’ve been very fixated on my breathing for the past 5 days now and it’s very scary and non stop. Not the first time this has happened but I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD. Sometimes I get so anxious and panic cause I feel like I’ll never be able to breath comfortably again. I’m only 15 and I try to explain it to my friends and family but I feel like they don’t understand what I’m trying to say. This definitely helped tho and reading the comments are helping too :)
Me as well but I had to deal with this when I was about your age and then somehow it went away I can’t remember what happened but it did and then I started having this problem again a few weeks ago and I know you and I will recover. Just about taking it slow and working on not letting the fear scare us
@@triston2230 same as you i've been having this problem since like 7 years ago but suddenly it disaaperd for about 2 yrs and i had a panic attack a couple weeks ago and i got worse:( hope we get better soon
@@triston2230 I’ve actually been doing very well the past three weeks, I almost never think about it anymore so hopefully I’ll feel good for another long time anyway!
Hey rob, commented a few days back on the sensorimotor ocd with seeing my nose, wanted to let you know that its pretty much gone now, but I have a new sort of problem now. The problem now is with my hands. When ever I touch something it feels as if my sense of touch doesn't feel right, if that makes sense. Like when I touch my hoodie I can feel the hoodie but let say if I touched it 1 month back the sensations are 2 totally different things. It doesn't feel satisfying or right in a sense. My hands also feel a little weird but I think that's because I'm paying attention to them most of the time. Just wanted to ask if you have think this is a form a sensorimotor ocd or if it something else entirely. Thanks in advance.
The key to living with Somatic OCD he mentions at the 10:51 mark, you will miss it if you are not paying close attention. Dr. Jonathon Grayson, who I suspect he has read, also mentions in his book "freedom from OCD, living with uncertainty". I have lived with this type of OCD for 9 years now, and I get on quite successfully (there are flare-ups to be expected.)
@@dalgom9881 you don't beat OCD. you have to get that out of your head right now... shift your thinking. you have to learn to accept that you have it, make friends with it. allow it a seat at the dinner table. as long as you are trying to get free from it, the more respect you are paying it, it will stick around. now, you probably spend 1-2 hours a day thinking about whatever symptom you have, you think it is more, but it probably isn't. here is the key: stick to your schedule and enjoy your activities as much as you possibly can, try to get some enjoyment. DO NOT break your schedule, your OCD will want you to, don't do it. Force yourself to go, but go. you might only get 50% enjoyment out of it, but that is better than getting 0% sitting around screaming and crying at home. It is all about living with uncertainty. Here are my suggestions for you to read: John Grayson, freedom from OCD, living with uncertainty, also read Claire weekes hope and help for your nerves. best of luck to you.
I’m suffering really badly with this when I’m trying to sleep. I’m so focused on my breathing that I start to breathe really shallow & then I get a big heart palpitation that jolts me upright with a big gasp. I’m trying to accept/ignore it but I get it a few times every minute for hours when trying to sleep. I’m so tired, only sleeping a few hours a night & I it’s hard to focus on my studies now. I don’t know how to live with it.
Omg I cannot believe this is actually a thing. I thought I was the only one. Although I am having a hard time telling myself this is ocd. I've never had ocd. When I think of ocd I think of someone who needs to organize things a certain way so they can get a thought out their head. I have been dealing with this for almost a month now where I cannot stop thinking about making eye contact. It's not social anxiety like I feel like I'm being judged, it's more of the act of having to or just the though of the fact that I am aware and thinking about making eye contact. I think about it 24/7 My whole life feels like it's over. I can't enjoy anything. I just want to sleep because it's the only relief I have of not thinking. Is there. Is there anyone out there with this specific thought?
So I've seen a bunch of videos about sensorimotor obsessions but how can I find help? Or can you post a video with the tools to help people get started?
I have had this for a couple of days now and it is a specially annoying when I’m trying to go to bed at night. I’m only 14 and everybody I seem to ask about it has no idea what the hell I'm talking about. This video did help and I really hope I can get through this. Does anyone have any tips or have a similar story to me ? :)
Thank you for this! I have OCD with my breathing since 2 weeks. I was COVID positive a month ago. And when I was recovering, I would keep checking my breathing to make sure my lungs are ok. Bad idea! I recovered from COVID, but now I have this. Which in many ways, is worse. I live in fear that this will be my life forever. I hope I recover soon. Your video helped a lot! My best wishes to others who are going through the same.
Mine started a couple months back with the breathing ocd. It came after I had Bells Palsy on one side of my face. It has grown into an everyday thing. It's a million times worse at night when i lay down to the point that i have to remove myself and isolate in the living room where it's cold dark and quite. I get extremely bad anxiety attacks when I feel like I'm unable to take a deep breath. It's causing problems with work and my relationship. I hope that you find help and get through this. It's the worst thing I've ever been through and I'm still in the worst of it.
How does one get started in the recovery process? So far watching your videos have been extremely helpful to me. I have also subscribed to your channel. Is there further information on how to follow your program, or is my recovery solely watching your videos. Thank you so much for the help I have gotten from your videos. My blinking obsession has subsided by 50% already!
Thanks for this video. Really struggling with anxiety/depression/ocd blinking. I am one week in to starting my meds and really need some positive vibes!
I get it with speaking, not heard anyone else getting it with that, when I talk I feel very aware about how my lips, tongue and mouth is moving, makes it difficult to talk which then makes me more conscious
I get this with talking too, i become very aware of how i pronounce my s's and worry that i sound slurry! I also get it with breathing, balancing and blinking! Anything i think about really.
@@Welsh35 its really annoying, I used to record myself speaking alot to hear it back which made it worse. Now I have stopped doing that and just try to accept it and that has helped
How come I have pains, real bodily paints virtually in every part of the body by now alongside standard somatic ocd? It changes each tome - sometimes knees, then back, it tells me for example dont prey or you will get pain in your knees I do and then boom I have pain in my knees for the next 6 months until different pain succeeds it in a similiar fashion. It feels like I am the only one. There is literally ZERO ANYTHING on the web about psychogenic pain OCD as I would call it.
You are basically directing your own pain? I've had somatic OCD's in the past but I've always seen any pain as separate from that. That's tough, also that you can't find any resources. I would say, that if you really have some sort of control direct it to a manageable spot, like the elbows or something... But I guess it doesn't work like that.
Hi Rob I thought ill let you know i have just ordered 3 books that you have mentioned in your other videos, mans search for meaning, at last a life, and self help for your nerves, my question is is there a book out there that acually talks about sensorimotor or a book that really helped you with your sensorimotor in the past? Keep up with these Great vids Rob, your helping me and other people so much, Thank you
Please, I m suffering from sexual OCD and I have a strong hyperawerness of a part of my body "the buttocks " and when the hyperawerness comes I have bothering sexual thoughts and feelings I hope you can help me to get rid of this because it's ruining my life, thank you for all your efforts
Hi Rob. I have sensorimotor swallowing ocd. Thank you for covering this rarer problem. It seems things are better for me than the first 6 months when it started and I had no idea what was going on. I'm afraid to ask others questions about their "normal" swallowing because I am afraid they will become aware of their swallowing and then have the same problem as me. Also, people react to you like you are nuts. It is frustrating. After listening to you and this channel, I have realized what happens is I get this strong uncomfortable urge to swallow. Is this "urge" fake and something my brain has fabricated ? I don't recall having this urge before. It is strong. Seems like during the day, I am going about my business and never notice this "urge" until I start thinking... "hey, I haven't thought about my swallowing in a while" then I get this urge. If I don't swallow, it seems like I am holding my breath, and I have to swallow. Seems unnatural to fight it. Then I start thinking I have to go all day with this urge coming up every few minutes, and become hyperaware.
Weatherornot, you are not mad. I have this also. Some days it goes away. Unfortunately I fell two weeks ago and hurt my back and I am struggling with it at the minute.
What if I become breathless just by thinking about it ,it stared after an asthma attack. Then it became the chicken and egg situation. I was so terrified. It formed a habit and now after waking up i know its gonna be a thought and then it happens.Im breathless ALL day. I can't get the thoughts to stop about it. My chest gets tights and I feel I can't get a satisfying breathe. On top of this I just end up feel crazy and not myself which then brings on intense emotions of sadness. I cycle all day long. I'm ready to just die already.
I’ve been embracing and accepting the sensations willingly but is it ok to notice the moments when I actually forget the sensations? I feel like my mind is also constantly monitoring the times when I’m busy and forgetting about the sensations. Is that a good thing?
I am currently having a horrendous time with what looks like somatic ocd. I am constantly aware of my breathing, swallowing, blinking, how many times I chew my food. I find myself shrugging or "fixing" my neck (idk how else to explain it), I get stuck with songs or rhythms in my head all day, and the list goes on. I'm afraid of getting old, I'm afraid of getting sick, I'm afraid because I know in less than 100 years we won't be here anymore and where the heck are we going and where are all my loved ones going to go, etc, etc. Sometimes I don't even feel real, I feel like I'm a character in some sort of video game, and I feel stuck, trapped in my own body and mind. No amount of meditating, mindfulness, positive affirmations, going out in nature, good nutrition, exercise, NOTHING seems enough to solve this issue. I feel like this is not even me, this is something else in me doing all of these and it's debilitating. I feel like I don't want to do anything anymore. I just want to live a normal life without constantly having to try to redirect my thoughts and attention to other things, avoiding the unavoidable. Because I can try and get distracted with other things, but it will come back. And I have do it all over again. It's exhausting and depressing.
Hi! I wanted to ask- have you seen people being stuck with noticing their own thinking process until they feel how automatic they are? I havent found any information on that yet. And it sometimes terrifies me because then another questions arise:”how can i even help myself if im this automatic brain made out of meat”
My problem is this, help me When we take breath we just do it without focusing on the way that make air go to both lungs equally , my brain treat my eyes separately, same signal doesnt come to both eyes for ex giving signal to both eyes to look far, i will feel just my left eye relaxed cuz it looking far but my right eye has rension and its like very big not same as left eye not relaxed My brain is always make me focus on my eyes especailly when stranger is sitting for ex at right of me and called me, my brain give me the idea that i should look to him using my right eye so i start forcing my right eye muscle to look to him but until now my face isnt facing his face and when i turn myself completely to him, i force either left eye to look to his left eye or force right eye to look to his right eye!!! I cant look forward to his face by both eyes because i will have tension above my right eye and something in my brain starts fighting inside which is hurt me , my eyes like in war looking to his right and left eye My brain doesnt remove the thinking of my right eye thats why i always have tension above it When i look to mirror i see my right eye ball bigger than left eye, but when i keep looking to the color of my right eye in mirror (which i love the color and send good signal to my brain) suddenly my right eye size go back to normal and equall size to left one , i think something changed in breathing, its like the air started to enter to lung direct not going to upper sinus near eye that make my right eye bigger?? Dont know, but its true, the breath is changed depending on your condition , and also the breath affect the human feelings When im watching movie in my phone and suddenly noticed my reflect on the screen, when i see it , my left eye relax because seeing something far, but my right eye have tension like it still looking to near object , its like the signal to looking to my reflect came just to my left eye!! my brain is always focused on my right eye , before i used to look to right and left and forward without thinking which eye to use and had no tension, i wish go back to normal Eye doctors said my eyes r fine
what about fear of eye floaters. I am told floaters are real and just dont notice them. I have had anxiety from i was 5years old. I am 69 now and wonder if i will be the exception.
I have visible things noticing problem. visible objects which are infront of me, my attention get stuck get stuck on one objects and due to that I can't involv in present activity. It is so frustrating and annoying,because this things happen with me everywhere.how can I be normal as I used to be before without consciously noticing the things? Dose anyone has this problem? is this also symptoms of sensorimotor ocd?
Hey, has anyone a tip? The first time I try to accept my thoughts, they're getting stronger, whats probably usual. But with the time im getting really angry, almost agressive because its bothering me so much. What to do?
Hi please reply .. can I be cured ? I have breathing ocd the first time I smoked weed I had panick, it’s been 2 months I’m fixated on my breathing , literally everything makes me breath.. seeing a nose , hearing a song , seeing people, after I talk a sentence, after every thought,everything just reminds me to breathe, I’m afraid I’ll be stuck like this forever.. I’ve failed everyone including my mom .. I thought I was going to have a fun uni life , I got good grades before that but nothing makes my happy anymore.. at this point I feel even highest amount of money can’t make me happy.. I’ve lost focus in school, everything is a mess, please reply me.. I used to have a fun time in school but now all the friends I had fun with seem to be happy except me😔
What do you do when you are all of a sudden focused on your breathing? To the point were you’re making yourself dizzy and anxious from trying to control your own breathing if that makes sense? I’m having panic attacks the last week from this and have tried to give in and count my breaths etc but it’s just making it worse is there something I’m missing?
Does this apply for OCD about your own consciousness and POV? after an episode of derealisation and depersonalisation, I have been stuck observing myself, I can’t distract from it. Everything I do, I am watching myself do it, like I’ve noticed my mind and thought for the first time. Even watching this video, I observe myself watching it from my mind.
Sir I am from India eye blink thought and checking and also sound disturbance when observed started. Earlier small age when I have good thought. When I think i am thinking then suddenly I am conscious this happening happening. But this time I hv suddenly conscious how can I contact
Noticing of thinking and mental processes and not being able to decide what I Focus on (I Focus and notice my mind products without deciding of it) is really killing me. Very extreme. All the vidoes are about breathing, blinking etc. How do I go towards Noticing my mushy thinking (most of the time its not even "verbalised" thoughts But thought-like products of the mind) 😓😓😓 The reaction of aversion is immediate, it's a fn reflex at this stage which makes me think I AM a hopeless case......
I can't stop noticing the sensation of my jeans tightening around my stomach when I sit down. I fear thoughts about my body, that it will make me get an eating disorder again. I know my body is fine and that the jeans just do that and they are kinda loose when I stand. BUT I can't stop fixating on the tightness sensation and it makes me scared
Thank you so much for this video Rob, I am overwhelmed that finally I have found the answer to a problem which has plagued me for years! I have sensorimotor in regards to the dryness of my lips and my need to constantly lick them. The more you lick them the more dry they get and increases the need to lick them. I am trying the ERP, however I don't know what is best to do. Do I try to stop licking my lips altogether or does doing this become a compulsion as it means I am not accepting the licking off my lips . Or do I keep licking my lips when I get the urge and try to learn to accept that I need to lick my lips every so often. I cant seem to figure out what is best to do. Would appreciate some advise. Thank you!
@@Aseeeeeloooo still struggling and very much aware of them, but the fear has come down a lot more then it was back when I posted this. Practicing REBT helped a lot. Do you have the same or something else?
@@harrymax2771 yes , I have the same obsession. I too can’t figure out wether I should resist the urge to lick my lips or to give in to it . Sometimes I think that there is no answer to that question 😅
@@Aseeeeeloooo tell me about it haha. Back when I posted this I was getting myself into such a state about needing to know whether to lick them or not haha. I’m yet to find anyone who has had sensorimotor on their lips. I’d love to chat some more about your experience on Facebook if you’re up for it?
I wonder if you can overcome Sensorimotor OCD with tingling of the feet? I’ve been having for more than a year now and awareness or attention/fear or anxiety to it makes the tingling worse, how do you learn to accept that?
I just don’t understand why I have to swallow so much though. When I time myself I usually reach over a minute of not swallowing, but when I don’t time it just doesn’t seem to stop
I’m not sure if I have Phagophobia (fear of swallowing) or this sensorimotor OCD. I can swallow perfectly fine, but when I come to actually eat or drink, I experience extreme fear that delays my swallowing and makes me hyper aware of it. I’m definitely stuck in a cycle. :(
Same exact thing. I have trouble swallowing and I focus a bit too much on it when I do need to swallow, but I also feel the urge to swallow almost constantly. It's such a weird cycle. I don't even need to be focused on it in order for it to happen, I still get an uncomfortable urge to swallow
This is difficult and different because it's not like the rest of ocd obsessions where the thoughts are in your brain and you can choose which where to direct your attention even though when you are anxious it can be difficult but to some degree you are able . However what makes sensrimotor very difficult is that it's a sensation in the body
If I'm understanding right... We need to desensitize ourselves from these awareness. It's not the awareness that's the problem. Everyone notices these bolidily functions. We've just connected them with anxiety so it's very uncomfortable and tiring for us as it sometimes seems like the awareness is constant not naturally flowing with our other thoughts. We need to eliminate the fear of being aware and show ourselves we can still live a happy life even with the awareness. It's the fear and irrational belief that's keeping us stuck. So how do we do that? How do we get rid of the fear? Do we try to think about the awareness and welcome them in? Obviously in the most calm manner possible. Even if we still have that horrible anxiety attached? Do we just sit with the anxiety? Not try to get away from it, rather run right towards it. That's why I'm asking if we should bring our thoughts back to it? Would that help desensitize us? Then over time it won't matter to us/our brain if we think about it or have the awareness at all. We'll almost be impartial like "normal" people. So if we are stuck with hyper awareness of swallowing does it matter if we swallow or not? When I'm hyperaware of it it feels like I'm controlling it not my body so I don't know when to do it naturally. I feel like I have to continuously swallow. Some articles say to resist it, but I feel like if I resist it I'm telling my body/ brain there is a problem and it makes my anxiety worse. So if I feel like I have to swallow should I just do it and not resist? What is the overall goal for this hyperawarness? What is the overall exposure for sensorimotor OCD? Is it to think about the awareness with a calm excepting mind? Because I'm reality we will never get away from them, as we need to blink, breathe and swallow everyday. So there will always be times in our life that we will have these awareness, but it's normal and nothing to be afraid of. Somewhere along the line we've misconstrued as something not normal and anxiety was attached. Do we need to just except that this is something we think about and overtime the anxiety will subside?
@@aimeeberndt9845 thats a lot of writing.. I like it. and some of it shows that you are well on your way. The goal of seeking out awareness, exposure? I see you asking?... The goal is to create "indifference" in my opinion.. so in your example: "if we are stuck with hyper awareness of swallowing does it matter if we swallow or not?" try to create that indifference.. work towards 'Dont care if you "ocd theme" or not' Stopping the compulsions, avoidance and just letting 'ocd theme' happen as it is or how it goes or 'how ever you do it' would do the trick gradually. If you want to do a speedrun to create that indifference you could explore the stress and overcome the extremes of the behaviour. So don't swallow (or whatever theme) at all..... or on the other extreme... swallow multiple times in a row fast.. all in between.. over the top. explore the stages of swallowing... get a bottle of water and drink it etc.. You create indifference cause the stress dies down after a while and now you done 'that thing' a million times, in different ways without pulling away from it. Now the brain just kinda goes.. 'ye okay this ssh again? I have other priorities than to be anxious about it' voila, indifference... and yeah that's recovery. Cause you are right.. these body processes stay attached to you and you will notice them from time to time. Perhaps even manipulate them and use them for your own good. But you are basically indifferent to them in a way that they dont "stick" anymore
I have OCD breathing, which I got over a while ago but then came back, but sometimes with my breathing, I start to fixate on how my chest moves and up and down with every breath. Never used to care about it, but that is mainly what I notice/think about. Hopefully, I can overcome this soon!
Yeah.. Laying on my back is near impossible to do now, without thinking about my breathing.. Otherwise, during the day, I constantly think I’m gonna over-breathe to the point of passing out or worse.. My conscious mind knows this is nonsense, but the subconscious continues to torment me with these thoughts.. Even if I ward off these thoughts 99 out of 100 times, all it needs is that one time to catch me, and it starts all over again.. I’ve had this for nearly 2 years, and it’s literal mental hell.. I know distractions and diversions are considered compulsions, but it’s all I have right now.. The thoughts never end
@@thelegionary07 Exactly, my conscious mind thinks this is nonsense as well but when I am doing schoolwork or watching tv, etc, or when it is time for bed, my main focus goes to my chest moving up and down. This is so weird since I have been breathing since day 1 and could not care about how my chest/diaphragm move! We can totally get over this...acceptance is totally key!
Can seniorimotor ocd effect your balance? I constantly think about my breathing and when im not thinking about my breathing im thinking about my balance. How I feel, can i feel movement, when i stand i constantly thinj about how my feet feel on the floor and how my calfs feel strange and then the floor feels slanted. I have had this for 4 yeara since a vertigo episode!
I CANT STOP TAKING DEEP BREATHS PLS HELP HELP HELP ME I CANT STOP TAKING DEEP BREATHS WHEN I DONT TAKE DEEP BREATHS THEN MY LUNGS HURT HELP ME GOD ITS HAS COMOLEYELY RUINED MY LIFE.
I think this is what’s going on with me. Years ago I had an allergic reaction to medication and my eyes and neck started involuntarily moving. I became obsessed with any movement in my neck and panicked thinking it was happening again. I got completely over it years ago but it’s come back very recently. I’m finding it really difficult, the fear is that I’ll start doing it myself (moving my neck and head) I know it sounds so weird! Does anyone have any advice?
Please let me know what to do with people like me.. I'm worried that I'll count the number of times while swallowing. So, as a reaction, the number of times comes to mind as soon as you swallow. (Like you do it if you don't want to think about elephants) Five years ago, I experienced a general obsession with swallowing, and it was so hard that I confessed this to a counselor who didn't know much about OCD. The counselor listened to me and said, 'Well, if this gets worse, you might be conscious of the number of times you swallow?' At that time, even if I heard that, I think I focused more on swallowing saliva unnaturally than on the number of times. So I got better for a year and a half, accepting myself for being conscious of swallowing as it comes out of here. And I've been living a normal life so happily for three and a half years, but a few days ago, the words of the counselor came to my mind like a trauma.. And anxiety overwhelmed me literally. Since then, even if I don't swallow it consciously, I feel my saliva falling into my throat, and I automatically feel the number of times when I hear the sound of swallowing it. 24 hour consciousness is the same as Sensorimotor OCD. But now, I swallow my saliva unconsciously most of the time. But I feel the moment the feeling and sound of the moment when my saliva is falling. I think swallowing consciously is no longer my concern. Do I have to admit and accept myself for counting the times, as I did with the usual Sensorimotor OCD five years ago? Then do I have to count the number of times every time I swallow? When I try not to count the number of times, I remember swallowing it before, so I know that the number of times is implicitly added even if I try not to, and I get a headache all day because I'm nervous to prevent the number from going up automatically. When I give up and count the number of times, I think I should live like this for the rest of my life, so I'm so depressed, and I don't think it makes sense to count the number of times I swallow even when I have to focus, like when I work or talk. What should a person like me do? Have you ever seen anyone get better with symptoms like me? I want to live, but it's so painful.. I'm sorry for my lack of English.
@@3liff337 Hi!! I've seen you reply to one of my comments on another video, i replied but I dont thing it went through. Anyways I wanted to tell you that I'm still dealing with the same problem unfortunately, but I found things to cope with it like chewing gum, exercising, and meditading . It's very likely that your ocd is linked with something else like social anxiety so try getting to the root of the problem. I just want to say even though I've been with this problem for a while I still have hope it will go away and that mindset is helping me too. Lastly, don't take things too seriously bc at the end of the day it's kinda silly to have a problem like this lmaoo💀
@@athena8391 Hi! Im glad someone finally answered! Also im glad you are better. l have this thing for four week and its really ruinied my life. Actually l had this before but l've overcome it. But it started again and l thing it is worse this time so l feel hopeless. Did it bother you that much? And did you go to physciatrist?
@@3liff337 Tbh no because since it's fueled by my social anxiety and I spend alot of my time alone(except at school) so it never really affected me really. Also I never spoke to anyone about it because I was afraid they wouldn't understand 🥲
2020, sensorimotor OCD for 3 days about peeing. 2021, sensorimotor OCD about the fact that I am thinking for 5 days. 2022, sensorimotor OCD about my breathing now !
I developed a fear of these sensation of the clothes i wear. Somthing small like how my pants are touching my body and it feels so real, if i engage with it and check it becomes a whole thing for days.
People? I met with his video but unfortunately i could not get his accent..Please give me brief note on this video please anyone? it will help me...i read comment that this video is game changing but i couldnt get it...
You should hyperventilate...no joke. Doing what you fear lies directly in the heart of OCD recovery. Do wim hoff breathing exercises for example.. which is essentially hyperventilate>to breath hold... or if you want a no nonsense alternative search for free diver breathing exercises.. ..increase the time you can go without a breath in the process (both hoff and freedive have that effect) dont do this shh in the water though :-) Not saying wim hoff is nonsense btw (just find a text excerpt of the exercise he does, its nice and simple) but the guy himself is kind of 'extra' and out there... you could also just figure something out yourself.. wing it.. improvise some hyper>to breath hold exercise. it doesnt really matter.
I had breathing ocd many years ago it went away and it never bothered me. Until I got covid since the day I found out I had covid I started to analyze my breathing due tio people having breathing problems and I sometimes did feel out of breath. Now that I'm recovered I'm scared what if I have lingering covid problems. The fear of not breathing is because I doubt what if it's not ocd but covid and I'm in the loop of I will never get better because I'm unsure. 😔
I don't think covid affects functions of medula oblongatta. That part of the brain never forgets how to make you breathe. But I would ask some doctor to be 100% sure.
@@therabbitfarm6420 Not caring was what helped me even if I felt uncomfortable because sometimes I literally felt short of breath.. Knowing it was just me producing that and that nothing bad was going to happen. Just live your life and accept that it's just anxiety. You'll be fine. When I was going through that I felt like I was never getting over it.
@@therabbitfarm6420 Don't give yourself a time limit because it's like forcing yourself to feel better.. It's not also about trying really hard.. acceptance is key.. Knowing it's not going to kill you. Just accept it. And little by little you'll notice it Doesn't bother you anymore
Let me say something to anyone who came across this video. Rob has the best OCD content which you can possibly find. He has been helping me for a couple of months and I really moved foward with his help. I have Sensorimotor OCD related to eye discomfort and Fear of fear. Thanks Rob for everything you´ve been doing. God bless you
how do you treat your eye blinking ocd??
Hi Pedro, the eye discomfort is one that triggers me 2. It has been lingering on in the background for about 8y but now that i got under most off my fears and came of meds ocd is turning up the heat on sensorimotor. Off course i need to get back on my meds to get rid of this feeling (thats what ocd wants). But i am in the driving seat not ocd. It can rear its ugly head when it wants and i'll kiss it.
I too have eye blinking ocd..how can I get out
@@hafsamohammedunni4704 as a fellow muslim, my best advice is to turn towards Allah
How can I contact him for sessions?
Your video is absolutely right, it’s all mind over matter. Had blinking for around 6 months and just eventually went away naturally. The key is, I didn’t stop thinking about it - but I definitely stopped worrying about it.
It can seem very scary especially at the start but once you overcome it you’ll realise how silly it was to worry over something like that.
Absolutely everyone is able to 100% break free from this it’s all in your head.
I love you for this comment man, I broke free of both saliva, tinnitus and breathing ocd but the blinking has stuck with me now for the longest time I've ever experienced any of these sensatiions
I’m at a point where I’m getting used to it and not adding worry it’s more of a nuisance, keep going? I just don’t get how the awareness will leave?
@@NS-wb7vu I can tell you once you stop caring / worrying about it - it will go :) you can't force it so just go with the flow
@@Peggers more just annoying and wondering when it will not scared anymore!
@@Peggers it just freaks me out I’m manually doing something like I don’t understand how and then how it would change
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. I found it today by coincidence. 2-4 years ago I struggled with a panic disorder with the fear of panic itself and shortly after the sensorimotor ocd with breathing and blinking followed. On the internet I have never been able to find out what I was suffering from until I found an article two weeks ago about sensorimotor ocd and this video today. You basically described my everyday thoughts and fears 1:1 even to the slightest detail, especially the part with "I'm an exception" "I'm different than everyone else" "with me it is the worst case because I'm mentally not strong enough, I can never be happy again".
TODAY I experienced the least amount of distress in the past FOUR YEARS while actively focussing on my sensorimotor functions because of the things you said... It is not exhausting. It is not hurting. It is JUST the fear of the thought itself.
thank. you. !
Yo, about breathing. Like how did you breath properly? Because i usually feel air hunger. Is this part of the discomfort that i should take? It feels like i dont know how to breath
@@xdxdd7402yea it feels similar to this for me. I’m able to feel quite a bit better for a few days but then I start manually breathing again and it goes back to being stuck in the manual breathing cycle. R u feeling better now?
I had a really hard couple months with anxiety and depression and I was feeling suicidal. Then randomly over a month ago like a light switch I noticed “why am I so aware of my breathing” and I’ve been stuck ever since. I have a 10 month old daughter and I want to get better for her. Feels like this thing has sucked all the joy out of my life. Never had ocd before so this has been terrifying, but I’ve watched this video and other videos on the channel and really trying to apply what I’ve learned. Just wish I could have 1 hour break from it. Praying for everyone else going through something similar 🙏🏻 There’s got to be a way out.
This is exactly me. But mine started with the OCD and because I feel it’s never going to end that’s caused me a lot of depression and anxiety I’m currently struggling with :(( I hope you’re doing better now tho!
@@triston2230 hey are you feeling better?
@@triston2230 how well are you now?
@@munnidey7038 I’ve never been happier! It took me a little while to shake it but I finally did. I just had to force my self to find things that distracted me and I slowly started to get better and better. I haven’t dealt with it for probably 8-9 months now!!! It does get better just hang in there:(( because I know it was one of the hardest things for me to ever deal with
This has been SUCH a valuable video for me! Thank you so much for this!
Rob, you totally know your stuff. Thank you for giving us hope. Blessings
Bless you man. I can’t tell you how much I needed this to hear this video today. Thank you
this is the best video ive seen on this website, thank you
I have no words. Thank you so much for making this video ❤️❤️❤️
This video gave me hope. I have never heard someone explain this like this before. Thank you so much, brother! I am working on overcoming this area and feel like I am making progress.
wow the greatest video I’ve seen on OCD. Your confidence and assurance is infectious, thank you 🙏
Amazing, really needed to hear this ❤ love your attitude
Bless you Rob! You offer so much comfort, and you say it in such a confident and unworried way that just puts me at ease.
Thank you so, so much! Few years ago it seemed like no one is ever gonna cover this topic. This is a fear of fear, indeed. Pro-level explanation. Certainly gives hope✨
You are saving peoples’ lives, Robert Bray!!
Game changing video. Thanks so much Rob.
Hello man, for the past 2 months or so I have been dealing with sensorimotor ocd, it all started with saliva then I looked up and got scared about all the type of other ocd there were, so I started thinking about my blinking, i looked it up and idk there's little information on it, but i watched a Ted talk "how to stop feeling anxious about anxiety" or smith like that, it helped me a lot with dealing with fear, and this video right here helped me a lot, I haven't feel scared for like the past week or so, it helps a lot to not fear it, it is really driven by fear and you are saying some really wise words, so thank you very much for just making a video out of it, and if someone struggling with this reads this, just know it gets better and you are doing the right thing looking for help, i really recommend the Ted talk video, explained very well on how I felt while dealing with this.. you just need to be kind to yourself, and accept it, i know the word "accept it" crawls fear but it's true, ignoring it won't fix it but accepting it and just being like ok do ur thing, it'll get boring eventually.
Thank you for making this video and you saying there's no ocd cases where there are people un-treatable it's really encouraging so yeah thanks again, talking about it to other people helps a lot, remember there's always someone out there willing to help you, don't lose hope and move forward.
The is the best video I have ever seen in my life so far, I get on board with the breathing loop and go down in flames 100% debilitating. It really feels like I have figured out the one thing a psychologist can't solve ha u nailed it I love it, subscribed.
Thank youuuu sooo much, you don't even know how you are helping and changing the lives of people.... Love from India 🙌
I seriously would love to meet you one day. You are a true gem.
This is so true. I am amazed at how this describes me. Thank you so much.
I can't really thank you enough. I am very happy that I can finally hear from someone who understands what I am going through. My sensorimotor ocd is mainly triggered when I doing something important that needs focusing such as answering exam questions or paying attention in lectures.
I feel so much better hearing that I thought it was a thing that was programmed in my brain and you actually help me know it’s curable
So blessed to have come upon this video thank you so much for this informative video
I'm back here after "having" this condition for 10 months now. And I have to say to all the people that are worried about having this condition. That the sentence in this video: "If I wasn't bothered by it, would it still be a problem?" Is the wisest thing I've heard about this. It's 100% true! Acceptance is the ultimate key! I notice it much less often than I used to. And most importantly, I notice it without fear. You will just get used to it! The beggining was the scariest part, but with time, it just vanishes. Don't fight it and accept it!
hi, i’ve been having it for a month now. I’m really worried about having it for a long time because i’m just begging to get my life back. do you think i will have it as long as you did?
How u now?
Plz reply plz
@@msajidgamez734 I'm good! You may not believe it but this conditon is just a memory for me now. I really accepted it and today I rarely think about breathing. I just don't care anymore (my mind got bored of it I guess). Sometimes I notice it but don't remind myself about the obsession/anxiety I had. In the past I would think it's impossible but in reality it is! You can notice the sensation without even realizing that you just noticed it! I have no fear of it anymore, it's a part of me and my memories now, and because of that I just don't notice it as often.
Now an important part. There is a difference between this obsesion being something new to you and it being something that happened in the past. If you had it alrady, it means you have an experience today. So it's not as scary as it being something new. It's just a memory for me, I don't even concider it as a bad memory (shocking, but I feel that way). Acceptance is the key.
Sorry for late reply, it's not my main channel. God bless!
@@thewitchereye637 thanks for your response... actually I dont know why but my YT acc got blocked and i got it back just today.. and i read your msg.. brother can u plz answer my these questions?
1. Brother what actually acceptance is ? Everybody talked about acceptance here,?
2.and brother are u experiencing relapses now or u fully recovered? I saw many people who say that they had it from years and they get relapses amd they never recovered from it? I am confused after listening these comments..
3# i know this qs is silly that is it can become addiction? Means can a person love to suffer from it or doesn't want to cure from it? Or it can become an addiction?
I hope that u will reply..plz sir plz
Really appreciate such an authentic monologue and very helpful!!
Thank you!!!
@@OCDRecovery my latest favourite chanel, I'm a Psychologist and first time ever came across this type of issue. Thanks for your wisdoms
Exactly🙏🏻 Acceptance is key💥 Thank you 🤍
You've given me hope that I can overcome my sensorimotor OCD involving saliva. I've had it for 2 weeks and you've helped me figure out that it IS driven by fear.
@@rutujapatil2899 Actually I'm good. I got rid of it. I am doing an hour a day of cardio exercise and that really helped.
Hi can we talk please
@@gretablack2810 did your mouth got dry or hypersalivated instead?
Hi, can we talk about it? I also have saliva ocd.
@@Someone-jf8uw I just got it as well, how are you feeling?
The beat video explaining my situation few days back i went to my village and i was facing hyper acidity and due to it i was focusing on my breathing and now i am facing ocd of breathing and you explained it the same way i am feeling. I like the thing you said that this all is just the fear that is driving you and now i am started to accept it that this is not a problem.
Good stuff! I love your conviction. Even good OCD specialists don't make claims that this is beatable. Have you done more on Sensory motor?
Absolutely Brilliant, you have made it so clear in 13 45 seconds, that I have spent with countless time with therapists, my problem is with constant Breathing, you are a very intelligent man, thankyou for this video
Thank you!!
My OCD is in my breathing, do you have any more videos for that??
In otherwords the best comment I have ever seen towards this in breathing is, you can not hold your breath forever, therefore you will breath naturally, can you help?
@@o0WrathOfGod0ohey is it gone now?
Obsession of the act of thinking has been my hardest. I've been through breathing, heartbeat, vision and feeling stuck in my body. Every part of my body drives me crazy. But this video explains it perfectly. I have a long hard road but he did nail it. And assuming I am too far gone is exactly what Rob just said. Treatment resistance is a lie. No matter how hard. And it is very very hard.
Wow, obsession of the act of thinking is so hard for me too. There are days when it feels impossible to even have conversations without noticing my own speech and wondering “where did it all came from?”
Probably you can try to make it in the “good way”. The key factor is not to get scared. Scary is a feeling you can try not to estimularte scary feeling. It is more rational to make scary and ironical process. For example, imagine intrusive thinking like somebody pushing a gun into you, imagine the gone is a flower with water pressure… make it ironical, make it laughable and the scary will become a kind of innocent feeling. At the end we keep doing all this automatical behaviors day by day. So laugh a little bit about them. All feelings are flowing all the time
@@Muhvikast-ed2hd i laughed out loud. I am going through this right now, I have never seen anyone explain this. How are you doing now?
You're a great man! Thank you very much!!!
I think people also fear watching some videos because they fear they will hear about a new sensation to obscess about
1st of all this video is great watch it completely you will feel lot more confident as I did And I am absolutely free of my sensation I don't feel stressed at all with them
2nd - the key to successful treatment is to actually be fearless of whatever sensations are you don't need to make them quite you need to go as close as possible to the sensation
Eg if u worry about breathing force yourself to notice it , initially it will be challenging also bit scary but with time your brain will figure out what the crap man it's nothing
It takes time but not jst one but bring everything you can fear into your mind and jst let it be there it loses power
Love u Robert
Ok so i should not compare but how long did it take for ur brain to understand the crap about noticing breathing only all the time
i have been dealing with this for over two decades and had never heard of the name for it until yesterday. thank god i know now that something can be done.
I am feeling emotional because you have described the very thing I am experiencing right now. It makes so much more sense, and I feel better knowing that I am not alone. Thank you.
Certainly not alone! We have a webinar coming up on this exact topic if you are interested 📧 phil@ocdrecovery.com
Great video about this subject. I think my hardest thing now is getting myself to really decouple the anxiety with it. I can tell myself all day that I know I’m fine and I can breathe, and even that I know I won’t always feel like this. Yet I still wake up every day immediately thinking, “I wonder if I’ll be thinking about my breathing all day again”
It's nothing its nature process I m cured , 💯 of blinking and breathing
@@nothingiseverything842 how do you deal with it
@@nothingiseverything842 How did u get cured??
Same 💯
Same!
Thank you so much for this video
Thank you for this video 🙏
Wonderful video. Thank you so much for this. My father had a heart attack and I’m so afraid of having one myself as a 26 year old. I’m learning to not give into avoidance behaviors and to say “fuck it” instead of denying myself the opportunity to live
I’ve been very fixated on my breathing for the past 5 days now and it’s very scary and non stop. Not the first time this has happened but I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD. Sometimes I get so anxious and panic cause I feel like I’ll never be able to breath comfortably again. I’m only 15 and I try to explain it to my friends and family but I feel like they don’t understand what I’m trying to say. This definitely helped tho and reading the comments are helping too :)
Me as well but I had to deal with this when I was about your age and then somehow it went away I can’t remember what happened but it did and then I started having this problem again a few weeks ago and I know you and I will recover. Just about taking it slow and working on not letting the fear scare us
@@triston2230 same as you i've been having this problem since like 7 years ago but suddenly it disaaperd for about 2 yrs and i had a panic attack a couple weeks ago and i got worse:( hope we get better soon
@@naf627 I’ve been a lot better the past few days. At times in the day it’s completely gone! So that’s a start
@@triston2230 I’ve actually been doing very well the past three weeks, I almost never think about it anymore so hopefully I’ll feel good for another long time anyway!
@@laurakeating7050 me aswell!!! It’s finally gotten better it hasn’t bothered me in a few weeks
This video made me cry. 🖤 it's my last/worst step is getting past this.
I hope you're doing well now.
Hey rob, commented a few days back on the sensorimotor ocd with seeing my nose, wanted to let you know that its pretty much gone now, but I have a new sort of problem now. The problem now is with my hands. When ever I touch something it feels as if my sense of touch doesn't feel right, if that makes sense. Like when I touch my hoodie I can feel the hoodie but let say if I touched it 1 month back the sensations are 2 totally different things. It doesn't feel satisfying or right in a sense. My hands also feel a little weird but I think that's because I'm paying attention to them most of the time. Just wanted to ask if you have think this is a form a sensorimotor ocd or if it something else entirely. Thanks in advance.
Thanks sir for valuable video
The key to living with Somatic OCD he mentions at the 10:51 mark, you will miss it if you are not paying close attention. Dr. Jonathon Grayson, who I suspect he has read, also mentions in his book "freedom from OCD, living with uncertainty". I have lived with this type of OCD for 9 years now, and I get on quite successfully (there are flare-ups to be expected.)
Did you beat your OCD your own or did you go to a therapist?Im having sensiromotor OCD and I need some help
@@dalgom9881 you don't beat OCD. you have to get that out of your head right now... shift your thinking. you have to learn to accept that you have it, make friends with it. allow it a seat at the dinner table. as long as you are trying to get free from it, the more respect you are paying it, it will stick around. now, you probably spend 1-2 hours a day thinking about whatever symptom you have, you think it is more, but it probably isn't. here is the key: stick to your schedule and enjoy your activities as much as you possibly can, try to get some enjoyment. DO NOT break your schedule, your OCD will want you to, don't do it. Force yourself to go, but go. you might only get 50% enjoyment out of it, but that is better than getting 0% sitting around screaming and crying at home. It is all about living with uncertainty. Here are my suggestions for you to read: John Grayson, freedom from OCD, living with uncertainty, also read Claire weekes hope and help for your nerves. best of luck to you.
I’m suffering really badly with this when I’m trying to sleep. I’m so focused on my breathing that I start to breathe really shallow & then I get a big heart palpitation that jolts me upright with a big gasp. I’m trying to accept/ignore it but I get it a few times every minute for hours when trying to sleep. I’m so tired, only sleeping a few hours a night & I it’s hard to focus on my studies now. I don’t know how to live with it.
How are u mate?
Omg I cannot believe this is actually a thing. I thought I was the only one. Although I am having a hard time telling myself this is ocd. I've never had ocd. When I think of ocd I think of someone who needs to organize things a certain way so they can get a thought out their head. I have been dealing with this for almost a month now where I cannot stop thinking about making eye contact. It's not social anxiety like I feel like I'm being judged, it's more of the act of having to or just the though of the fact that I am aware and thinking about making eye contact. I think about it 24/7 My whole life feels like it's over. I can't enjoy anything. I just want to sleep because it's the only relief I have of not thinking. Is there. Is there anyone out there with this specific thought?
did u recover
Love this.
So I've seen a bunch of videos about sensorimotor obsessions but how can I find help? Or can you post a video with the tools to help people get started?
I have had this for a couple of days now and it is a specially annoying when I’m trying to go to bed at night. I’m only 14 and everybody I seem to ask about it has no idea what the hell I'm talking about. This video did help and I really hope I can get through this. Does anyone have any tips or have a similar story to me ? :)
im about to cry bc i've been dealing with this for a week without break, no one in my life cares/understands and this felt like a way out. finally.
@@ferrywibe4010 we get it!
I developed this problem when I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and forced to use a cpap. These devices make you ultra aware of your breathing.
Thank you for this! I have OCD with my breathing since 2 weeks. I was COVID positive a month ago. And when I was recovering, I would keep checking my breathing to make sure my lungs are ok. Bad idea! I recovered from COVID, but now I have this. Which in many ways, is worse. I live in fear that this will be my life forever. I hope I recover soon. Your video helped a lot!
My best wishes to others who are going through the same.
Hi can you post your insta Id
Hey can we please get in touch? I’m dealing with the same issue. God bless
Mine started a couple months back with the breathing ocd. It came after I had Bells Palsy on one side of my face. It has grown into an everyday thing. It's a million times worse at night when i lay down to the point that i have to remove myself and isolate in the living room where it's cold dark and quite. I get extremely bad anxiety attacks when I feel like I'm unable to take a deep breath. It's causing problems with work and my relationship. I hope that you find help and get through this. It's the worst thing I've ever been through and I'm still in the worst of it.
Did u recover
did u recover
How does one get started in the recovery process? So far watching your videos have been extremely helpful to me. I have also subscribed to your channel. Is there further information on how to follow your program, or is my recovery solely watching your videos. Thank you so much for the help I have gotten from your videos. My blinking obsession has subsided by 50% already!
Great to hear! For coaching enquiries please 📧 info@ocdrecovery.com
Thanks for this video. Really struggling with anxiety/depression/ocd blinking. I am one week in to starting my meds and really need some positive vibes!
Is it okay if you update me on the medication and how you’re feeling now?
I get it with speaking, not heard anyone else getting it with that, when I talk I feel very aware about how my lips, tongue and mouth is moving, makes it difficult to talk which then makes me more conscious
I get this with talking too, i become very aware of how i pronounce my s's and worry that i sound slurry! I also get it with breathing, balancing and blinking! Anything i think about really.
@@Welsh35 its really annoying, I used to record myself speaking alot to hear it back which made it worse. Now I have stopped doing that and just try to accept it and that has helped
How come I have pains, real bodily paints virtually in every part of the body by now alongside standard somatic ocd?
It changes each tome - sometimes knees, then back, it tells me for example dont prey or you will get pain in your knees I do and then boom I have pain in my knees for the next 6 months until different pain succeeds it in a similiar fashion.
It feels like I am the only one.
There is literally ZERO ANYTHING on the web about psychogenic pain OCD as I would call it.
You are basically directing your own pain? I've had somatic OCD's in the past but I've always seen any pain as separate from that. That's tough, also that you can't find any resources. I would say, that if you really have some sort of control direct it to a manageable spot, like the elbows or something... But I guess it doesn't work like that.
Hi Rob I thought ill let you know i have just ordered 3 books that you have mentioned in your other videos, mans search for meaning, at last a life, and self help for your nerves, my question is is there a book out there that acually talks about sensorimotor or a book that really helped you with your sensorimotor in the past? Keep up with these Great vids Rob, your helping me and other people so much, Thank you
Learning to see it’s not scary like we imagine the principles of the first book by Ellis is very helpful.
OK so whats the book called from ellis?
Is this person called Albert Ellis, if so which book is it? Please reply Rob
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@@o0WrathOfGod0o books are on our website reading list.
Lucky for us your happy to keep coming on.
Please, I m suffering from sexual OCD and I have a strong hyperawerness of a part of my body "the buttocks " and when the hyperawerness comes I have bothering sexual thoughts and feelings I hope you can help me to get rid of this because it's ruining my life, thank you for all your efforts
Hi Rob. I have sensorimotor swallowing ocd. Thank you for covering this rarer problem. It seems things are better for me than the first 6 months when it started and I had no idea what was going on. I'm afraid to ask others questions about their "normal" swallowing because I am afraid they will become aware of their swallowing and then have the same problem as me. Also, people react to you like you are nuts. It is frustrating. After listening to you and this channel, I have realized what happens is I get this strong uncomfortable urge to swallow. Is this "urge" fake and something my brain has fabricated ? I don't recall having this urge before. It is strong. Seems like during the day, I am going about my business and never notice this "urge" until I start thinking... "hey, I haven't thought about my swallowing in a while" then I get this urge. If I don't swallow, it seems like I am holding my breath, and I have to swallow. Seems unnatural to fight it. Then I start thinking I have to go all day with this urge coming up every few minutes, and become hyperaware.
hello do you have telegram? I need to talk to someone who has the same problem as me
Weatherornot, you are not mad. I have this also. Some days it goes away. Unfortunately I fell two weeks ago and hurt my back and I am struggling with it at the minute.
Has it gotten better for you?
Same with me. I've learnt so much about it now that I don't even know what to ask. Like just sit with feeling/sensation/urge now.
Hi guys, any tips for what @weatherornot6661 mentioned?
What if I become breathless just by thinking about it ,it stared after an asthma attack. Then it became the chicken and egg situation. I was so terrified. It formed a habit and now after waking up i know its gonna be a thought and then it happens.Im breathless ALL day. I can't get the thoughts to stop about it. My chest gets tights and I feel I can't get a satisfying breathe. On top of this I just end up feel crazy and not myself which then brings on intense emotions of sadness. I cycle all day long. I'm ready to just die already.
I’ve been embracing and accepting the sensations willingly but is it ok to notice the moments when I actually forget the sensations? I feel like my mind is also constantly monitoring the times when I’m busy and forgetting about the sensations. Is that a good thing?
If not for this video, I would have been lost forever.
I am currently having a horrendous time with what looks like somatic ocd. I am constantly aware of my breathing, swallowing, blinking, how many times I chew my food. I find myself shrugging or "fixing" my neck (idk how else to explain it), I get stuck with songs or rhythms in my head all day, and the list goes on. I'm afraid of getting old, I'm afraid of getting sick, I'm afraid because I know in less than 100 years we won't be here anymore and where the heck are we going and where are all my loved ones going to go, etc, etc. Sometimes I don't even feel real, I feel like I'm a character in some sort of video game, and I feel stuck, trapped in my own body and mind. No amount of meditating, mindfulness, positive affirmations, going out in nature, good nutrition, exercise, NOTHING seems enough to solve this issue. I feel like this is not even me, this is something else in me doing all of these and it's debilitating. I feel like I don't want to do anything anymore. I just want to live a normal life without constantly having to try to redirect my thoughts and attention to other things, avoiding the unavoidable. Because I can try and get distracted with other things, but it will come back. And I have do it all over again. It's exhausting and depressing.
Just accept your thoughts, feelings and sensations....Don't fight with it!
Will make it worse and add more value to the thought
How are you dear now?
But where can I find help? I live in Montreal. I'm being treated in a hospital but I feel they don't know what to do with me....
Hi! I wanted to ask- have you seen people being stuck with noticing their own thinking process until they feel how automatic they are? I havent found any information on that yet. And it sometimes terrifies me because then another questions arise:”how can i even help myself if im this automatic brain made out of meat”
Can someone please let me know what are the 2 books of Albert Ellis that should be read as part of the therapy? Thanks
What if my hyperawareness of breathing causes me to aspirate? I am scared of "moving towards" it
My problem is this, help me
When we take breath we just do it without focusing on the way that make air go to both lungs equally , my brain treat my eyes separately, same signal doesnt come to both eyes for ex giving signal to both eyes to look far, i will feel just my left eye relaxed cuz it looking far but my right eye has rension and its like very big not same as left eye not relaxed
My brain is always make me focus on my eyes especailly when stranger is sitting for ex at right of me and called me, my brain give me the idea that i should look to him using my right eye so i start forcing my right eye muscle to look to him but until now my face isnt facing his face and when i turn myself completely to him, i force either left eye to look to his left eye or force right eye to look to his right eye!!! I cant look forward to his face by both eyes because i will have tension above my right eye and something in my brain starts fighting inside which is hurt me , my eyes like in war looking to his right and left eye
My brain doesnt remove the thinking of my right eye thats why i always have tension above it
When i look to mirror i see my right eye ball bigger than left eye, but when i keep looking to the color of my right eye in mirror (which i love the color and send good signal to my brain) suddenly my right eye size go back to normal and equall size to left one , i think something changed in breathing, its like the air started to enter to lung direct not going to upper sinus near eye that make my right eye bigger?? Dont know, but its true, the breath is changed depending on your condition , and also the breath affect the human feelings
When im watching movie in my phone and suddenly noticed my reflect on the screen, when i see it , my left eye relax because seeing something far, but my right eye have tension like it still looking to near object , its like the signal to looking to my reflect came just to my left eye!!
my brain is always focused on my right eye , before i used to look to right and left and forward without thinking which eye to use and had no tension, i wish go back to normal
Eye doctors said my eyes r fine
what about fear of eye floaters. I am told floaters are real and just dont notice them. I have had anxiety from i was 5years old. I am 69 now and wonder if i will be the exception.
I have visible things noticing problem. visible objects which are infront of me, my attention get stuck get stuck on one objects and due to that I can't involv in present activity. It is so frustrating and annoying,because this things happen with me everywhere.how can I be normal as I used to be before
without consciously noticing the things?
Dose anyone has this problem?
is this also symptoms of sensorimotor ocd?
Thank you.
Hey, has anyone a tip? The first time I try to accept my thoughts, they're getting stronger, whats probably usual. But with the time im getting really angry, almost agressive because its bothering me so much. What to do?
Hi please reply .. can I be cured ? I have breathing ocd the first time I smoked weed I had panick, it’s been 2 months I’m fixated on my breathing , literally everything makes me breath.. seeing a nose , hearing a song , seeing people, after I talk a sentence, after every thought,everything just reminds me to breathe, I’m afraid I’ll be stuck like this forever.. I’ve failed everyone including my mom .. I thought I was going to have a fun uni life , I got good grades before that but nothing makes my happy anymore.. at this point I feel even highest amount of money can’t make me happy.. I’ve lost focus in school, everything is a mess, please reply me..
I used to have a fun time in school but now all the friends I had fun with seem to be happy except me😔
What do you do when you are all of a sudden focused on your breathing? To the point were you’re making yourself dizzy and anxious from trying to control your own breathing if that makes sense? I’m having panic attacks the last week from this and have tried to give in and count my breaths etc but it’s just making it worse is there something I’m missing?
Counting breaths is a control compulsion, accept HOWEVER you breathe.
Does this apply for OCD about your own consciousness and POV? after an episode of derealisation and depersonalisation, I have been stuck observing myself, I can’t distract from it. Everything I do, I am watching myself do it, like I’ve noticed my mind and thought for the first time. Even watching this video, I observe myself watching it from my mind.
Same here
Sir I am from India eye blink thought and checking and also sound disturbance when observed started. Earlier small age when I have good thought. When I think i am thinking then suddenly I am conscious this happening happening. But this time I hv suddenly conscious how can I contact
I'd like to ask, can sensorimotor OCD look like compulsively flexing a muscle?
Noticing of thinking and mental processes and not being able to decide what I Focus on (I Focus and notice my mind products without deciding of it) is really killing me. Very extreme. All the vidoes are about breathing, blinking etc. How do I go towards Noticing my mushy thinking (most of the time its not even "verbalised" thoughts But thought-like products of the mind) 😓😓😓 The reaction of aversion is immediate, it's a fn reflex at this stage which makes me think I AM a hopeless case......
Just want to say I am going through the exact same thing as you at the moment x
And me x have you done any Therapy?
Its all the same , its still se sofi otro ocd , just alot of anxiety
I face that also, so glad im not alone!
I can't stop noticing the sensation of my jeans tightening around my stomach when I sit down. I fear thoughts about my body, that it will make me get an eating disorder again. I know my body is fine and that the jeans just do that and they are kinda loose when I stand. BUT I can't stop fixating on the tightness sensation and it makes me scared
Used to have this one. We have a sensorimotor webinar covering this coming up, if interested 📧 Phil@ocdrecovery.com
I don’t have OCD 😢 but anxiety GAD but have developed this for breathing and it’s hard to take deep breaths and chest tightness
Thank you so much for this video Rob, I am overwhelmed that finally I have found the answer to a problem which has plagued me for years! I have sensorimotor in regards to the dryness of my lips and my need to constantly lick them. The more you lick them the more dry they get and increases the need to lick them. I am trying the ERP, however I don't know what is best to do. Do I try to stop licking my lips altogether or does doing this become a compulsion as it means I am not accepting the licking off my lips . Or do I keep licking my lips when I get the urge and try to learn to accept that I need to lick my lips every so often. I cant seem to figure out what is best to do. Would appreciate some advise. Thank you!
We have a webinar on sensorimotor coming up 📧 phil@ocdrecovery.com for info
Hello, what turned out to be the solution?
@@Aseeeeeloooo still struggling and very much aware of them, but the fear has come down a lot more then it was back when I posted this. Practicing REBT helped a lot. Do you have the same or something else?
@@harrymax2771 yes , I have the same obsession. I too can’t figure out wether I should resist the urge to lick my lips or to give in to it . Sometimes I think that there is no answer to that question 😅
@@Aseeeeeloooo tell me about it haha. Back when I posted this I was getting myself into such a state about needing to know whether to lick them or not haha. I’m yet to find anyone who has had sensorimotor on their lips. I’d love to chat some more about your experience on Facebook if you’re up for it?
I wonder if you can overcome Sensorimotor OCD with tingling of the feet? I’ve been having for more than a year now and awareness or attention/fear or anxiety to it makes the tingling worse, how do you learn to accept that?
The same applies here! We have a sensorimotor webinar coming up for info 📧 phil@ocdrecovery.com
Pls give the link which talks about scrupulosity.
I just don’t understand why I have to swallow so much though. When I time myself I usually reach over a minute of not swallowing, but when I don’t time it just doesn’t seem to stop
Learn to stay with the uncomfortable feeling of the saliva building up.
did it go away your constant swallowing?
I’m not sure if I have Phagophobia (fear of swallowing) or this sensorimotor OCD. I can swallow perfectly fine, but when I come to actually eat or drink, I experience extreme fear that delays my swallowing and makes me hyper aware of it. I’m definitely stuck in a cycle. :(
Same exact thing. I have trouble swallowing and I focus a bit too much on it when I do need to swallow, but I also feel the urge to swallow almost constantly. It's such a weird cycle. I don't even need to be focused on it in order for it to happen, I still get an uncomfortable urge to swallow
Has it gotten better for you guys?
@@liamsmith3054 did it get better for you?
@@user-vp6yq4fm5u no I’ve had it for 2 years
@@liamsmith3054 have you tried going to ERP therapy. I heard it helps
This is difficult and different because it's not like the rest of ocd obsessions where the thoughts are in your brain and you can choose which where to direct your attention even though when you are anxious it can be difficult but to some degree you are able . However what makes sensrimotor very difficult is that it's a sensation in the body
If I'm understanding right... We need to desensitize ourselves from these awareness. It's not the awareness that's the problem. Everyone notices these bolidily functions. We've just connected them with anxiety so it's very uncomfortable and tiring for us as it sometimes seems like the awareness is constant not naturally flowing with our other thoughts. We need to eliminate the fear of being aware and show ourselves we can still live a happy life even with the awareness. It's the fear and irrational belief that's keeping us stuck. So how do we do that? How do we get rid of the fear? Do we try to think about the awareness and welcome them in? Obviously in the most calm manner possible. Even if we still have that horrible anxiety attached? Do we just sit with the anxiety? Not try to get away from it, rather run right towards it. That's why I'm asking if we should bring our thoughts back to it? Would that help desensitize us? Then over time it won't matter to us/our brain if we think about it or have the awareness at all. We'll almost be impartial like "normal" people.
So if we are stuck with hyper awareness of swallowing does it matter if we swallow or not? When I'm hyperaware of it it feels like I'm controlling it not my body so I don't know when to do it naturally. I feel like I have to continuously swallow. Some articles say to resist it, but I feel like if I resist it I'm telling my body/ brain there is a problem and it makes my anxiety worse. So if I feel like I have to swallow should I just do it and not resist? What is the overall goal for this hyperawarness? What is the overall exposure for sensorimotor OCD? Is it to think about the awareness with a calm excepting mind?
Because I'm reality we will never get away from them, as we need to blink, breathe and swallow everyday. So there will always be times in our life that we will have these awareness, but it's normal and nothing to be afraid of. Somewhere along the line we've misconstrued as something not normal and anxiety was attached.
Do we need to just except that this is something we think about and overtime the anxiety will subside?
We need to train ourselves to be comfortable with being uncomfortable?
@@aimeeberndt9845 thats a lot of writing.. I like it. and some of it shows that you are well on your way. The goal of seeking out awareness, exposure? I see you asking?... The goal is to create "indifference" in my opinion.. so in your example:
"if we are stuck with hyper awareness of swallowing does it matter if we swallow or not?"
try to create that indifference.. work towards 'Dont care if you "ocd theme" or not'
Stopping the compulsions, avoidance and just letting 'ocd theme' happen as it is or how it goes or 'how ever you do it' would do the trick gradually. If you want to do a speedrun to create that indifference you could explore the stress and overcome the extremes of the behaviour. So don't swallow (or whatever theme) at all..... or on the other extreme... swallow multiple times in a row fast.. all in between.. over the top. explore the stages of swallowing... get a bottle of water and drink it etc..
You create indifference cause the stress dies down after a while and now you done 'that thing' a million times, in different ways without pulling away from it. Now the brain just kinda goes.. 'ye okay this ssh again? I have other priorities than to be anxious about it' voila, indifference... and yeah that's recovery. Cause you are right.. these body processes stay attached to you and you will notice them from time to time. Perhaps even manipulate them and use them for your own good. But you are basically indifferent to them in a way that they dont "stick" anymore
I have OCD breathing, which I got over a while ago but then came back, but sometimes with my breathing, I start to fixate on how my chest moves and up and down with every breath. Never used to care about it, but that is mainly what I notice/think about. Hopefully, I can overcome this soon!
You will 💪🏻
Yeah.. Laying on my back is near impossible to do now, without thinking about my breathing.. Otherwise, during the day, I constantly think I’m gonna over-breathe to the point of passing out or worse.. My conscious mind knows this is nonsense, but the subconscious continues to torment me with these thoughts.. Even if I ward off these thoughts 99 out of 100 times, all it needs is that one time to catch me, and it starts all over again.. I’ve had this for nearly 2 years, and it’s literal mental hell.. I know distractions and diversions are considered compulsions, but it’s all I have right now.. The thoughts never end
@@thelegionary07 this comes down to the fear you have of it. I’ve been there.
@@thelegionary07 Exactly, my conscious mind thinks this is nonsense as well but when I am doing schoolwork or watching tv, etc, or when it is time for bed, my main focus goes to my chest moving up and down. This is so weird since I have been breathing since day 1 and could not care about how my chest/diaphragm move! We can totally get over this...acceptance is totally key!
Oh my God, i am suffering from the same. How do we overcome that but? M also on this habit of constantly focussing on breathing, chest movements etc.
Can seniorimotor ocd effect your balance? I constantly think about my breathing and when im not thinking about my breathing im thinking about my balance. How I feel, can i feel movement, when i stand i constantly thinj about how my feet feel on the floor and how my calfs feel strange and then the floor feels slanted. I have had this for 4 yeara since a vertigo episode!
absolutely. This is my personal sensorimotor obsession
@@maxwinshall any tips on overcoming it? Every time I sit still or lie down i have a constant bobbing sensation right now which is driving me crazy.
I CANT STOP TAKING DEEP BREATHS PLS HELP HELP HELP ME I CANT STOP TAKING DEEP BREATHS WHEN I DONT TAKE DEEP BREATHS THEN MY LUNGS HURT HELP ME GOD ITS HAS COMOLEYELY RUINED MY LIFE.
I think this is what’s going on with me. Years ago I had an allergic reaction to medication and my eyes and neck started involuntarily moving. I became obsessed with any movement in my neck and panicked thinking it was happening again. I got completely over it years ago but it’s come back very recently. I’m finding it really difficult, the fear is that I’ll start doing it myself (moving my neck and head) I know it sounds so weird! Does anyone have any advice?
How are you now dear?
Anyone available to talk? I’m REALLY struggling with this with my breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. My world has gotten very, very smallz
Please let me know what to do with people like me..
I'm worried that I'll count the number of times while swallowing. So, as a reaction, the number of times comes to mind as soon as you swallow. (Like you do it if you don't want to think about elephants)
Five years ago, I experienced a general obsession with swallowing, and it was so hard that I confessed this to a counselor who didn't know much about OCD.
The counselor listened to me and said, 'Well, if this gets worse, you might be conscious of the number of times you swallow?'
At that time, even if I heard that, I think I focused more on swallowing saliva unnaturally than on the number of times. So I got better for a year and a half, accepting myself for being conscious of swallowing as it comes out of here.
And I've been living a normal life so happily for three and a half years, but a few days ago, the words of the counselor came to my mind like a trauma.. And anxiety overwhelmed me literally. Since then, even if I don't swallow it consciously, I feel my saliva falling into my throat, and I automatically feel the number of times when I hear the sound of swallowing it.
24 hour consciousness is the same as Sensorimotor OCD. But now, I swallow my saliva unconsciously most of the time. But I feel the moment the feeling and sound of the moment when my saliva is falling. I think swallowing consciously is no longer my concern.
Do I have to admit and accept myself for counting the times, as I did with the usual Sensorimotor OCD five years ago? Then do I have to count the number of times every time I swallow?
When I try not to count the number of times, I remember swallowing it before, so I know that the number of times is implicitly added even if I try not to, and I get a headache all day because I'm nervous to prevent the number from going up automatically.
When I give up and count the number of times, I think I should live like this for the rest of my life, so I'm so depressed, and I don't think it makes sense to count the number of times I swallow even when I have to focus, like when I work or talk.
What should a person like me do? Have you ever seen anyone get better with symptoms like me? I want to live, but it's so painful.. I'm sorry for my lack of English.
Hey. l have the same problem and it's ruining my life. I cant even go to school. l need someone like me to talk about this. How are you now?
@@3liff337 Hi!! I've seen you reply to one of my comments on another video, i replied but I dont thing it went through. Anyways I wanted to tell you that I'm still dealing with the same problem unfortunately, but I found things to cope with it like chewing gum, exercising, and meditading . It's very likely that your ocd is linked with something else like social anxiety so try getting to the root of the problem. I just want to say even though I've been with this problem for a while I still have hope it will go away and that mindset is helping me too. Lastly, don't take things too seriously bc at the end of the day it's kinda silly to have a problem like this lmaoo💀
@@athena8391 Hi! Im glad someone finally answered! Also im glad you are better. l have this thing for four week and its really ruinied my life. Actually l had this before but l've overcome it. But it started again and l thing it is worse this time so l feel hopeless. Did it bother you that much? And did you go to physciatrist?
@@3liff337 Tbh no because since it's fueled by my social anxiety and I spend alot of my time alone(except at school) so it never really affected me really. Also I never spoke to anyone about it because I was afraid they wouldn't understand 🥲
2020, sensorimotor OCD for 3 days about peeing. 2021, sensorimotor OCD about the fact that I am thinking for 5 days. 2022, sensorimotor OCD about my breathing now !
I developed a fear of these sensation of the clothes i wear. Somthing small like how my pants are touching my body and it feels so real, if i engage with it and check it becomes a whole thing for days.
People? I met with his video but unfortunately i could not get his accent..Please give me brief note on this video please anyone? it will help me...i read comment that this video is game changing but i couldnt get it...
I'm scared of hyperventilating which makes me think of my breathing, making me breathe manually/hyperventilating. What should I do?
You should hyperventilate...no joke. Doing what you fear lies directly in the heart of OCD recovery. Do wim hoff breathing exercises for example.. which is essentially hyperventilate>to breath hold... or if you want a no nonsense alternative search for free diver breathing exercises.. ..increase the time you can go without a breath in the process (both hoff and freedive have that effect)
dont do this shh in the water though :-)
Not saying wim hoff is nonsense btw (just find a text excerpt of the exercise he does, its nice and simple) but the guy himself is kind of 'extra' and out there...
you could also just figure something out yourself.. wing it.. improvise some hyper>to breath hold exercise. it doesnt really matter.
I had breathing ocd many years ago it went away and it never bothered me. Until I got covid since the day I found out I had covid I started to analyze my breathing due tio people having breathing problems and I sometimes did feel out of breath. Now that I'm recovered I'm scared what if I have lingering covid problems. The fear of not breathing is because I doubt what if it's not ocd but covid and I'm in the loop of I will never get better because I'm unsure. 😔
I don't think covid affects functions of medula oblongatta. That part of the brain never forgets how to make you breathe. But I would ask some doctor to be 100% sure.
i also have breathing ocd, could you please give me tips on how to overcome this
@@therabbitfarm6420 Not caring was what helped me even if I felt uncomfortable because sometimes I literally felt short of breath.. Knowing it was just me producing that and that nothing bad was going to happen. Just live your life and accept that it's just anxiety. You'll be fine. When I was going through that I felt like I was never getting over it.
@@yolandamartinez4161 thank you so much, do you think i could get over it in a month if i tried really hard
@@therabbitfarm6420 Don't give yourself a time limit because it's like forcing yourself to feel better.. It's not also about trying really hard.. acceptance is key.. Knowing it's not going to kill you. Just accept it. And little by little you'll notice it Doesn't bother you anymore