The biggest thing to beat ocd is leave your house live and get a job stay active because the more your alone the more u will feel like u need to do something which if u do is the opposite of accepting
Finally found ppl who understand and I finally know what’s wrong. I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder which just didn’t feel right and didn’t fit. OCD fits perfectly. 😭
The same exact thing happened to me! And at the time that I got the BPD diagnosis, I thought that it was completely right...nope! Just OCD In disguise.
From class 9 i started developing anxiety problem. I remember a time in class 11 when it became so severe that wasn't able to do anything. It was new to me at that time . I still remember it was so gruesome that i even had suicidal thoughts . No one was able to understand what was happening to me . I don't blame them it was even hard for me to explain . But i still remember that feeling , i was terrified , i didn't know what was happening and what was i supposed to do. It was only recently that i came to know what it actually is, and then i started the treatment process for it. I understood that the uneasy feeling i have is anxiety and i was actually suffering from OCD. It is not a disease , so what it is , let me explain in detail. Let me first lay some background about my OCD. I had always been a studious person and i mapped my successful career with being good at academics. So, being good at study hold quite an importance for me . Now let me tell you how it started , it would sound silly but bear with me and try to look at it with my perspective. It all started with math problem, while solving math problems i started having 'what if' thoughts , ' what if i didn't understand it' and then i reacted to it by analysing the entire solution , while analysing the solution other 'what if' thoughts started popping up . These were concerned with basic steps like ' How am i doing this step' and then i further analysed these steps and then further questions popped up about even more basic stuff like ' what are numbers' , ' what is 1' , ' what is 2' and so on. These are so silly but these did hold importance to me , I treated it like if I ain't able to answer these how am I supposed to answer things build up on it. Now, once i had analysed all of it for one problem , I felt at peace, ' Yes I did it' . Then once i moved to the next problem againg some other what if popped up and i reacted to it and so on. This is how it all began , many a times i got stuck at simple things and felt absolutely desperate . Slowly feeling of fear got attached to these 'what if' and I felt extreme anxiety whenever these thoughts popped up . Slowly, the scope of it also increased , now i started worrying about even sillier things like 'How do we actually THINK' , 'What is the differance between THOUGHT and THINKING' , 'Am i THINKING the right way' and so on . The problem was the feeling of anxiety that these thoughts brought . I felt terrified whenever these thoughts popped up . I started doing a lot of reassurances which involved repetitions and analysis over and over again . I thought this is the only way I could respond to this feeling of anxiety. It was only 4 months back that I came across Ali videos and it was then i understood what was happening . I started following Ali videos and doing ERP myself. Once i understood what was happening a lot of it was solved there only. Still that feeling of anxiety remained . After doing ERP for 4 months with some setbacks, a lot of anxiety has subsided , I still feel little anxiety and sometimes unconsciously end up doing compulsions. But I am a lot better now and I am getting better with each passing day. I would place myself somewhere in the transition phase from 2nd stage to 3rd stage of OCD recovery and I hope that within few months I will be able to conquer it entirely
Very interesting to know about how you acquired ocd. I will share how I got OCD also. I was also a science student in the past. I was also into problem solving and math. I experienced first panic attack when I was writing final exams, where my examination time got over and lot more questions needed to be answered in a very small time. I experienced panic attack at that time and it was so severe that I at once got terrified and ejaculated because of the severity of that panic attack. Because answering all the questions was so important to me at that point in time to score more. When the final bell rang notifying all students that their time got over I terrifyingly ejaculated at once due to intense fear. Though later I didn't think much about in the going days, but later again during 2nd PUC math exam I had similar type of experience and ejaculated couple of times afterwards due to intense fear. Then again in the degree I feared of my future and started getting intrusive thoughts and it feared me much more. I remained in this fearful state of panic attacks, anxiety and intrusive thoughts for about 15-18 years. I felt like dying and say goodbye to life at one point in time during my degree. But later frequent travels to psychiatrists, Nimhans and various psychitric hospitals diagnosed my problem as OCD and put me into medication and counseling. There I got little bit of awareness on this problem. I took taking tablets for many years and was asked to expose myself to the intusive thoughts and not to fear and runaway from the thought. But it didn't work as it was just a statement from them and I couldn't put it into practical. Later recently after watching many videos ofAli Greymond and other videos available on UA-cam and putting myself to everyday practice and meditation, I am able to do much better right now. I am 44 years now. Though I have got some awarenesses on how to combat this problem and though I have 60% come out of this problem, I still need to do fair well by practicing much more. I am practicing ERP besides doing meditation, nadishodhaka pranayama and brahmari. One word of Ali Greymond has helped me a lot. I remember this everytime a thought pops up into my mind.That is, "Starting right now I am not going to any of my behaviors or going to do much less of my behavior." Another one is whenever thoughts pop into my mind I also say to myself that " this is an OCD thought, I will choose not to deal with this and I will refuse to deal with it".
Ali, I suffered with sexual OCD in the past and your videos helped me soo much. I was OCD free for two years. But now I’m suffering with “real event” ocd. How can we do ERP with “real event ocd”?
Will there be a Q & A again soon , I'm afraid to say I'm having abit of a setback, feel sad and embarrassed as Iv been doing so well for such a long time now.
@ARMY WarOfBangtan and Bhaad Queen , thankyou! I really did genuinely feel I'd pretty much overcome it, then boom outta nowhere a slight relapse ... I'm doing much better again now, thankyou for your support
Hi Ali, thank you for your dedication to helping those of us with OCD. It means so much to have this resource when good therapists are few and far between and so many are not accepting new patients. A big debate I’ve found with ERP is how to respond. Habituation vs Inhibition. It seems like you are a big advocate for inhibition. Is this correct and can you elaborate on why? Also, I have a few scripts and many trigger songs. So far I’ve been doing several a day for about two hours, looped audio. Do you recommend sticking with one script or song at a time until I’m sick of it, or a variety throughout the day? Last, does it really matter if I do exposures alone, sitting, listening and not doing anything else, or is it nearly as effective as going about my day with me playing it on a loop and responding as I go? Mom of two here and I am fighting to find time to get lots of ERP in! You are so inspiring and I look forward to watching many more of your videos, I’ve probably seen fifteen so far.
@@moroccanbabe7635 It was so Crazy. I saw a post on FB and thought it made my false memory OCD occur. I started panicking and then when I found out it had to do with something totally unrelated I felt so much better for the rest of the evening.
I have fear of loosing loved ones too. I had been having an OCD attack since October, OCD kept telling me someone in my family was gonna die from a certain illness and OMG it felt like I was reality, I wanted to die because I didnt understand what wae happening and why it felt so real and I was so worried about manifesting it, but I started watching Ali and other videos and now I know whats going on and am working on it. Dont worry, do recovery work, little by little it'll get better, I promise. Ive been doing recovery work for about 2 weeks now and I feel much better, I still have my moments but its getting better daily. You can do this, dont give up!❤
@ARMY WarOfBangtan oh yes I totally understand that, this person is healthy so I was initially very confused as to why my mind would start thinking like that but I understand now, OCD attacks what/who you most love/value.
You saved my life
The biggest thing to beat ocd is leave your house live and get a job stay active because the more your alone the more u will feel like u need to do something which if u do is the opposite of accepting
I agree
@ARMY WarOfBangtan yeah mine was the opposite i loved to be alone and thats what hurt me but i feel u
Going through it today. Thank you for making these videos. ♥️
GOD BLESS You ALI
This is it! All that is needed. I must do this.
I love you for so much reasons ♥️♥️♥️
Uve helped this soul right here🙏🏾🙏🏾
Your reward Is in heaven..
Your videos are saving me. God Bless you.
Finally found ppl who understand and I finally know what’s wrong. I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder which just didn’t feel right and didn’t fit. OCD fits perfectly. 😭
The same exact thing happened to me! And at the time that I got the BPD diagnosis, I thought that it was completely right...nope! Just OCD In disguise.
Same but what if we’re really both? 😐
Hi Ali, you are so helpful. Thank you 💕
you make full sense to me!
Thank you Ali
Thankyou for all the efforts u make in ur everyday life ❤️🙏
Thank you so very much Ali
Thank u for your work!
From class 9 i started developing anxiety problem. I remember a time in class 11 when it became so severe that wasn't able to do anything. It was new to me at that time . I still remember it was so gruesome that i even had suicidal thoughts . No one was able to understand what was happening to me . I don't blame them it was even hard for me to explain . But i still remember that feeling , i was terrified , i didn't know what was happening and what was i supposed to do. It was only recently that i came to know what it actually is, and then i started the treatment process for it. I understood that the uneasy feeling i have is anxiety and i was actually suffering from OCD. It is not a disease , so what it is , let me explain in detail. Let me first lay some background about my OCD. I had always been a studious person and i mapped my successful career with being good at academics. So, being good at study hold quite an importance for me . Now let me tell you how it started , it would sound silly but bear with me and try to look at it with my perspective. It all started with math problem, while solving math problems i started having 'what if' thoughts , ' what if i didn't understand it' and then i reacted to it by analysing the entire solution , while analysing the solution other 'what if' thoughts started popping up . These were concerned with basic steps like ' How am i doing this step' and then i further analysed these steps and then further questions popped up about even more basic stuff like ' what are numbers' , ' what is 1' , ' what is 2' and so on. These are so silly but these did hold importance to me , I treated it like if I ain't able to answer these how am I supposed to answer things build up on it. Now, once i had analysed all of it for one problem , I felt at peace, ' Yes I did it' . Then once i moved to the next problem againg some other what if popped up and i reacted to it and so on. This is how it all began , many a times i got stuck at simple things and felt absolutely desperate . Slowly feeling of fear got attached to these 'what if' and I felt extreme anxiety whenever these thoughts popped up . Slowly, the scope of it also increased , now i started worrying about even sillier things like 'How do we actually THINK' , 'What is the differance between THOUGHT and THINKING' , 'Am i THINKING the right way' and so on . The problem was the feeling of anxiety that these thoughts brought . I felt terrified whenever these thoughts popped up . I started doing a lot of reassurances which involved repetitions and analysis over and over again . I thought this is the only way I could respond to this feeling of anxiety. It was only 4 months back that I came across Ali videos and it was then i understood what was happening . I started following Ali videos and doing ERP myself. Once i understood what was happening a lot of it was solved there only. Still that feeling of anxiety remained . After doing ERP for 4 months with some setbacks, a lot of anxiety has subsided , I still feel little anxiety and sometimes unconsciously end up doing compulsions. But I am a lot better now and I am getting better with each passing day. I would place myself somewhere in the transition phase from 2nd stage to 3rd stage of OCD recovery and I hope that within few months I will be able to conquer it entirely
Same here buddy. Your story concides with me
Very interesting to know about how you acquired ocd. I will share how I got OCD also. I was also a science student in the past. I was also into problem solving and math. I experienced first panic attack when I was writing final exams, where my examination time got over and lot more questions needed to be answered in a very small time. I experienced panic attack at that time and it was so severe that I at once got terrified and ejaculated because of the severity of that panic attack. Because answering all the questions was so important to me at that point in time to score more. When the final bell rang notifying all students that their time got over I terrifyingly ejaculated at once due to intense fear. Though later I didn't think much about in the going days, but later again during 2nd PUC math exam I had similar type of experience and ejaculated couple of times afterwards due to intense fear. Then again in the degree I feared of my future and started getting intrusive thoughts and it feared me much more. I remained in this fearful state of panic attacks, anxiety and intrusive thoughts for about 15-18 years. I felt like dying and say goodbye to life at one point in time during my degree. But later frequent travels to psychiatrists, Nimhans and various psychitric hospitals diagnosed my problem as OCD and put me into medication and counseling. There I got little bit of awareness on this problem. I took taking tablets for many years and was asked to expose myself to the intusive thoughts and not to fear and runaway from the thought. But it didn't work as it was just a statement from them and I couldn't put it into practical. Later recently after watching many videos ofAli Greymond and other videos available on UA-cam and putting myself to everyday practice and meditation, I am able to do much better right now. I am 44 years now. Though I have got some awarenesses on how to combat this problem and though I have 60% come out of this problem, I still need to do fair well by practicing much more. I am practicing ERP besides doing meditation, nadishodhaka pranayama and brahmari. One word of Ali Greymond has helped me a lot. I remember this everytime a thought pops up into my mind.That is, "Starting right now I am not going to any of my behaviors or going to do much less of my behavior." Another one is whenever thoughts pop into my mind I also say to myself that " this is an OCD thought, I will choose not to deal with this and I will refuse to deal with it".
@@vikramgowda9919 I think ocd strikes people of science only . I am an engineering student
All the best friend... I can understand the pain you felt or sufferered...
@@9370025502 are you recovered
thank you so much for this video...😊🥰
Thank you.
Ali, I suffered with sexual OCD in the past and your videos helped me soo much. I was OCD free for two years.
But now I’m suffering with “real event” ocd. How can we do ERP with “real event ocd”?
Will there be a Q & A again soon , I'm afraid to say I'm having abit of a setback, feel sad and embarrassed as Iv been doing so well for such a long time now.
Its OK...keep going ur on the right track
@ARMY WarOfBangtan and Bhaad Queen , thankyou! I really did genuinely feel I'd pretty much overcome it, then boom outta nowhere a slight relapse ... I'm doing much better again now, thankyou for your support
Should we believe coaches who say that recovery doesn't exist and that ocd is just managable over time ?
NO!
@@ocdhelp So,does it mean I have to treat the fear of not being recovered the same way I treat my other fears and say "yeah,who cares" 😇
@@sandraa7762 yuuup that's an OCD theme
Hi Ali, thank you for your dedication to helping those of us with OCD. It means so much to have this resource when good therapists are few and far between and so many are not accepting new patients.
A big debate I’ve found with ERP is how to respond. Habituation vs Inhibition. It seems like you are a big advocate for inhibition. Is this correct and can you elaborate on why?
Also, I have a few scripts and many trigger songs. So far I’ve been doing several a day for about two hours, looped audio. Do you recommend sticking with one script or song at a time until I’m sick of it, or a variety throughout the day?
Last, does it really matter if I do exposures alone, sitting, listening and not doing anything else, or is it nearly as effective as going about my day with me playing it on a loop and responding as I go? Mom of two here and I am fighting to find time to get lots of ERP in!
You are so inspiring and I look forward to watching many more of your videos, I’ve probably seen fifteen so far.
I am mom of two struggling with ocd
Is it common to have an OCD thought and then begin seeing things in your environment as something to make the worry true?
Yes those things are called triggers
@@moroccanbabe7635 It was so Crazy. I saw a post on FB and thought it made my false memory OCD occur. I started panicking and then when I found out it had to do with something totally unrelated I felt so much better for the rest of the evening.
@@moroccanbabe7635 Also I find that work related stress really exacerbates the OCD and Cognitive distortions.
I have ocd of fear of loosing my loved ones and then compulsively washing my private parts again and again
Please help me please
I have fear of loosing loved ones too. I had been having an OCD attack since October, OCD kept telling me someone in my family was gonna die from a certain illness and OMG it felt like I was reality, I wanted to die because I didnt understand what wae happening and why it felt so real and I was so worried about manifesting it, but I started watching Ali and other videos and now I know whats going on and am working on it. Dont worry, do recovery work, little by little it'll get better, I promise. Ive been doing recovery work for about 2 weeks now and I feel much better, I still have my moments but its getting better daily. You can do this, dont give up!❤
@ARMY WarOfBangtan oh yes I totally understand that, this person is healthy so I was initially very confused as to why my mind would start thinking like that but I understand now, OCD attacks what/who you most love/value.
@ARMY WarOfBangtan yeah I get it, OCD sucks man, I wish I had a normal brain 😞
i honestly cant i just cant understand how to this
Hlo miss how can I contact you
Ali, could you please launch your app for android devices?
It is already on android, search OCD HELP on android store
Thank you Ali xx