This always tends to happen when I’m having a good day and my life is going great, all of a sudden my brain fills me with intrusive thoughts to ruin my mood and my friends ask “are you okay Dylan, you’ve gone quiet” and little do they know my OCD has shit on me 😂
Well, I needed this. Having a Doom day. Struggling to cope at the moment. I have health issues as well as OCD. Arthritis in knees severely affects mobility. Just feel overwhelmed at times. So I blame myself for ending up like this. Eventually got out of bed in afternoon and taken meds. Glanced at phone and there was Chris's with this vid. So given me a little boost to carry on. Thanks
I don't know what I would be doing if there were not people like you making these videos. I am currently in the state of doom right now. It is soooooo scary to feel this.
it’s 5 in the morning and i feel sick to my stomach. a couple hours ago i watched a video that severely triggered my harm and existential ocd and i legit felt all of this doom. it felt like, and still feels like, this is truly the END, no more OCD, no more recovery, this is REAL, and these thoughts are true. even though i desperately don’t wanna believe the thoughts or feel these thoughts anymore. i’m kinda crying right now after watching this, because this i like, exactly the video i needed. i’ve suffered so much these past few months, so many ups and downs. OCD sucks 😭 it’s no surprise. i have a million intrusive thoughts every second each bringing a different feeling of doom (in different fonts) ugh here i go again, struggling probably for the next few days. hopefully it gets better. thanks so much for this video :)
Thanks so much, Chrissy. I always know I'm gonna get something valuable when I watch a new video from you. Out of all of the people I lean on for getting through life with this disorder, you're the one who gets it most. You are a huge pillar in our community and such an amazing person to us.
I really didn't know the name of the feeling I'm currently feeling, thanks. Since the pandemic i've developed thw worst symptoms i've ever had, and until 2019 my symptoms were actually managable, I was on unperfect, but I was happy. Then I tried to find comfort in spirituality when I was lost by losing someone and, right now, I feel this feeling of that life will never be the same. I feel like I don't want to get up from bed, and that I'm just existing, and also that therapy is not being enough to overcome it. I have irrational fears and also struggling to get back to reason, and I'm really struggling to not execute rituals like my therapist says. Some of my fears are really stupid, some not, but all of them makes me scared. I struggle a lot with coincidences and my symptoms are a bit too complex to explain here(I also feel ashamed for them) and the possibility of what the coincidences says being true really scares me, like never before. I live with OCD since my childhood, but with my mother's support, I've always managed to overcome it, but this time, I'm really feeling hopeless and scared about it. Anyway, thanks, now I know how to describe what I'm feeling to my therapist, despite of not knowing if things will work out about my goals and also about getting better from this. My family is really supportive, but don't understand how I feel because they don't actually understand so well what is OCD, so they don't get totally why I feel so apart from reality even hanging out with them.
It is good that you are able to label it now, I agree, and I haven't really simply labeled it as "doom" either in the past - I've referred to it internally by mostly reacting to triggers and emotions with chaotic terror and desperation. It helps so much when someone, Chrissy in this case, brings it out of the darkness and helps us to define it - in this video as doom. I feel your pain and am sorry you have to deal with it and to feel quite alone - it's hard when others don't understand OCD. I'm not seeing a therapist, but I should be. Often what works for me is to cut myself off from doing the rituals or compulsions, which after 40 plus years I'm able to do more often than before, and to feel the internal storm of doom and catastrophe, and to let it pass by keeping busy with other things - by the next day or two, I almost always look back at the triggering thought and will lightly laugh at it and move on - maybe towards the next thought disaster, but at least I've had a small success. So that in the future I'm able to sort of laugh at the triggers and say, this makes life interesting - I'm okay with them. Which is not to say I'm not free of crippling emotions and terror, apprehension and choking anxiety. But at least I can be free enough to be in a rotating cycle of OCD rather than a static, fixed jail cell which often has enclosed my mind throughout so much of my life. I hope my perspective may help you to feel less alone.
Praise JESUS I have been healed from Pure O but now Im dealing with extreme guilt over those negative thoughts I had.... Also I genuinely felt I said those thoughts and I feel so guilty cause if people hear those thoughts it would be super embarassing as they are super sexual and they do not represent who I really am..... Does anybody feels like this?
I wonder if you're truly healed from Pure O if you are still feeling so much guilt. Perhaps what you're saying is that you've been able to succeed in not having to do mental compulsions ad infinitum - and that's good - and now you're simply living with all this guilt over sexual thoughts. But I think that's still suffering from Pure O. Hopefully not as much as you were suffering before (it sounds like). But yes, we all feel shame and dissonance regarding what our thoughts say about us. Personally, my thoughts are so buried and compulsions so deep for so long, that I've not thought, "this is not who I am" for many years - I simply struggle daily to achieve peace.
I hope you get healed soon...also. I find getting myself extremely busy helps...like instead of obsession of negative thoughts focus on hard work though its hard
I am having ocd about having erectile dysfunction. Part of me thinnking what if i dont get hard during sex. And from this thoughts ocd got triggered and this thought created anxiety which made getting a libido harder and which further fueled my fears. It's like a vicious circle. Anyone facing the same problems? Note: I would love to get some help❤
Morning doom always hits once I awake from sleep, I feel it intensely.
I have this sometimes. From the moment I open my eyes my heart starts pounding!
This always tends to happen when I’m having a good day and my life is going great, all of a sudden my brain fills me with intrusive thoughts to ruin my mood and my friends ask “are you okay Dylan, you’ve gone quiet” and little do they know my OCD has shit on me 😂
Well, I needed this. Having a Doom day. Struggling to cope at the moment. I have health issues as well as OCD. Arthritis in knees severely affects mobility. Just feel overwhelmed at times. So I blame myself for ending up like this. Eventually got out of bed in afternoon and taken meds. Glanced at phone and there was Chris's with this vid. So given me a little boost to carry on. Thanks
I don't know what I would be doing if there were not people like you making these videos. I am currently in the state of doom right now. It is soooooo scary to feel this.
Me 2😢
it’s 5 in the morning and i feel sick to my stomach. a couple hours ago i watched a video that severely triggered my harm and existential ocd and i legit felt all of this doom. it felt like, and still feels like, this is truly the END, no more OCD, no more recovery, this is REAL, and these thoughts are true. even though i desperately don’t wanna believe the thoughts or feel these thoughts anymore. i’m kinda crying right now after watching this, because this i like, exactly the video i needed. i’ve suffered so much these past few months, so many ups and downs. OCD sucks 😭 it’s no surprise. i have a million intrusive thoughts every second each bringing a different feeling of doom (in different fonts) ugh here i go again, struggling probably for the next few days. hopefully it gets better. thanks so much for this video :)
Thanks so much, Chrissy. I always know I'm gonna get something valuable when I watch a new video from you. Out of all of the people I lean on for getting through life with this disorder, you're the one who gets it most. You are a huge pillar in our community and such an amazing person to us.
I really didn't know the name of the feeling I'm currently feeling, thanks.
Since the pandemic i've developed thw worst symptoms i've ever had, and until 2019 my symptoms were actually managable, I was on unperfect, but I was happy.
Then I tried to find comfort in spirituality when I was lost by losing someone and, right now, I feel this feeling of that life will never be the same.
I feel like I don't want to get up from bed, and that I'm just existing, and also that therapy is not being enough to overcome it. I have irrational fears and also struggling to get back to reason, and I'm really struggling to not execute rituals like my therapist says.
Some of my fears are really stupid, some not, but all of them makes me scared.
I struggle a lot with coincidences and my symptoms are a bit too complex to explain here(I also feel ashamed for them) and the possibility of what the coincidences says being true really scares me, like never before.
I live with OCD since my childhood, but with my mother's support, I've always managed to overcome it, but this time, I'm really feeling hopeless and scared about it.
Anyway, thanks, now I know how to describe what I'm feeling to my therapist, despite of not knowing if things will work out about my goals and also about getting better from this.
My family is really supportive, but don't understand how I feel because they don't actually understand so well what is OCD, so they don't get totally why I feel so apart from reality even hanging out with them.
It is good that you are able to label it now, I agree, and I haven't really simply labeled it as "doom" either in the past - I've referred to it internally by mostly reacting to triggers and emotions with chaotic terror and desperation. It helps so much when someone, Chrissy in this case, brings it out of the darkness and helps us to define it - in this video as doom.
I feel your pain and am sorry you have to deal with it and to feel quite alone - it's hard when others don't understand OCD.
I'm not seeing a therapist, but I should be. Often what works for me is to cut myself off from doing the rituals or compulsions, which after 40 plus years I'm able to do more often than before, and to feel the internal storm of doom and catastrophe, and to let it pass by keeping busy with other things - by the next day or two, I almost always look back at the triggering thought and will lightly laugh at it and move on - maybe towards the next thought disaster, but at least I've had a small success.
So that in the future I'm able to sort of laugh at the triggers and say, this makes life interesting - I'm okay with them.
Which is not to say I'm not free of crippling emotions and terror, apprehension and choking anxiety. But at least I can be free enough to be in a rotating cycle of OCD rather than a static, fixed jail cell which often has enclosed my mind throughout so much of my life.
I hope my perspective may help you to feel less alone.
@@gabrielliberman8247 Yeah, it makes sense, thanks. I'll try to keep myself busy.
Lovely Chrissie Hodges. Its the feelings that pull us in 💯.
Praise JESUS I have been healed from Pure O but now Im dealing with extreme guilt over those negative thoughts I had....
Also I genuinely felt I said those thoughts and I feel so guilty cause if people hear those thoughts it would be super embarassing as they are super sexual and they do not represent who I really am.....
Does anybody feels like this?
I wonder if you're truly healed from Pure O if you are still feeling so much guilt. Perhaps what you're saying is that you've been able to succeed in not having to do mental compulsions ad infinitum - and that's good - and now you're simply living with all this guilt over sexual thoughts.
But I think that's still suffering from Pure O. Hopefully not as much as you were suffering before (it sounds like).
But yes, we all feel shame and dissonance regarding what our thoughts say about us.
Personally, my thoughts are so buried and compulsions so deep for so long, that I've not thought, "this is not who I am" for many years - I simply struggle daily to achieve peace.
I hope you get healed soon...also. I find getting myself extremely busy helps...like instead of obsession of negative thoughts focus on hard work though its hard
Wow Chrissy you simply the best better then all the rest! This was very helpful for me thanks from Göteborg Sweden.Wish you all the best. C:
Thank you as always! Hope your international trip was great!
This is right on time for me! Ty!!
I’m having this right now, im on my last straw 😭😭.HEP
can you make another hocd video
I'm begging for it toooo 😢😢😢😢
Thank you 🙏🏼
Hi, can you post what time the video with Steve Philipson is?
I am having ocd about having erectile dysfunction. Part of me thinnking what if i dont get hard during sex. And from this thoughts ocd got triggered and this thought created anxiety which made getting a libido harder and which further fueled my fears. It's like a vicious circle. Anyone facing the same problems?
Note: I would love to get some help❤
Honestly the way I’d describe it is you feel a layer of filthy oil that coats your entire being.