18. OCD Treatment - How to deal with intrusive urges, sensations & emotions
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- CBT therapist Katie d'Ath explains how to deal with unwanted feelings and urges. Katie offers individual therapy but you might also like to check out BetterHelp at betterhelp.com...
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It is not easy.. Always cry a little happy tears that someone out there is actually helping people with these obsessions. Thank you Katie..
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Me too, I’ve been having these since I was young and I feel so scared that I will live forever like this. I am now looking for videos that can help me. And now I know I’m not alone. I’m just so relieved knowing that I’m not alone.
Can u talk to me???
@@hanta6898 what seems to be the problem?
I love this because it really expands on the whole intrusive thoughts perspective. So many times I've felt emotions and then quickly jumped to the conclusion "Did I just enjoy that thought?", which gives me even more anxiety. It feels good to know you're not the only one!
Me too... It sucks. As soon as I think about it, suddenly comes another thought saying: Did u enjoy it ? Yes? Then probably you mean it. Then it's your personality it's who u are and it's the REAL feeling you got. Omg. It's so hard to push them away... I feel you
For real, ocd is a monster for sure.
YES EXACTLY! I'm so so so so glad I'm not the only one to deal with this!
me too i have hocd and i imagine two men having sex and my mind is like did you enjoy it?and i actually feel like i did and freak out or when i think of the possibility of being gay or bisexual my mind is did you like that too?and that happens and i freak out again and its so scary and anyoing
jake hartal I knowww it’s so annoying and scary at the same time
God please help us😖😖😖😔😔
are you suffering from. this ocd???
Randeep Singh bro you are not the thought I am serious when I say this, and do not get lost up in the thoughts becz the thoughts are not u. Do not try to stop them allow them to come And by any means do not attach any reasoning to them becz there are no good or bad thoughts
I know bro
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Its anxiety related. Do you know why do you have It?
Who knew Tina Fey was so knowledgeable about mental health
LMAOOOO I love this tina fey
Haha I went to the comments to see if anyone mentioned Tina Fey and wasn’t disappointed
Thanks for saying that. For me it’s the emotions and sensations that bother me, the thoughts not so much. I have segsual (just censoring) intrusive ocd. And my fear isn’t that I would act it out, because I would never. It’s the guilt that I might not stop a feeling soon enough and even enjoy it. And that makes me question who I am and my morality and really makes me feel terrible. I understand that the ocd targets what I am least likely to actually want to do, but the feelings feel so real.
Thank you so much for this video.. you don't understand the positive impact these videos have on people. Please, please continue to do videos on intrusive feelings and urges because i cn't find help anywhere about them
Contact with me.. I hv managed my OCD under my control!!
Badruddin Hasan Saky can you help me how to over come violent OCD urges
I would greatly benefit from a little guidance as well, if possible in any way 😶😭
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It's not easy to accept your intrusive thoughts and stop fighting with them, but I'm doing my best to do it. You changed my way of thinking about OCD. Thank you.
I was suffering from insomnia , anxiety and depression for 6 years s now I have recovered from all of them by GOD's will by following ur program thanx...
@Dylan Orlando ignorant religious people who oppose psychology/ stand in judgment against those with psychological illness do not represent God. He has nothing but compassion for those with mental health issues.
@@meeksikh1 I can testify of this. God is compassionate. I suffer badly with OCD
Which program?
Thank you for this, I almost automatically feel guilty and anxious
Ur not the only one :(
Same here...
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Do you know why?
Kathie plz do more videos. We need you. Plz
Randeep Singh bro you are not the thought I am serious when I say this, and do not get lost up in the thoughts becz the thoughts are not u. Do not try to stop them allow them to come And by any means do not attach any reasoning to them becz there are no good or bad thoughts
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Do you know the source of the anxiety?
2:37 I have strong feelings of guilt and also emotional intrusions where I feel for people knowing they would never feel the same about me. I end up avoiding connections because these images and emotions make me feel off. I also feel that groinal response makes me feel very odd though I know is part of OCD. 😔 Thank you for the video! ❤
Thanks! this actually helped me a lot! mostly 60% of this information is already known to me, but for whatever reason, when my condition worsen I always need this information to be fed to me by a third party. I think that actually have someone that you believe is qualified and that knows the answer to your problems - is a vital part of starting the treatment. Simply reading the said information in your videos is not enough to convince me. After all, we are social creatures which rely on each-other.
Having reassurance is part of the rat race unfortunately. It calms the anxiety, but it sets you up to do the cycle all over again. That is how this bastard illness works. I think the doctor would say sit with it and let it fester, don’t seek reassurance and that will help break the cycle and power of the cycle.
@@musicmusic130 exactly, trying to even understand why it's "irrational" or "I'm just doing it for relief" is part of it and can result in more stronger compulsions that even these reasoning can't help avoid. The best thing to do is to accept the thoughts as they are and dismiss them despite the urge to resolve them
@@musicmusic130 woah I never thought of it that way .. I’m gonna stop doing it thank you
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now cheers
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Hi James, thanks for asking. I revisited this video just by coincidence and I saw your comment. Short story - I've come a long way. the huge dark cloud of anxiety which ruled over me and my daily life has become a light cloud which visits every now and then. Having anxiety to a degree to which it limits my life do come and go every so often. So few people in my life knows about my struggles with OCD and I bet that most people that knows me, either family, friends og colleagues would be shocked if I told them about this (I havn't). On the outside I'm actually quite successful having lots of responsibilities which provides me meaning throughout my daily life. The most important tool that I've now got in my toolsbox to handle OCD and anxiety is the ability to detect it when it prevents me from doing something I would like to do during my daily life. Could be thoughts that prevents me from taking a phone call (where I may have thoughts like; How do I handle different outcomes of the conversation? what if this, what if that?) or it could be thoughts where I avoid certain conversations or people at all because I'm trying to plan every interaction to the teeth. I could write a lot more, but if I'm summarizing I'm back at what I wrote previously - I've come a long way. As far as my family, friends and coworkers tell me, I'm the best spouse, the best parent, the best sibling, a great rolemodel, a great friend a smart and hardworking colleague. I do like my mental illness in some aspects as it's a natural response to danger and keeps me on edge. It helps me improve and its keeps me aware and alert, but it becomes too much every now and then. Cheers.
I'm literally dying inside me and no one knows . I'm just waiting for death to get rest
I feel the same, if I don’t exist then I don’t have to deal with all of this horrible doubts about who the fuck I am as a person
@@anamilojevic8942 we should't be so week actually I'm feeling much more better now and i answered all the questions I had I wish the same and the best for u don't let the life throws u were it want control it tho I felt everything u did
ishraq saoudi: is it normal for people to suffer with this have urges? I am completely aware of my surroundings it’s just I have the urge to harm people and I don’t wanna ruin my life and spend the rest of my life in prison.. sometimes my emotions get numb and I worry I’ll actually do it. That’s how strong these urges are. I’m just like you I’m desperately waiting for death so I can finally be a peace but I want to live my life to it’s fullest I’m just worried I’ll ruin it...
XxAbove OmnipotencexX I have the same issues and it’s okay I’ve come to realize after a while of it that it’s not who I am and I know who I am at heart. It gets easier over time I promise you. The best thing you can do is find ways to love yourself I know trust me it’s not easy and I still fight this today with you..it’s called harm OCD it’s not who you are as a person it’s the energy and what you’ve learned from others and social media to make your brain wired to believe your a bad person your not ❤️. Doesnt make you crazy, don’t feel ashamed either. Instead try to find something to redirect this thought and instead look at someone and compliment them either to them or in your head. I believe this helped me and pushed me further to helping my harm OCD and after practicing it sometimes I can go weeks without realizing and once I realize it again I don’t down myself I GET EXCITED! “YES FINALLY A BREAK THAT FELT AMAZING!” REWARD YOURSELF peace is coming give god time to heal you and help yourself in the long run cause it’s worth it. ❤️ gratitude and mental positivity rewires your brain from all of this. Don’t fear it don’t run from it (F.E.A.R - Face Everything And Rise) gratitude is how you escape this mental strength remember your mind is a muscle like everything else in your body you don’t work on it, it becomes weak build that muscle and you’ll see reality change in front of your eyes WE GOT THIS! YOU GOT THIS! I LOVE YOU AND LOVE YOURSELF ❤️❤️
dont let it take over you.. i was so relieved when i found out it was all fake.. i have intrusive thoughts/feelings but now i know theyre not real just listen to katie. Let them go through you then focus your mind on something else
I have intrusive thoughts and sensation in certain part of my belly, the feeling makes me feel like that thought is real or I am doing what the thought is saying. Also, realises thoughts that attached to my feeling are harder to get rid of.
So after all, I have to just to accept the intrusive/unwanted thoughts and just don't get engage at all with them?
Definitely do NOT engage with them. Very difficult, but Well worth the effort for the reward.
Emotional intrusions and the thoughts have mainly been the thing that bother me most. As well as urges, I am ashamed to say that I did give into an urge in the past but I remember feeling so guilty and terrible about it and that's how I knew it wasn't real. My thoughts and feelings lately have been about my sexuality and whether i'm just happy with men or if I'm truly bisexual and I don't realize it. I do not have anything against anyone who is bisexual, but it is not what I want and it is not what makes me happy as an individual. I've only ever been happy with men and I'm still only happy with men. But the thoughts and emotions I feel are so scary sometimes and I feel like I've never known myself and that I'm just living in a lie rather than accepting the truth. I love my boyfriend dearly and so these thoughts and feelings kill me because I don't feel comfortable thinking about being with a woman when I'm generally all about men and have always been about men. The idea of being bisexual kept me up at night and I was so paranoid that I like women too even though I feel no real attraction toward them at all. It's truly terrible and it's keeping me from being happy with my boyfriend and with myself like I was before these thoughts came into my life.
Remember they're just thoughts, its now how you actually are
Been there.You are not alone. I have been heterosexual since day one.I am not attracted to men in any way.I have the intrusive thoughts about maybe im gay.Not true.Scary.Just remember that its the disease we share called OCD.NOT reality.
I know it's been 5 years, but are you any better? I have my own compulsions and wild thoughts too. Hope it got better for you.
I have that too rn! You gave me so much comfort by sharing this,I have always been a heterosexual girl my whole life yet my OCD is like "do 'xy' or else you'll be a(n) 'insert other sexualities" it's really hard I know I hope you are doing better now if yes then CONGRATS✨ but if no I am fighting this mental illness with you❤❤❤❤
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now cheers
Please upload more videos i need your help please 😓
What if I watched something that really scared me and now gave me ocd? I was at school and the teacher's put a really disturbing podcast and it gave me the worst intrusive thoughts and now it's been almost a month with these thoughts
I'm in the same boat right now. I tripped on shrooms with some friends on thanksgiving and they wanted to watch dexter. I had a bad trip and all these thoughts started afterwards. I just wanna go back and not have tripped that night, or hell, maybe go back a few months and have never tried psychs at all. I know overall I control myself and actions which I get and am comfortable with but I really think the substances are partially responsible for my clouded thinking and bad habits.
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I think the same thing happened to me, I've watched some disturbing things without meaning to, now I have these bad thoughts, it's worse when they happen during school or before going to bed, God help us
Its anxiety related. Do you know why do you have It?
@@brenosantana1458 I have a history with anxiety, I haven't been diagnosed with OCD but I'm pretty sure I have it, my first thoughts were in early elementary, worrying about my mom during school, they've came and left since this day, I have been diagnosed with anxiety though, I'm a very anxious person
I am genuinely not here because of myself its my sister, she always cry when she’s in the bathroom and says things that contains thoughts that makes me wanna cry too. I love her and i am trying to help but giving a pep talk didn’t help i tried this video, nothing did. I’m scared for her life and mine too. But lemme tell you guys something, usually people who thing about this, aren’t suicideal! I love you guys and hope you can give me some tips, ill let my sister see this comment later on! Thank you
I have pocd I think and whenever I see someone I get this feeling of attraction I don’t want it and I’m not sure if it’s real but it feels kind of real but I don’t think it is but I dont knwo and I’m confused mad I just need help I really don’t want to be a monster
Cel The Dumb but I also get these like weird feelings of attraction and I never know what real and what it isn’t it’s really affecting me
@@-t9214 Rebuke Satan Jesus has defeated those tormenting spirits trying to programme your mind
@@-t9214 same!! dont worry you are not alone and it is normal. i absolutely hated the idea of children or having them and then all of a sudden i began having these unwanted feelings of attraction around them!! i was so confused but if it gets any worse i can’t reccomend cbt enough, its a type of therapy that really helped me x
Thanks Katie, This make so much sense to me...I have tripped up with this a lot over the years, where i would have an intrusive emotion along with an intrusive thought & would automatically assume this meant something! I have been practicing this for a while now... When a intrusive thought and emotion pop up i try and just separate myself from them & get back to what i value the most in any given moment... Can be bloody painful at times... I feel this will help me in the long run! Thanks for your amazing videos Katie
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Thanks for the video . It's a miserable condition i have passed on to my son .
+mary Paradis Thats what Im concerned about, passing on my fear of germs on. Can I ask what compulsions you passed on?
Hmm your videos are so good. But why have u stopped? Try to make videos new
Hello. Please help me.
I am suffering from intrusive toughts for 4-5 months. It all started with a "love" OCD for someone I have never been attracted to. Then it stopped for a week and went by for 2-3 weeks. Then, by pure chance, as I was watching a show about suicide and talking over whatsapp about eutanasia with my friends I had an intrusive tought: "what if some day i decide to commit suicide?" then suicidal OCD came by and it beat the shit out of me. I finally manage to understand it, but it's still here. Then it evolved into Existential OCD and "what if I never get better?" "what if my life is suppose to have a purpose and I can't find it"? "what must I do?" "do I have to change anything?" "do I like my house, my work, my parents?" This is killing me inside. Today I woke up with an anxious crisis and I spent the whole day with a great feeling of sadness within me. Is this OCD? Or am I getting depressed? The OCD is telling me I will always live like this and the Suicidal OCD may begin to come back. I'm afraid it will. What can I do? I'm gonna go on vacations with friends for 10 days and I don't know how to do that. I can seem to do anything. I'm afraid of being at home watching TV bcause I might have intrusive toughts that fuck my brain up, I'm afraid of waking up, I'm afraid of everything.
What can I do?
Repent and be baptize follow the ten commandments Jesus is coming soon
We're all gonna make it, friends.
Hi I have pure o and I wanna make friends who have OCD
Katie you are an angel,thanks for your videos.i have been suffering for ocd for 1,5 years...it kills me...
During that 1,5 years there are approximately 5 events that trigger my ocd.
Currently i am struggling with the thoughts that i will kill someone...at first i thought...if there is nothing after this life,then it makes no difference if i kill people before i die...
But i have decided to not do that,i do not want to do that...deep inside of my heart i know i do not want to...but you know when i fear i will kill somebody,that fear creates a force within me to actually kill someone...
This is so frustated,i have thought for suicide several times,so I won’t harm those that i love.
Thankfully its getting better because of this “let the mind go wild,you can’t control what pops in your head,but you 100% can control what your action”
Its not completely gone,but it definitely getting better.Hope you have any tips for me.
Sorry bad english.
I also have mental disorder like obsessive checking over something,like have i closed the door(even though deep inside i know i have) but my own thoughts trick me by thinking maybe i have not closed the door???
But this part of my ocd is not bothering me at all,usually i only check 5 times then finish...
I have religious ocd. I completely understand. I would reccomend reading the bible. It may calm your heart and understand your emotions
I get emotional intrusions and no therapist believe it they all think I must of thought something for it to be ocd
This is amazing thank you! I get intrusive emotions along with panic sensations and it makes it feel so much more real. People dont talk about this enough, i appreciate you shedding light on it! Intrusive emotions are the hardest to sit with for me they always bring fear and thoughts with them...
I struggle with the anxiety and panic as well. I am working through harm OCD and when a tought comes in and then the anxiety hits, it feels like I am restraining myself from doing things I would never do. It is exhausting. I have been learning so much on the subject and following some of these leaders in the OCD field and finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. How are you doing?
Hey just wondering how you’re getting on now cheers
Please upload more videos, why have you stopped?
Thanks for clarifying this and i am sure you have helped alleviate the fears of many people who felt that their unwanted/intrusive emotions meant something about them. I still suffer with thoughts/emotions about disliking myself and others but knowing i am not my thoughts or emotions i realise i can decide how i see myself and others.
Thank you so much! I was diagnosed with ocd and for some months now my biggest problem is the fear of a physical sensation, which is the physical sensation of anxiety felt in my body, especially in my chest…and doctors and therapists don’t understand me since they say that sensations must come from intrusive thought and that anxiety is only the consequence of intrusive thought, not the cause. But I have this annoying sensation 24/7 that bothers me and the more I try to calm myself to make it go away the bigger it gets, the more I try to escape from it the bigger it gets, the more I try breathing or relaxation techniques the bigger it gets…the only thing that is helping me is increasing the dose of the SSRI which has made feel this sensation much less…I try to explain this to doctors but they don’t believe me
I feel gayish by physically like urges and sensations in hocd
i’m guessing you recovered, pls tell me how.
Dr D'Ath I hope that you see this comment: Thank you so much! You are a God-send. Your videos have helped me so much. I've learned so much from you. While I still struggle with OCD, the knowledge I've gained from your videos have helped me to understand what I'm dealing with and how to handle it. God Bless you!
My problem is not the just the intrusive thoughts and sensations, but also the belief that these thoughts and sensations will somehow taint my life in such a way that the things I enjoy will be less enjoyable. I started a business two days ago. Just as I signed the business into practice, I had an intrusive thought. I'm trying so hard to move on with the business, but I can't help feeling that it is tainted. I'm trying so hard to just sit with the feeling of anxiety. How long will this feeling that I want to rip my hair out last lol?
Red Fish your thoughts or sensations DO NOT DEFINE YOU!!
are you indian???
I cant take this anymore
Sorry to hear you are struggling. I hope you can use this channel to help yourself and find some comfort reading comments from others who have managed to improve. It's really hard but you can do it.
Mam plz also give general ERP and CBT techniques to cure OCD this will help me a lot ♥️
Do you know the source of the anxiety?
@@brenosantana1458 I dont 😦
@@janakassem838 Try to ignore it if you want.
@@brenosantana1458 yea..im trying and her vids are so helpful!!
what happened with Katie? Why there is no new uploads?
Here's the thing, I have HOCD. I can understand doing ERP for it with the thoughts but not the emotions. Whenever I do ERP, I don't run from the problem but face them. STILL the emotions do not go away, do not change, do not even budge. I've been having the emotional feeling of dread and doom that revolve around the HOCD and those emotions speak much louder. Facing the emotions do not change them. It's done nothing to help and I can't think of what to do next.
HOCD almost forgot about that one. I'll help you out here... you are not gay. If you were you'd be liking the gay stuff but you don't... want to know why because you are not gay.
But once it goes away and it will be ready for it to morph into something else. Fact is you just got to let go man and laugh it off, laugh at the lies and just relax and let it pass / don't respond to it.
I'm a guy and some men are handsome... but I'm not gay. But what the HOCD used to do is play off the fact that some men are handsome and try to play it's HOCD games until one day I just got so tired of the lies as I am 100% straight and love woman and woman only I just started to laugh it off. Poof it went away in about two weeks but then the ocd morphed into something else.
Just learn to let it pass / don't respond to it and just keep going about your day until you forget about it no matter what type of ocd it is.
*Please remember... you are not alone, I know exactly what you are talking about and it's all ocd games / lies.*
Laugh it off and move on with your life. Be happy : )
@@MichaelNetwork it’s true , I almost succeeded in getting my HOCD gone and in a weekend I watched a ghost movie and on that day onwards I started to become fucking afraid of ghost .. but I laughed it off .it. Went away within weeks but my HOCD came back .. the feeling of being attracted to loved once and groinal response is worse ..
How are you doing now?
@@Nicole-yx8ms I went through phase where it didn't affect me much at all anymore, then within the last few months it came back. Not nearly as strong as before but noticable only when certain people are around.
It's key to remember that thoughts are just thoughts.. Thoughts create feelings and feelings create behavior.
@@miked4904 thanks so much for getting back to me Mike. I'm sorry you're not doing as well as you were.
Did you experience feeling totally straight for a time? Did you ever experience "false attraction/arousal", or lose attraction?
Thanks for your resources! Please we need more videos in your channel!
I have been doing better recently.
So I'd like to share how I've been doing it. This is it.
Provoke your anxiety as much as possible as often as possible for as long as it takes. Believe in what your mind is telling you as strongly as you can even if you really don't believe it. Force yourself to believe your anxiety. Provoke provoke provoke. This is very hard to do in the beginning and it will give you a more overall anxiety for a longer period. But just keep going. Keep provoking.
I swear this works very well if you can take it.
And remember. Don't tell yourself you are doing this to get rid of your obsessions. Stop reassuring yourself. Just Keep Provoking.
Goodluck
hello, my problem is a little delicate. i have grown over the past two years an obsession over the number of cigarettes i smoke. i became so obsessed at some point that i kept repeating in my head and thinking when i smoke a cigarette and counting it, over and over, every time feeling the count isn't right. i started keeping a journal on my phone where i noted with a * every time i smoke a cigarette in a day. on august the fourth my boyfriend pointed to me that this is a little OCD. I did have a lot of OCD behaviours in the past: straightening the sheets on my bed before going to sleep, checking the door is closed before going to sleep, what else.. something i noticed more recently, repeating what others say in my head for fear i did not understand them quite right, repeating what i said in my head to reassure myself that what i said was right, for fear i said something wrong. i tried to stop counting the cigarettes, but i could not help it, i am a math student lol, i just count 'em every time i smoke 'em, but i tried not to worry whether the number is correct or not. now, what happened the other day was that i smoked my eigth cigarette, the second in a new package, but i wasn't sure it was the eigth, so i thought "ill just check the package and if they are 18 cigarettes in there, then it's good, it means that this was indeed the eigth cigarette" i checked the package, but, to my surprise, there were only 17 cigarettes. so i thought "okay, it means that was my ninth cigarette and i smoked nine cigarettes today" only to find a cigarette from the same package behind my laptop later that day, so i thought "okay, so this means that i had 18 cigarettes in the package and that indeed i smoke eight cigarettes today" but i wasn't sure anymore... somehow this thought obsessed me, that i thought i smoke nine cigarettes and that i had 17 cigarettes left only to find out that i smoke 8 cigarettes and they were 18 cigarettes in the package, as i thought initially. so to get rid of the anxiety of finding this out, i started counting my cigarettes in my head, every one of them (to keep track, i thought also about when i smoke them) so i counted them once... twice... thrice.. four times, five times... every time feeling something is of, being obsessed with the fact that i got the counting wrong, that i thought i smoke 9 cigarettes and that i had 17 left, only to find that there was a lost cigarette i found and that indeed i smoke 8 cigarettes and had 18 cigarettes in the package, as i initially thought. this thought did not leave me for HALF a day. how can i deal with this? what is there to expose? how can i deal with this when the obsession is about something so meaningless and of so little importance, but it just wont go away? i am a pure O, i wish i had rituals to get rid of, fear of dying and of contamination and of social gatherings or earthquakes and kissing and talking to other people, fear i will embarass myself, fear of spiders and bugs, those would be a breeze to deal with, but no, i fear the number of cigarettes i smoke and whether that number is right or not!!
your counting of cigs sounds like OCD itself. Just don't count them, leave it be. Not a professional myself but I believe that itself is ocd.
Can I personally got ur answer from email ..I have mailed u an email but it was unanswered so plz reply mam..awesome video!!!!
hi katie please make more videos , i watched all videos and following the same , I am not stopping thoughts and i am ignoring the thoughts , good result is came , so what are the next stpes? after ignoring the thoughts
Creative. Do activities that bring you joy. Could be drawing, hanging with an animal, going to the park and watching the birds etc
I don't know why but I have this Urge to think that I am gay ... but when I am Hormonaly like 100% straight. LIKE TF? HELP.
Hello Katie ! This video series is very useful to me as I am planning to begin my OCD recovery. Please make more videos like these.
For some people experiencing these things, have a read about Auras and Partial Seizures...... This is epilepsy that is a small seizure that is not big enough to make your whole brain seize and knock you out, you stay awake if you have a small focal seizure, only the part of your brain where the focus is located is affected...... There are a wide range of bizarre symptoms that can be caused by these types of focal seizures
God himself could not come to help people suffering from these problems therefore He has sent ANGELS like you to help us...I have no words for this priceless gift 😍🙏
does intrusive emotions necessarily have to be guilt im more worried about having felt good about them then further entertaining them , that’s gotten to me recently , it makes me feel like i am thoose horrible gross things
This. I needed this today. /someone suffering from intrusive emotions about ”wanting” to hurt/kill my cats…
it’s the worst feeling ever in the history of humankind and i wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Could you do a PTSD basic coping strategies, which i blieve are quite similar to OCD ones....:(
I think I have had OCD since childhood and had no idea that it was that. I used to have to say the alphabet backwards before going to sleep to stop my brother from being taken by the devil. Or count backwards from 100 before speaking and then sleeping. Wow. I am slowly becoming aware of what was wrong and why and how this has shaped and spoiled the better part of my adult life. Struggling with depression and perfectionism, extreme rumination and my brain literally stuck on every single mistake, unable to think or physically move sometimes. What a hideous thing it is.
Thanks for your videos. But i have HOCD (really i dont know) please help me get out of this hell.
I feel frustration and anger towards my partner and that really makes me feel sad because I don't wanna feel that way😭
does anyone know where she went?????
Thank you for this so much many peaple don’t bring awareness to this so for along time I got confused and would wonder if it really is my ocd since I had never really have heard any talk about this type of ocd so thank you very much☺️
Thanks. The book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels was also helpful.
Not sure why you stopped uploading videos, because they are very good Katie
Does it count as an intrusive thought if it's something that I actually did? I looked at a body part of a family members that I absoloutley did not want to but felt forced to do. I looked but I didn't want To. Does this still count as an intrusion! Innaprorpaite sexual stuff is a big fear of mine
Yes very common if you want to talk to me I'm here for you. I truly understand
Thank you im I'm struggling a bit atm. But I no I will get through this. And people reading this you will to!
I suffer from the fear of commiting blasphemy. How can you let your thoughts flow when there's an urge/like a feeling you want to commit the sin and agree with the thoughts? This is my fear and I'm at loss as to what to do. I have to constantly make sure my mind is blank. Don't know how much longer I can do this......
lets talk about it
@@menace2societies I just hope God can help me. I see my heart and cloudy mind and its bad.
Thank u mam from the bottom of the heart.
Hope this gonna be life changing
this started around 2 years ago and was diagnosed with harm ocd.i have thoughts sensations in hands.i am also very afraid of other mental illnesses that will lead me to going insane and put into a hospital.one thought I don't know why it came up,I think it was because I heard someone talking about sun of sam and how he said dogs told him to kill people.the thought that comes into my head is what if my dog is evil.i hate saying it because it sounds extremely insane now everytime I look at my dog I get guilt and anxiety and look at her defferintly.this also happens with people like my loved ones and the amount of stress and anxiety it puts on me is unbearable and I feel like I'm going to loose my mind any day now.my doctor says it's intrusive thoughts but I just can't stop thinking this way and can't view the ones I love the same.
Want to talk. How are you doing?
how are you doing now ?
Very intelligent analysis. Exposure helps show that what your mind made important, really is very boring indeed after several times of reality checks. Educational, thanks for the enlightening tutorials ☝️
I turn 30 this month and I have been struggling with OCD and these types of problems for nearly 17 years. I have often been so scared to discuss these problems in sessions out of fear I would be look at like a freak. These videos resonate with me so much Ihave tears in my eyes, could it be other people feel these things enough we have approaches to fixing them?
Just prescribed seroquel for this today. Living hell for last 5 years.
Great thanks to you, Katie for these series of videos on CBT (you, along with some influential figures in this field, without mentioning names here). Just to say, that having bought your book along with some other resources sought and/or bought, they've all helped (with your videos here of course) tremendously. *commenting here, just so whoever is seeing this, will know (if they desire) where to look for further help. God bless you and other fellow OCD sufferers.
p.s. you, with figures mentioned above, have so inspired us to make OCD videos since. Thanks for being an inspiration.
Thanks doc...
I come back to watch all the videos after a few months. I feel so much better, can even laugh at the OCD now. Thanks.
I have been doing better recently.
So I'd like to share how I've been doing it. This is it.
Provoke your anxiety as much as possible as often as possible for as long as it takes. Believe in what your mind is telling you as strongly as you can even if you really don't believe it. Force yourself to believe your anxiety. Provoke provoke provoke. This is very hard to do in the beginning and it will give you a more overall anxiety for a longer period. But just keep going. Keep provoking.
I swear this works very well if you can take it.
And remember. Don't tell yourself you are doing this to get rid of your obsessions. Stop reassuring yourself. Just Keep Provoking.
Goodluck
Hey I just watched all your OCD videos and I wanted to thank you for making them. It gave me some new perspectives.
What do you think of Jeffrey Dahmer?
I thought you were Tina Fay, just a side note.
Honestly i think the best thing anyone can do for these meaningless thoughts is distractions, but natural distractions thay come without effort, like having friends and family around often, or having a hobby. The more your mind has time to think of these negative thoughts the more important you think they are
Hi there, I agree with you. In lockdown I am happy and well but I cant swim, I cant go to the gym, I cant visit central london or go to an art gallery. All the things I do which please me and also distract me from anxiety I cant do at the moment, so a little OCD gremlin is hopping around. I am trying to do new hobbies and passtimes to replace those I cant do, this seems to be working. best wishes from London UK
thought this was an episode of 30 Rock
When intrusion comes it surrounds my whole body, mind. All of there happen at the same time: thoughts , images, sensations, urges, emotions. And then it left me with a very strong feelings of guilt and shame. I am suffering from Pure o at least 2 years.
What theme of OCD do you have ? And can you explain these sensations and urges
Keep up the good work
if I have the OCD thought of guilt whenever I doing something misappropriate, I feel like confessing to any person.
Should I just bear with the guilt and ignore the urge to confess?
is confessing a bad thing because that what my OCD want me to do?
How do I deal with guilt OCD? even if a guilt is on very small issues?
Jodi aman on UA-cam had helped me so much
Please mam upload more videos on OCD.... GOD bless you... I have extreme level of perfectionism.
Badruddin Hasan Saky lets talk about it
This is the God fault to make our brain like this.....
Hello Katie, hope your doing good. I have been having OCD since like 15 years now. Initially it was mainly related to germs, contamination, hygiene, fear of getting harmed myself etc but since a few months the characteristics of my OCD have been changed. I am experiencing a lot of intrusive thoughts which give me a lot of guilt and depression. For instance I feel I have purposely tapped someone's rear whilst walking the stairs, I feel I may have harmed my pet lying on the floor by kicking it and such things. Though I know I have not done anything but the feeling comes that I have done it and I keep trying to convince my mind I haven't and it goes on into a vicious circle. How do I go about this? How do I convince myself and calm my mind that I have not done anything and come out of the guilt?
hello, everyone, I am having an OCD crisis and I could really use some help, basically I have encounter a paradoxic problem wheal trying to stop my self from blocking or pushing away, or reacting to gross images, basically in order to stop my self from reacting to bad thoughts, and images, I started to ignore them when they came up ,so when something comes up that I don't like I immediately stop thinking about it, and change the subject to something ease, this worked vary well, because up to that point I would eather try and force the thoght out which never worked or try and explain it away and make it worse, but after a week or of what seems like real progress, something always comes up, that bothers me so much, I cant get ride of the thought because it bothers me to much, and I go back to where I was a couple weeks ago.
So when I watched some of theses videos, I realized that I might actually just be pushing the thoughts away, so I started to stop trying to block images, and let them happen, but they get worse and worse tell I am forced block them out, it then seems like I'm actually now paying more attention with this methode because the images are more vivid, but after a while the images were appear less often, and I am in genrale much less bothered by images because I stop caring about them, but what I see more images, and they tend to be more graphic, but I can function better this way because I don't have to worry about getting rid of them, and I don't have to avoid thninking about stuff for fear of something bad coming up.
Here is the problem say I'm walking down the road, and I see a dude, and for what reason my mind says, "don't think about something gross" for what ever reason, If I immediately force my self to change the subject and block what ever image comes up, I will forget about it and possibly avoid the incident, but I have to foribly block the image, which I have been told not to do, but if I do nothing like I'm told, images will come up, so I then instead of blocking them out right, I let them exist in a vary abstract manner, and they then go away by them selfs, but I still have to in a lesser manner block the image, because if I do nothing the image will get worse and worse tell i have to get rid of it, the issue is that I started taking option number two, or I just do nothing and just deal with what ever happens, it seems to work better, but I feel an ethical obligation to do option number 1 because that will result in image being less bad, and more so I then feel horrible that I could have prevented myself from seeing something thats horrible, but chose to let it happen any way, I then by trying to figure out what to do I feel like Im over thinking it and get confused, so what should I do in this here, I cant figure it out and its preventing me from moving forward?
alexander ewing Provoke your anxiety as much as possible as often as possible for as long as it takes. Believe in what your mind is telling you as strongly as you can even if you really don't believe it. Force yourself to believe your anxiety. Provoke provoke provoke. This is very hard to do in the beginning and it will give you a more overall anxiety for a longer period. But just keep going. Keep provoking.
I swear this works very well if you can take it.
Good luck
And remember. Don't ever tell yourself you are doing this to get rid of your obsessions. Stop reassuring your self. Just keep provoking.
Thank you so much! I was diagnosed with ocd and for some months now my biggest problem is the fear of a physical sensation, which is the physical sensation of anxiety felt in my body, especially in my chest…and doctors and therapists don’t understand me since they say that sensations must come from intrusive thought and that anxiety is only the consequence of intrusive thought, not the cause. But I have this annoying sensation 24/7 that bothers me and the more I try to calm myself to make it go away the bigger it gets, the more I try to escape from it the bigger it gets, the more I try breathing or relaxation techniques the bigger it gets…the only thing that is helping me is increasing the dose of the SSRI which has made feel this sensation much less…I try to explain this to doctors but they don’t believe me
I'm going through what you've just described right now. I know that your post is 1 year old, but would you mind sharing with me which medication you use and if anything else has helped you? I don't want to be dependent on medication, but I'm so desperate for relief from this horrible sensation that I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Dear Katie, please keep up your films. It's very much needed.
I have suffered with ocd all my life - since the age of 9 - I'm 42 now. My main form of the illness is a fear of mental and internal contamination, I have never been fearful of (well not too much) of exterior contamination - touching things etc.. My reason for contacting you is that I need to have a Hernia operation (I have put the op off for 6 years!). I'm worried because I will be having a 'foreign' object put into me (a mesh to stop the hernia coming through), I worry that after the op, when I get home I will not be able to cope with having something in me that shouldn't really be there and I won't be able to get it out. I will go crazy! I'm in pain now, so I NEED to finally have this op. I've never self harmed but I worry that I might try to cut myself open and do something stupid because of this fear of contamination. I once pulled a crown (tooth and now have a gap ) out because I thought it was poisoning me! Help! Should I talk with someone (mental health) before I have the op??
Sir all the operation are done in a very hygienic room and very well maintained atmosphere....Please go forward for your surgery as it will have two benefits ...Number 1-You will save yourself from hernia creating any further complications due to delay..Number 2-After the successful surgery you will know that your thoughts of OCD about contamination was not true and you can overcome your OCD too..OCD is like C++ programme after finishing it will show so many errors but after correcting one error all the errors will disappear..Same with OCD you just need to embrace,not resist your thoughts and have courage to face your fears..
Please upload more videos!!!
Please make more videos. I really miss you
Thank you so very much Katie.You may not believe this but I struggling with this and arrived at the same conclusion minutes before I found this video.I have struggled wirh OCD all my life.Im 56 now.It first noticed it or it became most accute for the first time when I was 15.Ir dragged me into a major depression on several occasions.Thank you again.I struggle with sensation ocd as well.
I’m 15 and my ocd has suddenly gotten worse
Katie I really like your videos. I just have one question that’s being on my mind and maybe I haven’t understand completely the treatment for OCD. What should I do at the end with my intrusive thoughts? Not engage them so they pass like a train in the station or expose myself to the thoughts that make me feel guilty and make on my mind an opposite process of the one I used to minimize my guilt and anxiety? I hope you answer my question soon. Meanwhile I will apply to my life all the things that you’ve shared with us.
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i know im a year late and you probably recovered but basically what you should do is exposde yourself and focus on bad thoughts and eventually they will stop being so bothersome and become something you get rid of easly thats where it'll pass like a train.
I struggle with it since i was 5.... very very hard i have bladder infections and depression because of this.. KEEP FIGHTING!
Contact with me
Can it make you feel happy?
I litteralllly hate occcdb
Anyone with ex rocd theme?
Thanks katie, I'll remind myself of this each time I find myself trying to get rid of my ocd thought rituals.
Thank you for your video! 🙏
I have succeeded coping with anxiety. There's no more 'urges' to do something bad with myself but my OCD has twisted from urge into anger. It seems that I feel anger because I refuse to do all this scary stuff which OCD tells me and it makes me believe that I really must do these awful things and I suffer from this new feeling. Back in the day I had 'What if I like my intrusive thoughts and I want them to come true?' but then I've chosen to disregard. It's almost stopped. But now I feel anger because I don't wanna get rid of OCD and do these scary thoughts... (And I hate this feeling). Is it still OCD or my inner wish? I'M CRYING😭IS IT COMMON FOR OCD?
I see this as OCD's way of getting you hooked back in. Trick now is to not make the anger mean anything and let it pass on its own just the same way as you did with your anxiety..... Don't engage with the newer thoughts either....keep using the tools and slowly you will win the battle!
@@23katied thank you so much 🙏❤️you're illiterally the savior
Sucks man, I understand the whole "not giving it a reaction helps in the long run" thing, but it's so hard because everytime I have one I give an auto response of guilt or distress or anxiety or whatever.
ChoochLord Beats same as me I have guilt what it will actually happen
lets talk about it
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I feel like shouting NO...n I do....also... I will be regretfully just why it happened...
Katie, thank you so much!
Hey Katie. These videos you have posted are amazing and so helpful. Just wanted to say thanks you for uploading them :).
Hey...I am Binish from India...I have OCD and would like to overcome...can we work together to make a transformation video that explains different stages that I go through so that it would inspire people? It actually took almost half an hour for me to type this. Funny thing is I dont have anytging to offer but you can post the video on your channel