Hey Nathan, do you think you could do a video specifically on confessions with OCD? For example "If this person knew that I did this thing, or that this thing happened, they would leave or not want me in their life anymore", in regards to needing to confess everything you ever did that you think they would not approve of. If you already have a video like this then I can check that out instead :) I appreciate your channel a lot. I have struggled with this type of OCD since I was about 12 years old (now in my thirties), it's truly debilitating and a real struggle to not overwhelm your loved ones with confessions about pointless things that OCD makes you believe in the moment are huge life altering events. It's a real cycle of anxiety/relief for everything that comes up, it makes each new memory or event feel like THIS one is definitely the serious one that needs to be brough up for sure. I have had full blown panic attacks from these at times, I am fairly in control of my OCD at this point and have gotten rid of a lot of my previous compulsions like hand washing, counting etc, but the confessions and real event style OCD are what continue to get me from time to time, and I haven't seen a video from you specifically on this. If you have one please link it to me, thanks again for all you do!
You have been nothing less than a gem for me when I felt so helplessly lost and confused. I have got Magical thinking OCD coupled with Religious OCD and your videos have been my only reliable way of trying to deal with my disorder. I haven't been perfect in dealing with my OCD but atleast now I am much better aware of my condition and of ways to defeat it.I hope I one day get rid of this problem for good. Can't thank you enough good sir!
I have the same thing oddly enough.. I often come here to get some sort of comfort. It’s not necessarily the best, but it helps. Doesn’t increase it or make it worse. If it’s on my mind, I come here. Great helpful channel.
@@ThisOffendsMeTV I am so sorry you have to go through this. I totally agree with you. OCD can feel so personalized that it becomes so tough to even comprehend it much less explain. This channel has helped made sense of our shared mental trouble. Hope we conquer it someway. My best wishes to you!
I've had OCD since I was 8. I am now 40. The themes have changed throughout my life but it's really all the same monster. Nate is an expert on this stuff and I appreciate all the free content he puts out there to help people 🙌
You’ve changed a lot of things for me. You’re a good dude. I read people well. I can tell when someone cares and when somebody is putting up a front. You’re a genuine dude, Nate. I appreciate your channel as do many people. I’ve come to look at life differently because of you. Thanks man.
You're so awesome man! I always appreciate your support! I truly want to help others the best that I can! 😄 Dude! I just saw your shout out on your channel. That means a lot!
I'M SUFFER FROM GENETIC SEVERE OCD, GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER , PANIC DISORDER AND AGROPHOBIA THIS YEAR ITS GOTTEN SO BAD THESE LAST FEW MONTHS ITS BEEN A LIVING HELL I LOVE PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF WHO ARE HELPING PEOPLE LIKE US🙏🏿
This past two weeks I’ve had an awful obsessive flare up! It was finals week and my intrusive thoughts were off the wall. The other day I started crying my obsessing about what ifs literally made me break down. Opening my phone just now and watching this gave me clarity. I constantly tell my therapist about how real the thoughts can feel and how do not know if it’s real or not. This video means so much to me. I feel seen. Thankyou.
The way I think of intrusive thoughts is a sort of 'faded color'. True thoughts are a bright, full color, while intrusive thoughts are the same shade, but faded. Kinda feels the same, but it's not the same
I'm struggling with pure o ocd, And I'm always reassuring. When my ocd thoughts came to my mind, I feels so anxious and I works hard to don't care for any of theese thoughts. But my body goes numb and shivers, And I can't stop control myself not doing compulsions. Thanks so much for your videos, You help me alot more than a psychiatrist, because I took medicine but it didn't work. And also now I try hard to follow your advises
The reassuring and trying to not care/trying to lower anxiety around the thoughts can be compulsions! Pure O is still plain OCD I believe, just with mental compulsions :) it can be so hard to manage but if you can identify what those mental compulsions are and try and stick with the anxiety without trying to “figure it out” or “solve,” things can get easier. I’m still a work in progress with this 🥰
You are genuinely an angel on earth. You have no idea the sense of relief you have given me time and time again by listening to your videos in times of distress. A massive thank you for your calming demeanor and intellect on such a terrible disorder.
I have serious Magical Thinking OCD with music. Music is a huge part of my life and I want a future with it. However, I have what I call “Bad luck songs”. If I listen to a certain song, album, band or artist I believe bad things will happen to me and that’s it’s my fault for listening to the song. My list of “bad luck songs” continues to grow over time. However, this channel is the first source of relief I’ve ever found. I hope to overcome this for good someday it’s just so hard. Especially when the events in my personal life are so bad and heavy. Thank you for being a beacon of hope for me.
Nathan,God bless you as you continue to help people heal. Everything you’ve said is on point with what I have experienced throughout my life. You bring comfort and a better understanding of what I am being challenged with. Again, God bless you, Nathan.
You are awesome! You just met and took a photo with my therapist at the OCD Con this past week. I was like "Hey, two of my favorite OCD guides in one picture...Nice!". :)
Hey Nate, just thought I'd let you know your scary movie metaphor was a actually really helpful with my OCD recovery. Anyone reading, try to remember: you wont recover from OCD by getting rid of the uncomfortable thoughts, or even by making them 100% stop feeling unpleasant. Recovery is about readjusting your mind so it can experience and observe the thoughts, feel the discomfort they cause, maybe even feel the urgent need inside to start wrestling with them, and just... carry on from there. Focus on experiencing whatever's happening, in your mind and outside, and choose to do what you find value in. The way I'd describe it is, instead of my thoughts being some all consuming nightmare that's taking up my whole attention, they're now very much on the peripheral. They're still unpleasant, but it's akin to a little itch or soreness in my leg that I can let happen in the background. No urgent need to address anything.
This video just lifted my mood so much. I’ve been tormented by ocd for a long time and your the first person who I have ever heard that can completely explain how I’m feeling and why. I look too you during my bad times for some mental clarity and thank you for your healing words. Keep up the great work 🙏
This was so so so helpful!! I have morality OCD and it makes so much sense that it just prays on what I care about the most. And yeah haha I like that just saying “YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL!” like it’s very silly that I think other people’s obsessions are fake but mine is the only real one even though I know I’ve had delusions in the past
Thank you so much. I suffer from Harm OCD years now...and right now I am going through a relapse...a really bad one. My meds don't seem to respond anymore and this time the Harm is against others. My pets...my husband..all of it. I had all the urges the mental images...all of it. Your videos help me because I can access them at any time...my therapist helps too. Thank you for caring about people like us. For making us feel we are not crazy.
Hi! I know this was a year ago - how are you doing now? I'm currently in the same boat and struggling so bad. It's attacked my pets and I don't know what to do.
Ive been strugling with ocd and anxiety for the last 18 years...and i really ask, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? I wish i saw your videos 18 years ago...you are such a lifesaver lifechanger. I thank you so much with all my heart❤
I’m struggling with toxic thoughts that I’ve perpetuated for months. The thoughts make me feel vulnerable and uncomfortable so I react to it and out comes the anxiety over and over again. I’m going to try to practice your techniques and I thank you for helping me understand my ocd better!
Your videos strip OCD of all its trickery, showing it for what it is. I'm almost embarrassed to myself that I was tricked. Of course, I need long term intervention but until then, you give me superpowers.
At first my OCD was centered around dying in my childhood, during that time I went through the fear that I have lung cancer because I breathed whilst walking next to someone who was smoking, other times I would feel a pain in my ribs and think it was lung cancer. Then the disorder died down and about a year later resurfaced as uncertainty as to whether or not we live in a highly complex computer simulation, after that died down i then started to worry about whether or not im the only conscious entity in existence (this was probably the worst bout of OCD I have ever had), after that I feared that my IQ was dropping I would closely examine the conduct of my peers to see if they seemed smarter, if i detected a rise then i would fear that meant that i was getting dumber, the next fear i dont even want to type out of fear of actualization, im going through it right now. Your videos are a raft in the turbulent oceans, I find myself holding on and fearing letting go
Hold strong. It takes tremendous courage to have to live with this. I always tell myself that when I feel like I can't make it. Some days are better than others. I look forward to them.
The way you educate about OCD it lightens the anxiety about it. Thank you ❤ I didn’t know what was the problem with me. Through your videos I have learned to accept it as it is. Learning to deal with it! I feel grateful.
You're doing great work Nate, I've had OCDs for months in the past but this time, the theme was different and it hit me hard. I've taken your advice and decided to say whatever it is, I'll eventually know when a situation presents itself. Not my place to figure things out. This is helping me so much in controlling thoughts and becoming functional again.
Thank you, i have religious OCD mainly. I have other forms too but all seem to stem from God being the voice i hear telling me and so it makes it hard to know when it's actually God and when i can stop praying and it's just my own fears and OCD. But you've helped me so much . Right when i was thinking "i know what you are saying but this time is probably not ocd i can't take the risk of ignoring it" you said right after in the video that we probably would think that this time is different. Thank you for helping me. I cannot stress how mu h this has helped . I can't get therapy at the moment though am starting soon and you have been such a big help for me
My POCD got so bad at one point that I would often have several days of genuinely believing that **it** was true. I'd constantly research it in some vague attempt to get answers about what I should do and how I could feel less like a disgusting freak. I'm glad It doesn't bother me too much anymore, but my OCD does come in “episodes.” .
Very grateful for your content. Choice, acceptance, and realizing there is nothing to fix or solve are the reminders I need when I slip back into my OCD thoughts and anxieties. It’s so easy to forget these when you get stuck and it seems so real.
I feel like most of society cind if sees ocd as a “the whiteboard is not totally erased” whereas in reality you feel like Gollum. Expect that you have to try to bottle it up and act like everything is fine.
These tips combined with the calming music really help, thank you. I'm new here but I am looking forward to more ways to overcome the repetitive thoughts and obsessions. 👍
I was crying and watching this video. My doubts are too strong these days. Sometimes i can't identify what is real and what is not. I feel i am losing my mind. But i don't want to give up.
I'm so glad I found your videos. About 8 weeks ago I witnessed something very traumatic that triggered my OCD to come back 2 weeks later but this time it was based on a completely unrelated experience I went through. I caved and told my partner what was going on as there was a secret I had kept, it was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make especially because of the shame and guilt I was and still do feel at times. I decided to enroll in some online CBT based programs and start doing some more research on how to manage while I await in person therapy and start on my medication again. Your videos have really helped me realize that choosing to engage in those false/ real event memories is my choice and it's really helped me gain some control back into my life. I'm actually able to go days now without having a total breakdown and even when i do they are becoming shorter and less intense as time goes on.
Sister... My Hocd is increasing day by day..... And it is feeling so real... I hate it... I wanna be normal as I was... Please help....I Am so helpless... I don't wanna be like that.... From childhood I was facing Hocd but it was not bad at that time ....i used to play cricket with my friends.... I was so much normal... But a year ago... I mistakenly watched an Indian talk show about Homosexual people... And after that these thoughts and bad feelings have started to me.... Please help
OH.. MY.. GOSH I rarely watch videos or read about OCD because it doesn't teach anything I haven't heard. I say this all the time (I believe my OCD is so bad because I care). I DO believe the first step to changing things is to stop fighting it and stop caring (believing) it as if it were my mother and yes it only attacks what you care about.
Like intrusive thoughts in Benzodiazepine withdrawal feels real because we have a sticky brain that has a chemical fear that attaches to a thought we think is too important. Our brain does this during this withdrawal automatically like our bodies convulse automatically because of our dsyregulated nervous system. The thoughts seem too real and too important when they are not.
YOU ARE LIKE A SAVIOR TO ME ... THANKS SO SO MUCH ...I JUST WANT TO TOUCH YOUR FEET TO THANK YOU ...I AM HAVING RELIGION OCD , MAGICAL THINKING OCD , DELUSION DISORDER , OVERTHINKING .. EACH AND EVERY DAY IS LIKE HARD STONE TO ME .. CAN'T ABLE TO BREAK IT ... YOUR VEDIOS HELPED ME TO RECOGNISE THIS THAT THIS IS A DISORDER AND NOT MY MISTAKE .. THANKS SO MUCH 🙏🙏
Have you seen in your practice any particular difficulties for kids labeled “gifted” in recovering from OCD. I have core irrational pattern/belief that “just because others choose x doesn’t mean you can” because I was told I was different from my peers. Your videos have been so helpful in my personal OCD journey, thank you!
Can OCD try to make you think you don’t believe something? I think mine is attacking my very foundation, my belief in Jesus and the gospel. I know I believe but these doubts are coming up constantly and I’m obsessed to the point where it’s making me believe I don’t believe and there’s a lot of anxiety. I look for reassurance thru people and the internet :( I feel like I’m losing my mind.
So I have been very disturbing intrusive thoughts of the ones I love especially my girlfriend being killed and it gives me constant panic attacks and anxiety because I get anxiety about having another panic attack. Toward the end of the day I usually am so exhausted that I am almost numb and I calm down. I’m holding these videos help me. I started taking my zoloft I used to be prescribed for anxiety depression again so. Fingers crossed.
Im suffering with pure O, and it's been so bad recently that I can barely focus on anything else, can barely leave the house and frequently want to just die to get away from it all. How do I cope with the debilitating depressive feeling of despair I get when the thoughts hit?? It makes EVERYTHING ELSE seems trivial and pointless, if I can't prove to myself RIGHT NOW that the thoughts are not real and that I do not like them
I would like a video explaining why ocd starts, and another video of a visual of the brain . Idk . Sometimes I feel my ocd started only bc a real event provoked it so much and then it spread to other themes. Is this possible?
I'm so sorry. I wish there were more therapists in the world. Anyone that specializes in OCD should work with existential OCD. Have you looked at www.iocdf.org to find someone?
I realized that my goal is to be in the grey of it all. My OCD has me on extreme thinking. Black or white thinking. N that's so scary. But when I'm healing and not in a relapse I'm in the grey and it isn't as scary. But then when I relapse I get all those extreme physical throw up feeling sensations that make my adrenaline start pumping. It feels so real. And then makes me believe my recovery is me making excuses for myself that this is dangerous and that I need to believe it's real or I'm stupid and doing a disservice to myself. Awful. I sometimes can't tell what reality is .
I have two kinds of anxiety causers my gender identity and whether or not I’m attracted to people of the right age. It SUCKS and only recently I learned after searching up “why am I so afraid of being/becoming a pedo and broke down crying after figuring out it was OCD and I wasn’t going to end up being what I didn’t want to be.
Hi, just wanted to ask if you're feeling better now? I struggle with the same thing, and i am at a point where i really don't know what to do anymore... If you are better, what helped you?
Nathan could you pls do a detailed video on perfectionism ocd. I know there is a shorts on your channel but there isn't a video on it. It's the cause of my daily struggle with basically anything and everything that my ocd brain demands to be perfect. I know the treatment is basically the same for every ocd but a video would be really helpful. I have been trying to live my life and not do my compulsions. And so far I'm doing much better.Also medications have helped a lot too.
OCD is not "attacking" anything--it is just the amygdala doing its evolutionary-based job to keep you safe from harm (it's just that the mechanism is defective). OCD feels real because the amygdala is sending a genuine fear response.
i mean while i watch this video i am just doing my compulsions and i’m so mad abt it i’m tired and i don’t feel like a choice because my obsession isn’t a choice and also my compulsions
When I worked as a waiter last summer it really hellped with ocd thoughts. First 15 days of working were really though as I still did them in my head while working. After ~15 days there was more and more work and it forced me to gradually remove these thoughts because if I didnt there would be no way I could work as a waiter. After 2 months I didnt have any more thoughts for the first time in my life! Then summer ended, I stopped working, and one by one they came back… This summer I’ll try again, it feels to me its the only way to remove them.
It is real because of our Brain, it is all depend how much the Brain is inflamed, amygdala get inflamed, With huge rumination you cant choose, and you can operate! Always find a help! All the best
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Hey Nathan, do you think you could do a video specifically on confessions with OCD? For example "If this person knew that I did this thing, or that this thing happened, they would leave or not want me in their life anymore", in regards to needing to confess everything you ever did that you think they would not approve of. If you already have a video like this then I can check that out instead :) I appreciate your channel a lot. I have struggled with this type of OCD since I was about 12 years old (now in my thirties), it's truly debilitating and a real struggle to not overwhelm your loved ones with confessions about pointless things that OCD makes you believe in the moment are huge life altering events. It's a real cycle of anxiety/relief for everything that comes up, it makes each new memory or event feel like THIS one is definitely the serious one that needs to be brough up for sure. I have had full blown panic attacks from these at times, I am fairly in control of my OCD at this point and have gotten rid of a lot of my previous compulsions like hand washing, counting etc, but the confessions and real event style OCD are what continue to get me from time to time, and I haven't seen a video from you specifically on this.
If you have one please link it to me, thanks again for all you do!
how can I live when my friends betrayed me, wife took and spend most of my earnings and then earning less and poverty which increases anxiety.
"It's okay for it to feel real, you're just not doing anything with it."
You have been nothing less than a gem for me when I felt so helplessly lost and confused. I have got Magical thinking OCD coupled with Religious OCD and your videos have been my only reliable way of trying to deal with my disorder. I haven't been perfect in dealing with my OCD but atleast now I am much better aware of my condition and of ways to defeat it.I hope I one day get rid of this problem for good. Can't thank you enough good sir!
You're so kind! Thanks so much! 💜
I have the same thing oddly enough.. I often come here to get some sort of comfort. It’s not necessarily the best, but it helps. Doesn’t increase it or make it worse. If it’s on my mind, I come here. Great helpful channel.
@@ThisOffendsMeTV I am so sorry you have to go through this. I totally agree with you. OCD can feel so personalized that it becomes so tough to even comprehend it much less explain. This channel has helped made sense of our shared mental trouble. Hope we conquer it someway. My best wishes to you!
Kaash apan sab OCD sufferers theek hojaye
I have this too, this helped me so much ☺️
I've had OCD since I was 8. I am now 40. The themes have changed throughout my life but it's really all the same monster. Nate is an expert on this stuff and I appreciate all the free content he puts out there to help people 🙌
same I always had this and just thought it was normal it went away for many years then It came back violently did you see this happen for you
Same to me 🥺 hocd from 18.. now im 49
Now I am 18 I have ocd
How I hope my OCD doesn’t take me down, and I hope I live to at least your age!
@@mrgreek7221 I have hocd too there times when it leaves for a while then it comes back and leaves?
You’ve changed a lot of things for me. You’re a good dude. I read people well. I can tell when someone cares and when somebody is putting up a front. You’re a genuine dude, Nate. I appreciate your channel as do many people. I’ve come to look at life differently because of you. Thanks man.
You're so awesome man! I always appreciate your support! I truly want to help others the best that I can! 😄 Dude! I just saw your shout out on your channel. That means a lot!
@@ocdandanxiety of course. I’d like to help people too. As long as you keep uploading, you’ll be changing a lot of lives. Not all heroes wear capes🤝
This is facts , i just wish i can completely get rid of it once and for all , so i can feel normal again
Keep on working my friend. Symptoms can get so low that you hardly notice them!
Once you don’t care bout it and know your morals it goes away and you start enjoying the things you should be enjoying in your life
I'M SUFFER FROM GENETIC SEVERE OCD, GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER , PANIC DISORDER AND AGROPHOBIA THIS YEAR ITS GOTTEN SO BAD THESE LAST FEW MONTHS ITS BEEN A LIVING HELL I LOVE PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF WHO ARE HELPING PEOPLE LIKE US🙏🏿
Same here
Its not genetic my friend.. its stress from your child years..
Stay strong 💪, you are strong ❤!!
You're not alone
I’m suffering with it too 😢 it's making me depressed and stressed!
This past two weeks I’ve had an awful obsessive flare up! It was finals week and my intrusive thoughts were off the wall. The other day I started crying my obsessing about what ifs literally made me break down. Opening my phone just now and watching this gave me clarity. I constantly tell my therapist about how real the thoughts can feel and how do not know if it’s real or not. This video means so much to me. I feel seen. Thankyou.
The way I think of intrusive thoughts is a sort of 'faded color'. True thoughts are a bright, full color, while intrusive thoughts are the same shade, but faded. Kinda feels the same, but it's not the same
Exactly! And when the intrusive thougths come in, it's like i don´t even remember how it was to have non-faded thoughts
@@gabrielrobles4200 yeah... So when you have a real one, 'oh THAT was a real thought!'
Thing is- sometimes my OCD will crank up the color to the point where it feels real. It is dead on the same for some ppl
I'm struggling with pure o ocd, And I'm always reassuring. When my ocd thoughts came to my mind, I feels so anxious and I works hard to don't care for any of theese thoughts. But my body goes numb and shivers, And I can't stop control myself not doing compulsions. Thanks so much for your videos, You help me alot more than a psychiatrist, because I took medicine but it didn't work. And also now I try hard to follow your advises
Try not to label your ocd my friend. Working hard to not care is paradoxical.
The reassuring and trying to not care/trying to lower anxiety around the thoughts can be compulsions! Pure O is still plain OCD I believe, just with mental compulsions :) it can be so hard to manage but if you can identify what those mental compulsions are and try and stick with the anxiety without trying to “figure it out” or “solve,” things can get easier. I’m still a work in progress with this 🥰
You are genuinely an angel on earth. You have no idea the sense of relief you have given me time and time again by listening to your videos in times of distress. A massive thank you for your calming demeanor and intellect on such a terrible disorder.
I'm truly touched by your kind words. Thank you for sharing this with me.
I have serious Magical Thinking OCD with music. Music is a huge part of my life and I want a future with it. However, I have what I call “Bad luck songs”. If I listen to a certain song, album, band or artist I believe bad things will happen to me and that’s it’s my fault for listening to the song. My list of “bad luck songs” continues to grow over time. However, this channel is the first source of relief I’ve ever found. I hope to overcome this for good someday it’s just so hard. Especially when the events in my personal life are so bad and heavy. Thank you for being a beacon of hope for me.
Nathan,God bless you as you continue to help people heal. Everything you’ve said is on point with what I have experienced throughout my life. You bring comfort and a better understanding of what I am being challenged with. Again, God bless you, Nathan.
You are awesome! You just met and took a photo with my therapist at the OCD Con this past week. I was like "Hey, two of my favorite OCD guides in one picture...Nice!". :)
That is amazing! 💜 I met so many awesome therapists at OCD Con.
Hey Nate, just thought I'd let you know your scary movie metaphor was a actually really helpful with my OCD recovery.
Anyone reading, try to remember: you wont recover from OCD by getting rid of the uncomfortable thoughts, or even by making them 100% stop feeling unpleasant. Recovery is about readjusting your mind so it can experience and observe the thoughts, feel the discomfort they cause, maybe even feel the urgent need inside to start wrestling with them, and just... carry on from there. Focus on experiencing whatever's happening, in your mind and outside, and choose to do what you find value in.
The way I'd describe it is, instead of my thoughts being some all consuming nightmare that's taking up my whole attention, they're now very much on the peripheral. They're still unpleasant, but it's akin to a little itch or soreness in my leg that I can let happen in the background. No urgent need to address anything.
you make it sound so easy :( if only it were this easy, I get so many psychical symptoms with it. Its terrible.
This video just lifted my mood so much. I’ve been tormented by ocd for a long time and your the first person who I have ever heard that can completely explain how I’m feeling and why. I look too you during my bad times for some mental clarity and thank you for your healing words. Keep up the great work 🙏
Post partum ocd was so rough and I still don’t feel the same 4 years later. 😬
This guy is an angel. Helped me overcome HOCD now is helping me overcome my RJOCD. ❤
This was so so so helpful!! I have morality OCD and it makes so much sense that it just prays on what I care about the most. And yeah haha I like that just saying “YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL!” like it’s very silly that I think other people’s obsessions are fake but mine is the only real one even though I know I’ve had delusions in the past
Thank you so much. I suffer from Harm OCD years now...and right now I am going through a relapse...a really bad one. My meds don't seem to respond anymore and this time the Harm is against others. My pets...my husband..all of it. I had all the urges the mental images...all of it. Your videos help me because I can access them at any time...my therapist helps too. Thank you for caring about people like us. For making us feel we are not crazy.
Hi! I know this was a year ago - how are you doing now? I'm currently in the same boat and struggling so bad. It's attacked my pets and I don't know what to do.
Ive been strugling with ocd and anxiety for the last 18 years...and i really ask, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???
I wish i saw your videos 18 years ago...you are such a lifesaver lifechanger.
I thank you so much with all my heart❤
Is OCD and anxiety related to Derealization?
I’m struggling with toxic thoughts that I’ve perpetuated for months. The thoughts make me feel vulnerable and uncomfortable so I react to it and out comes the anxiety over and over again. I’m going to try to practice your techniques and I thank you for helping me understand my ocd better!
Same
Your videos strip OCD of all its trickery, showing it for what it is. I'm almost embarrassed to myself that I was tricked. Of course, I need long term intervention but until then, you give me superpowers.
At first my OCD was centered around dying in my childhood, during that time I went through the fear that I have lung cancer because I breathed whilst walking next to someone who was smoking, other times I would feel a pain in my ribs and think it was lung cancer. Then the disorder died down and about a year later resurfaced as uncertainty as to whether or not we live in a highly complex computer simulation, after that died down i then started to worry about whether or not im the only conscious entity in existence (this was probably the worst bout of OCD I have ever had), after that I feared that my IQ was dropping I would closely examine the conduct of my peers to see if they seemed smarter, if i detected a rise then i would fear that meant that i was getting dumber, the next fear i dont even want to type out of fear of actualization, im going through it right now. Your videos are a raft in the turbulent oceans, I find myself holding on and fearing letting go
Hold strong. It takes tremendous courage to have to live with this. I always tell myself that when I feel like I can't make it. Some days are better than others. I look forward to them.
Thank you so much for this Nathan- you've helped me so much. I love your light too ❤
Oh thanks so much! I love this light too. I have various colors of it. I wish you the best.
@@ocdandanxiety i think i may need one!! Be super handy during an ocd spike! Thank you so much for your awesome videos
Hey Nate, just wanted to say that you and NOCD were the biggest helps in my journey with OCD. Thank you, for everything.
I like how you included the bloopers at the end lol. This video was so relatable in illuminating. Thanks for keeping it real
This is an important video. Thank you
Thanks so much for your support!
It feels real because we give the thoughts importance and as a result we make them feel real and give them power over us
Thank you so much, Nathan, for everything you do
There’s sthg about this guy and his delivery that just saved me hundreds of dollars in therapy in one vid. Bless you man!
I'll send you an invoice. 😉 jk. Glad to hear that it helped!
The way you educate about OCD it lightens the anxiety about it. Thank you ❤ I didn’t know what was the problem with me. Through your videos I have learned to accept it as it is. Learning to deal with it! I feel grateful.
You're doing great work Nate, I've had OCDs for months in the past but this time, the theme was different and it hit me hard. I've taken your advice and decided to say whatever it is, I'll eventually know when a situation presents itself. Not my place to figure things out. This is helping me so much in controlling thoughts and becoming functional again.
Man I get intrusive thoughts about stuff I'd never do. This helped it stop. Thank you
I'm struggling with OCD since 20 years... It feels like hell...😭
Thank you, i have religious OCD mainly. I have other forms too but all seem to stem from God being the voice i hear telling me and so it makes it hard to know when it's actually God and when i can stop praying and it's just my own fears and OCD. But you've helped me so much . Right when i was thinking "i know what you are saying but this time is probably not ocd i can't take the risk of ignoring it" you said right after in the video that we probably would think that this time is different. Thank you for helping me. I cannot stress how mu h this has helped . I can't get therapy at the moment though am starting soon and you have been such a big help for me
My POCD got so bad at one point that I would often have several days of genuinely believing that **it** was true. I'd constantly research it in some vague attempt to get answers about what I should do and how I could feel less like a disgusting freak.
I'm glad It doesn't bother me too much anymore, but my OCD does come in “episodes.” .
your videos are the only thing that makes me feel ok thank you 🙏 it’s such a relief when you explain everything that happens and I relate❤
Thank you Nathan! There's nobody like you here in the UK! You help me alot!
Very grateful for your content. Choice, acceptance, and realizing there is nothing to fix or solve are the reminders I need when I slip back into my OCD thoughts and anxieties. It’s so easy to forget these when you get stuck and it seems so real.
I feel like most of society cind if sees ocd as a “the whiteboard is not totally erased” whereas in reality you feel like Gollum. Expect that you have to try to bottle it up and act like everything is fine.
This video came out today when I needed it most! Thank you!
you’re a gift to us!! thank you so much
The rays of hope will drive away the clouds of anxiety one day for sure! #trusttheprocess reader
I want to thank you for all your videos you helped me so much and im getting better thanks to my therapist and your tips
I'm so glad! I love to hear that you're getting better!
Ty Nathan, You explains things in Layman terms which is greatly apprrciately and relateable.
These tips combined with the calming music really help, thank you. I'm new here but I am looking forward to more ways to overcome the repetitive thoughts and obsessions. 👍
Thanks for helping me detach from my electrode punisher, somtimes I just space and fade, into crippling anxeity with a negative feed back loop
I was crying and watching this video. My doubts are too strong these days. Sometimes i can't identify what is real and what is not. I feel i am losing my mind. But i don't want to give up.
I'm so glad I found your videos. About 8 weeks ago I witnessed something very traumatic that triggered my OCD to come back 2 weeks later but this time it was based on a completely unrelated experience I went through. I caved and told my partner what was going on as there was a secret I had kept, it was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make especially because of the shame and guilt I was and still do feel at times. I decided to enroll in some online CBT based programs and start doing some more research on how to manage while I await in person therapy and start on my medication again. Your videos have really helped me realize that choosing to engage in those false/ real event memories is my choice and it's really helped me gain some control back into my life. I'm actually able to go days now without having a total breakdown and even when i do they are becoming shorter and less intense as time goes on.
Sister... My Hocd is increasing day by day..... And it is feeling so real... I hate it... I wanna be normal as I was... Please help....I Am so helpless... I don't wanna be like that.... From childhood I was facing Hocd but it was not bad at that time ....i used to play cricket with my friends.... I was so much normal... But a year ago... I mistakenly watched an Indian talk show about Homosexual people... And after that these thoughts and bad feelings have started to me.... Please help
Thank you for being always there for all of us Nathan!! you’re amazing..
your advice is the best honestly
OH.. MY.. GOSH I rarely watch videos or read about OCD because it doesn't teach anything I haven't heard. I say this all the time (I believe my OCD is so bad because I care). I DO believe the first step to changing things is to stop fighting it and stop caring (believing) it as if it were my mother and yes it only attacks what you care about.
Thank you. You probably have no idea how helpful you are. I'm really grateful for your videos. Thank you so much. 🙏
Seriously you're a gem, thank you for always coming up with tricks and tips. Glad for your videos indeed,May God bless you!
Like intrusive thoughts in Benzodiazepine withdrawal feels real because we have a sticky brain that has a chemical fear that attaches to a thought we think is too important. Our brain does this during this withdrawal automatically like our bodies convulse automatically because of our dsyregulated nervous system. The thoughts seem too real and too important when they are not.
Omg I love this neon sign
YOU ARE LIKE A SAVIOR TO ME ... THANKS SO SO MUCH ...I JUST WANT TO TOUCH YOUR FEET TO THANK YOU ...I AM HAVING RELIGION OCD , MAGICAL THINKING OCD , DELUSION DISORDER , OVERTHINKING .. EACH AND EVERY DAY IS LIKE HARD STONE TO ME .. CAN'T ABLE TO BREAK IT ... YOUR VEDIOS HELPED ME TO RECOGNISE THIS THAT THIS IS A DISORDER AND NOT MY MISTAKE .. THANKS SO MUCH 🙏🙏
Have you seen in your practice any particular difficulties for kids labeled “gifted” in recovering from OCD. I have core irrational pattern/belief that “just because others choose x doesn’t mean you can” because I was told I was different from my peers. Your videos have been so helpful in my personal OCD journey, thank you!
I think anyone can get better from OCD if they have the will and desire to do so. 😄 I wish you the best!
CG5 Fans : IN MY LIFE, I’M ALWAYS THINKING TWICE-
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Hey Nathan, thank you so much for your videos! Could you do more videos on Real Event OCD and also how to tell loved ones about it?
Totally can do more on real event OCD!
@@ocdandanxiety Thank you so much!
@@ocdandanxiety sir I am suffering ocd from 4 years and this 4 years my life is just in pain I can't avoid 😳🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
You don't know how much this helped me i always fall into ocd traps my ocd is not special not real but i am thank you
You don’t know how much you helped me. 😌🙏❤️
Excellent and informative video; thank you so much for this!
Can OCD try to make you think you don’t believe something? I think mine is attacking my very foundation, my belief in Jesus and the gospel. I know I believe but these doubts are coming up constantly and I’m obsessed to the point where it’s making me believe I don’t believe and there’s a lot of anxiety. I look for reassurance thru people and the internet :( I feel like I’m losing my mind.
Does anyone struggle with checking for bugs to save them?
needed this video today, thank you
Thank you for this material...life changing
So I have been very disturbing intrusive thoughts of the ones I love especially my girlfriend being killed and it gives me constant panic attacks and anxiety because I get anxiety about having another panic attack. Toward the end of the day I usually am so exhausted that I am almost numb and I calm down. I’m holding these videos help me. I started taking my zoloft I used to be prescribed for anxiety depression again so. Fingers crossed.
You are so freaking good, you help me a lot. Greetings from 🇸🇪
Wow this video really hit home because I’m dealing with this and I really want to take or gain control of my thoughts
Excellent video Nathan! I like your channel a lot! Are you familiar with Eckhart Tolle and the Power of Now? Any opinion?
Thanks for this video. This is helpful. Interested in answers to my other two questions on a couple of other videos you have up if you're willing.
Im suffering with pure O, and it's been so bad recently that I can barely focus on anything else, can barely leave the house and frequently want to just die to get away from it all. How do I cope with the debilitating depressive feeling of despair I get when the thoughts hit?? It makes EVERYTHING ELSE seems trivial and pointless, if I can't prove to myself RIGHT NOW that the thoughts are not real and that I do not like them
I would like a video explaining why ocd starts, and another video of a visual of the brain . Idk . Sometimes I feel my ocd started only bc a real event provoked it so much and then it spread to other themes. Is this possible?
I can’t find any existential ocd specialist in the uk can you help ? I’ve had it for 20 years and it’s ruining my life
I'm so sorry. I wish there were more therapists in the world. Anyone that specializes in OCD should work with existential OCD. Have you looked at www.iocdf.org to find someone?
I realized that my goal is to be in the grey of it all. My OCD has me on extreme thinking. Black or white thinking. N that's so scary. But when I'm healing and not in a relapse I'm in the grey and it isn't as scary.
But then when I relapse I get all those extreme physical throw up feeling sensations that make my adrenaline start pumping. It feels so real. And then makes me believe my recovery is me making excuses for myself that this is dangerous and that I need to believe it's real or I'm stupid and doing a disservice to myself.
Awful.
I sometimes can't tell what reality is .
I have two kinds of anxiety causers my gender identity and whether or not I’m attracted to people of the right age. It SUCKS and only recently I learned after searching up “why am I so afraid of being/becoming a pedo and broke down crying after figuring out it was OCD and I wasn’t going to end up being what I didn’t want to be.
Hi, just wanted to ask if you're feeling better now? I struggle with the same thing, and i am at a point where i really don't know what to do anymore... If you are better, what helped you?
I always repeat your videos when i catch my OCD acting up. You make my anxiety go away. Thank you.
Love this video. Thank you
Nathan could you pls do a detailed video on perfectionism ocd. I know there is a shorts on your channel but there isn't a video on it. It's the cause of my daily struggle with basically anything and everything that my ocd brain demands to be perfect. I know the treatment is basically the same for every ocd but a video would be really helpful. I have been trying to live my life and not do my compulsions. And so far I'm doing much better.Also medications have helped a lot too.
I've got this coming up! 👍
OCD is not "attacking" anything--it is just the amygdala doing its evolutionary-based job to keep you safe from harm (it's just that the mechanism is defective). OCD feels real because the amygdala is sending a genuine fear response.
Does anyone get panic attacks with HOCD? I get this hot rush on my neck chest and head. I eventually start to cry and hyperventilate.
I've slowly gotten better, or so I thought, and now I'm no longer worried about it, but now I'm worried that I am now since theres no feelings
Same
i mean while i watch this video i am just doing my compulsions and i’m so mad abt it i’m tired and i don’t feel like a choice because my obsession isn’t a choice and also my compulsions
Thanks was really helpful
Do you believe people can recover while on medication? I started meds so I could stabilize, but I'm afraid I won't be able to recover.
When I worked as a waiter last summer it really hellped with ocd thoughts. First 15 days of working were really though as I still did them in my head while working. After ~15 days there was more and more work and it forced me to gradually remove these thoughts because if I didnt there would be no way I could work as a waiter.
After 2 months I didnt have any more thoughts for the first time in my life! Then summer ended, I stopped working, and one by one they came back…
This summer I’ll try again, it feels to me its the only way to remove them.
Great example with the movie!
Man you're awesome
Thank you so much your a star 🎉
What if it starts with something real but is impossible to confirm if it’s no longer there.
Oh my god this is literally what happens with me 😭
Thank you 😊
You have been so much help. Seriously, thank you so so so much for these.
It is real because of our Brain, it is all depend how much the Brain is inflamed, amygdala get inflamed, With huge rumination you cant choose, and you can operate!
Always find a help!
All the best
I am suffering from intrusive urges, how can I know if these urges are fake or real?
Hi Nate, wondering if you could do a video related to digital and privacy related OCD and how to go about managing it?
Ahhh thankyou❤