20. OCD Treatment: "Whatever, OCD" - exercises to help you learn to care less about your worries.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Katie shares some ideas of how to help yourself care less about your thoughts. Katie offers individual therapy but you might also like to check out BetterHelp at betterhelp.com...
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My fear is that if I don't fight against or try and stop my intrusive fear thoughts they'll slip by me and manifest, where I'm frantically and desperately saying 'cancel' and try to replace it with a positive thought instead. This has been exhausting and tormenting for me and I feel twisted up inside.
omg thats the exact same as me
Same it’s so hard
same but i'm going to do her exercise, literally face the fears no matter how hard it's going to be and DO IT. we can do this. I'm pretty sure my brain is going to get bored eventually.
@@mina4426 another tip that’s worked for me in the past 48 hours is “starve the monster”!!!! It’s done wonders and I recommend
@@davidrocha9747 can you explain it further? i'm trying to do my best to heal from these thoughts, yesterday felt like hell :( i'm so hypersensitive into controlling things and then when i found out that i can't control things, it created a fear in me, kinda dreading my own mind at this point.
I’ve had a “flare up” in OCD symptoms after a “trigger” the other day and then I see you’ve uploaded a video. It’s almost like the universe has designed you to help those suffering from OCD. Your past videos have really helped me with my OCD and I still watch them to this day. Thank you.
Me too
Thank you for the gratitude you shared...it's a testimony that this works, her methods work, and people are healing: if you healed so can I.
God bless you and yours, Dr. Katie, and anyone reading this....6 weeks ago I was drowning in the waves, I'm now boogie-boarding pretty effectively, and someday soon I'll be a pro surfer. We can all heal, in Jesus name. ❤️🙏
Oh my gosh, I’m so happy about this. I took your first tip of advice and filmed a video of myself talking about what my issues are and what I’m struggling with. In rewatching the videos that I made, I saw how ridiculous my fears sound, and even started laughing at a few things I said because I can’t believe I’ve been fearing them! Thank you so much for sharing this video!
Wow this is great. I love the idea of videoing yourself saying it - that is powerful stuff. Thanks for sharing your experience that others can benefit from it. Great work!
Oh! I love it! The recording of the voice was a little daunting - I feel instantly better by this, and I can step it up - because, I can't back down...just recognizing that the recording of it frightened me means I must do it (I'm autistic...a lot of us are inherently brave, but mostly due to this ravenous need to not be afraid of anything), so thank you for giving me a bunny slope to warm up on before the black diamond!
God bless you, yours, anyone reading this, and the forever magnanimous Dr. Katie. Prayers you're all utterly well, happy and prosperous!
When you went haaaaa I got so scared lol
hahah same
Same hahahaha😂
i littersly fell off my bed-
@@sofiaser537 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
omg me too her video wasn’t so loud and i was nearly zoning out when she did that
It’s so hard to explain OCD to non-sufferers and to express feelings. I’ve never received help as I feel embarrassed and ashamed. It feels like part of me has failed and lost control.
I'm the same...
Read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston & Martin Seif... It can help you a lot to understand how we get stuck with these thoughts and how we can come out of them
@@Helter195 This is good to hear. I am trying to assist someone in my life that OCD has taken a drastic hold of. It's a horrible situation to be in and really heartbreaking to witness. :-(
I hope you are doing better!!
I feel the same way. It’s very difficult.
Thank you so much for this and other OCD videos you've made. I've had intrusive thoughts my whole life that have taken many forms and only recently I realised I probably have OCD with how strongly I relate to the compulsions and giving the thoughts too much power. It feels good that I'm not alone and it feels good to know I don't have to give these thoughts power. I always thought I had to be disgusted by vulgar intrusive thoughts I've had in order to show I care, but turns out, I just need to ignore them. I also realized I've had moments before where I let the thoughts pass and remember how it felt stressful but yet made me feel good. The pain of acknowledging and ignoring them has discouraged me in the past to try ignoring them again. It may be a bit painful and stressful at first to go on ignoring these thoughts, but pain is the first step to healing. It's better than the explosive reactions that have become of my OCD. I'm going to commit starting today to change how I respond to intrusive thoughts. Thank you for these videos and God bless you. ❤
Thank you for coming back! Your videos really saved my life!
Thank you Katie! I have severe OCD and you are really helping me to understand what I really have to do to get better. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dear Katie, welcome back! It has been so long since your last video you posted. You are my life saver, I have tried many things to overcome my ocd, and nothing worked. After watching your videos and following your tips and tricks, it has been two years that I am living my normal life with your great professional advice. I owe you my life.
I only have one request, I would sincerely appreciate it if you could please as now you come back to rescue so many, please post more videos about how to improve our lives and facing lots of challenges in our life. In addition, I would be so grateful if you could post some videos about the relationship between couples, or if you know a person who shares his/her experiences and advises on youtube, can you please recommend their channel here, thank you so much Katie, god bless you.
@Pinki Roy is there some one you can reach out to. Your doctor a helpline. Xxx
"mom why do you have a slideshow wallpaper of moms stabbing daughters?"
I loled. thanks these videos are also great for my health anxiety, one of the hardest parts in HI is reaction to not just thoughts but body sensations.
Intrusive thoughts can be 100% dealt with.. you just got to be patient with yourself.. your videos have really helped me with my ocd .. they aren't as frequent as they used to be.. only come once In a while
Katie, I am so glad you are back after all this long time. I hope you have been great. Can you just believe you have followers from Tunisia? I love your videos. They have helped me so much to cope with my pure O and educating myself about OCD which is just something very new to me. Please do make more videos.
i havent seen her vids on yt for 4 years . good to see her back and love the new hairdo!
My friend directed me to this video to help “understand” his ocd. Having ocd is debilitating but you can’t blame every problem and downfall you have because of this, it can be used to mask and make excuses for every other behaviour that stems from it.
I feel happy you are back!
Your videos in the past are so helpful.
Thank you very much for the video, your advices are very helpful! Just one thing, I almost had a heart attack when you yelled at 7:16 :P
😂😂😂😂
I’ve had effective therapy in the past but this video was really helpful as a booster. Thank you so much.👍
Hi Sarah, what kind of therapy did you have? I’ve been having a lot of intrusive thoughts lately ( it started this year) so I think it will be better to treat this right now! Thanks in advance
I see you've gotten divorced. Wow, what fool would let you get away, Katie? You're a goddess. ❤
Haha I noticed that too , exactly she’s a pretty one
@@naomichisholm7709 Katie looks like a really fun girl, too. I wonder what kind of music she's into. 🎸
Most useful lectures on OCD.
I'm so scared that if I make myself think more about the shameful horrible thoughts I'll end up wanting to actually do them instead of caring less about them. With anything if you want to make yourself like something you'd do it more so it feels more natural. How do I expose myself to awful thoughts without them becoming more natural to me and maybe carrying them out.
i'm so glad your back making videos
Needed this thanks kindly
Hey Kate. I am having severe attacks of OCD and I feel like I can't trust myself anymore. It's like getting into a trance. I can't explain how you're helping.
so glad you are back.Love from bangladesh
Thank you so so much for these videos 🙏
Love your videos. Please increase the volume on your end so it's similar to other UA-cam videos. Thanks.
I have done the ignoring the thoughts for quite some time, it was just like “oh, there you are”, I might aclnowledge, sometimes not even that, and now that I had a minor relapse, I might do the bingo thing, I can’t think of no better way to steal their power from them 😂
I could cheer, thank you
On the left low corner of your screen there is some black dot. Must be a piece of dust on your camera or something. I can’t focus nos on what u say, all my thoughts are about when are how to clean it, but as you advised i am not going to do anything anout it
I'm almost laughing with the final tip because it's so unexpected LMFAO and that's why I love it! Genius! Thank you so much!
thank god for you
You’re really funny! Thank you so much ☺️
Katie, if I were to write the thoughts statement down and keep repeating it, for example if I wrote my thought statement as “ I am evil”, and when I repeat it, doesn’t that mean like I am also affirming that I am “evil”? I have been practicing positive affirmations recently and now confuse after you shared about this. Hope you can answer. Thanks for your support
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I think to avoid affirming you could say instead, "I am having an intrusive thought that I am evil" or just "i'm having a thought that I'm evil" "I'm convinced that I am evil" etc.
I feel affirmations are kind of mental compulsion, where you are again trying to avoid it... Its better to face your fear cuz you don't want it to come back stronger in future....
God, i should not have been left in my room for 2 weeks. In the span of 2 weeks i became a hypochondriac and gained OCD recurring thoughts. I swear i would have never have thought about any of this stuff if i was just chatting to people like normal. But i guess i can’t get away from it. It kind of feels like i’ve been brainwashed. I maybe had some sort of OCD before where i replay really embarrassing moments in my head but i never had this fear of my thoughts. I wanna worry about other stuff again like “do i look stupid walking in this classroom?” Also another thing about these thoughts are that i feel that i have some sort of secret that no one else knows about which makes me feel uncomfortable around people at the moment. I literally went out with my mate yesterday and had loads of fun but i kept thinking about this recurring thought which ruined the experience. I just wanna be normal again so i’m going to try as hard as i can to expose myself
This OCD… is nothing like this.. 4 myself .. i experience this behaviour when it’s time to do something in a timeframe.
Mostly it is leaving the house on time and being on time . I clean when I need to do the task .. I’m always tidying . If I sit down I will fall asleep.
ADHD is renting a space within this body.. rent free! So I’m all for working thru as best as possible..
If only there were professional people in this city that were go enough to help..
I get more help on UA-cam..
This sounds insane and very counterintuitive. As someone with OCD who has also been sober for 10 years, “triggers” always sound bad and like something you’d want to avoid like the plague. I’m not disagreeing with you though!!! I’m willing to try anything for the OCD. Fortunately, I don’t have thoughts of actions that would be really dangerous for me to do, like drinking or harming myself or someone else. Is this method ever a bad idea with certain people about dangerous things? I know the end goal, but it just seems like you wouldn’t want to risk even the slightest trigger that might lead you down an irreversible path.
I tried doing the recording erp for my intrusive thought and I gotta say it's slowly working.. and it's been only a week.. I noticed that it isn't as frequent as it used to be.. but it does pop into my head from time to time.. thank you Katie.. I love you..
Earlier today it was almost as if I had forgotten about the thought cause i went for at least 30 minutes without any single thought and I know it's a process we just got to keep doing what we doing the thought doesn't give me anxiety anymore ..I expose myself to the thought Everytime I remember.. is this a good thing? Hope to get a reply
It's working I guess, cuz you are giving no power to that thoughts and you are nt labelling it anymore. Plz do tell how are you feeling now?
How can you help people when the audio system is so bad... I checked other videos they are fine.. I know you are speaking gently but i have ear problems now..can't wear too much ear phone...So can you please use a small mic to do these... It would be nice
The audio is terrible. Can u pls fix it?
Tips start about 7 minutes in
Excellent!
Well guess I have OCD 😂 really good video Kate opens a lot of doors for me
I love you....
U age gracefully.
Thank you for the video ❤
Also
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That took me a minute to get 😅
You're back 😘😍
Hi Katie. I really appreciate the videos that you make, I found them very informative. I am aslo struggling from OCD, but unfortunately can not change anything about it. Regarding recording your thoughts, what if I even scare of saying them out loud. What would you recommend in that case for me?
Ultimately yes, but you might want to make a list of the thoughts that scare you and if some are less scary start with those - if they are all equally scary don't worry you can still do this. Try working through these videos before you get started so that you have all the info you need.
Ok, I just heard the first idea, a recording, and is it weird it really creeps me out? Just to imagine doing this I feel destroyed
Sometimes I feel like I don’t have these intrusive thoughts but I feel guilty for not having them and empty I don’t know what is this feeling
Is it also a part of them?
Can you please suggest a book for OCD?? That can cure it upto a maximum extent..
Read Brain Lock. Read about the book on Google. Order from Amazon.
Katie i'm26 years old and i'm glad you did a New vidéo i have been watching your videos cause i'm suffering from ocd rituals i feel like i have to count till 20 and do some wierd actions before going to bed i wash my hands and face 15 times cause i feel it's a good number i'm in hell Can you give me some advice cause ocd is slowing down my life and if i don't do ocd rituals something bad will happen
Hi Claire, If you follow the advice and steps in the videos you can learn how to expose yourself to the fears rather than trying to minimise them with compulsions.
What if you dont feel comfortable saying those things out loud? Can i use a text to speech tool? i fear like someone might hear me 😢
Record it outside your house and use earplugs
It depends about whether the fear of someone hearing you is linked to or relevant to your OCD. You could start by writing it down and then record it somewhere you feel safe but listen to it back in other places on earphones. If you worry someone will find the recording then that shows us that it's the OCD getting involved so you'll need to see that as part of the ERP - taking risks is a vital part of helping yourself improve
Does this method also work for sensorimotor OCD and if so, can you give an example of what would be on the recording? These all sound very useful for other forms of OCD but I'm not really seeing sensorimotor treatment in it.
Yes this is for all and any OCD (and just life in general to be honest!). With sensorimotor focussed OCD you are merely paying attention to a sensation or feeling rather than to a thought or image. This is about teaching yourself to better be in charge of where you focus your attention. When you have OCD about sensorimotor input it's still the case that you will be paying too much attention and struggling to choose to pay attention elsewhere.....
I won't lie but at 7:18 I got scared
Hahaha me too
Wt about in containment OCD? Wt to do in that n say?
I am trying to change my attention with serval months for instrusive thought and image in everything and 24 headache and now fibromyalgia but physical problem not let me do that and second problem is after practicing careless for thoughts we started to claress other thought for daily life challenges and normal important thoughts .can it may make issue in future ? please make a video on it I can't afford you.
Are you saying that you have got better at caring less about some thoughts and now you have new ones? If so, this is very common and you have to continue with the same thing. I can make a video about this for you - I'll add it to the list.
I have a question for the recording exposure. If my thought tells me to push someone would I say in my recording “ push her over” or would I say “ I want to push her over” or would both be fine.
As long as both are scary to you then yes both are fine!
@@23katied ok thank you so much!
Hi kathie , i would like to ask about your opinion on harm compulsions , (not harm ocd ) , there is not a lot of article about it on the internet because maybe it is very common , are they like the other compulsion ? Do they responde to ERP like other type of compulsions , ? Hope you could answer me ,
Thank you so much
The short answer is Yes, it doesn't matter what the content is the treatment process works the same. Fear of harming yourself or others or of coming to harm is pretty common in OCD. If you follow the steps outlined in the videos and create yourself a hierarchy then you can start to gradually expose yourself to your fears and from there you will start to get less fear and more freedom!
@@23katied thank you so much for the answer .
Plz increase ure volume
How to do erp with sensations or uncomfortable feelings
Stay with them.
At 7:24 I was really scared🤕
7:17 mam you scared me 😂😭
after a long day
WHOOP WHOOP I'm not good enough WHOOP. bingo!
Sounds like a torture treatment😂 but I'm going to try it
how r u now
@@MinecraftWillZoBoB I'm up and down
@@latifaalsadoon6978 same
@@MinecraftWillZoBoB I have religious OCD wbu?
@@latifaalsadoon6978 Pure OCD, going away now though
Please don't waffle so much. I realise it's your desire to cover as much as possible but my brain cannot take it all in.
You look like my girlfriend.
Not me got mini heart attack when u did that hHaaAA 🥲
My OCD was good for 2 years straight life was good, everything was okay. Then bam last week I had a relapse. I honestly have no idea or no clue what to do or how to fix it. I forgot what used to help me, one thing I hate about OCD is that it tells me don't live don't do anything just think about these horrible thoughts.. thoughts and questions and images that I have no answer to at all. I live in a constant fear at the moment, It's extremely extremely sad because I thought I got so much better and I got over that part of my life and it was a phase but god here we go. I will be watching these videos to try and help myself I also got a session with a therapist. People who have OCD are the strongest people in the planet I tell you.
That too happened to me went 100 % downhill I'm sad thus is ruining me again I have to start over
Have you tried having a relationship with Jesus? I’d say give him a go and you’ll see amazing results to your OCD as it did mine 🥰🥰
Felt this^^ it’s like being trapped in the same room as before but the password to leave changed.
How u doing now mate hope ur good
We really are the strongest people.
Can you talk about OCD and shame? I still struggle a lot with beating myself up over the thoughts I have, even after being told plenty of times that my thoughts don’t make me who I am. I feel like the shame can sometimes get in the way of making progress.
This is phenomenal. When you hear it out loud, the intrusive thought sounds perfectly hilarious without the "What If". I actually laughed. But with the "what if" it becomes an immediate life and death question. Which points to the possibility that the power of OCD is precisely in the "what if", the intrusive questioning, and the doubt, rather than the specific thought itself. Secondly, using the past tense is preferable over the future tense is useful.
Because the fear is the same, your brain agrees that you have dealt with the fear, but since it is in the past, you aren't bothered by it. For example, "what if I kill my hamster?" becomes "I killed my hamster" rather than "I will kill my hamster".
I would call OCD "malicious self interrogation and self torture". I personally switch places with the interrogator thought process and try to be evil to myself, then the interrogator realises that he is hurting himself and stops the folly.
Do those thoughts come back again to bother you?
@@sudipakarki5109 Always. That's why it is good to practice techniques to change the narrative, so that your response to the repeated trolling becomes second nature. Practically speaking, OCD is either mischievous or domineering thought habits leading to constant anxiety for the rest of your mind. It takes months or years for those habits to go away completely after you start reforming them. You need to keep applying the same techniques over and over for therapy to work.
@@actsrv9 Did you go through therapy of any kind?
@@sudipakarki5109 CBT and ERP Therapy. I also watch many videos like this one and read books on OCD and anxiety. Importantly I try to apply the techniques in these videos and books to varying degrees, as best as I can. Without practice/application, therapy, videos, books are all useless.
OMG you're back! Your videos have been the most helpful for me in tackling OCD. Other OCD channels seem to want to just continue making OCD treatment videos and get you hooked on watching them, always searching for another OCD tip or trick that will work! But your channel is just sweet and simple, which really helps me tackle OCD best.
I agree!
Agree
Amen.
Your return is so valuable for many people Katie, keep posting new videos, so valuable, best regards.
You have a black smudge on your camera btw, you can see it at the 6:53 time stamp overtop of your hand. Just helping out 👌 hahah
girlfriend, i've got my volume turned up to maximum and i STILL can't hear you
Im glad that you came back.mam you made my life easier.if it wasn't for you i wouldn't have survived my ocd .I owe you my life ...
I love this video ! Very helpful tips but I’ve experienced similar OCD where I had panic attacks, anxiety as well as focussing so much on negative thoughts and felt so confused. Honestly what worked for me is having a relationship with Jesus. God says in Philippians 4:6-7 states “Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanks giving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all thing will guard your hearts and your minds in Jesus Christ”. If you put you trust in God he will give you the peace that never goes away x
The most beautiful OCD doctor ever be seen
The ‘snap I’m a sex offender’ comment 😅 honestly though, I think these videos are great and it’s so true the importance of just exposing yourself to these thoughts you fear and changing your perception of them, almost humouring them. Treating them as the meaningless thoughts they are. No matter how bad your thoughts are, the reason you fear them so much and strive to avoid them is because you’re a good person. And for that reason, you’re sane to be fearful and scared of such awful thoughts. Because you know that they don’t represent you. These aren’t thoughts reflecting you, therefore they don’t sit well with you. You’re not a bad person. You don’t need to fight them with compulsions because the outcome will be the same whether you do the compulsions or not. Only by doing them, you’ll have to keep repeating the process. But by avoiding them, you’ll be out through a period of doubt, worry and anxiety, but as you allow that, remind yourself ‘this feeling is normal when overcoming OCD’. The anxiety will soon calm down naturally and you’ll feel empowered by the evidence you have just experienced that ignoring a compulsion actually poses no risk. OCD is a monster, compulsions are it’s food. Starve the monster, don’t give in to its compulsion, it’ll get hangry and try to bully you to feed it. Make you anxious. But then it’ll tire out, and give up, and you’ll anxiety will fade. Repeat this process and the monster will starve to death. You’ll no longer have to feed it.
Then monster wants food. It will manipulate you into thinking that it will help you if you feed it. But it’s plan is to get stronger and control you. That’s why when you don’t feed it and ignore a compulsion, it puts up a fight and makes it hard for you to resist. Keep resisting, because you’re strong than the monster and it’ll get so tired it will give up. I promise
I'm glad you made a new video! Thank you Katie!
Thank you so much. Welcome back. You are a life saver. Please keep posting more videos. I am a big fan of you. We love you!
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watch this video it will have a cure
Katie i'm imaging how it would be using someone's bathroom after they'd forgotten to take the sticky notes down.
your videos are very enlightening. thank you for doing them.
thanks for this i needed this i have intrusive thoughts and i struggle with it a lot and most of the time i try not to think about it but it bothers me so much because thoughts just pop into head
What you do is awesome! That said, any chance you can address the audio issue? The volume output in the video is very low and echos. Maybe add an external microphone? That would help with the quality of your videos. The info you provide is great and it deserves greater production value. Love your work!
Yes sorry this one was really bad!! I do have a mic now....
The sound is really low. Adjusted my side but it won’t go ⬆️ in sound..
So 👎🏽for my OCD or every day folk ..
Holy shoot, I have intrusive violent / embarrassing thoughts and I really think I'm not ready to habituate to them like this, this is really hard
I totally agree with these great comments. You really know what Pure O is, and that list with mental compulssions was crucial for me, you’re so sure that these exposure methods will help and that’s good because I can trust you and have the same belief. You’re doing great job for people who suffer from Pure O. Lots of love, Patricia from Poland
Amazing tips, My problem is I’m so terrified of saying my thoughts out loud on a recording because I think if I say my thoughts, they will happen to me or others around me. Is there anyway to help with this feeling? Thank you.
I have the same issue
same
You should say them anyway. The more you avoid your anxieties, the stronger their power is over you. You'll see that nothing bad happened to you or the others around you.
Thank you so much for this video and for all the other videos you made!! You are making such a big difference in my life and I feel so grateful!! You're incredibly talented and I appreciate you so much!!
That jumpscare actually surprised me 💀
Madam, can u pls do a video on the correct way to do self ERP
🥰🥰 thank you so much for sharing these really helpful videos
This is so accurate. OCD is really a fear of thoughts. I grew up in an evangelical home and was afraid of ending up in hell. However, I realized that I am not afraid of hell IF everyone ends up there. Strange, right? Hell is hell. Why would I not be scared of ending up there if everyone is there too? Because it’s a fear of thought of hell. When I was young, being alone without my parents was scary but not if we are all together in the same place.
The worst intrusive thoughts I have I would never write down, or record. If someone read them or heard the recording, they would think it was a confession to a horrid crime. At least if you record yourself saying "I'm afraid I might" then at least I wont have to worry someone will hear a recording of me saying strange scary things taken out of context. What if I'm dating someone and they find it on my phone. I do find your videos very helpful though. Thanks..
Can you do this even if you’re not sure if you have OCD but have a lot of intrusive thoughts and urges ?
Absolutely!
Watching this video at 12.17am really got scared at 7:16
Sooo what do you do if your compulsion is writing down every thought and your obsession is remembering forgotten thoughts, does anyone have any tips?
I have a extreme fear and obsession over getting bedbugs. It’s scary because where I work I sometimes come across people with bedbugs and then it sends me in a spiral of fear of bringing them home. Is there anyone with a similar fear?
Wait... trying to stop ourselves from thinking doesn't work, so the solution is to try and think more about it? Did I get that right?
sooo happy you are back! I hope all is well with you. you're videos are so helpful! you look amazing I'm loving the hair!!!