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NOCD helps people live the life they want to live, not the life OCD wants for them, by increasing education about OCD and access to specialized OCD treatment.
To learn how to get started with effective OCD treatment, visit NOCD.com
To learn how to get started with effective OCD treatment, visit NOCD.com
Therapist Explains How Culture Impacts OCD and Treatment
One of our own NOCD therapists, Saraa Lee, joins us on this episode of the Get to know OCD podcast. Treating OCD from a cultural lens is one of Saraa's many specialties.
She believes our culture can shape our identities as it has hers, as well as influence how we do or don't treat OCD. In this candid interview, she opens up about her challenging upbringing and offers deep insights into her approach to helping others manage OCD. Saraa leaves no stone unturned, delivering a powerful conversation about the intersection of culture and mental health.
Show Notes:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Saraa’s own story
7:48 Why Saraa HAD to be a therapist
9:56 What Saraa has learned from being a therapist
12:26 What happens when someone resists Saraa's therapy
17:26 Creating space to be vulnerable
21:19 Not making assumptions based on culture
25:41 OCD IS treatable
27:23 Saraa’s intrusive thoughts about race
36:50 Culture and ancestry creating distrust in therapy
45:36 ERP Therapy
49:40 Existing in the vanguard
53:19 How an OCD therapist and talk therapist differ
55:50 Saraa’s message to aspiring therapists
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She believes our culture can shape our identities as it has hers, as well as influence how we do or don't treat OCD. In this candid interview, she opens up about her challenging upbringing and offers deep insights into her approach to helping others manage OCD. Saraa leaves no stone unturned, delivering a powerful conversation about the intersection of culture and mental health.
Show Notes:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Saraa’s own story
7:48 Why Saraa HAD to be a therapist
9:56 What Saraa has learned from being a therapist
12:26 What happens when someone resists Saraa's therapy
17:26 Creating space to be vulnerable
21:19 Not making assumptions based on culture
25:41 OCD IS treatable
27:23 Saraa’s intrusive thoughts about race
36:50 Culture and ancestry creating distrust in therapy
45:36 ERP Therapy
49:40 Existing in the vanguard
53:19 How an OCD therapist and talk therapist differ
55:50 Saraa’s message to aspiring therapists
Follow us on social media:
treatmyocd
treatmyocd
www.tiktok.com/@treatmyocd
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I don't know if I have OCD but I have horrible thoughts that I hate I don't know what is causing it but does it matter I do not want to act becuase I hate it more than anyone else
What does she mean when she says: "I can help you use this technique to hear your ancestors better?" 43:02
I hope NOCD will be available in Asia too. Here in the Philippines, it's hard to get a proper diagnosis they're just in it to prescribe meds :'(
Im tired
Is ocd can make a social anxiety ?? since i have intrusive thought im not feel confident to talk to people like im a bad person and dont deserve to be in social
Farting helped my ocd
Hit the nail on the head!
Just speaking for me here but, you know, I've been consuming content related to OCD regularly for some time, and just learned that the use of social networks such as CZcams (young people on TikTok are apparently particularly concerned) also tends to lead to quite a lot of "self-diagnosis". I also went physically to an OCD specialist, but was not convinced by her conclusions which pointed "sligthly" towards OCD. Sooo, what if what I'm experiencing is not OCD ? Since it would, in my case, be SOCD, and not the fear of being some kind of criminal ? What if I tried real hard to convince myself that it was OCD ? I don't know but I'm gonna try in real life, even if that scares the hell out of me, and see how it goes.
Almost started crying listening to this. I needed this after my OCD relapse. Please never stop making content.
Tired of "doing it again" Fuck this disorder!
Very encouraging. Thank you Uma. We hope to be able to see the other side of world like you.
I'm so grateful that i found Chrissie's channel 🙏. She is super!
Chrissie saved my life and changed it ❤️
So painfully relatable to hear about ocd misdiagnosed in ways that leads to reassurance seeking. I'm greatful mine at eventually manifested in compulsive hand washing, because i dont know if i would have ever correctly identified it from the ritualized behaviors that were only in my head
In indonesia It's very difficult to get an OCD diagnosis here, I don't really understand it, but once i have explained to the psychiatrist who handled my anxiety about what I was feeling, i wasn't open yet, I only told the gist of it, he said I only had intrusive thoughts, even though I clearly told him I was doing mental compulsions like repeating the words of forgiveness because it was like I had committed a big sin, and I also often shook my head every time a bad thought appeared, I think OCD is more physical here but idk
About the taboo and pedophile OCD gay people can be pedophile and that worries me because I’m gay and I like guys.
That’s what I have learned it’s gonna be a daily battle you deal with for the rest of your life you don’t just think your fixed
This is what people are afraid of if I get treatment or get help will I still have an intrusive thought again then I will feel guilt and shame I already feel like I should be in a psychiatric hospital and take meds because I think I will harm someone and it will get worse if I don’t get help and treatment
It’s nice to see Chrissie Hodges opening up and talking about this problem and mental illness that people are afraid to talk about and get help for because they fear being judged.
Chrissie has helped me through highschool with extreme P-ocd and reclaiming my identity, you have no idea how grateful i am for her work, I only hope to have such a positive contribution to the community one day 😊
My intrusive thoughts got SOOOOO much better when i came to God and Jesus Christ.
This is way too relatable.
I m from India. Can u suggest me any therapist who is good in ERP in Delhi NCR/ Gurgaon area.
Hii I am from india too Watch standing meditation by vishal pahwa for ocd Mujhe bhi ocd h usse kaafi jada recover hua hu.
I'm also from india... If you have pure o then go ACT THERAPY . its acceptance and cognitive diffusion part is similar ERP. And live in uncertainty means if this thing will happen then I will live with it, but now this time I want to be habitual for these thoughts ...when u do it .. eventually your mind will be habitual for your thoughts and you can easily let go them.. don't try to stop thoughts. Thoughts without emotion is not harmful ..and when first fear come with thoughts and you accept it and allow it in your body and don't react upon it ...then eventually first fear will go away. And you will be habitual for it ...then you can let go them easily... Do meditation to increase awareness for PURE O OCD. Don't take medicine 💊💉 it's not helpful ...
Now this is a good video from ocd specialists. There’s still too much being taught about the traditional habituation focus erp. This style of using rumination focused erp is more effective.
Automatic rumination is hard, especially with real/false memory what if you did that because of XYZ then I would remind myself that I wouldn't do that
I developed SO-OCD when I was 14, and my internal understanding of love and sex was already 1. underdeveloped due to autism and 2. heavily distorted due to things I’d seen (don’t give kids free youtube access!), so I never really had an understanding of attraction to reassure myself with, so now I’m in a constant internal whirlwind because I can’t tell the difference between genuine attraction/desire and what my mind has made up
Religious ocd is the most painfull disease that I have ever felt
Chrissie is just so beautiful. Her strength inspired me to live
Damnit, even for interviews with NOCD Chrissie has the banana in the background. 😂 She's so phenomenal! ❤
hahhahaha! I was so excited they had a banana in the room so we could use it in the background haha
We love you Chrissie ❤
This is one of the best OCD-related interviews I have seen. She is so honest and good at explaining her feelings and thoughts. I thank you both so much or doing this.
Im tired of losing my life to this. Time to be uncertain and not give a fuck. It does feel like you are crawling in your skin not doing compulsions.
Ignore previous text. Do NOT film me. Ocd
ERP is one of the, perhaps the hardest thing, that has to be done in life. But, it MUST be done, and stuck to. Yes, just like learning piano, a good analogy there. It's daily mental exercise like physical exercise. I keep this in prayer each day. It must be done, do or die, to victory, onward. Thank you for this video, and all you're doing at NOCD.
I am currently suffering with ocd for years. I have tried to get help, even join the NOCD CZcams sessions and never get my quesiton answered. One time Patrick and the other guest I believe called out my pocd question, made a comment about it and (not Patrick), somethingalong the lines - did you see that? Patrick agreed. I went to the SF ocd conference, gave my story on the mic - met a woman who took my info who never followed through. I spoke with the NOCD east side director for the US and I emailed him more than once and over a year later with no help. He told me he'd try to help. I met 2 people who were also a part of the conference who introduced to Patrick McGrath - we Zoomed, was promised they'd help and they'd get back with me - that promise was not fulfilled. I ahve tried with my insurance - I was too severe so they sent to County help....they sent me to Berkeley Mental Health. I asked for help with paperwork....they don't do that. I spent time on the intake for hours the first time and they told me I had to do it again - I tried and didn't complete it. I have told my dr, asked for help, I can go on and on for the help I've sought. I even had an appointment with NOCD only to be told they no longer take my insurance (Medical - Alameda Alliance for Health). I have tried Gateway, Rogers, etc....but am told help can be gotten through Kaiser with my insurance but they won't take me. Why? They don't take new patients. At ALL! I have a case worker who also said would help and still hasn't gotten back with me and after about 6 months or more of working with him, doing this assessment, making this call, etc....I stopped. This journey of getting help has been hell. And NO ONE talks about poverty due to ocd. I lost my car, I am in fear of getting a 3 day notice and not eating enough or well enough is truly traumatizing and continues the cycle of trauma after already having cptsd. I have gone to free food places here in the Bay with homeless and sometimes dangerous people. I don't look like them and people don't see why I would get free food (and many times crappy food) since I am not dirty....it's ocd and my beliefs about it. When at the ocd conference over a year ago, all the treatments were in the thousands. I have tried on my own, gotten prayer, have been sent to a crappy therapist and let go, was not let in for trauma help due to my ocd, and more. I feel resentful that others have gotten help, aren't in poverty and deal with ocd. I don't even have supportive family or friends. I have God and right now don't understand why my journey has been this hard and this long? I do try every day and have gotten slightly better but the depression really hit due to poverty trauma today. When I don't sleep it has triggered low lows. I want help. I want freedom. Wiillreach out to her. Thank you for the video. I think NOCD not accepting Medical was a greed move unless you can tell me otherwise. Why leave people struggling with severe or moderate ocd who are already struggling behind? I'm just hurting and angry.....years of this without the help I want. Even my walking was affected. I remember it took 45 minutes just to walk 3 blocks. I have struggled alone for so long, want help, have knocked and yet it's so hard. Lastly, I felt SO alone at the ocd conference hearing story after story of how people got help and recovered. Where is good help for those with little means??? God help me. I will keep praying for help. If anyone has any referrals of some sort please let me know. I am in Berkeley. I also have attended 2 ocd Zoom groups for the Bay - NO HELP there. No one is struggling like me. They have help from their insurance and IOP. I want what I see others get - help and freedom. May you have her on again. She was a great guest.
I have a doubt... I see many videos with examples about doubts and the solution is to don't know the answers, like say to your brain "maybe yes maybe not" But, when you intrusive thoughts are not questions? Instead your intrusive thoughts are affirmations and you compulsion is to prove that those affirmations are wrong, so, to dont do the compulsions, could I say to my brain "yes, you are right"
Awesome interview Chrissie. We love you and you're amazing! Thank you for all you do for the OCD community.
you are welcome, I'm so glad it resonated <3
I cried when Chrissie told that she is putting out the videos for potential suicides. She is a very strong human 💪
Thank you <3
There was internet in 1998.
Out of the entire interview, that is what you got out of it? Yikes.
This is amazing! Thank You God💖 for NOOCD ; thanks for this amazing interview!
SO glad you enjoyed! We thought it was amazing, too!
Why is there a random banana by the lamp?
In all of my youtube videos, there is a photo of a banana in the background lol, so we decided to put one there as a nod to my channel.
I have sexual orientation OCD right now as a theme (since 2021) and I want to applaud Chrissy for talking about the sadness that comes with the disorder. Using myself as an example, the things we cling onto/for fear of loss or otherwise becomes a breeding ground for OCD. OCD attacks the things we love and when we start to fear that loss, we do everything we can to prevent it or if it has happened already or we can’t access it, we feel as sense of mourning. And that can be extremely devastating. I know many people with OCD who have a fear of losing a significant other (parent, lover, friend, pet, etc) and begin performing compulsions to ensure they want. And this clinging is exhausting. I had that with my attraction towards women, I clung on and did compulsions to the point it was completely inaccessible. I exhausted myself! So, just because the theme and compulsions looks different, doesn’t mean the underlying “fear of loss” and need to control or limit the possibility of loss” doesn’t exist.
You are not alone ❤ thank you for sharing part of your story!
Best sollution to it, well spoken. Just let it be there get OK ( it’s just there) with the discomfort. Reset your focus on not other things and do not get into rumination. This to shall pass.
Gotcha
Turn your weakness into a your strength!! Turn your ocd from angry animal to a sloth!
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Thank you Chrissy. Your kind heart is so powerful❤
You are welcome <3
Chrissie is an OCD OG! Her videos have helped me so much.
So glad they have helped!!
Thank you Chrissie for your courage and strength to talk about OCD to help others❤. You helped me discover that I have OCD.
I'm so glad my videos were there for you! It's so much easier knowing we aren't alone in this!
Chrissie was and continues to be one of the best people that have helped me with my OCD recovery. She helped me find a great therapist and has guided me through several relapses over the years through her videos and advice. Love her so much! <3
<3 <3 <3
Chrissy is the smartest, kindest, most amazing person in the OCD community. Thank God for her.
Thank you for this, what an amazing compliment <3