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TRIGGER WARNING: I was doing so well with my social anxiety BUT now I have OCD around social anxiety obsession/theme. What should I do, I get intrusive thoughts now and they distract me causing the symptom of freezing in social situations. I NEVER had that before any tips? If I expose myself to triggering social situations (dating for eg.) I don’t want to freeze 😭 are there any things I can do to combat this freezing maybe calm my nervous system down so I don’t freeze? Appreciate your help!

So can we calm our amygdala by not reacting to the thougts or feelings ?

No bro, it’s because OCD is the only way that we can remember anything without making mistakes

Jeez John you put your head above the parapet.

Love that you are helping people with anxiety❤. You mention you can teach people to reverse ADHD. Im curious, how will you do that? ADHD is a neurogical development disorder, which is developed in the fetal stage. Its not a illness. Or do you disagree with the scientifically bases facts?

So correct me if am wrong but what I feel and I’ve heard this from others too. Is that ocd recovery is simple but difficult. Do you agree with that statement?

Ok thanks for making me cry. I’ve been struggling with severe GAD for about 6 months. Obsessive thoughts about my anxiety, intrusive, harmful etc…. It’s like the only subject on my mind is anxiety. I’ve also really started to look into if I have ADHD. I’m scoring significantly high, but a lot of those questions they ask are really similar to an anxiety test. Do you feel that helping treat the ADHD now can help with the Pure O? I feel like my anxiety is significantly better now, but I can’t stop obsessing about it. First thing on my mind in the morning, last thing on my mind at night. Sorry for the blurt!

Yes, even if you get reassurance you would doubt it, later that is the nature of OCD. It's ok to make resources ,but only once.

I really appreciate these free videos because I can’t afford therapy and my parents don’t really believe in therapy

Hello sir, I am 15 years old and over the past 4 months I’ve developed some ocd over something and it’s been really hard and exhausting, but after watching your videos I realised that I need to fix my brain and not the external things. Where can I watch more of these?

This made me cry and changed my entire perspective on existence. Thank you isn’t a good enough thing to say.

Thank you so much. This video described my life in perfect detail. By the time I was a teen everyone said I was blank faced and uptight, which I have been since then except for major emotional breakdowns. People only saw me functioning because I put all my work into if for their sake. But inside my mind was absolute torture with racing upsetting thoughts that made me feel disgusting and scared. Pretty much like you said, I obsessively feared that I would somehow do the things I feared and hated the most. And it made me not want to be around others, because somehow they would find out who I really am and hate me for it. It helped so much when I learned that these distressing thoughts are not who I am, but a symptom of my anxiety itself.

Interesting video i can tell you one benefit of ocd and that is the drive and obsession is really good for business and starting a business i know this first hand and i've had two successful businesses when of medicine and let those businesses fail when i went on medicine because it took away whatever factors the ocd presents in my life that was an important factor in my drive and determination to overcome whatever obstacles come when you're starting a new businesses and overcome failure.

Great info..I've been this way all my life (68 now)

Bravo, this is me in a nutshell...OCD all my life.

hey john, i recently noticed my subconscious pattern switched up, the ocd trying to throw me back into the old ways of thinking again, i go days without thinking almost at all, just living in the subconscious and body and its wonderful, little things are so enjoyable, but the sometimes i feel like it is reallying trying to tug of war with me and try to make think of things consciously, and if i do it then wants to "punish" me by thinking of whatever the original thought was but in reverse or in opposite, yeah annoying right? Now Im not doing it, because dear god its exhausting and literally causes physical, i just dont get why its still trying to get me to think so much, its very much pesky demon, and i want to understand a little more about the little 8 year old inside, what are your thoughts my friend?

The thing that amazes me about OCD and BDD is that some people function and have structure in their lives are in effect able to cope with the disorders while others are completely destroyed by such disorders, existing only, not living.

What I hate is when your intuition tells you one thing and the logical mind tries to cut you off from it like "nuh-uh, you need MY approva,l the rest is mumbo-jumbo". Thanks for the video.

"They can read my mind" holy shit that was a very big deal in my life

I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with OCD. Spent my whole life fighting OCD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

This video was so helpful. I randomly typed ocd & adhd as i always felt I've been experiencing more than one disorders, as the details of each matched my feelings. But my ocd brain always convinces me that i don't have any XD. I still remember the exact time when my evil mind took over (as i used to call it before), i used to be a different person before that traumatic incident. And I'm still caught in that loop, I'm unable to experience happiness as when i start feeling happy my mind immediately goes back to that time. I still try to figure out why exactly did that happen & until I don't I'm not able to live freely. No therapists or psychiatrists are able to help me resolve that yet. I always keep on playing different theories in my head & many seem to be the cause yet it can't be that many which takes me back to zero. The incident i refer here is my board exams, i used to be an excellent student back then who was a promising candidate for the boards.. but i wasn't able to hold my pen steadily due to panic attacks.. it was hard to understand bcuz i knew all the answers, i couldn't explain it to others or to myself. After that incident all my life has been going backwards, I'm too afraid to do the things i used to love.. I'm not living as my true self anymore, just borrowing traits from other people to blend in to survive.

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For me its very often my stomach problems which causes so much anxiety

Thank you bro

Thank you so much for your dedication to this world. I am really hopeful, after OCD tricked me into believing I can’t enter a committed healthy relationship. So I am so happy to have found your channel and to learn to understand it from the depth you are providing here. Thank you. 🙏

I would say to everyone - always find a profesional help, dont suffer in silence, we all have diffrent Brain chemistry

I have a bipolar disorder,my father also has a bipolar disorder. Me and my wife were planning for a baby. Is there any treatment available so that the bipolar disorder does not pass on to our baby. Pls help?

Nice😊some people have problem with decisions because prefrontal cortex doesnt work properly, or they are exsasted 😊

If the lymbic system is overwelming it need helps..behind of that it can be insulin issue, high cortisol that person thinks all the time, i would say it is neurological issue 😊

Thank you

im finally getting around to watching these videos, I went down a bit of a bad spiral this year & am now kind of seeing the light. Things got so bad that I ended up on SSRI's (briefly) against my own judgement & intuition, and tapered off after about 2 months on my own accord. I haven't been on them now since mid may. I saw an OCD specialist too though that didn't work out as I felt like she never took me seriously and even chucked when I told her my theme. She did help me to understand ocd to a degree though, and how I just need not give it power. This has helped a lot but need to dive further into other areas of anxiety such as my agoraphobia. In no means am I perfect and I have a long way to go. What DID draw me to you though was how perfectly you explained ocd, even better than this therapist. Almost immaculately to my experience. I was going through some really, really bad anxiety last year due to where I am in life. Funnily enough a year to this date. This seemed to have stemmed from my job that I would go to day in & out which I know isn't who I am and have most certainly outgrown - But due to agoraphobia and being stuck in the same fkn 10km (which I overcome but seem to slip back & forth), I IGNORED all these feelings because I felt like I didn't have a choice. and there was a clear indicator that this was the issue. I had this feeling of stress in my body that developed that just wouldn't go away and I kept trying to fight through. Eventually my brain pulled out the big guns & it developed into this whole pure OCD thing. Makes total sense. I am still at that same job but that feeling of stress has since dissipated to a degree, I believe because I am now working on ways of getting myself out of that place (or just the place I am in life). Since we briefly spoke in early January about ocd in the comments, I have now started studying a course trying to fix these issues. I have a long way to go, but the journey has begun. I just need to fix my focus, and stop pretending everything is fine. because its not.

From what I can inter from my experience I was crippled by OCD and anxiety but now I am able to work finely. I will say that the treatment of OCD is not like a take medicine and do therapy type work, it needs work in some other directions also, it's more about knowing oneself more and understanding the core concept of "I am that". What I mean Its primarily an issue with your brain and mind but you should also know that those are not the only things in our consciousness. We say we get repetitive thoughts but tell me what is repetitive in this, your mind will never stop reacting to everything around you unless it understand the emptiness of it all. Like in the deep sleep we achieve such states after which dream initiation takes place and in those dreams you see some reality. I waking states you are plagued by what then? The delusional reality, everything that is happening around you isn't it just another repetition of things? Your awareness is something that is always pure you can keep having pain physical and mental but your awareness of that pain or something can bring out it's true nature then all of pain becomes nothing and what about pleasure it is also the same. Just bring your awareness which is nothing but your curious attention to things and observing things from a curious person's viewpoint you will find the true nature of reality, our mind's nature which seeks to find the causal relationship between things has to be let go off and only then you begin keeping track of things, multiple aspects of things will come to your mind, that is true consciousnes and it is this mind which is healthy which is whole and doesn't feel any bondage because of the thoughts and emotions, it has to completely surrender to one central aspect of living which that of being an observer and nothing else.

I struggle with guilt and pets.

What is the name of that song you used in your advertisement? I heard your ad on a youtube video and liked the song and decided to check out the channel which I also like lol. But I was wondering if you knew the name of the song because I enjoyed it hahaha

This is me. To a tea, unfortunately.

Great

I just experienced it for the first time on Monday please anyone i need help

Dear Sir, I am watching your videos and I have taken your membership videos and I am getting charged every month. Sir, I am asking myself that if I am not able to pay that amount then will I be able to access those videos or not because right now I am not able to do so.

Hello Dr, I’m from Syria and unfortunately the doctors here are stupid I’m lost with anxiety and pure O ocd And I always fear that what if I have depression and now I hate life I have bo passion I care about nothing and I really hate myself for being that person The doctor I went to gave me Paroxetine and it made me worse I’m afraid that It’s going to be this way my whole life I wanna get better bust I don’t know how I guess some medicine might help but I don’t trust doctors anymore Could u offer me some help please ? Any advice or sth

John, you are a constant source of inspiration 🙌🏼 Thank you and stay well 🎩

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE YOU THANK YOU

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I don't know if I have OCD or if it's my autism or anxiety. I fear and obsess about death a lot and every sensation in my body brings me into a spiral in which I can't stop googling about it and I can't stop seeking reassurance that I will be ok. I know the thoughts are irrational but I just can't stop. I have a lot of thoughts that I'm scared to talk about because people will probably look at me differently. My mind just won't stop and when I have calmed down about one topic, a new one starts. I don't even know what are my normal thoughts anymore. Sorry for dumping this here, I just needed to write about it somewhere and came across this video.

great as always

brain need support, i couldnt function without meds, even if i know everything of this, it was imposible to function, and of course nutrition play alot of role! this "stories" paralysed the person with intrusive thoughts and imagies, even if i believe myself all the time, this imagies didnt stop, and i couldnt function..so is your program based on telling positive afirmation to ourselfs?

Totaly agree, but for me only carnivore and meds stop this. it i all corelated, with high cortisol, adrenalin, insulin..it is all depend how much "amygdala" is "damaged" from traumatic events..person with delussional thinking need treatment, and also for ocd, severity can disable person*

PLEASE HELP!!! I am Spanish and therefore my entire message will be written by a translator. I hope you can understand me. I am Víctor from Spain, I am 20 years old and I have had anxiety since I was little, it used to occur in class, in restaurants, in a movie theater to give some examples... well the fact is, I have been in this hell for 2 years, on May 9, 2022 I I woke up having thoughts that in my life I had had about harming myself, I remember that the day before before going to sleep I read a news story about a boy who took his own life, logic tells me that this could have been a possible trigger, I at the same time At first I was scared because I didn't want to do that nor do I want to and I didn't know what was happening to me, I had a lot of anxiety, my chest hurt, I was short of breath, I felt terrible... in the middle of that hell I thought, well, this is going to be a bad day and Tomorrow I will be fine, because the days went by and it was still the same, even because of the fear I had, I even slept with my mother, imagine... a few days after this, while I was in my room, this thought occurred to me, which I remember perfectly. What if I kill my mother? If after the thoughts of hurting myself I was already bad, imagine after that crossed my mind... literally, I couldn't even see my mother, it was terrible, if before I had anxiety, then after thinking that I had twice as much... investigating why Google I found content about intrusive thoughts and such, at that time while reading about the subject I came across a phrase that helped me at that moment (you are not your thoughts) and that literally eliminated the physical symptoms that I had even though those thoughts were still there. A few days after this I went to the psychiatrist to tell him exactly what I am telling in this message and he told me about impulsive phobias, I went home and a few days after this the typical news that they give at night was on Antena 3's news. Well, well, they talked about a news story about a boy with schizophrenia and what happened to me is that I was literally in shock, I hardly slept that night, literally when I heard that I was like, I have this. I started looking for symptoms throughout the summer and a few more months, in total 4/5 months followed day by day on Google, on CZcams videos of people with schizophrenia, videos about psychotic breaks, about other mental disorders and well from there I am not bad, the following. I literally began to pay attention to sounds and for example I was watching a CZcams video of whatever and if I heard something that could be outside of that video, I would rewind the video to see if I heard it again, that was an example of what What I did and sometimes I continued doing it, I was aware of what I saw or if I saw things out of the ordinary, sometimes out of the corner of my eye I see like a flash and I wonder if you are freaking out in case it is a hallucination, I also read about delusions and paranoia and to give an example, reading that these people think they want to kill them and from then on I have thoughts of that style, "paranoid" thoughts even though I know they are a lie, I don't know if after everything I'm saying Are you finding out what is happening to me or if perhaps in your consultation you have had cases of this style, because in Spanish I have barely found information as if I have found it in English and they relate it to OCD called OCD Going Crazy, but literally that Sometimes I doubt that this could be OCD, this seems serious, I'm afraid it's psychosis or schizophrenia, I'm shit, I need help, it seems like I'm delirious at times, although I repeat, I know that certain thoughts don't make sense... I think that reading symptoms has messed with my head because in my life I have had these thoughts and I think I am very suggestive. 3 psychiatrists tell me that they are impulsive phobias but come on, sometimes it seems like he's really crazy.

Super Helpful Content! Thank you!🙏

As someone who has struggled immensly with crippling pure o (many subtypes) and rocd for forever, and recently finally also been diagnosed with adhd (which makes a lot of sense- ofc besides the moments where my ocd gaslights me into thinking i do not have adhd😂) i cannot thank you enough for this insightful video which has just been mindblowing and VERY much fits what my therapist is trying to explain to me about my life and why i have this excitable adhd nature and at the same time these abhorent Obsessions as well as a harsh inner critic. I still think i need some time to get this into my head, how my pure o has arisen to keep my adhd nature at bay, and how this plays out for the different themes but i wanted to thank you for helping us out with your insightful video, this makes so much sense to me:) also, in case you know: do you have any tips for medication when it comed to the adhd and pure o combination?