Anxiety Disorders & OCD Quality Treatment Standards
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2020
- Effective treatment for anxiety disorders or OCD isn't some mystical secret. There are standards for quality treatment! These are great resources for professionals and patients in ANY COUNTRY to understand effective pathways through and out of these challenges. I was on the committee that wrote Ontario's new quality treatment standards for OCD and anxiety disorders. They cover everything from questions patients can ask, approaches to effective treatment, measuring outcomes, and tracking reliable recovery. Check them out:
OCD Quality Standard: www.hqontario.ca/evidence-to-...
Anxiety Disorder Quality Standard: www.hqontario.ca/evidence-to-...
Wow! I’m in the US and I’m going to take what I can from these documents. I’ve been struggling to find a therapist who doesn’t just sit and listen to me complain. I need someone who understands and specialized in anxiety/ocd. Thank you so much for these tools!
I hope they are helpful on the journey!
Great work!
So good!!
Hi guys I’m 17 and month ago i read about solipsism and i really freaked me out, but i eventually get through it, but a couple days ago my mind now is creating other scenarios like: What if People are robots, or what if I’m being tested with false humans. I really want to believe and feel that people are real again and trust.
Btw I had HOCD and PHOCD.
I like that, 'not immediately writing prescriptions for benzos and antipsychotics', there needs to be more informed consent as well. Those drugs are so harsh to the neurochemistry-I know-benzo withdrawl is so painful! I trusted them and ended up looking like a fool and feeling lost! It's so hard to go back to the 'system's health care'. I don't know if they could ever help me. Maybe in the future-when-their drugs and therapy have improved, substantially, in the U.S., I can have some interest again. Looks like Ontario is doing something good, at least, then.
Peace!
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I have a question about mindfulness meditation because a lot of people have different opinions on those : I wanna know, whenever you're meditating, and thoughts comes by as you're focusing on your breathing, do you want to 1.observe the thought until it goes away? I've been doing this lately and it somehow make me focus more on my thought in and outside of meditation even tho I just observe them and it makes my head race because I sometime judge them without even knowing. Maybe this is a good sign, and I just gotta keep going and develop that skill.. 2. Or should I not FULLY observe them and whenever it comes, I just focus on not responding and bringing back the focus on the breathing.
It can really help to see that thoughts are experiences, like every other experience. There's no difference between experiencing a thought or experiencing a sound or experiencing a physical sensation while you meditate. When we're meditating, we get to choose what we give our attention to. Instead of giving our attention to the various experiences around us, we can simply sit. So what I would look at here is: why are you trying to figure out what to do with thoughts at all? Even giving them attention as something you need to figure out what to do with is more importance than I would afford them. Dogs barking outside, the sound of a car going by, my knee on the meditation cushion--that's all they are.
Hi bro, please make a separate video on lock checking ocd. 🙏
That was the first compulsion I had to cut out on my journey. So all of these videos apply to that. It's really useful to not get stuck on a narrow focus. Believing we need special tools just for a particular symptom is actually a compulsion. There are lots of compulsions like that--things we like and see as "normal". So it's useful to expand the scope beyond the stuff that troubles us and take a very broad approach to making changes. The recent video I did on five health fears is useful model for cutting out lock checking compulsions and accepting fears but choosing to do things we value czcams.com/video/1w7rrKHW6Kw/video.html They really are the exact same compulsions. Recovery is like physical fitness--it's important to hit all of the muscles!
@@everybodyhasabrain thank you for replying. :)
Have the links changed? I got this message: "The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
Oh no! A hilarious coincidence: it appears they picked this hour to take the website down for maintenance. If you go to the homepage, it says it's down right now: www.hqontario.ca/ :D
They're working now.
I've gone to my University's mental health center twice to get individual counseling, but I always end up chickening out becuase I feel like my mental health isn't bad enough. I suspect that I've had OCD most of my life, but I've recently gotten much better. At my worst I never believed I was bad enough to get help since I'd never experienced trauma or self harmed, and now that I'm doing better I don't know if it's even worth it to go anymore. I mainly just want to finally tell someone, and get a professional opinion or diagnosis. Idkkk I feel like I would just be wasting their time.
With mental health goals, just like with physical health goals, people are more likely to make changes and stick with them if they do it focused on building something, not solving a problem. Somebody that goes to the gym because they dislike how they look and judge their body as a problem is less likely to maintain that practice than somebody that makes it about building a skill, like learning how to run 5km without stopping. The same applies with mental health. Approaching mental health as something that needs to be "bad enough" is like saying that nobody needs to exercise until they're on the floor having a heart attack. It's really not a useful way to approach health. Unfortunately, the mental health system is often designed around having problems and having diagnoses. But that doesn't mean you can't interact with it in a healthy way that's focused on building skills and getting supports to do the things you want to do in life.
Is this still useful to share if I don't live in Canada?
Yes, they apply to treatment anywhere
@@everybodyhasabrain fab, going to share this at work!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi mark I'm struggling with ocd since I was 6 years old I went to psychiartist for help but medication didnt help me my anxiety become worse what should I do to overcome my ocd my ocd is all about checking things again and again i did an suicide attempt one time my brother suddenly take me to hospital now also I'm thinking of suicide but I know I cant suicide I need help for my ocd its ridiculous plz help me mark
My life is stuck with ocd I want to overcome plz can you tell me some tips to overcome
Because of my ocd I was a drug addict I smoke weed use cocaine lsd then my dad took me to deaddiction centre and I admitted their 3 weeks then I finally recovered from drugs but my main focus is to beat ocd plz help mark
I want to live a happy life
It's great you're already working on cutting out compulsions. It really helped me to see that it's the same practice as tackling any compulsions. Learning how to feel the urge to use drugs but choose to instead do something else that you value is the exact same practice with every other compulsion. I wouldn't see them as separate.
@@everybodyhasabrain thanks for your advice