Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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When I was getting treated for OCD, I told my therapist that it is like I have a bully in my head 24/7 and that bully knows all my deepest, darkest secrets worries and fears and that bully lives to torment me all the time. It's like a bully you can never escape because the bully is in your own head.
historyfreak 65 omg yessssssss you explained it SO perfectly!!!! It’s like my own mind is constantly finding ways to torture itself and find problems when there are none. It’s so fucking exhausting. 😭
This is a perfect description tbh
That bully is often described as your Gremlin. I read the book “Taming your Gremlin” which my therapist recommended and it was very helpful.
my intrusive obsessive thoughts have made me want to actually stop living numerous times
I know how you feel. Many times I have thought about just dying so the thoughts would stop.
Me right now.
Same
1-800-273-8255
Same and I cry bcs idk what's going on
It would be great to also discuss Pure O OCD. It's not talked about enough and people think OCD only has to do with cleanliness and germs.
Yes!!!
For sure!!! Fear of something can happen as well!!!
+Kate Rentz Yes!! Pure OCD is the hardest. You can have intrusive thoughts and images, it's a nightmare to watch someone you love suffer with is. Medications can either help a little or make you much worse. They have a new DNA testing that will show what medications you can and cannot take. It's an important break through.
+mrip75 yeah it sucks having it. I can't stop it.
Sean Pettit
I'm so sorry that you have this and I know the daily struggles. I pray for you, my heart breaks for you and others who suffer with this 24/7. Do not give up. Try the DNA testing that will give you a better match with meds and also try to find a CBT clinic. Talk to others who suffer with this where you can get the true support you need. God Bless.
I just keep asking "why me", the fact that it'll never go away is really depressing.
Animateddreamer Disclaimer: I don't have a diagnosis for ocd. I have a strong suspicion I have it though. In 2017-2018, I was extremely scrupulous about everything, from washing my hands out of fear that any particle on them would contaminate me or my family/friends to making sure my grammer was exactly perfect in regular speech and even text messaging to ensure that I wasn't confusing them or being deceitful. You might think it's evil to resist the compulsions but if you question anything, you can almost always give yourself the benefit of the doubt. For me, this started as not washing my hands when I came inside. I still have "dilemmas" every now and then but they're much less frequent, and I have a far greater awareness of when they are irrational.
It can be treated and many people have recovered look up Ali greymond
@Kirsty Birsty not just take control but fully recover look into ali greymond and wonderbro , mark freeman & Restored minds are also channels made by people who have fully recovered and no longer suffer from intrusive thoughts ,ocd and anxiety disorder are not chronic.
My OCD has made me
Have thoughts about going crazy
Getting sick
Dying
Developing schizophrenia
Something bad happening to my family
Someone trying to hurt me
Me being a bad person
Me being stuck in a dream
Going to hell
Being punished
My OCD has made me
Not wear the color green
Hate the # 3 couldn't do anything is 3s
Wash my hands till they bleed
Walk a certain way
Walk up the stairs a certain way
Not eat or drink certain things
Check the doors over and over at night
Check windows
Do things over and over till I get them a certain way
Pinch myself
Have panic attacks
Now I'm not delusional, I know they way I think and the things I do are unreasonable, it's just the thoughts dont go way and it creates this terrible anxiety. Lucky most of the things I listed up there have gone away cause I worked at. I suffer with really only the obsession at this point in my life.
what did you do to work at it?
Naomi D me to
Dude same but people noticed I had ocd at work and they started messing with me and my ocd got worse and I had to go to a mental hospital, but same thing with 3, and me thinking I was a bad person, going to hell, etc and I would obsess over people like what they did
@@alfreddoncarlo9004 Yeah my friends have been noticing my OCD and it kinda sucks and its embarrassing because they dont really understand
Same here..
I hate it when people say
"oh I have ocd LOL" and I'm like
"What's your obsession? Haha" and their like
"Since I haven't gone grocery shopping I can only eat mac and cheese so now it's the only thing I eat" 🙄
*they're
I hate it when also people act like ocd is this cleaning disorder and they will like use it as an excuse to get their way that always makes me so mad
I hate that too! People tell you don't worry about it, it's not a big deal. Well it's a f!@%ing big deal to me at this current moment! Also, don't say I have OCD super casually like that. people who actually have it have a problem and it's not funny
@@historyfreak6591 totally! People state self diagnosis so casually, pisses me off
That is not OCD what the heck.
"forgive me for the term" shes so sweet oh my goodness an angel
Before I got treatment for my ADHD and OCD, the two of them together made each other worse! It’s a terrible combination. On one hand I had the impulsive, unfocused, irritability, and hyperactivity from the ADHD, and on the other hand the OCD was causing extreme anxiety and rituals. I literally thought about killing myself until I started treatment. Now I’m so much happier.
People forget OCD with doubts, guilts, ruminating on intrusive thoughts, past, future, which infuse compulsions of avoidance ect. It bugs me when people think its all external compulsions not internal or its cleaning and not self deconstruction of normal things. I see a therapist once a week. My house is a mess. I spend most my time researching things to make me feel better about the intrusive thoughts and fears and why I must not touch certain things for no reason. If I hear another person say they are "so ocd" for wanting their clothing color coded I'm going to hit them. But then I have ptsd for several forms of trauma and anxiety. But 90% of the people I come across don't clean or have contamination fears. Its usually compulsions related to intrusive thoughts of harm, sexual, phobic natures. Its not who we are and our fears and obsessions don't mean anything bad will happen but we still overthink it for days and weeks on end. I constantly sing songs in my head to distract. Ugh. (Update, down to therapy twice a month lol. Feel a lot better and go days without compulsions or ruminating too long or even thinking about it. But maybe I just got used to giving it the finger so now its second nature to ignore it and see no meaning. Still have flares but it really does get better with help! I feel more me then ever after a lifetime or sntruggles and a complete explosion of it years ago. It gets better!)
+TaltosGirl Very well explained! God Bless you!
+mrip75 💜
You don't know the relief i felt when reading your comment. thank you
Even contamination fear OCD (the "cleaning" one) doesn't necessarily follow the stereotype. I have contamination fear ocd and although I hate mess and it stresses me, when my OCD gets really bad I actually have a hard time with cleaning because I have to fight almost panic level anxiety everytime I do, and when it swung into severe I was so afraid of contaminating myself and stressed out with the compulsions and rituals I had to do after which would take hours, and my skin, especially on my hands, got so sore from the constant scrubbing to make them feel clean again that I outright avoided going anywhere near "contaminated "areas where possible, and I used to spray dettol disinfectant absolutely everywhere when I did clean. ...I clawed back some ground into moderate but it still flares up, although I have had brief periods of remission in the past, something eventually triggers it back again, and it snowballs very quickly if I'm not careful.
I also have the checking type of OCD but that's milder.
Aarin yes yes you said it!
The bad thing about medication for OCD is that the symtomps often return, when you stop taking them! So the therapy is a better idea!
Jannicke Kiland because the medicine is not meant to cure it. It’s a chemical imbalance in the brain that constantly has to be regulated. They aren’t antibiotics....
often times medications is crucially helpful to allow people to do the work that therapy/ERP/CBT takes to be successful in managing your OCD - so I'd say both together are best until you can learn to cope and manage without the medication, or one day without therapy too
also wow oops i thought this 3 weeks ago not 3 years ago - my bad!
I have OCD and generalized anxiety, and CBT was really helpful for me in high school.
Thanks Kati- I have OCD, ED's and Depression my psychiatrist in high school said these usually go hand in hand. That it's not uncommon for people who have OCD first to develop eating disorders and depression later as well as still having the ocd! it's so time consuming and im really ashamed for having them!! even though my old psychiatrists said it isn't my fault and I don't do it on purpose!
One of my OCDs was that whatever i touched I had to touch it twice. Say if I was about to write something, being a right handed, i would hold the pencil with my left hand first and then I would pass it to my right hand to write. Basically, it meant that if I touched the edge of a table with the tip of my left index finger, I had to touch it with the tip of my right index finger. In the beginning it was extremely strict, literally almost everything I touched I had to do this ritual. I even got to the point of thinking that when I bathe the water particles I that touched me made me.... uneven (that's what I call it when I don't touch things twice). It was really hard to tone down, I got it when I was around 10 and still have it to this day but its not as compulsive as before( I ended up becoming extremely neurotic instead). Sometime it was so bad that a random lady's shirt sleeve on the street brushed the nail on my pinkie finger while I was walking down the street with some classmates and I stopped speaking mid-sentence just to follow the lady and touch my pinkie finger's nail to her shirt.I also had to make it look accidental so she wouldn't think I was trying to rub her. It was annoying.Even if I don't do the compulsion, I would think about it all the time.
OMG I do that too! I cannot believe it I seriously thought I was the only person to do that! I don't have it as bad as yours but if I touch like the edge of a table with one finger on my left hand I have to do the same on my right hand , it's so weird! I didn't think it was OCD until now though..
i don't think you have OCD, i assume its your willing thought
I do that too like if i stretch and get that strain in my right shoulder I will lean and get that feeling on my left one too. or my clothes feel uneven so so i'mconstintly moving my shoulders trying to make it even, so if soeone leans against me i think they think that i dont want them to lean against me because i will start wrigling because i feel uneven. this strated for e when i was like 5
i used to have this. except the water bit but i used to call iyuneven as well
faith wilson same overhere the only difrence whit me is that whenever i get compulsive to touch something twice it whas to make it equal cause "i dint whant the one touch to feel lonley or all by itself "
what can be quite annoying and forms a stigma about OCD is that everyone who is clean or tidy thinks they have it. less the 1% of the population has it so everyone claiming they have it on OCD videos doesnt add up. it trivilaises one of the most complicated and misunderstood mental illnesses! people meed to stop jumping to conclusions. OCD is crippling so if you need to be tidy but can function normally odds are you don't have it.
The view count on this video is almost 60,000 and 1% of that would be 600 participants or OCD sufferers and there are less than 300 comments on this video. So while I agree with you, that it is frustrating that people either self-diagnose or confuse such a debilitating illness with just being clean or tidy. It is still common that people will seek out comfort online and hence it is possible that some people in the comments of this video are probably being honest about their condition and just require some external support. Less than 10% of people with OCD seek our treatment because either they are scared of being reported or they are not actually aware that they have it (this is because of the false stigma that has developed around this illness). So while your comment does carry validity, it is also important to keep in mind that some people here probably just want some help or support and telling them that they do probably do not have this difficult illness comes across as a little harsh, it might be kinder to simply recommend that they seek out a formal diagnosis instead of attempting to self-diagnosis. Most of the people here are probably watching this video or ones like these because they are either in pain or are confused, whether they have OCD or not, a little compassion goes a long way. Saying that I do not know if you were specifically referencing this video or another one, so please let me know if I am wrong.
Absolutely true! You said the things I wanted to
Thank you! Finally someone understands that ocd isn't this cleaning disorder when you want everything perfect
Jordan.D yessssss!!!!!!
Isn’t there a thing where u will look at any object and imagine urself killing yourself with it and u believe it and keep replaying the thought in ur head people don’t understand how scary ocd is
I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like I have it . Every time I have take out a plug and turn of the switch I have to constantly repeat to myself that I turned it off and take a picture to proof that I did it as I’m afraid if I don’t turn the switch off that the house will go on fire and it will be my fault . Ut happens with a lot of stuff I do like turning the oven off and on , or closing the freezer and opening and closing windows
I sort of had this "obsession" from age 7 to 13 that I kept going to the bathroom at night because I was afraid of wetting the bed. I would go to the bathroom up to 13 times a night sometimes and if I wasn't going to the bathroom, I was lying in bed checking every second whether I had to go to the bathroom. These thoughts and compulsions would keep me up at night and would drive me crazy.
I also had very strict rituals before going to bed and if I didn't follow them correctly, I was worried I wouldn't get a good night's sleep. The obsessions would get worse during stressful times, like on vacation or going to a new school.
I think this may've may've been OCD, but the only other person I've ever heard of who obsessed about the same thing, is my older sister.
That is probably OCD, also OCD is hereditary so it would make a lot of sense that your sister was the same way
I don't think that's OCD if both you and your sister had the same behaviours. I believe those may be symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). It would be a good idea to check it up with a pro.
I think I have OCD because I spend several hours doing repetitive things... I also get worried that people can hear my thoughts.
Do you think people can hear your thoughts ?
Or are you just worried
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it! Thank you for taking the time and talking about mental health!
My sister has been diagnosed with OCD. Thank you for this video it is helpful to understand her better.
My OCD is a curse. I have the urge to repeat what I say over and over again in fear that someone misunderstood me or wasn’t listening. I feel like I’ve run my course with it. I feel like I’m the only person with this specific ritual, but I know there must be others out there that suffer from the same thing.
YES! For example, i’ll have to eat exactly 10 bites, or get up and touch the tv or ill die. it’s terrible
It’s very difficult to find a mental health professional where I live. I have a host of diagnoses and have medicated for twenty years. It’s still a daily struggle but your videos are a tremendous relief and tools for those of us who deal with mental illness. Thank you for doing these videos.
Thank you for uploading this.
I've been diagnosed with OCD and I've been waiting for you to post a video about it.
thank you for making this video. it is so nice ti know that other people understand what goes on.
This was a very insightful video. I was diagnosed with it in 2020, and it's very debilitating. The part where you mentioned talking yourself out of doing rituals made so much sense to me. I've always been skeptical about CBT, but I feel like I need to give it a try. Much love! ❤️
My son was diagnosed with OCD at age 17 last year. His obsessions have manifested by having intrusive thoughts about blasphemy, and then turned into digital matrix type of thoughts, and now it about death. I really feel like someone is inside his head, luckily he is very in tuned with reality, and his surroundings. In his case I don't see actual compulsions, other than closing his eyes at times, to avoid dealing with his thoughts. I wish I could take them and relieve him of this horrible psychological disorder.
Thank you Kati. I have a family member that has this. You explained it very well.
Yay! I'm so happy you uploaded this! This video made it pretty clear to me that I may have a very mild case of this. I've been struggling with it for a couple years and it comes and goes depending on my mood. Whenever I am in the middle of counting the times of touching something etc and I get so mad at myself I just think to myself that nothing is going to happen if I don't touch that 8 times or do this 4 and that it's pointless. Thinking it through always helps me (:
Thank you so much for this video, Kati! I don't personally struggle with OCD, but my boyfriend does. It has been really hard for me to know how I can help him... I can't quite ask him all the things I am wondering because he also suffers from depression, anxiety, and sometimes psychosis, and I don't want to overwhelm him. He is in therapy and has medication which I am so SO proud of him for! I just want to tell you how grateful i am for you and your videos which help give me some insight :)
Yes, I would really like to see a video more on the instrusive thoughts and the like, with OCD.
I do have OCD that pertains to me talking to myself. I will say completely random things that do not make any sense at all. Normally, I could be at school and I could whisper to myself, "Yes! Is Jicama! The physics of the eye! Eeeeee!" I know it's very weird, but I consistently feel like I've got to say these things.
That reminds me of Torret's syndrom. Sufferers feel compelled and have no control over saying/shouting certain words, usually swearwords though. I don't really know any other criteria, but maybe you should look it up? It also shows how similar lots of mental illnesses actually are, despite being different.
Seth Roberts I don't think it's OCD. Research Tourettes, it really seems like that and
My OCD is like a fly that's there: but you really wish it wasn't. It bothers me a lot: because sometimes the things I do are things that are INSANELY unnecessary, but I have to do it to make my body happy.
I love how you say "is a disorder where... Ughhh" ❤️
I've struggle with OCD since being a young child. In my 20s it became paralysing & I couldn't function however in my 30s I sent 13 months as an inpatient due to other struggles,it was CBT based & that helped in all areas of my life. But the thing I found most helpful for my OCD was graded exposure work,I intensely worked on this everyday for the 13 months it was really hard but iam able to engage in the world so much more. It's something I have to pay attention to everyday to keep on top of it but it's transformed my life,would totally recommend it & it's something that can be done out of hospital which is a bonus!
You are amazing i love your videos and Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us :)
I obsess over things, for example, I bought some hermit crabs so I obsessed with finding out what I need to do for them to be healthy, etc. etc. and I couldn't sleep or do anything besides google and find out about this and then I went and blew all my money on them, and after I had their habitat set up, It went onto something else, like buying stuff for college and making sure I had the perfect list for it, anyways would that be considered under this? I hate it
P.S I fully agree with what you say about talking yourself out of it,there's been times where im like "stop it this is ridiculous, this is going too far, if i keep doing this (eg washing feet after going into the garage) its going to destroy or fully take over my life because ile have to keep doing it once ive done it a bit. Also maybe i dont have ocd but i find distraction helps ALOT, my fears of certain dirt are alot less intense or first& foremost if im doing something i love or around people
I'm in a place where I m living without friends and hardly have a support group if at all. Been mostly dealing with my OCD through weed and fluvaxamin.
But the loneliness makes it worse
I'm pretty sure I barely escaped developing this. When I was young and had more anxiety, it kept pushing me to do things that weren't directly related to the things I was worried about, but thankfully my baseline state calmed down before it could do any damage.
I have OCD and I am also transgender. So basically born in a wrong body, and guess what? Having OCD is more painful of the two. Just to put it in perspective. Hate it when people take it lightly.
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My obsession makes me have my volume on the tv on an even number. If I do something once, i have to repeat it a lot, for example, if I put my hair up, no matter how neat it is, I will do it again. I hate odd numbers and like things to match or be symmetrical. I get stressed out a lot. I also make sure I get to school 30 minutes before school starts, if not I feel late. I hate this so much! I need CBT!! love you Kati xx
I eat the same meals everyday. Minor distress if I go out to eat but also freeing.
I also have the element of liking my rituals sometimes and hating them at other times
i have just hallucinations now but before i had a voice in my nightstand that would tell me that it would kill whatever a certain object pointed to. so whenever i left a room or fell asleep i had to make sure everything was facing away from other rooms in the house so it couldn't hurt them. i'm going to a psychiatrist in a few weeks to get antipsychotics.
I was diagnosed with this at the age of 12 but had symptoms since I was 10 when I look back at it. I would have to say a set of words in my head otherwise I’d fear that extremely bad things were going to happen to me, Like losing my intelligence. This along with adhd made it near impossible to focus on anything in school or even talk to people. It annoys me that ocd has got the rap of just being clean and nothing more. When in reality there’s so many different obsessions and compulsions you can experience. And not even to mention how extremely stressful it is to have this. I honestly wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I’ve heard people with OCD can also deal quite a bit with morals. When I was younger I was too afraid to lie about anything and as I grew up other activities seemed more punishable and I would be the one that would suffer the consequences.
I was diagnosed when I was 3 or 4, and I had to do CBT therapy. Which that had to be the single most best thing I could have ever done. There are still some things I struggle with, but I understand how irrational it is. When I get really stressed out, my symptoms get insanely worse. Usually I get an intrusive thought of people I care about getting decapitated, and the only way to avoid that, I would have to do something until it was right. One time, I thought my family were going to get decapitated in a car wreck, and at the time, I was misusing medications to deal with my OCD, and other problems. I had stolen about 35 2mg Valium. In order for my family to be safe, I had taken 100mg of muscle relaxers, and 30mg of Valium... that was 25 pills I had swallowed. I then proceeded to drive to school and long story short, I’m surprised I’m not dead. I’m doing so much better now though.
I was diagnosed with OCD two eyars ago, but I've been surffering from it much longer. My obsession was that someone I care about would die if I didn't do everything I could to prevent it. So my compulsions got out of hand, they got so out of hand that my most dangerous compulsion was cutting myself 8 times a day to keep people alive. This obsession I believe was brought on by PTSD, and sometimes I feel they go hand in hand, at least for me.
I had anorexia and now I kind of understand everything better because when I was little I had to touch things like multiple times because if I didn't I felt so anxious and weird and now it doesn't happens that often but it still does at times. Some things I do now are that I have to clean and have everything organized, check if the door is locked, check on notes I take multiple times etc... And if I don't do it get to feel very uncomfortable and anxious.
i didnt have any communication with my brother for 2 years despite living in the same house together. if i saw him i wasnt allowed to blink, because my mind sees blinking as making a memory permanent. if i was in the same room i would hold my breath until i could get out. if i heard his voice i would scratch the inside of my ears. etc. this was all because i saw him as “infected”. i dont know what triggered me to see him that way for two years because we used to get along. i overcame that but now i have different compulsions with different things. oh, and my brother still hasn’t forgiven me.
I don't have OCD, but I have a social anxiety disorder and a social anxiety disorder. Whenever I stretch one part of my body, I have to stretch the other part. When I have ear buds in and it feels like one ear bud is louder than the other, I get angry and I have to take the ear bud out and put it back in to make the music sound 'even' if that makes sense. When my sink is dirty, I cannot stand it. I just think about it a lot. So I have to clean it. But I am for sure that I don't have OCD.
Is skin picking an OCD behavior or self harm? I have done it for as long as I can remember I do it more when I am stressed. One major "trigger" for me is any kind of rough or dead skin. I can't have any rough dried out or dead skin without picking at it especially on my hands.
It can be, you may have dermotillomania.
Sarah Fountain My mum has dermotillomania and that's what it is, obsessive picking. It's related to OCD and a form of it but not completely OCD. You should get it checked out.
I do the same. I have been picking my skin since I was five. I pick at my lips, dry skin, rough skin, fingers, toes, face, and acne. I just can't stop it and my mom says that I am ruining my lips especially.
Derma and trichotillomania can be classified as obsessive compulsive disorders or as impulse control disorders, as it’s different for different people. I considered my trich to be an icd.
I've recently been diagnosed w/OCD due to skin picking & started taking a rx that's supposed to help stop the urge. My legs are so scarred that I won't wear shorts anymore & I started on my arms-much harder to hide. It's embarrassing when people ask about it-it's hard for me to lie so I usually answer "it's a thing I do"-a non-answer that lets them know the 'discussion' is over. I'm a 'counter' too. Driving by mailboxes I have to add up numbers & turn them into 1 number(such as 1476=1+4+7+6=18,8+1=9). Now I purposely avoid looking(much of the time)so I can enjoy scenery instead of adding. I still count the numbers of times I scrub dishes I clean,number of swipes I use to take mascara off,etc.,but I choose the number-usually 50,75 or 100,when I reach the number I stop. I don't fear anything bad will happen if I fail,even praying every night,but it makes me feel incomplete if I don't follow my schedule. Only day 2of my rx & I hope they help!
Thank you for making this video!! I was recently diagnosed with OCD and this video is very helpful :) I'm also starting an OCD group and cbt therapy soon!! :)
I have ocd and anxiety, and it is really hard sometimes
My ocd revolves around germs mostly and not doing something right, and that can lead to becoming stressed and annoyed and sometimes when I don’t do something the “correct” amount of times I have to keep going and going until it’s done “properly” and I always have to have things on an “even number” like my volume can only be on 5, 10, 15, 20 and so on because they are “middle numbers” and they are “perfect for me”and I have to sort things in my head EVENLY or else I have to start again, and I often triple check everything.
Thanks for posting this :)
I was diagnosed with OCD but now I’m wondering if it is OCPD instead. But a lot of it depends on the situation. My constant compulsion to check things several times is definitely something that gets annoying as well as recurrent thoughts about certain things. But then I actually enjoy certain things like choosing what color of chair to sit in or the order of which I do things. I also have an eating disorder and GAD so that can contribute to the anxiety but it’s interesting because certain rituals feel safe and others cause anxiety and just frustrate me.
Sounds like OCD. I have OCD and it can be both annoying and enjoyable/comforting. Whereas someone with OCPD affects more the people around them.
Counting? Like driving down the road and counting telephone poles, fence posts, cars? Pisses me off when my cars are dirty, or house, or something isn’t nice and clean? Or lining things up, putting things in order, etc. Maybe not, people that do have it, u guys are amazing people.
If you can I would really appreciate it if you could post more videos on OCD.
My OCD is the perfection of my papers. I've recently starting writing in all capitals and if someone scribbles on my paper I freak out, like Defcon 1 crying hysterically and I know its irrational after the fact but during the action my world has ended. I also struggle with erasing things and writing and rewriting. Patterns get me a lot. In stores I have to jump from tile to tile and hold my breathe if I have to stop the pattern and it gets bad, I get stuck, and the struggles are real. And I clean a lot too, I clean and re clean and organize, I have no set number that I have noticed, just until I'm satisfied or my back hurts, whichever comes first. I think this ties into when I was younger I had a reading problem where I'd read a line then re read it cause I'd think I said something wrong idk thougg
Your videos are fantastic!
When I was very little I'd spend hours everyday looking at the toys in my room to make sure they were in the right spot... No one could touch them, I wouldn't even play with them, they had to be exactly where they were supposed to be and I could just FEEL if they weren't and have multiple anxiety attacks, had stuff like that my whole entire childhood with organization and having patterns. Then that just started fading away I think... I mean, my room's a mess right this second and I don't care lol but when I was about 13 I started having VERY VERY intrusive thoughts and my mind would just obsess over something and I couldn't function until that thing was ''resolved'', it was usually school stuff back then.
About two years ago (I'm 20 now) I started having intrusive thoughts about sickness, I find a symptom and spend over 5 hours researching, watching videos, reading articles, emailing doctors, then call every single important person in my life (my mom, my boyfriend, my best friends) and tell them everything I found out and make them tell me their opinion on the matter (I say make because if they don't I'll just keep asking until they do). I've gone to so many doctors these past two years, I ask them to have me do exams and when everything comes back normal I ask again, and again, and again, and if they refuse I just look for another doctor. It feels like I can't get the thoughts out of my head so I keep looking for someone or something to make it stop, to give me the answers I was expecting. I have other types of intrusive thoughts but this is the worse one, I don't know what to do anymore, my health plan doesn't cover therapy and I feel like I'm dying just a little bit every day. It's the fucking worst, man
Hi i think i have symptoms that you have could you overcome it?
I have horrible OCD. It’s the kind that, if I don’t do this or move a certain way or if I touch a subject object, someone (or me) will get sick or hurt or die. I hate it, and it’s getting so bad I’m not sure how many more months I can live. And the scary thing is, I’m only 16. Is anyone else out there like this???????
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can people with ocd become physcally aggressive if you get in the way of their compultions
Samantha wh I have OCD and I get anxiety attacks and very violent. I think everybody's different though
i wouldnt be suprised
Yas! especially those ones that believes that something wrong is gonna happen, and that they have to do certain things to avoid it, so... someone might think that there's gonna be an explosion and that what they had to do is to run over wherever they are, around 3 or 4 times, if someone else try to stop them, they will act aggressively, bc they're avoiding a catastrophe. So yeah, it's not rational and they can't control it
I don’t, only sometimes if I’m super stressed but I guess it depends on the person
Sometimes I can if someone is directly stopping me on purpose from doing something I have to do. Mostly just pushing people out of the way.
Thank you for putting this video out. I hope this isn't weird, but after watching this video, I feel a little less lost. :)
Hey! You should address the subgroup of OCD known sometimes as Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB) or also known as Dermatilomania, Trichotilomania, etc.
A lot of people don't know much about it and many people believe that it's self harm rather than that it is a compulsion.
Great video thank you
My ocd core obsession is "I'm not ok and I won't be ok", and my compulsion is to hide in some form. Hiding has been mostly isolating myself either before or after running away from something full of despair. As I matured and found that physically running away was damaging to others and myself my compulsion turned into wanting to die. I have since had many many intrusive ideas of how to commit suicide. I usually get these responses from professionals when I explain this obsession and compulsion: "That's unusual" or "That's not ocd". Can anyone relate to my experience?
When I was a kid, I’d go with my dad in the car to get drinks out of the vending machine.
He’d let me hold the quarters, but I would HAVE to touch the coins with each of my fingertips (it wasn’t balanced if I didn’t touch with each one) WHILE the coins were in the palm of my hand.
Being clumsy, I’d often drop one or more of the coins in between the seats and my dad would get slightly annoyed, but I’d feel SO BAD about it every time. I always did it anyway though.
I don’t know if I have ocd or not because I’m really messy and unorganised but I have so many habits like how I can’t place my feet or foot in the midde of any object or area. For example if I’m walking past a radiator or something I can’t put my feet half way across the length of the radiator therefore I have to place my foot at one end of it. And it’s really annoying because it’s literally everything I walk past like walls door frames sofas cars and I have to try really hard not to step in the middle of it so I look really weird walking and people are starting to notice but I don’t want to say anything to my mates or family in case they find it funny. Even with technology when I’m changing the volume on something the diagram of the amount of volume the bar can never be half way across the diagram.
I've been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and I hate having it because of how people use it so carelessly. I don't like people who make fun of it, self-diagnose and just use it as a trait. I hate it when people say "I'm so OCD about...", "One of my OCDs are..." or "It drives my OCD crazy when..." I hate it. I actually have OCD. I get horrible intrusive thoughts and tapping rituals. I also have two anxiety disorders and depression so they set eachother off
My therapist said that most eating disorders are a form of ocd. And even though she mostly does DBT, she works with exposure therapy for this.
I have more than one ritual and they come randomly and they were not cool back in the day I would have been stuck once in front of a plate and say something random it was so sad but now I’m fine I have minor rituals and I’m not getting stuck in that loop but I seek help and it helped so much now I’m 18 back then I was 15 but yeah Kati explained it perfectly in my opinion :)
I have an issue that really bothers me and I want to know if its a feature of OCD or just weirdness. I take forever when Im shopping. For example, recently I bought a new lamp for my bedroom. I spent over 30mins in the one isle of the store trying to pick the right one. It also happens when grocery shopping or online shopping. Especially with the latter, I can spend HOURS looking for the right product. It has to be perfect. Its like I have a fear of picking the wrong one to the point where It become utterly frustrating and overwhelming sometimes.
Yes that can be a part of OCD. Everyone has some quirks like this so you have to ask yourself if it is life consuming. How you would feel if there was a time limit. Best wishes xoxo
I do the same thing or before I buy an item while shopping I have to inspect it so many times to make sure it is perfect, or there is nothing wrong with it.
Ruin Or Rapture you and I should be friends. Sounds like your stuck on the obsessive part and I’m good at the impulsive part/impatient. I hate being in stores too long.
I'm the same I have to do a lot of research and have to be sure I get the best product for the cheapest price. Do a lot of overthinking I think :D
It's called being indecisive.
I would like a video on exposure response prevention
where would u find group therapy for anxiety disorder? we once had a group in our area called recovery inc. it was very anonomus, and extremely helpful, as u said not feeling alone w/this. now we have the pandemic, and the groups locally seem to have gone. i am talking back like 10 or 15 years ago. i would so appreciate a response. thank you, jo ps u are great to listen to. thanks again.
I have OCD and let me tell you a story about one time I touched a pan that was hot and inside my head something said touch it again and it kept on telling me to touch it touch it won’t stop bothering me until I touched it.A thing about OCD you could sometime hurt yourself from OCD.OCD will just pops up if you don’t have savear OCD
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but I wanted to see if this sounds like it?
I'm pretty paranoid about being sick all the time. I never share food with anyone, I must have a hand-sanitizer on me, I don't eat with my hands or try not to if I can. If I do eat with my hands I don't eat the part I touched. I'm scared of irrational things that are very unlikely to happen. I remember one time I traveled to a foreign island, and someone gave us free samples of a drink and I was worried it was poisoned.
I also repeat little habits I guess bc I feel like I have to maintain a routine. Like for instance, I have to post on social media once a day. I have to check certain profiles every day. And I wouldn't go as far as to say I become obsessed with people, but I think about some people way more often than I should.
I'm positive I have it but I've never gotten professional help
that sounds like paranoia not ocd.
Have you done a video on ICD (Impulsive control disorder) and is it similar to OCD?
Sammy they can be, for example I had trichotillomania, which can be classified as either. Icd are anything ending in -mania (ex. kleptomania), almost like addictions, whereas ocd are about needing things to be a particular way. Though both involve practically irresistible urges and usually come from a need for control in your life.
Hello. may you talk comprehensively about intrusive thoughts and what to do at high anxiety time.
I have kept this link for a very long time. I think you can learn a lot from it. I also believe the breathing technique is one of the best. psychcentral.com/lib/9-ways-to-reduce-anxiety-right-here-right-now/
I know for a fact that CBT therapy works on a very significant level. And to clarify, I am very certain that it works, because I myself have had multiple problems with OCD ever since I was young; and have always thought that the first course of action should be to try and assess my problem and go at it alone to vanquish it. That was outright the wrong type of thinking. I later on found out that trying to solve my crippling dilemma alone plus ignoring help from others whom have experience in this particular department was just hurting me even more. Things eventually changed when I was approached by a person whom had been through the same type of anguish as myself. He later informed me about CBT once he felt that I was ready for it. And I gotta say, ever since I started CBT Therapy, I feel so much better about myself in terms of my self esteem. Knowing that there are others that have the exact same OCD issues as myself does help, and that really makes a difference with all of my extensive personal mental issues. And though I’m not considered 100% cured of every mental ailment condensed within my brain, I am far better off than when I was without CBT. So if anyone out there is experiencing some sort of crippling OCD and does not necessarily know how to go about to finding effective medical/mental help, than I assure you, CBT is the right path to recovery. Good luck to all fighting the good fight out there, and happy recovery hunting.
My obsession is with my skin, not keeping it clean, but my obsession is over acne. My compulsion is to pick at my acne and skin, mostly on my arms and shoulders. I will spend hours a day picking at anything I believe could be acne, I pick and pick until I’m bleeding, or until I am positive that there is nothing inside the spot I’m picking at
I wonder if suicidal ideations can be an obsession and compulsions can be the attempts. I say this because my mind would constantly think about it until I do something that hurts me physically or if I attempt. I hope you see this.
I am not sure weather I have OCD or not but I don't like the number 4 and I would not do things four times and I also don't like 13 and 24. Also, when I accidentally hit something with an object, I will rub the area of the object that I hitted which is kind of like blending in when drawing.
I have this wired obsession with my hands being dry. I have to put on lotion basically hourly or else my head keeps telling me that my hands are going to be dry and they start to really feel tight and I start scratching at them. I don't have dry skin, on the rare horrible days I don't have lotion for my hands, people always say my hands are fine and really soft. Meanwhile I'm freaking out because they feel dry and cracked and I start picking at them.
I was told I have ocd with magical thinking can you do a video about magical thinking? X
Hi Kati,
I was wondering if maybe you could do a video or blog post about Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder and how that can affect your life and maybe a little bit about what you can do about it and how you can help someone who has it and stuff like that.
That would be great.
Thank you. :)
I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 7 years old, I had to start taking Prozac because I don't have enough serotonin in my brain. I'm a lot older now but I still really struggle and have to see a therapist once a month. When I was younger (it still happens every now and then) when my mind was triggered by something I lock my eyes on- or dart my eyes around the room, either noticing every detail or sticking to one problem. I'll start shaking, mumbling random stuff, tense up, and pick at my hands. Sometimes, when it gets worse then just a panic attack, I'll go into a full meltdown. I hope people actually get to understand that OCD isn't just about cleanliness and germs. I don't give a crap about that, it is just random stuff that my brain doesn't like. Half of the time, I don't even remember what happens when I have a meltdown. It's serious and not something that somebody should just say, "Ohh, yeah I have OCD lol" because you don't, and if you think you might, go to a therapist.
So I came to this video because I was urinating a lot & looked up symptoms.
It mentioned OCD so I did some research on what that was & it kinda explains who I am.
I decide to be this way thou so it might be a personality disorder.
Is it OCD? When I get bored or anxious I start counting, anything and everything. For example, I could tell you how many vertical lines are in a room. It always boils down to math. I do have a particular order in which I like to do things. I have this thing where I'll have two songs from different genres stuck in my head playing at the same time. Or just one song that will be stuck in my head for days to weeks. When I have thought I don't very much enjoy I snap myself out of them verbally, but I try to play it off as though I'm sighing or just really frustrated so I don't look crazy to people around me. Also, my friends are no longer allowed in my car because they make too much of a mess and that stresses me out.
My doctor told me that my Ed is a form of OCD and she put me on medication for it just last week
I don’t have an eating disorder or self harm I have OCD and I used to just ask questions like I ask the same question over and over and over and over for reassurance that someone couldn’t answer. Like will it rain? And then she’d say I don’t think so and I’d be like but it could, do you think it’ll rain...and on and on until I had a panick attack and a tantrum. I was ten or eleven.
Thank you for your help and kind words-Kati Morton. I am confused and frustrated and wanted to see if others might share some of the frustration being diagnosed with Chronic Refractory OCD-where after 40 years of treatment including SSRI's/meds/years of ERP/CBT/ACT/Hours of daily Meditation/Mindfulness practice/Psychiatric help from Top specialists/years of support group with No relief from 24/7 bed ridden anxiety/pain that brings me in such Inhumane Torment and Torture that it's hard to find enjoyment in anything or anyone. The obsessions are Primarily Pure O/non-typical where I mentally "Think through over and over to try to solve figure out how to prevent the bad thing from happening...where I am in such pain and grief trying to Ruminate that I can't ever get out of the "Dark Cloud of anxiety". I have been told by several Specialists of OCD, that the only thing to try is one of two types of brain surgery-DBS-Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy where they surgically implant Devices in the scalp and in the collar. I am not comfortable having this type of unproven-non FDA approved treatment and wonder if anyone else has tried it with any positive results. My twin brother(who has learned to manage his ocd and has tried endlessly to help me get out of such inhumane misery 24/7) tells me over and over that I am being "Sabotaged" by the illness that just because my obsessions are not in the books, that they are All the work of the disorder. I have been trying to "Work thru/figure/ruminate/solve" to prevent the bad thing from happening day and night-Every 10 seconds it just loops around, keeping me hostage in grief and pain. I know it's ridiculous to worry so much but I can't stop the constant worries/doubts and fears. For me, the ERP and years of keeping SUDS journals makes the Illness keep me in its Grips. I realize it is supposed to "Habituate" one to the Fear. I'm Super Positive "Go-lucky" Happy by nature...but can't seem to find Any relief on this Planet to be able to get free-even for 5 minutes of "Normal" existence of peace. I don't want any sympathy, but would be curious to know if having Brain surgery for this type of Chronic Refractory OCD has been at all helpful to anyone. Happy Holidays to All and God Bless. :)
idk what my mine would be
like whenever i wash my hands with soap I NEED TO MAKE SURE ALL THE SOAP IS WASHED OFF AND NONE LEFT BEFHIND
anyone else wash there hands with soap i need to make sure all the soap is gone from washing the hands
what type is that ?
I seemed to have missed you talking about how OCD and self harm are related.
Can you do a video on just germaphobia?
I am obsessed with sweets and sugar. Always been, since the very young age. I feel I need to eat candy all the time, and I'm doing it every day. I am a super sensitive person too, and I feel emotional pain very deeply, so eating sugary food kind of helps me to cope with the painful life. But it's unhealthy way, and I don't know how to stop myself doing it
What do you think about the DSM 5 kicking OCD's classification as an anxiety disorder to the curb? I don't agree with it and neither does my therapist.
Is there a chance that OCD could be tied with self harm and ADHD? I've been diagnosed officially with PTSD and ADHD, but I've been told by others that I have ocd behaviors. And then anxiety and depression are all mixed together with everything.
Possibly. I know that depression can be linked to a ton of other mental disorders. Get evaluated just in case :3
Hi Kati, could you do a video on paranoid personality disorder?
I think when I was younger I used to have a form of OCD, at the time I didn't know what it was so I never mentioned it to anyone because I thought it was weird. Mine used to be both mental obsessions and complusions. For example, if I used to think the phrase "I love my mum" with my mouth open then something really bad would happen and the only way I could reverse it would be to close my mouth and think to myself "daisy, daisy, daisy" over and over again, and the more times I said it the less likely it was that the bad thing would happen? I also used to have overwhelming thoughts and anxiety that I might be a lesbian (I'm not and in no way have anything against anyone who is, I was just a kid at the time, like 7/8) and I used to think it about it ALL the time and worry until I got sick to my stomach.... I kind of just grew out of it after some time though
Thanks for the video Kati :)
What if we just have obsessive thoughts without the compulsion...is there a different name for that?
My OCD has made me
Wash my hands with scalding hot water until they bleed
Avoid walking past older men ( I have Had experiences with older men that gave me PTSD)
Not touch door knobs that others have touched( I still wash my hands after touching it)
Not step on cracks on the path
Avoid looking at yellow cars
Turning my light on and off 4 times
It’s a big struggle, I don’t enjoy it, and I wish it would stop