Thank you for sharing this. I had these thoughts when I was 8 and I could never speak on it and i didn't know what to do and having it without healing up to adult hood is a terrifying shift into adulthood. Its like slipping and watching yourself fall off of a cliff for 11 years and not knowing how to help yourself. It has heightened other mental health issues and now I isolate and avoid potential friendships, relationships and i isolate from family. Self harm schizoaffective germophobia depression and anxiety and borderline personality disorder have developed. The worst first time i remember my dad forcing me as a child to sleep in the room upstairs with my sisters when I was little and it was the most terrible night. He yelled at me to go upstairs after i kept saying no so it was a lose lose and i wanted to take my life that was when i was 8. Thats around the time I started selfharming and i was molested repeatedly when i was 6. God is the only reason im still alive. But some religious ocd is an issue as well which im almost ashamed of. But I know Jesus is King and the only reason im still alive is because of all of the failed attempts to take my life which left me scarred badly all over. I pray anyone dealing with this is granted strength peace and understanding and the discovery of this before they hurt themselves under the lie of thinking they are a bad person. In Jesus's Name Amen.

God what a mess.

We humans have such complex and unique brains!

For me (diagnosed almost the same age), it was very similar, but for myself autism. I really like regularity, but I'd never been able to have it, and now I understand I've needed a lot more regularity this whole time.

I just get inside other people throw up or if I know people that do that constantly

Thank you for posting this cause I didn’t know what Arfid was and now I know

I have been throwing up yesterday and now I feel like it again and i am so scared

So would you say the ADHD meds made life better or worse? It seems like a trade off?

It depends on whether I am researching because of interest in personal health and self care or whether I was just abused by a health clinician again and I'm researching my rights. Though the latter is not enjoyable, it is still not OCD.

THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THIS!! I am almost 13 years old and i have POCD, ZOCD, and OCD. It honestly ruined my year.

I flipped past this and came back, as the description fits me to a T. However, you need to reflect on your need to use the word "quote". It was unnecessary and distracting.

Hi there! This was super helpful because i have ocd and i experience intense hyper fixations on certain hobbies, it's all i can think and talk about, and the thing is, it brings me so much joy to do, it's not uncomfortable or distressing. I push all of my needs to the side when I'm doing my interest, like not eating or using the bathroom, when u do eventually eat, i eat my favorite food, crackers with butter 😅 do you have any advice on if this could be something more than ocd, as i have been speculating for months and researching autism, and it definitely all makes sense for me.

I like this format where you not only describe a situation BUT ALSO provide a helpful solution!! 💪💪

Shame and guilt can be sooooo deep rooted because of childhood experiences. I remember a mindfulness book called 30 Days to Stop Obsessing by Harper Daniels that helped me let go a bit.

It’s called “preserving media because nothing on the internet is safe” . Hope that helps.

school refusal is a right, there is no reason why anyone should be forced to do anything against their will, its not a disease to refuse to be incarcerated by state sponsored education, its an act that everyone has the right to the same as the act the breathe, its a right, not a disease to be treated

Very helpful

No.

Thank you glad i subbed to you

Timers are superpower 💪 very helpful with procrastination and fear and everything, just learning integrating them in my life

At that point the therapist really needs to find the root of those thoughts and beliefs. I don’t think any therapist worth their hide would just automatically jump in and say you’re fine. But at the same time, if the patient just says “I think I’m a bad GF and doesn’t offer additional context then the therapist is only working off of the information they are given. But still good points. It’s a cycle if you don’t stop it.

I feel like you really know what you're talking about. Good luck in your channel!!

I have compulsions that make me re-download, re-organize and sort all digital life: playlists, videos, photos, documents. But the rules are that they all need to be from the original source, with same file names, not too much files otherwise I couldn’t keep track of them. But the problem is that the ocd is what creates this mess because trying to re-download and organize and keep jumping from file to file creates incomplete tasks that then causes mess but the hoarding of them just can’t make let go of them from the first place. It’s very weird variation and I can’t find a solution to it anywhere

Very helpful, thanks! I'll try that.

Instead of asking a cryptic question and explaining what it means, why not ask the question you mean to ask? Pfft. Girls... ;-)

What happens when one of the ways you end up dealing with the pain of the L.O.'s rejection is to seek out women who remind you of her and pursue them? And what if you are sometimes successful? Now you were able to (at least temporarily) distract yourself with another person or persons, but could you be at risk of fitting the label of "womanizer" or worse a sex addict? This could be confusing and destructive for a man and probably not good for the women he encounters.

As someone who suffers with this extremely this really helps

I'm lucky i can manage my OCD symptoms by simple exercises and psychological tricks. I WISH i could do the same for my ADHD!

This is my life lmao. Every year I buy at least one planner, i make schedules, to do lists, etc, nothing sticks.

Raising a Kid Who Can: Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength a.co/d/3YfqOM8

So cool

You're very well read extremely informative thank you❤

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I wish more mental health content was accurate!

for me, I would love to eat veggies and be healthy and normal but most vegetables genuinely taste like vomit/stomach acid/regurgitation to me. that gross wet taste in the back of ur throat after u had a nasty burp? that’s EXACTLY what 99% of vegetables taste like to me. recently, I tried venison (deer meat, bc I love meats) stew. Well, the venison was great except for the fact that it tasted like it was bathed in watery vomit. I almost gagged but suppressed it and held my breath and swallowed and told my friends who made it for me that it was great. I’ve never encountered another human being who thought almost all things made with vegetables had a vomit taste to them, and I’d love to find out why I’m this way. I just want to eat like every other person I know, but I can’t because I simply refuse to put food in my mouth that is going to literally taste like puke and make me gag.

I've been suffering from it for a long time😢

My OCD show was Gilmore Girls With many of my clients it is Friends and New Girl.

So. I’ll keep watching little house on the prairie until I die. And Roseanne

“Friends”

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086156/

Interesting article on the subject here: www.newharbinger.com/blog/self-help/obsessing-about-choices-maximizing-and-fomo/

If youre tracking your loved one its too far youre fucking creepy

Moral Scrupulosity does not necessarily equal being more moral. Treating moral scrupulosity does not lead to unmoral behavior. Mostly moral scrupulosity causes discomfort and indecision for the person who experiences it.

Hoarding support: www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=iocdf+hoarding&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/differentiating-self-harm-ocd-suicidal-ideation#:~:text=Self%2Dharm%20OCD%20is%20when,I%20hurt%20myself%20with%20this%3F”

If you or anyone you know is experiencing ARFID, BDD, or any other eating challenges: www.arfidawarenessuk.org/treatment

Therapeutic dose is as important as pharmacological dose!

www.campuswell.com/student-living-with-ocd/

Lowering parental Anticipatory Anxiety lowers a child's anticipatory anxiety!

It is always a pleasure to watch your videos.