3 CBT Techniques For OCD

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a faulty way of trying to deal with anxiety - as well as being a stress condition driven by anxiety. Someone suffering from OCD will feel that they have no option to give in to their compulsions.
In this video I'll talk about common obsessive thoughts and compulsions, why people develop OCD, and I'll share 3 techniques for treating OCD (or to help you deal with it).
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[@ellasteuer5916]

Why do it? Starts at 6:35 Techniques start at 12:00

[@IMissMrKitty]

Thank you!

[@laurenking5653]

thank you!!!!

[@treblegibbs1395]

Thank you very much

[@nontuthuzelo116]

Still helps to watch the whole thing 🤷‍♀️

[@jfiyibclfjvqdcx6426]

Thank u very much

[@davidmacdowell9806]

This guy knows his stuff.

[@samuelchisholm4039]

I find him extremely calming

[@theotherway1639]

Thanks. Another helpful resource is that book "30 Days to Stop Obsessing" by Harper Daniels.

[@christianviens2334]

one of the first ocd video i have found really helpful as someone living with ocd ty sir !!!!!!!!!

[@nicoeffem3483]

Thanks Mark - very useful

[@poojadharraina4866]

Thankyou so much for this video, it was extremely helpful to understand and I appreciate the line of enquiry you have shared in this. I took a lot back from it. Thanks a lot.

[@starletmcginnis9617]

Thank you this was very helpful!

[@mrssmurf55]

Thank you so helpful thanks for sharing!

[@evahometx100]

Thank you. I am only now investigating OCD because I have nervous tics. Had them forever but also went through abusive childhood. Did therapy, but your video makes sense. 1 year ago, I didn’t have my eye blinking tics and jaw grinding. It comes and go. It’s making me so self conscious as people and I am trying to not care. I have struggle with months of heart palpitations and cardiologist said my heart was fine. I love this video. I did cbt therapy but not for ocd. I heard ocd isn’t a disorder but a condition, because it sits in top of anxiety. Any thoughts of nervous tics at part of compulsive behavior? Like the throat clearing I guess. My brother did that too. Thanks.I love breathing techniques.

[@someonewithamobile1151]

This is really awesome

[@talhasaqib3098]

Excellent Stuff

[@tracysutcliffe3365]

Found this really helpful and will look into more of your videos. Thank you

[@dr.aashnasharma5598]

Can you explain what he is telling

[@ngendinagwaamakali7412]

@@dr.aashnasharma5598 Allow yourself to feel anxious and scared in order to adapt to the thoughts. It takes time.

[@TheJohnbare]

I feel that I must write down my "important" thoughts.. If I don't do it my OCD tells me that people will suffer horribly in this world. The OCD tells me that everyone can some how read my notes and my thoughts.. I have to justify all my thoughts in front of a tribunal of people in my mind. This takes up all my time, because the tribunal is never convinced of my innocence.. They cannot understand the points I am making .. Or they are deliberately ignoring me.. My OCD is like a mob I am trying to calm down.. But they never listen to me.. 20 years of this! I can't anymore.

[@TheJohnbare]

My underlying need: social order in "the world".

[@TheJohnbare]

Avoiding genocide.

[@TheJohnbare]

My OCD tells me that we can avoid genocide if only I can come up with the "right" piece of writing.. Or the "right" thing to believe in.

[@TheJohnbare]

Do you see where this is going.... My life, every day.

[@mayelincarrasco583]

Try medication

[@vickiedouglas401]

good explanations!

[@Sean.-.]

This may sound weird but I found it really helped me, I have a couple rituals or actions that I do with with a specific hand, one of them is scratching lightly at the back of my throat with my left index finger, I started doing it with the right index finger and it feels different, but it took away pretty much all of the need to want to do it with my left hand, and because it doesn't feel right now I don't obsess about doing it no way near as much now, it is strange I know it is. I've had the repetitive touching checking thing before but slowly managed to just walk away from it and not care about it even though the feeling is there, I have the intrusive thoughts too and some real messed up dreams usually where I die, ive died in my dreams in some efed up ways, whats weird is that I'm the least stressed person I know, my job doesn't demand alot from me, I earn a decent wage so no real worries about anything but I live with this fucking OCD shit. A funny one I had when I was young is i would remember throughout the day how many turns to the left and right I had done and at the end of the day if I thought I had spun more to the left I would do a few spins to the right to even it out, I could speak all day about it and literally nothing can surprise me with what people do whilst having ocd.

[@donthehero5985]

This really works

[@bryangobonkers]

My mom has ocd and I can see from her behavior with her excessive cleaning and trying to make things always right. She ends up yelling at me and can be verbally abusive if I’m not up keep or things don’t seem right in her eyes, but I would like to go to therapy and help fix it.

[@tendum9139]

Hi. I do have OCD (Tourettic OCD) but no, I don't have any anxiety and my compulsions sometimes do harm others physically.

[@luigiperrone8169]

The obsessions and compulsions are a substitute for other things one feels are out of control and can't get a handle on.

[@jdulast]

More like they are done because things feel out of control

[@user-zm5sk4ht9c]

As someone with OCD, not at all... First, obsessions are a different thing from compulsions. They are a direct result of feeling unsafe, unassured and being in a general state of fear and petrification. Out of fear I start to think (intrusive thought's), then I obsess going in circles, before I even start to engage in any physical action. Which btw's by definition you don't have to actually preform physical action for it to classify as OCD (Pure O). I think and expand what started as a single thought into a twisted wrangled net of sub-thoughts, that all center around the same subject (overthink, obsess), and only then it come's to the part where it turns into actual physical action. Then even when the action was performed and there is observable evidence, I realize cognitively that it's done, but I don't feel the usual satisfaction a normal person would, thus I fall into a state of trance and perform the action over and over again, and ONLY then it becomes compulsive, until I am satisfied. It is not a substitute. I want to feel safety. Being emotionally assured makes me feel that. It does have to do with control on a certain level, because if I am assured I feel like I have MORE control, but it's not like I wan't TOTAL control. That's false. I just feel that I don't even have the basic level of control and to get it I must attain this assurance. What I gain by performing these rituals, mentally or physically is assurance on an emotional level. Thus the obsessing and compulsions themselves aren't a substitute but rather a tool or gateway to the emotional assurance that the voice in my head (OCD) provides me with after I'm done. It's not like when I'm in trance or performing I like it or that is satisfying... Rather I sometimes even hate the process, just stick with it to the end because I know that once complete peace will follow. I very much have a handle on these things, emotional, conceptual or physical and I logically realize this. I am self aware and conscious. It's just that it never feels like it. It never ever really feel's that I'm truly safe. There's always that little voice at the back of your head whispering, what if?

[@christianviens2334]

you sir have no damn idea what you are talking about odc is a disorder nothing to do with how you live your life or problems u did not resolve

[@mohit6644]

Thoughts and ads song fragment run 24 *7 in my mind . I don't feel any morning new because it's been 15 years .I am 32 years old

[@pillsooshin]

Thank you so much for the video. I have a 9 year old boy with OCD/ tics. It gives me some directions how to talk to whenever he suffers from it. It makes sense that it is a feeling disorder because my son knows it’s not true but he said it’s like a feeling you have to scratch cause it’s itchy, so it makes him do his rituals. He loves reading a lot of fancy books. Would it be something unhealthy considering his imagination gets triggered easily with anxiety?

[@personalemail3209]

let him read more non fiction books. If he has scchizo along with ocd it can get worse

[@derpydeadpool7273]

i love getting cbt

[@heatherb3785]

Do these things work for rocd and so-ocd? my ocd makes really complicated thoughts that feel more real..

[@jinneo9101]

thank u

[@lovelylilly3225]

nice video.... but what about the breathing obsession, sensorimotor ocd...feel like i can't breath, so i always focus my breathing inhale and exhale

[@ToyotaRN]

I’m struggling with this exact OCD right now. Meds are critical to help “unlock” your brain. I had to take 150mg of Zoloft to finally get some relief. It’s a challenge but we will get through this.

[@anirudhpurohitt]

oh god i have this. way back when i was a kid, i thought it to be just this weird thing i did. repetition of words, actions. then i got like, really depressed. so i looked up symptoms and sure enough. there. OCD. :(

[@TheHorseshoePartyUK]

@@ToyotaRN Indeed, quite often people need appropriate meds to get their mind to a better place for therapy to work. Conversely, there's a lot of people out there with a distorted perspective of reality, due to a lack of knowledge of history, critical thinking skills, getting their minds rotted by excessive social media and news coverage, who end up medicated when really they would've benefitted from seeking therapy first.

[@oumaimabkl]

I have some weird repetitive habits that i keep doing knowing that they do no good for me. For example i have this weird habit of picking my hair s scalp and other places in my body. The fact that i also suffer from binge eating can also be considered as OCD. What do you think guys?

[@venix2256]

Section 2: Ball stretcher

[@callumoconnor1216]

I have literally the worst ocd forrealll

[@AbhinavKumarSahai]

Isn’t Risk involved if I practise CBT

[@gauchoparaguayo]

Sometimes l do not know if it is superstition or OCD.

[@tiEinaiToTaraki]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[@delgande]

B A L L. S T R E T C H E R.

[@isiosz2470]

The free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit?

[@camillodimaria3288]

Is it a compulsion to watch these videos? Am I seeking reassurance?

[@cjennings6179]

OCD PHOBIC ANXIETY & EXAGGERATED thoughts. Safer feelings. Breathing is best SIMPLE method remedy. "Deep breathing. Imagine i am safe enough at this moment" WIN OVER OCD! Good sense.

[@cjennings6179]

Assurance. Self- ASSURANCE. FALSE SENSE: SELF DECEPTIONS from PTSD/DRUG ABUSE/Too high SELF-EGO. ARROGANT BOSSY Director to get NEEDS MET. DRAMATIC Scenarios REPLAYED.(Broken Record REPLAYING in HIS IMAGINATIONS. IDEALIST. Tiny amount of truth, MOSTLY EXAGGERATED GREAT IDEAS he is UNABLE to PLAN with GOOD SENSE / REASONABLE FAIRNESS in Carrying OUT with all partners/pals/buddies/no friends. Grunt workers. He SEES his VALUE AS BEING GOD. FIRST to REEP the REWARD$ & ATTENTION. Is this common in OCD? Are these people "porn stars" "gods gifts to feeling self- assured" WINNERS??? Imagined fantasy disorders? If so? No wonder ESPECIALLY BOYS & MEN DISRESPECT GIRLS & WOMEN AROUND this Old Worldly THINKING. EVERYBODY is TROUBLED. FEELINGS. SENSATIONS. & EMOTIONS IMBALANCED VERY UNREASONABLE FEELING & Lack THINKING GOOD SENSE ABILITIES. REQUIRES SKILLS. PARENTS NEEDS PARENTING SKILLS BEFORE HAVING SEX FUN. GAMBLING/Risking PROCREATING NEW PRECIOUS HUMAN LIFE!!!💝. NEW LIFE FEELS their environment right away. Feelings/SENSATIONS PHYSICALLY. After being born parent teaches CHILD WORDS to DESCRIBE SENSATIONS THINGS & Do chores, etc.PARENT MUST EXPLAIN to child everything gradually over time all life SKILLS. HOW TO REASON. THINK FAIR. BALANCED. SHARE. BE NICE. BE CALM. Keep aware of many things. Use SELF-CONTROL to protect SELF FIRST. First defense in nurturing parenting SELF. RESPONSIBILITIES. EMOTIONAL & MENTAL BALANCE/Safety/ASSURANCE, SELF-RESPECT, SELF-personally Assured to ask ASK FOR FACTS/Truthful knowledge. To GROW UP HEALTHY STABLE. EMOTIONALLY STABLE. BALANCED. BROAD MINDED OBSERVER. INTELLIGENT REASONING BEINGS" BRIGHT MINDED.

[@cjennings6179]

Interesting new angles to look at EMOTIONAL SENSATIONS REACTIONS. DRUGS TEND TO NUMB the NERVOUS SYSTEM. CALM TOO MUCH. SHUT down too much. People are TOO HASTY TO REACH FOR QUICK FIXES. That do NOT SOLVE OR HELP the person PROCESS the problems/ TROUBLES that resulted. UNFINISHED SELF UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS. MANY FACETS/sides of events.PERSECTIVES. " OH MAN" ANGER & SEX MAKES MEN & boys primally STUPID. UNREASONABLE. IMBALANCED. IMMATURE. IDIOTS/SENSELESS. FULL OF NONSENSE. Over active IMMAGINATIONS IN FANTASY. SELFISH. INTO THEMSELVES ONLY TO FEEL SAFER. AN ISLAND of their Own. There they are a GOD. A 👑 KING of his OWN IMAGINATION". Right? Anybody agree? Man men & BOYS NEED BETTER PARENTING SKILLS. UNDERSTANDING RESPONSIBILITIES, REASONING BALANCE IN ORDER TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE, SMART, RESPECTABLE. RESPECTFUL & HONOR/LISTEN with intentions to LEARN Better ways to meet the NEEDS OF THEIR PARTNERS IN LIFE : the GIRLS/WOMEN. FEMALES/her/She VITALLY IMPORTANT SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. HIGH VALUED HUMAN BEINGS with SENSATIONS & FEELINGS FOR Whole Body INTELLIGENT HEALTH DESIRES of BETTER FUTURES. SIMPLE & COMPLEX BALANCING IN VAST POSSIBILITIES: MANY FACETS!!! GREATER HEALTH FUNCTIONS. FUNCTIONS IN INTELLIGENCE BALANCE. 👌. 💪👌🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑Females are more intelligent. Boys know it!!! 🔎

[@cjennings6179]

Smoking is DEEP SLOW BREATHING. IF, ONLY there was a REALLY HEALTHFUL SMOKE? Coltsfolt weed is an HERB that has some benefits for LUNGS. Indians of history have used: COLTSFOOT LEAF. Maybe that was what the peace pipe tobacco was. Anybody know????

[@bzipp365]

My missus`s got OCD - our house is just spotless and she ends up having chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS) in the evening or when I wanna talk to her about love and sex.

[@queenpurple8433]

I’m the one with ocd in my relationship, it’s honestly so exhausting I’d give up sex forever in a heart beat just to get rid of this ocd

[@Awjikis]

I wish I didn’t have ocd 😪

[@krishnabhatt6584]

Sir , I am from India i am suffering from ocd more than a year I was cured by the medicines but again it started when i stop using the medicines does this problem will last long forever... ?? Please tell me Also I am using that old medicine which I had used at the starting without any doctor consult is it right?

[@thesyrianrajiaswad2682]

Can anyone respond? I keep thinking : What if it is not OCD ? What if it is a real life problem?

[@HarshSharma-gv6ov]

It is ocd doubt one

[@vaniad5843]

Yes I had this thought too. But it is OCD that keeps lying. If it is real problem it wont be so obssessive and force u to do compulsions

[@dmt7674]

The condition is like the black wolf of yourself. It’s about understanding the dark parts and accepting them with loving arms. Like the previous commenter said, it’s a liar. OCD is like a forced abusive relationship. As bad as it can get sometimes how it treats you, talks to you, or makes you see or experience things you have to learn you are also in control of your own destiny, your mind, and your own feelings. It will do and spend as much time as it can to make you feel like background noise. It’s a matter of standing up to your abuser and saying when enough is enough. It’s extremely hard especially on days when it feels so overwhelmed you can only think about shooting yourself in the head to make it stop. But know this is your body, your home, and no one can tell you how to live your life and when to feel happiness. OCD makes it incredibly hard to see your potential when you are clouded by doubt and ideas of things that aren’t typically you. You get super accustomed to these thoughts after so long you feel drowned in it, trapped in a box where no one can reach you. But as far out as we feel from ourselves, the people around us, and our reality, we our always within reach of our clarity and happiness. Do not feel hopeless because you are not lost at sea as many people feel with this condition. You are not broken and it’s not forever. You are learning and understanding yourself. Treating the condition is about recognizing the truth about your condition and separating it from your life from the outside. Love and trust yourself, build a relationship with yourself you have not before. ❤️

[@helixxmusic]

CBT

[@KymGphoto]

I have somewhat an unique OCD issue. I obsess over getting a bad disease etc. So i am hyper focused on anything that may seem different in my body. Then i will check that area over and over again. Then i will demand to be seen by a doctor and am in sheer terror of what they will say. Once the doc says im ok then im super happy and relieved but then something new will come up and off i go again. Afarid to go to doctors now if i dont have too..... so mine is health anxiety that i obsess over. All these years and i still am not sure how to use all the techniques for OCD to health anxiety OCD. I do not fear germs however so dont handwash etc.

[@exgeeinteractive]

Hypochondriasis, same as me. Though it waned off when some of my grand parents died, I said enough, no more. Everyone's gonna die anyway. Though it's kinda creeping again - now that I have a child. I'm not worried about myself per se but for my child. Each fever, cough, rashes freaks me out. And we're visiting doctors for checkups each time I notice something new. My head heats up each time medicines are thrown up, or any threat that might harm my son. Anxiety, obsession, worry, and stress, they're all connected.

[@Karma-mj4vw]

Pretty typical though but DO YOUR HANDWASH

[@saademtair9913]

Unique ?? :D , it’s the most common one

[@chappy6817]

I have the same for the past 8 years. I've lost my 30s to this worry and have believed i have a number of terminal illnesses. It's terrible I hope I can overcome it. I hope you managed to find something that helps

[@josehernandez-kp9rd]

What do you think about doing ERP? Using a hieirqui

[@allisonslocum6948]

Very helpful! More so than CBT but both are very good in their own ways

[@nikolozgilles]

i need to stop searching for cbt, the juxtaposition is going to kill me from laughter

[@AbhinavKumarSahai]

How is this better than ERP ??

[@ujjwaladiya2471]

for me it's about checking clothes,to see they are not torn..when i don't wear undies

[@MM-cz8bt]

Do practicing religious prayers help? What I am not religious?

[@debestoftiktok3753]

My mind is as rotten eggs

[@jonnybasso762]

you are a dope dude

[@shahirhaiqal1300]

I hate ocd. 😂if i dont got ocd when i was 11 maybe my life not like now. Am already 27. My mom asked me why im not like other normal peoples. Have jobs, already married. I cant, since in the beginning my life already different from other.

[@marcusjenkins7519]

Looks like Bear Grylls

[@wcroft8853]

I thought this video was very good and made much sense. However I would warn against hypnosis as it opens up the mind outside of ones control.

[@BlaiyND]

section 2: **BALL STRETCHER**

[@nbodyasically3377]

*I could never suivive OCD cause mirrors exist!😂😂😂*

[@jdulast]

Care to explain?

[@rilexlyes8758]

What..

[@cjennings6179]

Core identity. Promises/PARASITE living on him.