Managing Shame After Surviving OCD

[@maryt7068]

I honestly love how honest chrissie is. It helps me laugh at my own issues when she gives a chuckle. The realness helps me realize my thoughts aren't real even at the worst times

[@shabadsadana2650]

Honesty is the best policy

[@throwingbacktheapple]

Treat yourself with compassion everyone. Try doing all the things that matter to you and know in your heart you deserve, in spite of the guilt and shame. Some days are really hard, but some days it really works. Thanks for this Chrissie.

[@ollypebble]

at the end of the video with tears streaming down my face, whispering 'thank you, thank you'

[@ollypebble]

[@Themightyhore]

words cannot convey how appreciative I am for people like you in our community. talking about the taboo and how truly ugly ocd can get. Thank you times 1000 chrissy. Saving lives with every video ❤️

[@lilliessbeess]

16:56 I thank you for this words, im crying, it really hurts. I never never wanted this Thank you so so much, chrissie. I don't think you're going to read this haha but Once I had a dream where I hugged you, and I was crying and it felt so real and comforting. Thank you for doing this, thank you. I wish you all the best

[@lose8447]

Thank you Chrissie. Can’t express how grateful I am for your videos. Everything you say is so relatable to my experience with pure OCD . You comfort me by reminding me that I’m not a monster . Even writing that makes me feel suspicious of myself. It’s a never ending rabbit hole but at least I’m not alone

[@delia5588]

This is something so important to discuss. This is one of the things I deal with on the daily. The embarrassment I feel when I think of those in my family who watched me in my downward spiral. I was so vulnerable and scared. BUT I remind myself they were glad to be there to help me through it.

[@craftyalligator1969]

I relate to so many of the things you explained, yet I still manage to convince myself that I don't have OCD and I'm lying to myself

[@cecelpstv]

I always envision my OCD as bugs crawling all over my body and my compulsion is to scratch myself everywhere ....except the bugs are really just nothing more than a hallucination. But my amygdala doesn't know that.

[@alishahird6011]

Thank you for sharing this. One of the things that has been holding me back from recovering is thinking that if you have ocd you don't act on your fears/thoughts. When that just isn't true, even Exposure therapy is putting you in a position to "act/test" your fears. It is such a complex disorder, and blanket statements like those can be so unhelpful. I'm not fully recovered but I'm getting there, and I have a lot of set backs due to the moments of clarity and self reflection I end up revisiting and getting lost again. I hope knowing this new information you have shared helps when I have clarity of mind, and helps with accepting myself and my past and moving forwards not backwards.

[@she6367]

Please to all the people watching Chrissie, try not to describe in detail your situation in the comments. Email her instead. A lot of people could feel triggered, or like they have come back to case one when reading comments. I know they could stop reading comments if they don't want to, but this also could be an obsessive compulsion. Thank you so much for your understanding. Greetings from Morocco!

[@user-xn5bq8uo6o]

Guilt is killing me. I'm not claiming I have ocd. Just guilt is something that makes me exhausted 😭

[@ilolroflandlmao]

Difference is you have certainty about your mistakes in the past. With ocd u cant stop ruminating what if? Why did i think this why did i feel this? Its the doubting disorder

[@user-xn5bq8uo6o]

@Drake Hashimoto stay strong guys. We can handle this difficulty weather it's ocd or not 💪

[@MT-uk4sq]

Please keep being you, I love hearing your laughs and how helpful and important things you tell for us with OCD 😭💕

[@j.c.denton2060]

This is so important to me. Thank you, Chrissie.

[@juanrivas6922]

She is a life saver 😭 love her videos .

[@jollyjendrickson]

Love you!!!!! You are so brave and have saved my life over and over!!! Bless you a million times!!!

[@alicearcturus8610]

Wishing you the best!!! Thank you for your courage that helps save lives!!! 💖

[@geogithomas2473]

chrissie u r actuually helping me a lot and now i feel i am not alone .....but still i am ashamed and i feel worthless

[@paulSmith-te8gq]

You really know what I'm going through I felt so much guilt if the extreme things I had to to with exposure therapy I think I have post traumatic stress from the ERP that my therapist who was excellent suggested I still have guilt about all the time I had to dig in now I just can't even go there anymore I practice more ACT therapy but thank you for helping me feel better about all of this

[@m.pheonix8654]

So grateful for you Chrissie! 🥰

[@YasLove111]

Thank you for your videos Chrissie, they really help❤

[@garyanderson7058]

Thank you Chrissie, really appreciate you

[@brandiharrison3145]

Thank you for your honesty, Chrissie. You are helping me and I’m grateful I found you!

[@jonathanpeters8]

This is so important. Thank you so much for saying these things with which I suffered my entire life. God sent you to help those who suffer from the same shit you suffered from. Thanks for your vulnerability and honesty.

[@SaritaSingh-gp7ll]

My life line r ur videos Chrissie when ican't cope up with ocd ur videos really help me thanks u chrissie

[@LadyFeebs]

this may be an older video, but i had to comment just because of how much it resonated with me. especially what you said about “acting is in the eye of the beholder,” this is something that’s really been on my mind lately about some of my obsessions and things i did to deal with them or “test” whether i was afraid of them happening/being true. thank you so much 🫶🏻

[@NikkiCCoop]

Very thankful for your videos babe

[@julianaramirez7669]

Could you do a video on how did you find your partner?? Did you explained that you suffered from this?? I want to meet someone but I just think that I can't live with someone without letting him know my truth... But I'm panicking because I know he's gonna freak out!!!! 😢

[@millstreetteut7835]

Thank you from Berlin. I think your Videos are awesome. I learned so much . 💕

[@leonardrichards3778]

chrissie, i don't know whether you will see this or reply this. So i am having pocd that is related to a past event. so i have experimented when i was a kid with my sibling who was way younger than me and i don't know how to recover from that. the problem with my pocd is that my fear is rational. even though i did that as a kid , i still remember how i did that and it freaks me out. i am scared i won't think twice if i got the oppurtunity to do it again. i am struggling to move on tbh. i am not able to afford a theraphist right now because of some financial problems and i would appreciate your help

[@potatomuffin4420]

This was something I struggled with a lot after my perspective on the thoughts changed. I think what I struggled with the most was mourning the time missed. 2 years of my life was gone in my head, so I missed a lot of my son's firsts because I either don't remember or I barely remember.

[@bethfh814]

I feel you. I’m going through something similar and it’s horrendous. We didn’t choose it, though and it’s the future that matters xx

[@potatomuffin4420]

@@bethfh814 It does get better, making up for lost time now but those feelings of guilt do fade.

[@helenabell6431]

you helped me so much when I was in recovery

[@ronaldtaylor6857]

I had many episodes of hocd but now this particular episode has been with me for about a week I had sex with a prostitute and from the jump I wasnt comfortable with the idea for many reasons. But i did it anyway and it wasn't a good experience keep in my mind I only have had sex about five times in my life and never orgasmed while having actual sex. After this time around of having sex I was worried that I wasn't enjoying sex with woman like other men are now my mind is tricking me into thinking that sex will be better with a man this triggered me a lot and I don't know how to control this. I also have a porn addiction and masturbation problem. But I'm working on trying to stay off the sites and masturbation I never have watched gay porn because personally I think it's nasty and it isn't for me. But my conversation with men lately have been one sided meaning I'm not really engaged in the conversation or talking back because I'm nevrouse around men because of hocd. The problem is when I had sex with the prostitute I looked at it from a different perspective as far it was just one experience, and that you didn't know the women, and that having sex with a random person isn't for you, and that I need more experience, etc. but the the thought of maybe sex will be better with men is not. Going away. So I'm kinda stuck. And I truly don't want to be gay because as a kid I always liked girls even in highschool. It doesnt feel natural to me to be gay I honestly feel like it emasculates u and degrades you as a man and you are also disrespecting yourself as a man also I have religious beliefs about being gay.

[@justmadeit2]

Chrissie, did your ocd ever affect your appetite or sleep through the anxiety of it all?

[@ajnaajnica3376]

When we have ocd about incet thouhts, what if I am fall in love with family member, can we feel like we want the thouhts, and look that person like he is diferent...like that person is more beautiful like some men, like we are losing reality in that moment.? 🥺

[@chloeogden4419]

You are amazing 🎉!!

[@jonasdedeyne3016]

Can someone help. my anxiety around my socd is fading away and i am afraid this means i am becoming what i fear.

[@ivettelunagonzalez8368]

That’s just part of ocd, ocd shifts, and will act different at some point kind of like it seem that it wasn’t getting to you at a certain point any more, so it tried to get you coming from a complete different angel, you aren’t used to ocd coming at you from this angel so you’ll think it’s just evidence to it being true . Your ocd brains only goal is to no matter what, to always draw you to that being the conclusion, cause for you I’ve brain that’s the only answer that exists for it that no matter what it just some how has to be true

[@jonasdedeyne3016]

Thank you

[@117_emaad5]

Same can we please talk

[@ajnaajnica3376]

Thank you ❤️

[@mobriendc]

/So timely for me Chrissie, thank you!

[@rogersalazar3646]

I missed you 😭

[@NikkiCCoop]

There’s ocd then there’s shame from looking at sites you swore to fight against

[@stacysingledecker7288]

Thank you Christie🙏🙏

[@meryp.6056]

I have afraid of being borderline 😭😭😭It's so scary

[@Ma-tu2jd]

I totally agree with most of what you are saying but I don’t understand why do you sy in other videos that it is a long life illness ... I am asking genuinely but I’ve heard many therapists like Ali greymond who say that you CAN recover from ocd completely

[@NikkiCCoop]

How can anyone else love me after that ???

[@yorkshirebuddies9477]

How can i contact

[@k.f.9875]

Who is behind OCD? Me myself? My mind? A demon? Seriously, who is suffering me? God? Satan? …

[@consultantx4258]

İs there anyone who tryed ECT

[@millstreetteut7835]

Is there a connection to brainfog with OCD?

[@finnbenham]

Absolutely. Your brain is tired.

[@NikkiCCoop]

12:25

[@pierosaad8229]

Don’t you hv unmarried sister most preferably with OCD😜☘️🌳🌸