I didn't think OCD could do this!

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Our intentions could be good, but OCD wants us to question them. Let me show you how to respond to these pesky OCD thoughts, once and for all.
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[@maxmorimoto6481]

OCD feels like being possessed. Makes you into someone you’re not and do things (compulsions) you would otherwise NEVER do if you didn’t have OCD. So sick of this malicious illness. Praying to everyone else who struggles with ocd that it gets better for each and every one of you. You are not alone. ❤

[@wolf.Editz.dz.]

I have solutions

[@hannahscottp4389]

Thanks. We're tryin' hahaha.

[@StormFreakJosh]

Even my diagnosis of OCD is plagued by this questioning of intentions. I often think that maybe I'm making up my OCD to get sympathy from others, and it leads to me doubting the OCD in general, which just makes things even more muddy for me.

[@ocdandanxiety]

Thank you for sharing your experience. It takes courage to open up about such personal struggles.

[@KyleConant]

I'm really glad you said this. I was just diagnosed last week wirh OCD and my most recent intrusive thought is "What if I actually want these thoughts?"" What if they don't actually bother me, or they are a blue ribbon for me to walk around with and say,"Look at me. I'm special, I have OCD."

[@wardahshahid2758]

@@ocdandanxiety Nate i get the thought that it's me who is not putting the effort needed to prevent from these thoughts some times, or it's me who is comfortable with the pattern and don't want to break it, is it for real that with time a person starts to think that I am cleaner than others, you see, like the person when 1 times is enough and they wash it 2 times and could OCD patterns become an habbit. Or is it that OCD just started to work in an opposite way saying that Don't wash it, it's clean and I am now confused that is it clean or not?

[@wardahshahid2758]

@@KyleConant Yeah , it's like feeling better about this.

[@Sheisme120]

It’s like self gaslighting. Remind yourself that you’re not wanting to suffer like that and have no reason to be making it up.

[@malihasultana421]

And the worst part is as you said "you logically know your intentions are good". No we don't know we just don't know 😭😭😭

[@moriaht.7397]

That was my FIRST thought too!

[@malihasultana421]

​@@moriaht.7397 youve the same issues? I'm in so much pain😭

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

Yes, it's such a frustrating feeling when you have to deal with your emotions and logic at the same time while being totally aware that the logic part is actually true.

[@stevigeorge3649]

Sometimes I wake up and it’s 7am and it’s like oh dear we have all day to feel awful just end it now 😩

[@wardahshahid2758]

Hey Don't worry at all, I have been through this I can understand that when you wake up and you are scared that you will face all that anxiety again. But, now i Don't, you know why, as i have somehow understood that these thoughts are not us,it's like the body has hands, but hands are not the body, similarly the brain provides you with thoughts as it's his job but u are in charge whether to think on them or not. so don't be afraid to think but try to may be control your thinking, that if you get some thought which you really don't know should be focused or not, so tell your brain we'll think about it when we may get some real information about it and for now as we don't have any info how can we think on it, it'll be a waste of time yeah. Trust me if the thought is not real, how will you get the real information, so it will remain skipped and if it will be real, so you didn't ignored that, you said you will find out.😇

[@erickk1992]

Started recovering over the past year feeling more and more myself, when out of nowhere last week I had a retaliatory violent thought against people around me with no reason for it. It sent me spiraling out of recovery. I don’t want to have to lean into that way of thinking.

[@mukulbhatta2896]

Man, the permanent nature of internet is scary. I wish I wasn't aware of it. But that's the problem of OCD. It makes you hyperaware of everything. Many things in reality don't fit with the preferences of OCD.

[@enjoyer903]

Your channel helped me understand my anxiety THANK YOU. I also want to help people like this but idk exactly where to start 😅

[@sand352]

Hi from Russia! Thank you for your channel,Nate! You really helped me

[@mark_lynch]

Best one yet Nathan, because it was more reliant on information and not graphics - very good.

[@ocdandanxiety]

I'm glad you enjoyed the content! Thank you for the feedback.

[@gamerbynight1]

Thank you so much for these informative videos. It’s really helpful

[@wolf.Editz.dz.]

I have solutions

[@madikonexus2272]

Love it👍 thank you very much Nathan 😊🙏

[@reminded]

I always get stuck on this advice of trying to teach my mind that I don't care, because I just feel like I am lying to myself. I know I care, and telling myself that I don't care just feels like a lie. It doesn't help that almost all of my compulsions are mental compulsions, so I am not really sure how to do ERP for them. I don't know how to prevent myself from responding with compulsions when a lot of the time I don't even realize I am doing a compulsion until later. In the moment I don't even recognize I am doing mental compulsions, I find myself ruminating in circles for 20+ minutes before I even realize I am stuck in another OCD loop.

[@RealLifeRiddles]

This is me.

[@kerryfaden94]

I just feel like I am bad all the time I love the cool and awesomes!!

[@magnum3571]

I have this wierd thing, where if i hear or see something i thought of, i get the thought of, "Did i make it happen by my thoughts" Etc, i know that i did not make it happen beacuse of my thoughts, but i still get the doubts or "What if?" And after i got those thoughts i get the fear of being psycotic. Is all of that ocd? Hope you guys can help

[@aaronthiel2240]

That is OCD

[@LuisaYuja]

I get that too! I know it's weird and somehow you think you control realities but in real it's more like you are so in your thoughts that the slightest details become so important, for me it's difficult to overcome it, even more as i'm getting into Christianity, but really, overtime it will get better.

[@magnum3571]

@@LuisaYujaIm also trying to be a better Christian so I can try leave my worries at god, if it makes sense

[@dhawadiamal8661]

Yes it's ocd , I suffer from this too

[@Psych1_-]

Yep! That's ocd. It often causes a kind of superstition for a lot of people. For example many with ocd think if they do their compulsion it will protect their loved ones.

[@user-ji4nk5ph5x]

I don't know why when i tell these "cool, awesom etc" i get nervous and more resistant to the thought this really bother me and gives the thought more power i don't know why

[@mYcRiSpDiScK]

It's hard lol 😅

[@holliecooper6707]

You could maybe then say.. "oh I love this nervous feeling" "it feels like I'm doing something wrong, I love it. I hope I am"

[@nathanauxier1683]

Hey nathan i struggle with ocd and i understand the misunderstanding and stigma it receives but ive also been thinking id like to be come an ocd speacilest and help treat people with it and was wondering how i would go about doing it

[@mayur2272]

Yes I question my intentions all the time. I hate to request for something, especially if it’s an extension on an assignment. Recently I had to request for an extension on an assignment to my professor who was gracious enough to give it to me. But for some reason I feel like I did not deserve it. At the same time, I had two assignments due that same evening! It’s like I want the worst for myself which is so frustrating! But I had to do it. I always question whether I’m morally sound and it affects me on a daily basis

[@chriscairns6009]

I think I might have OCD, nightmare..

[@zebracorn9184]

Max released a movie called Turtles All The Way Down which is about a girl with ocd. I think it was good, you should watch it

[@ocdandanxiety]

I have it planned to watch soon! Thanks for the reminder!

[@KyleConant]

I have a question, I have been diagnosed with OCD but it comes in waves. To the point where I wonder if I even have it. I will go months where my thoughts are really bad and debilitating, but then I will go months where I don't worry about my thoughts at all. The thoughts are still their, but they don't cause me anxiety. I'm wo during why this is? Why can I go so long where my OCD doesn't bother me much, but then all of a sudden, it's boom the OCD gets really bad again!

[@calebscoville2585]

I know I can just search for it, but have you ever addressed scrupulosity? That seems to be the infinitely difficult category because of how abstract it can get.

[@rothben8353]

He has!Check his videos.

[@AlbinotheLightning77]

Every single day almost I struggle with this..I can’t even sleep cause of the bad anxiety

[@stevigeorge3649]

Hey Nathan ! Mines about time! I don’t get the thought it’s like oh it’s 10 am only you have this long left to feel awful better end it. End it hurt yourself. Oh it’s only been 39 mins of distraction end it This is ocd right ? I say now thank you thanks not a helpful thought. I call mine Alfred the octopus and he’s a headcase and uses all he can to scare me. Does he tell me to do this because life’s a value so he wants me to end it. Hard 😢

[@adarshgupta6472]

Sir please make a video on eco ocd 🙏🙏🙏 please it is destroying my life my ambitions 😔😔😔

[@MollyRichardson-wr7nz]

What if you intentionally think a harm thought about your child. I feel like it’s one of the worse things I could do.

[@penguinbee7661]

So one i sat and was friends with a smellly kid and had no hygiene he used to talk to me and his breath would sometimes hit my face or mouth or hair then i felt like i needed to clean it and when he touched me i try and sepertae but he still tryed talking. But now when im with my friends when we talk their breath hits my mouth or something then i can feel like I taste their breath then i have to clean my teeth mouth throught and lips with water mouth wash and stuff but I use toothpaste on lips because their breath hits my lips or someyiems spit on accident or when they talk but it usually happens every time which is annoying. Also when i touch someones hand or someone touches my phone i have to clean with a wipe a lot because i feel like the sides are uneven.Also when I shower I forget to put soap on a certain spot someone accidentally talked on like my neck and I wash with only water I wash it but feel like the bacteria went somewhere else and feel If I touch it my hands have bacteriasomeones hand or someone touches my phone i have to clean with a wipe a lot because i feel like the sides are uneven.

[@jesse8737]

What if you have control of your life but they still cause you anxiety and you hate it

[@tba1879]

To me, what you're describing here sounds more like normal human anxiety in a social setting rather than typical OCD. OCD is more about certainty than uncertainty--I feel certain that if I don't flip this light switch up and down 25 times in a row that my parents will die or I know that that bump in the road I just felt was a person, etc. if you didn't feel certain then why would you bother with the OCD response at all?

[@ocdandanxiety]

It's about uncertainty. You can't be 100% certain that doing a behavior will insure safety. Some may feel certain, but do the behaviors as a "just in case".

[@tba1879]

@@ocdandanxiety Possibly--it depends on how you skew it logically. But the whole you reason you flip the light switch or go back to check on the bump in the road is because you feel certain that something dreadful event will happen or because you fell certain that you hit someone--otherwise you would have no compelling reason to carry out these actions because they wouldn't carry enough weight in your consciousness.

[@Psych1_-]

@@tba1879 Do you have ocd?

[@brah04X]

@@tba1879 Can't there be levels to that? The uncertainty creates immense stress, which pushes one to do whatever mindgame/ritual/defense mechanism that seems suitable to feel free from the stress and fear.

[@tba1879]

@@Psych1_- That I do.

[@riyatripathi6213]

Hello sir first comment...i have a question why ocd always proves me right? I mean whenever i do not do compulsion something bad happens...?? I actually tried to get rid of this by taking risk but it got worse and ...the things that i fear the most starts to happen what to do now??? Please help

[@KiranKumar-up8ow]

What are your compulsion?

[@riyatripathi6213]

@@KiranKumar-up8ow so many compulsions 1- if i share anything with my father my situation will get worse 2- there are tons of songs that i can't listen to even if i want to because something bad will happen 3 if i listen to the songs in night something bad will happen 4 if i think about something good the opposite will happen 5 if i talk to my friends i will fail in life 6 if i did not do meditation everything will get ruined 7 if i didn't listen to this particular song something bad will happen 8 if i revise my subjects by speaking i will fail AND MANY MORE

[@aaronthiel2240]

They are not getting true because you did not do the compulsion...but instead you are looking for signs that the bad thing happened becuase you didn't do the compulsion...and if you get the faintest sign you just get the feeling that it happened because of not doing the compulsion because of ocd...You should never do the compulsion no matter how horrible the consequence OCD presents to you...or how real it seems..By not doing the compulsion your mind will soon clear and you will realize how foolish you were thinking...it is OCD's trick to fool you into doing compulsions...doing compulsions or reassuarance will only get you further into OCD's grasp and you will lose control of life...OCD will try to make you believe that it is real but dont believe it...follow what the videos of this channel teach you

[@riyatripathi6213]

@@aaronthiel2240 I'm trying very hard but it happens exactly what i thought of within minutes 🥺 i don't know why is it happening

[@aaronthiel2240]

​@@riyatripathi6213 That is just a feeling you are getting...and nothing else...your mind is constanly on the lookout trying to prove the Feared Outcome as true or false...but realize that is just fear talking...Embrace the feeling and the fear...Just make a decision right now not to take it seriously...Dont try to fight it...Don't try to make it go away...Just don't care no matter how real it seems and get on with your life...Ignore OCD thoughts and feelings and don't care about them...Trust me It will go away on its own...You have to do your Feared Action...and say I will accept whatever the consequence...or else OCD will keep bullying you and your life will keep getting smaller and smaller until all you can think about is OCD...So just don't care and do the feared actions...OCD wants you to care...

[@SB_Melody_And_Bass]

I have a question do you have ocd?

[@bonniewilkes9268]

Has anyone that are trying to stop rituals find there head feeling strange and dizzy

[@wolf.Editz.dz.]

I have solutions

[@Pankajkumar2K3]

Lakshay Chaudhary

[@riyatripathi6213]

Please help

[@vintorez9145]

Keep going, keep facing your fear, keep taking care of yourself. You'll get better.

[@riyatripathi6213]

@@vintorez9145 but these things are getting actually truee!!!!!! I can't take this anymore

[@rezonxthepiggert9647]

​@@riyatripathi6213 At least you don't have to deal with ocd staring at kids, animals and men when you're not gay etc. Try remembering that you're not the only one suffering from this nonsense and find comfort realizing alot of us do get over this nonsense if we don't stop trying!

[@riyatripathi6213]

@@rezonxthepiggert9647 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 u will be healed

[@rezonxthepiggert9647]

@@riyatripathi6213 Appreciate it and I hope you ain't giving up neither:].

[@Jordan-ym5sk]

Can I just say thank you so much for these videos. I had a disturbing thought that I couldn’t get out my head it made me sucidal your videos help me so much. Thank you 🙏

[@ocdandanxiety]

I'm so glad my videos could help you during a tough time.

[@evannationarmy7769]

I hope that you are doing better and I hope that you get the help you so very much deserve!