“Just Right” OCD

[@mattgoodwin3848]

Reading the same sentence of a book multiple times because it doesn't feel like anythings gone in

[@aguywhohikes1271]

At least you can read, unlike Momin.

[@asmithashenoy9404]

I just did that unconsciously with this comment 😅😂

[@RegdrikaDorsey]

🤔OCD may come in different forms. Actually, I don't think that's a form of OCD. It sharpens your memory and learning skills to hear what was said or read aloud orally to memorize it. 🧠 There are nero transmitter receptors in the brain. This is a nero logical part of the brain responsible for sending and receiving messages to pick up on a subject. So, you may feel the need to have something repeated out loud several times to gain reassurance that you are taking in the information correctly as needed and fully interpreted. 🤯⚡ This has a lot to do with the electricity passing through the waves of your brain along with helping the nero transmitter to enhance your brain's ability to receive messages. ℹ️FUN FACT; your brain can only remember up to 4 simple tasks and sentences at a time. So the reason being so why you feel like you have to read the same sentence constantly and nothing's gone in is because: 💡HERE'S THE BASIC CONCEPT: The longer a sentence is, the less you remember producing Short attention span. The shorter the sentence is, the more you remembered with a long attention span Technically, performing this repetitive action does not or cannot be proven as an abnormal or a dysfunctional way of learning because you must have a sense of vibration, seeing and hearing to learn things. In conclusion, I think your method is perfectliy fine, nice, well thought out and executed. Bravo ‼️😊

[@lebre.]

Does anyone else have a dread of dying and not fully experiencing "the most optimised life possible"? I also feel the rejection part (immensely) but the dying-without-ever-experiencing-what perfect-feels-like is my main fear. (As you can imagine, I've rewritten this comment many times and reread it just to make sure it conveys the message juuust right and it still doesn't so I'm just accepting it and hitting send.)

[@seandouglass9944]

Yes! I feel like my feelings of just-rightness are very much about optimizing my life and a fear of never fully getting to experience the best or most perfect version of it. I even think of it using the same language you did. Thank you for sharing that, and you are definitely not alone in that particular expression of OCD.

[@lebre.]

@@seandouglass9944 thank YOU for making me feel less alone :)

[@KRISHNAYADAV-il8nk]

Read book man search for meaning and also happiness trap both are amazing book will change your perspective ..best of luck you are not alone

[@RobLewis3]

On the shoes story you told. I have a story. One of the most stressful 6 months of my life had just passed and I had a flare up of OCD. At this time, I didn't realise I had it. I went to buy a pair of shoes. I got a nice pair which I really liked. That sparked an obsessive journey to get "the just right" pair of shoes. Man the amount of time I spent looking, going back into the shop over and over. Looking online obsessively, etc. And then when I finally bought a pair of shoes, I didn't even wear them because of the amount of effort I put into it made me ashamed. It's just so silly now I think about it 😂 That was one of the things that made me realise I had an OCD flare.

[@Siberian_Khatru.]

I think we are living in that time of OCD which is going to serve as a bridge between natural recovery and artificial machine based recovery The hardships in this journey if battled mostly by ourselves,will eventually for sure make us a lot better person, although a tech based cure for OCD will get developed in the near future,It would still be much more appreciable to be able to recover on your own (mostly) with guidance from people like you I mean what's better than having control on your own self naturally rather than being dependent upon shock therapies,neuron bombardment etc etc

[@rdevalentin]

You're right. At first, it may seem great to have a device that spares the necessity to use our judgment and decision-making abilities in order to overcome OCD, but, on further consideration, I'm not sure I want to relinquish that to technology.

[@renaudlevasseur8327]

I can relate a little bit too much, I do that with reading and movies, it took me sometimes 6 hours to watch a movie. When I was 6 years old on the road to school I use to be obsses with having my socks put perfectly, the stitching had to be aligned on my toes and at times I felt like it wasn't on the right foot (socks dont have a right or left) so I could spent a lot of time removing them changing foot and start all over again which made my sister go crazy haha

[@OCDRecovery]

💯

[@knowjusticeknowpeace15]

Omfg that was and still is a HUGE!!! issue for me. The seam of socks!!! It used to get so bad with the amount of time I had to “fix” the sock would make me late for school sometimes to the point where I would emotionally breakdown and just not be able to go to school at all. Thank you sooooooo much for typing out this comment. You have no idea how much this comment has helped me feel validated.

[@Sera-vt3zq]

Perfectly describing my youth 😂 oh boy how i rewinded films cause i had this feeling i missed a bit. Luckily there was no digital tv at that time 😅

[@OCDRecovery]

And the bit you missed was always where nothing happened 😂

[@Siberian_Khatru.]

Beautiful description as always,I always wait for Rob not compulsively ofcourse but his videos hits me in the most amazing manner Rob is like the god himself and Nick and Momin enlightening and guiding my recovery journey many a times on his behalf in the form of holy spirit and Jesus

[@mattgoodwin3848]

All fallible humans still

[@Siberian_Khatru.]

@@sanjayatimilsina5799 haha i just did it to joke around a bit nothing serious just got the thought so brought it open it's basically harmless

[@irisdanagher]

A really helpful video, thank you.

[@mattgoodwin3848]

Back in my rollerblading days, I would often count down from 10 before trying a risky trick, or waiting until the drop happened on a song I was listening to because it felt 'right' therefore I had more chance of pulling the trick off with success

[@aguywhohikes1271]

Imagine rob doing a 360 acid on a 12 step hand rail

[@mattgoodwin3848]

@@aguywhohikes1271 imagine momin doing a flatspin

[@aguywhohikes1271]

@@mattgoodwin3848 Imagine Momin dropping in on 3 feet of vert on a BMX bike at Woodward

[@mattgoodwin3848]

@@aguywhohikes1271 🤣🤣🤣 imagine Rob riding a scooter in a vest and LA cap

[@second5952]

helpful vids man

[@JugalSingh]

When was the last time you felt chronic anxiety that was so severe that it interfered with your day to day activities.

[@OCDRecovery]

Years ago

[@gabrieliusgasparavicius]

So like whatever im afraid of, whichever thoughts im afraid of will basically multiply and come back in waves

[@aguywhohikes1271]

Yes - it tends to wax and wane until the sufferer gets under their fear with acceptance.

[@overthefrog]

I pay attention to words used like “certainly” in videos like these among others like “should” and “need”, I’m not sure whether or not to avoid these to embrace uncertainty or if it’s okay to use them in normal conversation, I’m probably answering my own question here lol but I’m assuming using verbiage like that in normal conversations is a gray area and to get under that it would involve breaking down irrational beliefs and getting under the fear of being wrong?

[@aguywhohikes1271]

What's going on man! So if we are afraid to use words, more than likely, there's an irrational belief there.

[@overthefrog]

I figured as much lol, thank you Nick

[@aguywhohikes1271]

I’ll forgive you for the LA hat, but overall amazing video 😂

[@gabrieliusgasparavicius]

how is it possible that ocd has latched on alan watts and now my intrusive thoughts has become alan watts. alan watts ocd damn, i might be the first with this:D

[@OCDRecovery]

Because you don’t want it.

[@axbx7139]

So that's why I do not like any project I begin to do...

[@tobiaseklof3200]

How do you work with a 8-year old child with JR-OCD and autism with little to no language? How does the ERP-sessions differ?

[@knowjusticeknowpeace15]

I have never in my entire life dealing with OCD ever felt this validated and understood. Holy crap!!! Thank you. ❤️🫂