OCD Made Sean Patton Religious | The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi

[@scamelot]

Having OCD, hearing Sean talk about how rough trying to understand what intrusive thoughts actually are really resonated with me. My family sitch was fucked but I absolutely walked the same path of dropping out of high school, falling into drugs, and then just trying to pick up the pieces years later. Very cathartic, solidarity

[@juliacarter6604]

Im sorry wtf why I've been doing exactly the same

[@dylnpickl846]

When he said empaths get more sexual and violent intrusive thoughts bc thats exactly what we don't want to do, that hit hard. Most of my compulsions have to do with the health and safety of my loved ones. As a preteen, "I love you" had to be the very last thing I said to my loved ones before I left them bc they could die before I saw them again, so the last thing I said to them wouldn't be something stupid or mean. And then it devolved to having to say it bc if I didn't then they would die for sure as God's punishment for me not saying "I love you". I still don't like saying "I love you" out loud, partly bc it still activates those fears in me. For my part, growing up it felt as though any of my observable compulsions were never/rarely noticed as problems by others bc they often seemed like "positive" actions and didn't annoy them personally.

[@mothman9003]

Oh god i still do the i love you thing, with the _exact_ same reasoning as the first part the spiral, in my 20s

[@Dragoon91786]

Yup. And if they do die, and by fucked up processes, rather than being able to act accordingly, it literally incapacitates you and makes your underlying C-PTSD orders of magnitude worse… Ah, so much I'm gonna get to share with the shrink today after this revelation. 🤣

[@Slatinum_bookies]

So much respect for opening up about this. Its nice to see how it affects other people and to see that the therapy route helped him. Ive been pushing it off because of how terrified i am of my intrusive thoughts but i after this video i feel much more comfortable in my own skin. So thank you

[@ojitosrodriguez114]

I have dermatillomania which is a form of OCD. I don't realize I'm picking my skin until I taste or feel blood. I also have ADHD and autism. People truly dont understand how compulsivity, pleasure-seeking for motivation, and unawareness of self is a combination of mental enslavement.

[@laurenlaker]

I was late Dx Adhd but this resonated so much more. Intrusive thoughts are the reason I don't have children.

[@lillianchurch6576]

It sucks so much when your being intimate and you have an intrusive thought and then you have to keep going with the situation as if you didn't just have a disgusting thought and then your spiraling in your mind like, "if I keep going with this situation does that mean I'm being intimate with the thought." Ugh it fucking sucks. Then you have to internally give yourself therapy while being intimate. It's just a lot. 😮‍💨

[@jacobmarshall8387]

Woah I have thoughts exactly like that all the time, I’ve never thought that it might be OCD. Thank you Sean for bringing my attention to this!

[@h.sowandegray2913]

Look up a concept called Pure O

[@josephinegeoghegan2913]

Lol as someone who is always worried they may secretly have OCD, thank you for reminding me that I just check things because I forgot them in the past and it caused a lot of problems. You did what with the door???? Yeah. I'm going out on a limb here and assuming without a psychiatry degree that my working memory is so piss-poor that I gaslight myself about my own forgetfulness hahahaha 😆

[@Chapien]

I have Harm OCD and it's validating to hear others struggling with it.

[@tazisme5751]

this might be how I discover I have OCD

[@f.b.jeffers0n]

Giving this segment another watch!

[@charliogenesis5986]

one of the most honest and clear explanations of ocd ive heard (from someone with ocd). it is such a spectrum and people’s experiences are so different but it always feels comforting hearing someones story with a lot of similarities to mine. Also the only accurate depiction of OCD in television in my personal opinion is in Big Mouth when andrew cant jerk off unless he does like 10 different compulsions first

[@mewfortwo]

Such an important convo. Thank you for sharing this❤

[@BrandyBuizel]

i stopped hiding my ocd a few years ago. i can't say it gets better, i'm actually much worse and can barely function normally for more than 3 hours a week, but that's me. that's separate. stop hiding it and get help

[@Superwoodputtie]

Hey Gianmarco has a Clermont lounge shirt on! An Atlanta classic!

[@money96plyr]

I assumed everyone had these types of intrusive thoughts...

[@ittybittykibibyte]

Me too 😭

[@Happy_Spatula]

Yeps! Had no idea I had mild version of OCD

[@niamhcasey4615]

Everyone can have thoughts like these, the thing with OCD is it’s like the thoughts are sticky and you become obsessed with why you’re having these thoughts and then compulsions are the things you do to try and make the thoughts go away, why don’t actually work and just make things worse.

[@SlyAceZeta]

Everyone does. The difference is, those of us with OCD will _dwell_ on these thoughts long after they're gone, causing a cycle of questioning ourselves and our brains. It's vicious and horrible if you don't know how to tackle it, and unfortunately there are few public resources available to help diagnose and guide people with OCD.

[@money96plyr]

@SlyAceZeta I feel this

[@celestedemure9800]

3:06 me, with OCD, sitting next to my best girlfriend getting high on the dam in town. We’re laughing chilling and all of a sudden it fall out of my mouth. “I could just push you and you’d die and wash away and people would have just thought you were high and slipped.” Dark fucked up and we both laughed. I do t like when my thoughts slip out my mouth

[@cspahn3221]

10:20 our confirmation bias is so powerful

[@KennethKlein-lc2mk]

Well, we're still here, microwave thing must have worked. On behafe of all the living, Thank You. 😢 🎉🎉🎉

[@celestedemure9800]

What made me go get help at 20 was having trouble going into my closet to get clothes to make it ontime to class, because batboy was in my closet. Other ruminating thoughts too, but that one was making me late and my thoughts should keep me from leaving my house

[@Dragoon91786]

🤣😭🤣 And here I thought that shit was just C-PTSD! 🤣 Well, I guess I'm OCD too. 🤣 Seriously, 😑😒 though, I've ONLY really heard OCD with reference to obsessive compulsive behaviors vs thoughts, and it being on a spectrum. Like, holding your shits as a kid to cope with extreme stress and trauma (did that for fucking YEARS) or diverting intrusive traumatic thoughts about sexual abuse and the rage it caused being diverted into other shit, and then having those thoughts have to be redirected yet again because you suddenly are having fucked up impulses, urges, intrusive thoughts, etc., and are like, "NOOOO! AH! BAD! HORRIBLE! CLAWS WALLS ICK! NO! BAD!" Sigh. This was WAY familiar. Like, so familiar I now know what to discuss with my shrink today. 🤣

[@moubarakhassan7132]

Thanks for shedding the light on such topic of mental health. I would disagree and say it was religious moment though. But the most important thing he is a healthy human being now ❤

[@annie1561]

The nuclear part feels bipolar ... and the "stay sane" religious part😢

[@justaperson8753]

10:41 for me, it’s like I know the compulsive 99.9999% won’t do anything, but there’s a teeny tiny chance it might so I have to do it just to be sure

[@thedivinebandit]

The only DOWNSIDE is those lettered building blocks being a trigger. 😅

[@johnhendrickson300]

Crazy. My “spirit numbers” (whatever that means) are 3,33,333. It comes up so much in my life that’s it’s become difficult to chalk it all up to coincidence. For example, I was the 333rd person to like this video, in which he says the number “33” at exactly 7:33, and this was posted 3 weeks ago.

[@MrX-pc5xn]

Motherless Brooklyn? Accurate?

[@benjaminstiles]

… doesn’t everyone Experience this so some level tho right?

[@idonteatspiders2986]

OCD is like extremely persistent. like debilitating. will not fucking stop ever