Why Your 'Healthy' Habits Might Be OCD in Disguise

[@EndYourOCD]

Bad distractions are just avoiding the OCD thoughts, which doesn't work. The best thing to do is, if you are already doing something (exercising, working, cooking etc.) and an OCD thought comes in, just keep focusing on what you were already doing. If you're sitting down and get an OCD thought and suddenly say 'oh, better start cooking!', that's a bad distraction.

[@dannyboy_36]

Thanks so much Nathan, you are an absolute hero 😃

[@ocdandanxiety]

Thanks so much for your support! This means a lot to me!

[@Lonelytrucker2001]

Nathan, I am absolutely grateful for your Videos. Even if I watch them rarely. You do them in a funny way, I apprechiate it. Thank you very much.

[@veronicakerin9379]

I never thought watching something of this sort would make me laugh so much! Thank you for your joy...

[@ArmyofLove]

The walk is good to help chamge the view point and move. Moving snaps us out of ruminating

[@wesleymorton7878]

I have found delaying useful in some cases. Other themes I have had experiences of delaying literally months and not getting relief. At a certain point you break down. It is as though the OCD knows the tactic and says, "no problem, you want to delay? We can play this game, I have ALL the time in the world." And it hangs out in the background sapping me of energy and making the quality of my life diminish as the weeks go by.

[@heidighomi6489]

Thank you for all you are doing for us ❤🌹 The urge of doing computations to avoid bad things happening is just killing. Is delaying them with the hope that they get less powerful a good technique to get rid of this mons. Thank you again.

[@ArmyofLove]

Moving does snap us out of ruminating

[@AhmedSidi-n2p]

Thank you you know what you teach and its works 100%❤❤

[@kovski8310]

I have a really tough time telling if something is a compulsion or a just an healthy activity by choice. I am at a low and my brain feels fried. Depression, Anxiety and OCD is quite the combo. Thinking too much about this also seems like my OCD is acting up haha.

[@ArmyofLove]

Very very helpful Nathan as I need to keep learning this

[@ocdandanxiety]

What do you feel like doing when you feel anxious?

[@nowothing]

drawing !! or i guess fidgeting my leg or fingers

[@nickandrews2255]

Interesting it clicked when you said if you HAVE TO do it. Versus is it a choice. We always have a choice made me feel relieved slightly cheers

[@আল-আমিনalamin]

i love your videos! to be Honest it's like something that helps me feel free all the time. thank's sir for that help. Your so cool sir. ❤️

[@therealthiccgatsby]

Is telling yourself something like “I don’t care” the same as saying something like “maybe maybe not?”

[@bigd3996]

+1

[@auroralam1459]

Please please answer me Why is it that whenever i think about doing something productive my ocd comes up

[@EndYourOCD]

When you are doing something or thinking about something at the same time as something else, those thoughts become linked in your brain. 'Neurons that fire together, wire together' is referencing this phenomenon. You've linked 'productive thoughts' with your OCD topic, that's why it comes up each time.

[@RWlover3]

Does hiding in the bathroom do the same or run into a room when someone walks onto my porch

[@kushalgowda.s2173]

My ocd theme keeps changing like for example i had harm ocd i did erp and recovered from it but again my ocd changed to other theme how to deal with it

[@Destroyer9300]

OCD always changes themes, same for all of us, you're not alone, just do ERP as you did for previous one.

[@HighHonor-z2l]

This is my question Is it true to use a distraction to not do a compulsion Please answer

[@KK-zc2hc]

Thanks a lot Nathan for all of the great content you are sharing. I have a question that makes me feel stuck. I know it is an obsession but it also has a valid point. I get stuck when an obsession makes sense. I call it ocd of ocd. What should be the appoach in this type of situations? This morning i was anxious and there was a thought race going on in my mind. I decided to give my attention to something related to my work instead of continue racing in my anxious loop. I decided to do this because i know it helps. I know if i pay attention to something else, the grip and the power of the distressing thought loosens and i feel better. Less then 5 minutes into that ocd questioned my intention. ??? But i am doing this to make the thought and anxiety lose its power??? but that means i am trying to neutralize it or escape from it??? I am ultimately looking to get relief from the anxiety.???? This is not right, this is not acceptance.??? this is hiding in distraction, this is hiding in busyness????? I think and believe my behaviour is a healthy distraction but at the same time has some compulsive intentions too. I know my response should be something like "may be may be not, i don't know, i take the risk of feeding my ocd, who cares? But also it will help if someone can shed some light on this type of paradoxes.

[@breemarie9393]

I kinda see what your saying and I believe thoughts can be compulsions but I think your scared that distractions is a compulsion. You could say maybe distraction is, maybe not. Most likely your just putting your focus elsewhere instead of the ocd and going about your day. If you mentally force yourself to think about something different and it's distressing and causing anxiety and only very short relief it's probably mental compulsions. I'd just go with maybe, maybe not and moving onto new thoughts. Because what you focus on will be more of the thoughts you get, so no you don't want to focus on ocd thoughts either way.. idk if this makes sense

[@refordih]

Nathan, I have a doubt about my OCD theme, it seems like a I keep trying to problem solve things that happened with me in the past, criticism that people gave me, bunch of bad words and suff, it just doest go way from my mind, how should I do the exposure for this one?

[@sarahr5513]

Is avoidance a compulsion?

[@fairygurl9269]

Aware I Kinda Have Replacement Compulsions.....

[@come.tothinkoffit]

Why are you giving the finger in your thumbnail 😂

[@_tim_3176]

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