It’s so hard to explain OCD to non-sufferers and to express feelings. I’ve never received help as I feel embarrassed and ashamed. It feels like part of me has failed and lost control.

My fear is that if I don't fight against or try and stop my intrusive fear thoughts they'll slip by me and manifest, where I'm frantically and desperately saying 'cancel' and try to replace it with a positive thought instead. This has been exhausting and tormenting for me and I feel twisted up inside.

When you went haaaaa I got so scared lol

My OCD was good for 2 years straight life was good, everything was okay. Then bam last week I had a relapse. I honestly have no idea or no clue what to do or how to fix it. I forgot what used to help me, one thing I hate about OCD is that it tells me don't live don't do anything just think about these horrible thoughts.. thoughts and questions and images that I have no answer to at all. I live in a constant fear at the moment, It's extremely extremely sad because I thought I got so much better and I got over that part of my life and it was a phase but god here we go. I will be watching these videos to try and help myself I also got a session with a therapist. People who have OCD are the strongest people in the planet I tell you.

I’ve had a “flare up” in OCD symptoms after a “trigger” the other day and then I see you’ve uploaded a video. It’s almost like the universe has designed you to help those suffering from OCD. Your past videos have really helped me with my OCD and I still watch them to this day. Thank you.

OMG you're back! Your videos have been the most helpful for me in tackling OCD. Other OCD channels seem to want to just continue making OCD treatment videos and get you hooked on watching them, always searching for another OCD tip or trick that will work! But your channel is just sweet and simple, which really helps me tackle OCD best.

This is phenomenal. When you hear it out loud, the intrusive thought sounds perfectly hilarious without the "What If". I actually laughed. But with the "what if" it becomes an immediate life and death question. Which points to the possibility that the power of OCD is precisely in the "what if", the intrusive questioning, and the doubt, rather than the specific thought itself. Secondly, using the past tense is preferable over the future tense is useful. Because the fear is the same, your brain agrees that you have dealt with the fear, but since it is in the past, you aren't bothered by it. For example, "what if I kill my hamster?" becomes "I killed my hamster" rather than "I will kill my hamster". I would call OCD "malicious self interrogation and self torture". I personally switch places with the interrogator thought process and try to be evil to myself, then the interrogator realises that he is hurting himself and stops the folly.

I feel happy you are back! Your videos in the past are so helpful.

Thank you for coming back! Your videos really saved my life!

Thank you so much for this video and for all the other videos you made!! You are making such a big difference in my life and I feel so grateful!! You're incredibly talented and I appreciate you so much!!

Your return is so valuable for many people Katie, keep posting new videos, so valuable, best regards.

I can’t tell you how much your videos have helped me. I love your upbeat attitude and clarity. I see intrusive thoughts are not the end of the world. You can handle them!

Katie, I am so glad you are back after all this long time. I hope you have been great. Can you just believe you have followers from Tunisia? I love your videos. They have helped me so much to cope with my pure O and educating myself about OCD which is just something very new to me. Please do make more videos.

So glad you’re back!

The audios put everything into perspective it’s so liberating

i havent seen her vids on yt for 4 years . good to see her back and love the new hairdo!

Thank you Katie! I have severe OCD and you are really helping me to understand what I really have to do to get better. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Omg thank god after years you made a video please continue making it

Thank you so much. Welcome back. You are a life saver. Please keep posting more videos. I am a big fan of you. We love you!

Im glad that you came back.mam you made my life easier.if it wasn't for you i wouldn't have survived my ocd .I owe you my life ...

I totally agree with these great comments. You really know what Pure O is, and that list with mental compulssions was crucial for me, you’re so sure that these exposure methods will help and that’s good because I can trust you and have the same belief. You’re doing great job for people who suffer from Pure O. Lots of love, Patricia from Poland

I am really happy you posted new content!

sooo happy you are back! I hope all is well with you. you're videos are so helpful! you look amazing I'm loving the hair!!!

Ocd has plagued me since i was a child and i cant thank you and others alike enough for this help. The amount of psychological horror this severe illness has put on me through the years in a close minded region had been incredibly damaging and disheartening to me at many stages of my life. And even with help i sometimes fear and dread the inevitable snap back into a spiral mindset , every second of the day obessising , acting on compulsions instinctively, ritualizing , with the most specific ridiculous irrational thoughts instilling an outrageous amount of fear stress and anxiety into my mind and body. I never talk about this type of thing but it is a major part of who i am and why i am the way i am, so ive gotten tired of hiding it. It doesnt make me me but it definitely is a vital aspect of the person that is shaped to be me at the present moment. I wanted to write this to see if anyone relates; a lot of people here seem to and thats always been comforting in a sense. I fuess what hurts the most is feeling like your destined to a lifetime of this , and feeling as if theres so much time wasted in a short lived life. At its worst, i would be stuck in a loop , walking around doing various compulsions and ticks , repeating phrases simultaneously, and mental ruminations and ritualizing constantly for five hours on end . It was so bad id sometimes get chaffed on my thighs. Its reassuring to hear more on erp and how to assess this. Thank you.

i'm so glad your back making videos

Katie i'm imaging how it would be using someone's bathroom after they'd forgotten to take the sticky notes down. your videos are very enlightening. thank you for doing them.

Thank you so much for this and other OCD videos you've made. I've had intrusive thoughts my whole life that have taken many forms and only recently I realised I probably have OCD with how strongly I relate to the compulsions and giving the thoughts too much power. It feels good that I'm not alone and it feels good to know I don't have to give these thoughts power. I always thought I had to be disgusted by vulgar intrusive thoughts I've had in order to show I care, but turns out, I just need to ignore them. I also realized I've had moments before where I let the thoughts pass and remember how it felt stressful but yet made me feel good. The pain of acknowledging and ignoring them has discouraged me in the past to try ignoring them again. It may be a bit painful and stressful at first to go on ignoring these thoughts, but pain is the first step to healing. It's better than the explosive reactions that have become of my OCD. I'm going to commit starting today to change how I respond to intrusive thoughts. Thank you for these videos and God bless you. ❤

Good to see you back❤️

Can you talk about OCD and shame? I still struggle a lot with beating myself up over the thoughts I have, even after being told plenty of times that my thoughts don’t make me who I am. I feel like the shame can sometimes get in the way of making progress.

You've helped me so so much today! Started having a new reoccurent thought I didn't like. You helped me so much with the repeated message statement. It worked wonders to free me of the anxiety and thought loop I was in.

This video of yours will be helping a lots of person suffering ..i am so gald that I listen to this...i watched this video today morning and by night I m already much better..thank you . I have been suffering from this since 5 years .thank you ❤️

Needed this thanks kindly

🥰🥰 thank you so much for sharing these really helpful videos

Thank you for your time and effort to help so many of us!! You are a really freaking cool person and your tips are amazing! A genuinely awesome expert ❤

you are just amazing. Thank you sincerely..

Intrusive thoughts can be 100% dealt with.. you just got to be patient with yourself.. your videos have really helped me with my ocd .. they aren't as frequent as they used to be.. only come once In a while

Thank you so much for posting this ❤

Thank you so much for these videos!

Oh my gosh, I’m so happy about this. I took your first tip of advice and filmed a video of myself talking about what my issues are and what I’m struggling with. In rewatching the videos that I made, I saw how ridiculous my fears sound, and even started laughing at a few things I said because I can’t believe I’ve been fearing them! Thank you so much for sharing this video!

Thanks for the new video ☺️

I just found you and you have helped me so much!

I'm glad you made a new video! Thank you Katie!

WOOOOOOOW!!! THANK YOU FROM MEXICO, YOU ARE A MASTER

You are an angel i prayed for you. Thank you

Most useful lectures on OCD.

Thanks for the video katie. My tip is to explain accept vs be okay. Most viewers think they are equal

I’ve had effective therapy in the past but this video was really helpful as a booster. Thank you so much.👍

Thank you so so much for these videos 🙏

I love this video ! Very helpful tips but I’ve experienced similar OCD where I had panic attacks, anxiety as well as focussing so much on negative thoughts and felt so confused. Honestly what worked for me is having a relationship with Jesus. God says in Philippians 4:6-7 states “Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanks giving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all thing will guard your hearts and your minds in Jesus Christ”. If you put you trust in God he will give you the peace that never goes away x

Thanks for the videos !!!

I'm almost laughing with the final tip because it's so unexpected LMFAO and that's why I love it! Genius! Thank you so much!

so glad you are back.Love from bangladesh

You really are the best!

just what I needed thanks.

I could cheer, thank you

You’re really funny! Thank you so much ☺️

Its a continuous battle, you overcome it, but it always returns in the future. So the same cycle repeats all over again, again. Been that way for the 25 years ive had it..

Dear Katie, welcome back! It has been so long since your last video you posted. You are my life saver, I have tried many things to overcome my ocd, and nothing worked. After watching your videos and following your tips and tricks, it has been two years that I am living my normal life with your great professional advice. I owe you my life. I only have one request, I would sincerely appreciate it if you could please as now you come back to rescue so many, please post more videos about how to improve our lives and facing lots of challenges in our life. In addition, I would be so grateful if you could post some videos about the relationship between couples, or if you know a person who shares his/her experiences and advises on youtube, can you please recommend their channel here, thank you so much Katie, god bless you.

Finally there is an answer. I use to pay $150.00 an hour for therapy that was totally useless. Thank you!

You're so patient to do those wonderful videos Katie..... It's so heartwarming to see so many people appreciating Your efforts !! BIG THANKS from all of us!!!!!!!!

Excellent!

thank you.

Excellent.

Thank You

Very nice, thank you madam

thank god for you

Thank you

thank you

"mom why do you have a slideshow wallpaper of moms stabbing daughters?" I loled. thanks these videos are also great for my health anxiety, one of the hardest parts in HI is reaction to not just thoughts but body sensations.

Well guess I have OCD 😂 really good video Kate opens a lot of doors for me

The most beautiful OCD doctor ever be seen

thanks for this i needed this i have intrusive thoughts and i struggle with it a lot and most of the time i try not to think about it but it bothers me so much because thoughts just pop into head

You're back 😘😍

You make it funny please😂 But I love also how my psychologist digs a bit deeper into why my thoughts suddenly popped out. We go to the past since intrusions are unconscious thoughts. I use that to respond my what ifs.

Love your videos. Please increase the volume on your end so it's similar to other KZfaq videos. Thanks.

Thank you very much for the video, your advices are very helpful! Just one thing, I almost had a heart attack when you yelled at 7:16 :P

Thnks katie

The ‘snap I’m a sex offender’ comment 😅 honestly though, I think these videos are great and it’s so true the importance of just exposing yourself to these thoughts you fear and changing your perception of them, almost humouring them. Treating them as the meaningless thoughts they are. No matter how bad your thoughts are, the reason you fear them so much and strive to avoid them is because you’re a good person. And for that reason, you’re sane to be fearful and scared of such awful thoughts. Because you know that they don’t represent you. These aren’t thoughts reflecting you, therefore they don’t sit well with you. You’re not a bad person. You don’t need to fight them with compulsions because the outcome will be the same whether you do the compulsions or not. Only by doing them, you’ll have to keep repeating the process. But by avoiding them, you’ll be out through a period of doubt, worry and anxiety, but as you allow that, remind yourself ‘this feeling is normal when overcoming OCD’. The anxiety will soon calm down naturally and you’ll feel empowered by the evidence you have just experienced that ignoring a compulsion actually poses no risk. OCD is a monster, compulsions are it’s food. Starve the monster, don’t give in to its compulsion, it’ll get hangry and try to bully you to feed it. Make you anxious. But then it’ll tire out, and give up, and you’ll anxiety will fade. Repeat this process and the monster will starve to death. You’ll no longer have to feed it. Then monster wants food. It will manipulate you into thinking that it will help you if you feed it. But it’s plan is to get stronger and control you. That’s why when you don’t feed it and ignore a compulsion, it puts up a fight and makes it hard for you to resist. Keep resisting, because you’re strong than the monster and it’ll get so tired it will give up. I promise

What you do is awesome! That said, any chance you can address the audio issue? The volume output in the video is very low and echos. Maybe add an external microphone? That would help with the quality of your videos. The info you provide is great and it deserves greater production value. Love your work!

It’s never easy; there is someone hanging with a power saw above you and you are not allowed to flee!

OMG THESE ARE INCREDIBLY HELPFUL! MORE PURE O OCD TREATMENTS PLEASE! I noticed when I was listening to the recordings and started to feel a dopamine rush like OMG ha I'm going to kill my husband! I think it was me realizing the thoughts have no depth or weight when there's no "social stigma?" fear attached, i.e. "what if people hear this, and what would they think?" Life-changing. MORE IDEAS PLEASE and thank you so much!

My friend directed me to this video to help “understand” his ocd. Having ocd is debilitating but you can’t blame every problem and downfall you have because of this, it can be used to mask and make excuses for every other behaviour that stems from it.

This is so helpful. I want to drive again. My fear is I’ll lose control and crash in purpose

Like the new hair colour

I love you....

This is so accurate. OCD is really a fear of thoughts. I grew up in an evangelical home and was afraid of ending up in hell. However, I realized that I am not afraid of hell IF everyone ends up there. Strange, right? Hell is hell. Why would I not be scared of ending up there if everyone is there too? Because it’s a fear of thought of hell. When I was young, being alone without my parents was scary but not if we are all together in the same place.

Hey Kate. I am having severe attacks of OCD and I feel like I can't trust myself anymore. It's like getting into a trance. I can't explain how you're helping.

I see you've gotten divorced. Wow, what fool would let you get away, Katie? You're a goddess. ❤

The worst intrusive thoughts I have I would never write down, or record. If someone read them or heard the recording, they would think it was a confession to a horrid crime. At least if you record yourself saying "I'm afraid I might" then at least I wont have to worry someone will hear a recording of me saying strange scary things taken out of context. What if I'm dating someone and they find it on my phone. I do find your videos very helpful though. Thanks..

You have a black smudge on your camera btw, you can see it at the 6:53 time stamp overtop of your hand. Just helping out 👌 hahah

Thank you for your practical, no-nonsense help, Katie. My question is about blasphemous thoughts or images. The issue here is that by doing ERP, one is consciously engaging in blasphemy. Please advise, thanks

I'm so scared that if I make myself think more about the shameful horrible thoughts I'll end up wanting to actually do them instead of caring less about them. With anything if you want to make yourself like something you'd do it more so it feels more natural. How do I expose myself to awful thoughts without them becoming more natural to me and maybe carrying them out.

Dear doctor d'Ath Thank you very much for posting these informative videos. As someone who can struggle with ruminating over certain subjects these techniques sound like they can give a good handle on the situation. I do want to ask you, if that's okay, if the voice recording technique is also advisable when the toughts you have are self-deprecating. I'm a bit afraid of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon and that I start to believe the toughts more than I do now. Should I try to rephrase those soundbites or just steer into them and try to take the sting out of them? Or not use the exposure techniques not at all? Thanks very much again for what you do. With kind regards

I used to have OCD where I'd run to my local fire station or call an ambulance anytime I had an anxiety attack. Even got to the point where I started to spend my days close to the hospital in Cafe shops etc. I was afraid of dying from a panic attack. I wonder if anyone else has done this 👍🏽. Is this behavior/ritual common with the clients you've helped. I'd be interested to know. It was awful. I decided to stop the compulsions and just accept death from panic. Guess what? Panic can never kill anyone. So I stopped the compulsions

my fear is not about having these thoughts, imagies, ect..but because they where so strong, i couldnt function properly, that is why i take my medication!

Thank you for the video ❤ Also YADOT SI EHT YAD That took me a minute to get 😅

I tried doing the recording erp for my intrusive thought and I gotta say it's slowly working.. and it's been only a week.. I noticed that it isn't as frequent as it used to be.. but it does pop into my head from time to time.. thank you Katie.. I love you.. Earlier today it was almost as if I had forgotten about the thought cause i went for at least 30 minutes without any single thought and I know it's a process we just got to keep doing what we doing the thought doesn't give me anxiety anymore ..I expose myself to the thought Everytime I remember.. is this a good thing? Hope to get a reply

@katie please do videos on sensorimotor ocd or hyper awareness ocd

I had a flare up in false memory ocd. There is one thing why am I worrying about if I did it for the last 6 months. And before that I never even had guilt and anxiety

Sooo what do you do if your compulsion is writing down every thought and your obsession is remembering forgotten thoughts, does anyone have any tips?