Thank you so much ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

Please talk about how we can get over the fear of being alone while dealing with anxiety. Every time I’m alone at home, I start having panic attacks symptoms, I get many negative thoughts and end up having a panic attack. I used exposure and response technique a few time but I’m scared of the panic attack. Please help me

@@forbusiness7753 Ok no problem. I can make a video about this for you. Will add to the list and try and do it sooner rather than later but I can't promise it will be super speedy.

@@23katied thank you so much

Could you do a video on false memory OCD? One of my fears is that I could have harmed someone in the past while drunk and have no memory of it. I know it sounds ridiculous but I feel like I'm stuck because there's no way to solve it.

Are yiu okay now?

I am glad you're getting better, may God bless you, I hope you tell me if it still works until now

This thought you should have just let flow by and let go without paying attention. Hahaha 😂😂😂

Lol

@@imammumbata194 he needs to expose himself to that thought without commenting (compulsion) 🤣

John this is another John who feels the exact same way as you !

Yes, that’s true. Thank you very much, Katie!

Aw bless ya mate, Well done on getting through it, I hope all goes well for you =)

Wow! This is so beautiful! Ocd is horrible... Totally relate with what you feel....

❤️ We will get through anything together Bless you

Just know that God is always with you man, God bless :) Here's a verse that helps me whenever my OCD affects me: 1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. "

She has a book?

@@partypoisonbemine Ya she has a book " Managing OCD with CBT for dummies" by Katie dath and Rob Willson. It's a very good book

I know I'm gutted - I loved those glasses and had them for years but they just snapped in two because they were so old : (

Glad you found it helpful.

Are there any particular things you'd like me to cover in upcoming videos?

I treat my anxity as its a normal thing, I know its not harmfull at the end..so I stop caring about it. I walk, I smile, and take care of my eating.. And the most impo ignore like its nothing Let me know if it helps you!

I’m caught in 4K and being a morning person the primary thoughts largely affect me entire day. So I’ve made it a habit of mine to open my eyes and start singing a song loudly that makes me happy and start swaying to it. It seems like the last thing you want to do when you think about it from one end because you’re sad but we have to manifest happiness and make the environment for the OCD so uncomfortable it becomes hard for it to survive. I then proceed to telling myself what I am grateful for and run over all the things I have to complete for the day (being a student I think of all the chapters I have to cover and probably think of a event in the day that is exciting like a new route for my daily walk or probably a new recipe to try for lunch or something like that). It’s hard and you WILL subconsciously be aware that the monster hasn’t made its grand entrance but this will bring about a change I promise, & maybe while you’re brushing or something a thought comes start humiliating it like just say “bruh, wtf not you again” and you automatically feel like you have control over who can sit in your thoughts and who cannot. I generally busy myself first thing in the morning and then step out for a walk and the fact that I exercised and completed an important subject brings in a sense of productivity which is nice and the more and more you start being involved in stuff other than your OCD then less invited the OCD feels. By not letting the other guests in your thoughts and waiting for this bitch to walk in itself makes it a VIP. Hope I made sense…

@Arpita2049 Hey; our mind is completely blank in the morning and it's like an empty stage where a lot of thoughts come and speak their intentions and affect our day greatly. When I wake up I want to make sure I call in the right thoughts, like good ones and productive ones. But if I wait for the OCD to be triggered or wait for it to start dominating my mind; I'm kind of preventing the ones who are good and I'm paving the way for the OCD monster. I believe that we are all strong to control what runs in our mind and we have to fight it out with strong will and it's not impossible. I like to believe that my problems are nothing compared to a lot of people who are going through more difficult struggles and when they don't give up; I too should not give up.

@Arpita2049 how is your anxiety now?

@Arpita2049 how have you been?

It's less avoidance and more mindfulness. Paying attention to the present moment without judgement. Like "ah yes there's a thought about X. Thank you for that thought. I'm going to go back to what I was doing"

@@etal.038 believe me I get it. I just see a possibility to avoid exposure if the person/patient gets really great at attention training.

Yes, definitely use this along side ERP not instead of....!!

Another note on this - As you know I am a massive advocate of ERP because not only has it been a tried and tested effective method for years but also I have seen how quickly it can achieve results. Having said that we should remember that the goal of ERP is to help you face your fears and learn to deal with them differently. If you are one of the rare people who can go, "Oh, so it probably doesn't mean anything and I should just let it come and go and not do anything about it" and then becomes fearless of the thoughts then fabulous - no ERP needed - BUT this is very rare in my experience. Generally people will want to tell themselves they don't need to do ERP but if I scratch the surface i find it's because they are fearful of it. If they are fearful then clearly they haven't truely learnt to not care about the thoughts and therefore ERP is the best plan. I think this last point is perhaps what you are saying so thanks as it's a good thing to clarify.

@@23katied I look forward to your next video. Maybe you can talk about attention training a little more. Have a great day

Violent, I am using Brainlock’s 4 steps, and I thought the same thing you did. Also, practicing meditation is similar, for when your mind wonders from what you are attempting to focus on.

is it for pure O

@@aliiiiibaby works really well for pure o, for self help, it is the best you can do, you have to practice and be patient, I am taking 3 to 6 months, but may vary person to person

Did you find anything to help you?

Exactly. The more we can learn not to pay attention to them - whether by engaging in them or by pushing them away or avoiding them - the less important they seem and the easier it becomes.

@@23katied but I feel like thoughts are outside of mind what can I do for that mam ?.

Sorry about that. I do have a new microphone so hopefully it will be better next time.

Volume is fine on my nokia

Redirecting your attention is not avoidance as long as your goal is to simply let the thoughts be there and focus on other things rather than having a goal of getting rid of the thoughts or pushing them away. It’s like having the radio on but choosing to pay attention to the tv.

Hi Julie. My videos are all CBT based - CBT for OCD is quite specific and differs from some of the standard CBT practices (the main difference is we do not do thought challenging and rationalising etc when working with OCD). Is there something specific you wanted to learn about?

Yes - treatment is the same regardless of the content of your OCD. I would recommend doing both the attention training and the ERP. Often people want to just do the attention training as they are too fearful to do the ERP but the ERP is very powerful in teaching yourself to let the fear subside without doing anything and not to pay attention to unwanted or unhelpful things.

You should find all this info in the earlier videos where I describe what obsessions are and what compulsions (sometimes called rituals) are.

Hi Philip. I'm wondering about whether you've made yourself a hierarchy of fears and if so whether you are choosing something that is manageable enough. Ultimately you may well feel more anxious when initially doing a deliberate exposure but the key is in picking something where you can keep the exposure up long enough to start habituating. Regarding feeling scared of practicing there's no rules that say you shouldn't feel scared - just because you feel scared it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing to do...in fact when dealing with OCD differently we usually see that fear is an indicator that you are doing something challenging and therefore useful.

I practiced Attention Practice because my OCD wasn’t severe and I found it slowly crawling like an infant monster trying to feed and grow with my attention but if you feel that your OCD has grown into a big monster; I think practising both would be beneficial. Like by starving it you are weakening it and by Exposure you are slaying it, does that make it a understandable analogy?

Yes so sorry for this. It’s now been rectified in other videos.

@@23katied Thank you once again! For the rectification AND for this series

Hi there. Yes I plan to talk about different presentations but ultimately the treatment process is the same regardless of the content of the thoughts/images/sensations. You just need to tailor the ERP so that it is exposing you to your particular fears.

Sorry for that - I have a new microphone now so hopefully next ones will sound better.

It depends what the exercise is as to how often you do it - for example of the exercise is to go somewhere specific you may only be able to do it a couple of times a week but if the exercise is to leave a light on or listen to a loop tape then you could do it a couple of times a day. In terms of duration we always suggest you stay doing the exercise until your distress level has started to come down - it doesn’t have to get to zero but you want to learn that if you don’t do anything (I.e stop or leave the situation) then your distress will lessen on its own.

It’s not the same. You shouldn’t block/get rid of it. You gotta accept the thought, but still be able to do your own things, while letting the negative thought go away by itself without interacting with it. Mediation is also a good attention training, but her method is also good. Sounds are pretty similar to thoughts. You can’t mute a sound in your head, just like you can’t ignore a thought.

This is what I dont understand isnt me changing my attention me pushing them away and thats a mental compulsion?

Hi Lauren. When you push something away you are trying to get rid of it. When you choose to put your attention elsewhere you are simply choosing not to focus on it BUT you are not trying to get rid of it. It's like if you were trying to concentrate on reading a book and someone was doing building work next door the noise bothers you but you can't do anything about it - the more you try not to hear the banging the more you will notice you and the more it will annoy you. If you take the attitude that you can't do anything about the noise from the building work and choose to focus back on your book you would find that you would cease to notice the building work as much. It does take practice but it works. Remember the intention is not to get rid of anything but just to focus elsewhere (let the thoughts, feelings etc take care of themselves). I hope this helps.

Yes this is an OCD thing. You can follow all the advice in these videos to help yourself learn to deal with this differently.