i tell myself that my intrusive thoughts are suggestion and i can say no and move on my day.

"Becoming used to discomfort" is a game-changer!

I'm laughing at how accurate this video is, it's like listening to someone verbally announce the actual language of ocd, hit the nail on the head!

The extensive quarantine led me to have many intrusive thoughts. Your old videos helped very much. I couldn't be more grateful when I saw you uploading new videos now. Your advice has been treasure to me. Keep going!

Wow never heard someone who actually knows how it feels for the patient.

The only thing certain in life is uncertainty

Grateful that Katie's back!

I am so thankful you are doing these videos!

Welcome back. Glad to see a new video. Thank you

Im glad that you came back with an another video

Thank you for the time and knowledge you invest to share with us here. You are truly a blessing!

I’ve had OCD/PTSD since I was 4 and the “it’s a water pistol” is amazing advice

Thank you so much Katie for sharing these interesting and informative videos. Much appreciated.

Grateful for your help.Your assistance.Your help made a huge difference you are a lifesaver.❤️

Thank you so much for your invaluable help. I have watched your videos over and over again, and I keep understanding more.

Katie, thank you so much for your videos and sharing your Knowledge with us!!

What you do changes lives, Katie, thank you so much for that ❤

Thank you so much for this. You explain things in such an effective way, this is so helpful.

You are back!!!!!! Your videos helped me and help me a lot. Thank you!

thank you for returning to the channel, you might be my literal lifeline, just in time Katie. I appreciate these videos so much.

Fantastic video. Your videos helped me a lot many years ago and it is so good to see some new ones now that I need some guidance again.

Thank you Katie. You really are a life savior. Please try to post videos more often :).

oh my gosh. you have no idea how much of a service you are doing for everyone and how much of a privilege it feels like to find out you’re uploading again. i have a type of ocd that attacks literally anything that happens or event that occurs. for example, moving, thinking i want to move, eating, thinking i want to eat, etc. my escape has always been the things that mean most to me, movies such as harry potter. but now of course over the years it’s gotten so bad that i can’t even watch them anymore because i’m so scared my ocd will have me tarnish them and ruin them forever. i can’t explain what kind of horrid hell it is living with this disorder. if you have any advice on this specific type of ocd, please be so kind as to let me know. thank you so much for extending your help for people suffering with this. i hope you’re doing well.

Aging like fine wine Katie nice to see you back.

OMG i'm so happy that you are back

Thank you for your helpful videos, please keep making videos like this in these stressful days. Please talk more about how to deal with the fear of being alone while dealing with anxiety. Thanks 🙏

You are a mind reader Katie. Your amazing ❤ i have never listened to someone who understands ocd so much! I would really love it if you would make videos about memory hoarding ocd and existentional ocd

The woman who changed my life ! I don't know how to thank you enough for these videos !!!

Thanks for your comments everyone. So sorry about the big gap in uploading. I should be able to do much more regular uploads now.

Confessing was a huge thing for my son.

Thank you so much for your channel and for what you do! My OCD has been getting worse lately, and just like your example, my contamination OCD used to focus on the fear of getting HIV. But once I was certain in a way that HIV wasn't as big of a threat for me (I'm not sexually active), my contamination OCD moved on to worrying about getting infected with rabies. I've been spiraling lately but I'm so glad I found your channel. Love and blessings on you! You are helping so many of us.

This is a life-changing video for me. I feel so much more confident about what I need to do now to fix my OCD. This was the missing piece of the puzzle, so to speak, knowing that certainty comes from focusing on the long-term, not the short-term. Thank you so much, Katie! I love your videos; they are always so helpful to me!

OMG you are back and I couldn't be more thankful about it! ♥️

You're amazing Katie. Thank you.

Thank you, Katie. You have a wonderful way with analogies and words. Recently I’ve come uncross, and struggled to manage the OCD. It’s true, the more one listens to their OCD, and does their compulsion, the bigger and stronger it becomes. The OCD says “…check one more time”. It’s never one more time because it finds something else to be uncertain of. The more we check the more we uncover other areas to check. I haven’t been performing anti-OCD behaviours until I read it in your book. The OCD really doesn’t like that. My goal is to realise I’ve already checked several times, and if that was effective I would be OK, and to realise is just a thought. I’ve got through it before so I can get through it again. It’s about taking a step back realising it’s OCD. They all appear to have same characteristics and remember it’s not a gun, it’s a water pistol.

God bless you !! Thank you for helping with these videos 💜

Life-changing, thank you so much!!!

I was recommended to Katy from my psychologist when my ocd was at its worst 😢, she’s a absolute life saver .

Hi Katie, I am a new subscriber. I think you are an incredible therapist and an amazing youtuber. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS, YOU ARE HELPING ME SO MUCH!!!👍❤🇨🇱

Dear Katie, love you so much and thank you for your videos. I have recently come to know about you from my daughter who has been diagnosed with OCD( pure O) since she was 12 years old and it's a very sever one . She is 18 years old now and she (as well as we) has been living a traumatic life since then.We as parents trying our best to help her but unfortunately it seems no therapist probably has the depth of knowledge and understanding about OCD like the way you have! After watching your videos, and your excellent analogies, I as mother have gained tremendously. I will be able to handle the situation more effectively now. Would like to have individual therapy sessions with you, however that may not be possible due to time zone, as we live in India. Thanks from the bottom of my heart ❤

Wow! This was so incredibly helpful. I didn’t even realize that this was my problem, until I watched your video. I thought more certainly was going to help me. But uncertainty is actually the medicine that I need. Amazing.

Thank you for these videos. They help.

You are just brilliant!

You are a gem. I keep on ruminating about something very absurd. I got admission in my grad college through a competitive exam. The results came online, but an official result used to come through post mail. Due to some address issue , that mail never came. When i took admission in college, they gave me admission but asked me to submit the official result. 4 years passed , i graduated from college and got my degree. But now i remember that i never submitted that doc, neither the college bothered. But this fear keeps on popping that at some point of time , the college will call me cancel my degree and my whole life will be over and i will feel a terrible shame and i will be called a fake. I sound ridiculous, but i cant do but think about it again and again

What You do is SOOOOO Important Katie !!!!!!

it's very important to know that topics that people consider taboo are actually very common in OCD, and you are NOT a bad person for having thoughts related to taboo things (harming a child, or inappropriate sexual attraction, etc). People should also know that a groinal response for example does NOT mean you like a specific thought. the groinal response is actually caused by the anxiety that you feel that got triggered by the taboo thought. everyone be open with your therapists, trust them and trust yourselves ❤

thank you so much katie! your videos are so great, and that analogy was iconic hahahaha! This was a big help!

For most of us, dysfunctional beliefs which we developed in childhood/adolescence is the gas for the OCD fire. I had a particularly dysfunctional and traumatic adolescence and there are so many themes and doubts that my OCD can get triggered by. I sat and wrote down all of my dysfunctional beliefs which were conditioned in my younger years and there are SO many of them.

God bless you Katie! Thank you!

welcome back. really great video with the analogy of the gun to the head. wish I could be a client. best wishes

Thank you for helping me understand everything better.....

Thanks for the vid Kate!

Glad you're back ✋😃

Love the analogy about the door being locked 👍

Katy hi, I suggest people find your youtube videos on a more or less daily basis, as I work in one of the fb groups. Thankyou for all you give. I started on your videos before I found the group.

I struggle with ocd and I’m ashamed of it. I will be learning skills from your videos to help with this , so glad to see I’m not alone . Or atleast that I understand now what’s happening. thank you

Thank you for this video!

Excellent. Thank you so much ❤

Thank you. It was really helpful.

I really want to meet you in reality and thank you for all your videos😇😇😇..... You have the solution to all the problems..... Love from INDIA 🇮🇳

Excellent video! Lots of tools for the Anti-OCD tool box!

thank you so much for your videos!

Yes!!! Thank you Dr. Katie d'Ath! I hate OCD!

It is really funny how spot on most of these behaviours are especially the comparing ocd

The queen 👸 is back again

I had ocd problem for almost 2 years ago..and I cameover from that by doing all the things my self that you are learning the people..at first attempt it seems tough..but by doing lot of practice it will get better with time ,a new confidence start building up in you and that thing seems small for you..and when you will remind those things that were bothering you ,you will find your self how silly you were before...thankxx to uh ..it may help a lot of people ..and I saw your channel ,it's a lot better than them ,you are saying actually what people should do...lots of love❤️❤️❤️ I tried myself to make people understand but I was unable..now you gave shape to my thinking..you r a life saver❤️❤️

So useful advices. Thanks a lot)

"It's not a gun, it's a water pistol" I love your analogies, they always hit the target dead center. I tend to check door locks and the stove at night more than once. I have to physically touch them and I tend to repeat touching to be certain. I will try ERP by checking once and then leaving it... walking away uncertain...

Ahh welcome back x

Hello dr, thank you so much for your videos, I actually have been having this problem with OCD where whenever I watch any tv show, I feel compulsed that I HAVE to know every single detail, otherwise I wouldn't have actually watched the show. Thing is normally I have other types of OCDs but I can mostly handle them to a degree because their reasoning is very silly, but personally, I like being a perfectionist and I just can't get my mind to watch a tv show or anything because I "wouldn't have watched it properly". If I watch any other thing that's for example like a skit, or any video it's fine but tv shows are the ones with the problem with me. This has been driving me insane especially the last year because of quarantine and all that and I can't afford to go to a psychiatrist. Thank you so much

I just love watergun example with my heart Thank God

AMAZING VIDEO

So lately my OCD has been probably the worst ever. It has gotten to the point where I'm just staying by myself in my room all the time, living some imaginary nightmare that makes me feel doom. I do want to add that trying to fill your days with positivity (thoughts, content, people) and grounding yourself by being surrounded by other people does help, because like Katie says - it reduces the level of importance from the thought. Suddenly even if it's scary, it's no longer the most important question ever, you see that you CAN be happy even without answering it. Still working hard on it and videos like Katie's are super helpful, but after some horrible days I've started doing the things I mentioned and they help to soften this thing and see things a bit more clearly.

thank you.

Thank you really!

Amazing video

Wow, your hair looks beautiful

OMG!! i got diagnosed by OCD & bipolar disorder last week, and the doctor told me that I can't begin the Cognitive behavioral therapy now cause It won't convince me so i have to take medication first and after 3 weeks I should begin the Cognitive behavioral therapy. but I didn’t believe her, i was asking my self: what if she’s wrong? how could I trust her? it’s insane! so i went to see other doctor and she told me that i might having BPD but I didn't believe her also .. but i am really feeling terrible right now, so desperate, then I decided to take the OCD medication even if am not “Certain” i have it, but I couldn't stop the uncertainty so i searched on KZfaq and here you are. You kinda got me:)

Finally. Sound is better.

Thank you so much

thank you so much

Thank you so much :)

Great. Thank you

You are an angel

I like how she's numbering her vids😁

Thanks!

I just realized u are back :) hey! I have religious and sexual ocd and I'm really losing everything day after day

Thank you very much :)

It's so true that it feels like high stakes with OCD!

Could you make a video about dealing with OCD induced panic attacks. My particular form of OCD revolves around the fear that I'll suddenly be allergic to whatever food/medication I'm taking. Sometimes I'll actually feel my throat closing, but I'm not actually in danger. Thank you for making this series.

Please do a video on Checking OCD.

Thank you

It takes a lot of practice .... seriously a lot...you got to live with it..

You are so beautiful. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for your videos!! What should you do once you have succesfully exposed yourself to the top of your hirarchy? I would be thankful if you could share the best following steps? Thanks!!

Singer Adele and psychologist Katie dath are two decent persons living in Britain in our era..... unfortunately i live in India , so i can never meet them.....There may be many psychologists but Katie dath is best in explaining things in easy way......But She uploads videos after very long time , i guess Life in Britain is busy.....

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So happy you're back! I like the analogy about the stakes being high, but what if your OCD is attached to something where the stakes ARE high? For example, my OCD has attached itself to my work and now I'm terrified of making a mistake - this is horrible because as a writer and editor, it's my job to check - except now I check over and over and overuntil I'm not even sure what I'm reading anymore. If I miss a typo or other mistake, it can have terrible consequences. How do I deal with this?

Thank you so much for this content. As a friend of someone with OCD, I'm wondering if it would be possible to do a video on how we can support our loved ones struggling with OCD? I.e. how to handle it when they seek reassurance on their intrusive thoughts etc.

Sometimes when I have intrusive thoughts, I just allow it to stay in my head and play out to the point where it goes away, because the more I try to resist those thoughts the stronger the urge becomes. Of course you're not going to act on them, because they're just thoughts and thats ALL they are. Don't lose sleep over it, you'll be just fine.