It’s horrific to feel those feelings of doom and if you already have depression to start with it can bring on very scary and real sui cidal feelings, depending on your type of ocd/ faulty thinking

13:17 when I’m deep in the intense feelings or in this case, the “doom… there’s no way I can be fixed” moments I just take a moment and sit on my bed and I remind myself of the truth with an outline following this: “Don’t. Move. Don’t google anything, don’t try to escape the thoughts. I just sit here with it and remember what you know is true. These urges (because my thoughts have progressed to urges) are not you. They are your OCD messing with you and your brain is just scared that it is you. The feelings have done away before, they’ll go away again. Just sit here and remember what you know is true, the feelings will pass.” Then I do my best to carry on with my day and then next thing I know it’s been half a day, or a day and the feelings are gone, until they return but I still count it as a win.

This phase is the worst, because even when I'm on top of my compulsions and Ruminations it remains. Impossible to relax when "impending doom" feeling is present. Can last many months in my experience. I don't know what the answer is, just keep on with treatment, try not to isolate and ride it out

Whoa this video brought me to tears because that’s exactly how I feel when I start obsessing about a certain them. Feels good to know that I am not alone and knowing that this too shall pass.

"When you're trying to solve a non-threat there will never be a solution." Dang - that shifted my thinking a bit.

This is the worst feeling ever! It just makes me stop living. I literally give up on my life. It is so painful. I feel like i can never go back. Thankyou thankyou thankyou for talking about this feeling!!!!!!!!!

You are so so talented at verbalizing what things actually feel like!!!! So accurate. It is so comforting on the backside of your own pain unfortunately.😢

Thanks, Chrissie. Needed this.

This is so important to talk about. Thank you❤

This really spoke to me Chrissie, thank you for this❤️

love chrissie sooo much. saved my life fr

Lovely Chrissie Hodges.

These videos are helping me Chrissy

Thank you so much for this! I always relate to your videos! I wish that therapists had this understanding as well.

Please talk about the impact of HOCD when it comes to virgin people that were/are so sure of their sexuality even if they were rejected their whole life by the people they felt attracted to. (I always find myself as a straight woman, even if I never had a relationship with man but I always got rejected by them, though I always masturbated having in front of me pictures of the men I like and have interest on. Now with HOCD everything is foggy when before it wasn't 😢😢😢😢)

May 28th, tonight I have found myself needing this reminder. Thank you Chrissie!

So perfectly accurate 😢

One of the most validating and true videos I've seen in a long time, and I'm already 26 years into my struggle with OCD. Thank you Chrissie ❤️

I've probably had the "haze" going for a year or more at a time. And it started in 1993! This description is accurate beyond words.

Thank you

Logic following the fear causes OCD.

I have the haze and doom !

I have dread that is awful. I also suffer with disassociation. I literally feel like I’m in my head obsessing non stop. It’s effecting my body somatically to where I feel distortions in my body. It’s hellish. 😢

man, i didn't know the name of this feeling was doom hahahaha I never knew how to actually describe this fear to my family, and i also have this feeling over wanting to unread all the crap i've read about spirituality when i was lost because of a loss, it f* up my head hahahahaha