You are so right, sometimes when my anxiety is high I try to think of it like this: If my mind is so powerful that it can be convinced of anything, wouldn’t it be possible to also fight back and be able to convince the brain that ocd fears have no power against you?

This comment is great and makes so much sense. I have suicide and existential ocd and sometimes it really makes me doubt myself a lot when i am panicking. People say “just label it as OCD” and i am like “bro my OCD feels so real it makes you doubt it’s even OCD so it ain’t working” 😥

yes that’s what exactly ocd does

Your vids help too

@@6ix669 thank you !💞

I dealt with contamination ocd for a very short period, and it was really only triggered at work, but what you said reminded me remember how I used to feel "germs" on my hands if I touched anything I thought was dirty. And then I had to go wash them. It throws you for a loop.

@@beccaw74 right? It shows that your mind can imagine literally anything and the more afraid you are the more vivid it can be

For real? Could you elavorate on the sensation?

@@yolandacarmenherreravaldei4021 well, for me it was uncomfortable tingly feelings. The same creepy crawly feeling you might get if you imagine, say bugs or spiders. There's also the sensation of being unclean, wich is difficult to describe

@@stonerbubble I feel something on My mouth when I think about blowjobs and it feels so real and because of that I'm scared I'll like it or something and I always think that maybe other people have HOCD and I'm just represed

I had existential problems for YEARS growing up. Not sure if it was OCD, DPDR or a mix of both but every time I explained it to a councillor they would have no idea what I was on about and our sessions would just be spent explaining what it was to them lol

@@brothlcreeprs I can definitely relate. Nothing makes you feel more insecure about a condition then that blank stare. Thank goodness for Chrissie and all the info available now. Judging from the evidence I can say with confidence that, in my case it was a mix of OCD and DPDR. Magical thinking ocd now that I think of it. Though with the time slip theme maybe that should be sci fi thinking lol

@@stonerbubble thanks for saying! Its crazy how at the time you feel absolutely isolated and now we find out we both had kinda similar experiences! Hope youre doing better now x

@@brothlcreeprs great minds think alike, as they say lol Thanks, I hope you're doing well too :)

Yeah lmaoooo “sh!t’s gonna move!” 😂😂😂

i think it can this has been happening to me

I don’t know how I could go on knowing that I’m going to be anxious and feeling these horrible feelings all of the time. If you don’t care about them, doesn’t that mean that they should just go away? I don’t get it

Oh my gosh I am freaking outtttttt, I didn’t want to gain another theme, this is so confusing. Can people even recover from ocd? If u can then shouldn’t that mean that these feelings should go away on their own??

Emily, OCD is chronic. It will always be there. However, it cabs become manageable and get to a point where it no longer bothers you or disrupts your life.

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Hi there, I hope you're doing ok. I'd like to offer advice if I may? I've had good results from Dr Ali Greymonds video's kzfaq.info Also I've also had good results from channel Therapy in a Nutshell On how on soothing anxiety in the nervous system. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLZ4aKZ3uNO9dYk.html People like me are prone to ocd but it can be managed So what's happening here (as I understand it) is the part of the brain that manages fight/flight/freeze response (amygdala) is overactive. That and the filter (caudate nucleus) an important part of the brain for learning and memory is flagging every thought that causes fear as a real threat and worthy of analysis and problem solving. That makes it very hard to disregard the thoughts/feelings. But this is exactly what you must do, no matter how urgent or real it feels. You must retrain the brain so it stops sending these warnings urging you to check, analyze or do compulsions. I used to have ocd about germs, I kept refusing reaction and pushed though, eventually the feelings stopped. Even during the pandemic they didn't return. That means you can retrain the brain. To be honest my ocd has switched themes but I'm working on curing my ocd completely and I'm doing much better. I promise you can too, it's not impossible! Sorry for the long post, I hope this helps