how life is with ocd! | mental health recovery
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
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today is a requested video and I have spoken the complete reality of living with ocd and how it has impacted my life, I really hope you enjoy! i hope this video can help people to understand the mind of somebody with ocd to help those around you who struggle with it and also to help anybody with ocd to realise you are never alone 🫶🏻
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timestamps 🦋
0:00-0:20 intro
0:20-5:33 how my ocd started
5:33-9:10 the help I received
9:10-16:15 school and how my ocd affected it
16:15-18:27 lockdown and my ocd
18:27-21:31 my journey
21:31-23:28 outro and the understanding of somebody with ocd, reminder that you are never alone!
#mentalhealthawareness #ocdawareness #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth #itsokaytonotbeokay
I’m so glad you mentioned other types of ocd you’ve struggled with and how it can change/cycle. my ocd started as ‘just right’ ocd, things like walking in and out of rooms on different feet until it was even and felt okay, repeated hand washing and thoughts that people were going to get hurt or something was going to happen even tho it was irrational and had no correlation with each (the thought and the action). I also tend to obsessively clean and reorganise thing when in distress to make sure everything was perfect as that would alleviate my anxiety. After experiencing 6 years of horrific trauma as a child those behaviours still continued sometimes but there was a switch to ‘pure’ ocd, I still to this day get horrible intrusive thoughts about myself and people I love, my therapist says it comes from a place of care. That my brain is so fixed on how I impact those around me and how to care for them that it thinks of the worst case scenarios of things I could (but would never) do to them and then it becomes fixed on it and stuck in my head, making me believe I did it or could do it and that I’m a bad person and should stay away/isolate myself. These intrusive thoughts usually are followed by hours of mental compulsions like checking, repeating words or numbers in my head (sometimes aloud) or replaying my whole day or past memories in my head to ‘make sure’ I never did what these thoughts are making me feel like i did. OCD is so stereotyped to just having things a certain way because you like it that way, making it massively misunderstood when actually there are so many types and subtypes for OCD. it’s also so hard when people make extremely invalidating comments about having ocd (using it as an adjective) when it causes so many people such severe and debilitating distress, it just makes me so angry. But I’ve very grateful for you to be sharing your story, it’s a very brave thing to do to be so open but I also think it’s very important in helping people understand the condition and the ways in which It can affect our lives. I also relate to having some compulsions around food, I actually found out today that although I was diagnosed with anorexia in 2020 I was also diagnosed with an unspecified eating disorder at age 3. I’m unsure if it has any correlation to my ocd or potentially my asd but since anorexia can be so heavily number based it only makes sense for there to be obsessions which overlap between the two. There is a large co-morbidity between ocd and ed’s anyway for anyone who is reading this and wasn’t aware, as well as lots of other mental disorders!
I hope your mental health recovery goes well and that one day you are able to live a full life free of illness and suffering . Lots of love
oh thank you so much for commenting lovely! I completely understand what you mean with the misconceptions and invalidation around ocd with it being so widely used in a played down manner, for an illness that is so debilitating it should not be a term used lightly. I agree with the cross over of numbers with ocd and anorexia as the two for me having been very closely linked!
thank you so so much for commenting, this really has helped me and I hope your recovery also goes well, I am always here for you! sending so much love :) xxx
Grace this video is amazing, we never knew you had these struggles and you always had a smile on your face as did your mum. To be coping with all this at such a young age must have been awful. To see now your recovery is growing and talking about it is fantastic. Keep going and you are just amazing. Xxxxx
thank you so so much, this really means so much to me :) xxx
well done for sharing bbs x
thank you my lovely xx
You're doing amazing things x 😊
thank you so so much:) x