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- Living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not about having tidy, color-coded closet shelves. Living with OCD is like living with a monster, driving the afflicted to extreme behaviors that compromise quality of life. As mother to an OCD daughter, Tauscha Johanson describes their family’s discovery of how to starve the monster, making it weaker in the process, and everyone’s life a little better. People have questioned Tauscha Johanson’s unconventional approach to life since college where she studied zoology, pre-medicine, then re-directed her attention to her family instead of going to medical school. Obstacles and negative opinions didn’t sway her when she fought to get treatment for her daughter’s OCD, rose to leadership in pharmaceuticals, or chose a risky, but tremendously successful career in direct sales.
What’s not in question is whether she knows how to lift, edify, and teach to empower others.
Tauscha’s biggest concern is making a difference and having a positive impact on the lives of others - beginning with her family. Her faith and her family are the most important things in her life. Tell her she shouldn’t do something significant and she’ll show you the Righteous Rebel who can This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I hate the fact that OCD has become a trendy thing when it's nearly ruined my young life.
Babygirl Jules girl I completely understand. I’m 21 but I’ve had ocd since 14
I’m 22 and I’ve been dealing with it since I was ..... maybe 9? I feel it getting worse , maybe it’s a rough patch maybe I can get through it, but a lot of people don’t take ocd seriously. To be honest the only mental illnesses people take seriously are probably schizophrenia, bipolar, and multiple personality disorder. Every other mental illness, the general population’s attitude toward it is: “it’s a quirk, it’s not a big deal, it’s all in your head.” It’s not right and I think videos like this is great, it helps people realize how serious they are, that it’s difficult , and it’s something that has to be dealt with as soon as possible
You're not alone. Ocd has taken over my life and has almost costed me my relationship and my sanity. I've ripped door knobs from doors because i kept yanking on them thinking they weren't locked correctly. I've spent 2 hours checking my alarm I set for in the morning, terrified that I'll miss it and get fired from my job. It makes daily life full of fear and worry. I hope you can find something to help calm you and slow down your mind a little bit.
I have had it since 5. 5 years old. It only started to really interrupt my life in high school and now im 22 in med school. I keep my ocd a secret but its there....its always there. Always.
im pretty sure it ruined your life during the time you had it
OCD feels like I’m being forced to share my house with someone I don’t like and who doesn’t like me.
I know the feeling. Keep fighting, it's not true!
this is so damn accurate. For me its like im living with every bully i ever had in my head, except it has the energy of a toddler
literally!!!!
and the guest who doesn't like you is actively trying to destroy you and kick you out
Wow. That is such a great analogy
Living with OCD is an EVERY DAY BATTLE.
Try the linden method it cured my ocd once and for all:)
Yessssss! It's awful!
@@sash6882 tq
I know
@@leonidaskyrris8546 hi how can we learn that please explain i need help to overcome it
Ocd is no joke, it's a nighmare , it's death,it has crippled me but i'm fighting back
Don't react to the thoughts , you can slay it !
🙏🏾We’ll get through this....ignoring it is hard but it definitely works
Yeees. Fighting also
I’m going to ignore the thoughts too
My sister is also suffering with the same..
So hard to not react to the thoughts
I'm glad this is here. I despise my OCD. It is like constantly fighting your own mind and people do not understand how tiring that is.
Well for Pure O anyway.
Exactly
Yes! It is EXTREMELY exhausting.
they don't. they honestly don't.
Can't you fight your thoughts even if you clearly know that it is excessive and not really necessary?
Living with OCD has brought me to some of my darkest moments, and excruciating is definitely the word I would use to describe it
WellHiThere if you need anyone to talk to I’m here. I have ocd as well.... my darkest moments were all because of my monster living inside my brain
Go and try,Brad Yates EFT for OCD ...it's very very helping
excruciating is the right word for sure
I can definitely relate to the dark moments and excruciating, overwhelming pain OCD has brought to my life. I am currently disabled due to my OCD, Anxiety, and Depression. Believe me, I wish my OCD was just about organizing and keeping a clean house.
WellHiThrre Do u feel better now?
Ocd is like having demons following you everywhere always
This was my twin Scott who posted this comment. I do not have ocd
Bill Wilson yes exactly
EgFREAKINGzakly
because they are demons,....
It is satan playing tricks on you
Ocd is not about cleaning … it’s about fear and uncertainty that you cannot control
It's just a subtype and a manifestation of those fears and uncertainties
@@formerlygavin honestly, I couldn’t agree more!
Do you have ocd?@@itsjustmyopinionbut1671
@@itsjustmyopinionbut1671am suffering from ocd.i am just 19.please guide me .
@@jyotikalcrazyboy3014.1year_ago so was I at your age, but the only way I w ever been able to overcome the fear & uncertainly with such little effort & so much ease is by putting all my trust in Jesus. You’re free to not believe me of course, but I’ve got no reason to lie and every desire to help a fellow human being find peace and joy. If you seek him, you’ll find him. Don’t know you personally but sending you lots of love & wishing all the peace & happiness, my friend.
wow, I almost cry, only those who have monster, know the true suffering and mental prison
It is a prison my god I ought to know!!!
@@danielhirschberg876 yeah man, i hate this so much
It really does feel like a prison. It feels like an isolated prison, because it’s so hard to talk about.
@@laurenbrooke_96 No one understands, it's almost like it's pointless to talk about this.
i wish i could stopp i wanna dieee when i think about it
It is so annoying to see people use OCD so easily. OCD has ruined my life and it just hurts to see people use that word so easily.
Exactly
Try the linden method...it cured my ocd:)
@@leonidaskyrris8546 Can u plz share me how linden method helps you? I want to do it at my home without having to go anywhere. Please share their secret!
Ikr same
I feel the same way. Like it’s another trendy buzz word… It’s more than that.
I feel so relaxed reading these comments. Its like im not alone. People are fighting it with me.
Me too!!
Me too!!
Me too!
You aren’t it makes me feel better too
I feel the same way. struggling with ocd can be such a lonely experience.... knowing there's people out there that understand what i'm going through makes me feel better
As a OCD patient, tears coming out of my eyes as we are such caring souls and our main concern is to repeat things in order to not harm or secure the safety of others.
😢🖤
Your daughter is lucky to have a mom like you. As an OCD sufferer I can tell you that it's most unfortunate to have no one in my family who is capable of being there for me during an episode. They are too wrapped up in their own lives and problems and they've made it clear that my issues are a burden on them.
JC Morton have you joined the nocd app yet?
Mike Griffiths Thank You for the info and wishing all of you full recovery🙏
Zoya Moledina I feel for you.💛💛💛
@@zoyamoledina2969 Exposure and response prevention works. Make it your number one priority.
After 54 years of OCD, I can tell you that.
Keep fighting, WE MUST FIGHT! This is a war for your mind, and we need to change the relationship we have with anxiety. It will use every tool in it's arsenal to trick you. Don't let it win, be comfortable with the uncomfortable. I am striving to do the same!
this ocd destroyed my most valuable and enjoyable age .
baishali nag mine to, throughout my 20’s I’ve had it really bad
How many years my man?
I can understand those words that you said. I'm fighting with this thing since I was a little girl, it never leaved me alone. I never feelt alone in my own head. People like us should talk about this feelings more often so someone with ocd can know that he is not alone. Because when I was a little I was think that I'm alone.
@@annaf.8165 same. Sending hugs.
Its my 30s its taking from me by causing agoraphobia
This woman was so articulate explaining the story of her Daughters problems with OCD. Really helped me with mine. Thank you!
Iain Rayiru really...the material and substance of the talk is amazing but her presentation and manner of speaking was personally extremely difficult to sit through
OCD has me questioning ever moment and second of my life with intrusive thoughts that constantly have me on fight or flight
@@chelzyramirez3663 pretty good tbh just let them be thoughts and move on
Same bro
@@AllieBee00 how
Same same
@@gokulnath8043 I just put my hand on my chest breathe and remind myself that these thoughts aren’t me and that I’m a good person and move on.
I've been suffering from ocd for 5 years, with ups and downs. It feels like every day is a stuggle. It keeps me from doing everyday stuff like taking a shower, brushing my teeth, even making the breakfast and eating. Everything I do is filled with unwanted thoughts and it causes me to do compulsive actions over and over again. Everyone says I'm lazy, but they don't understand that I waste all my energy fighting the thoughts and I don't have motivation to study and do other things. I'm trying hard and I hope all of you find the strength within yourselves to kill the monster!❤
Hang in there..there are plenty of resources and help and take one step at a time...I am in the same battleground too
I say yes to starving my monster, but then the “what if this time something bad happens when I don’t check the house/room 35 times before leaving?”
You’re 100% correct about feeding the monster and making it stronger.
Each day for the past few months I’ve been feeding it & it requires a new ritual, a longer ritual, a more ridiculous intrusive thought pops into my mind and a new fear added to my list.
Starving the monster is literally the only way.
Now I just need to start
Hope you’re doing well! Another added analogy to the monster, you feel so anxious momentarily when you don’t feed it, excruciatingly so, but this is because the monster is angry and trying to lash out at you as you aren’t feeding it, but you keep that up and that horrible monster will wither, weaken, and die
I suffered OCD from 6 years old to 16, when I finally killed the monster and it never came back. I never told anyone, and the trauma of feeling so scared and alone scarred me so much. I just want everyone to know that you are not alone and that I know someday you will be able to kill it.
how’d you do it?
Thank you, I lost all faith but hearing someone believe in someday gives me strenght.
That's not how it works, this type of advice doesn't help one bit. Thanks for the fiction btw.
Why should the sane feel compassion about the mentally ill if the mentally ill makes the sane's person life miserable ! so why should the mentally sane people suffer because of these mad people.
@@chris1806because you are not immune to pain is why. Even bashing mentally ill people without compassion, is mentally ill in itself. Also, mental health is environmental and genetic and not about someone's character. And if you're suffering with someone, it's your life, and you can choose to separate yourself from anyone who aids in that. There's no superiority when people are all bones anyway. at least a lot of people with OCD still have empathy and care, more than it seems like you or anyone who thinks like you does
Excellent!!! I'm going to start starving my OCD Monster today! Thank you!
So........how'd it work for you ?
Yes! I'm starting today. Let the monster eat himself!
How exactly??
Did this work out for you?
@@sameraboyaseen1455 it's all in your head. Don't let the monster control you, you must control it
My OCD has taken over and caused me the worst torture of my life. I am not who I want to be.
same with me, I have terrible thoughts all the time and they do not stop, i had big hopes and goals to achieve but due to this vicious moster I am not able to. if you want we can share our thoughts with each other and the coping techniques.
@@rabiazafar5815 that would be great! My Facebook is Brittany Catherine Borja. I am doing better but it is for sure still there.
What is your condition now have you recovered yet
@@Conceptcenter-ut4yithank you for asking. I am getting much better. Evolving with it for sure. 😊
Make a difficult decision between living for a short time in an extreme and excruciating amount of discomfort and anxiety or living a lifetime with the monster roaring. These words will forever stick in my mind. So so powerful. Thank you ❤️
I suffer with ocd in the form of health anxiety. It crippled me for years and in turn my husband and family. The time I lost obsessing over my health. The worry, the ruminating thoughts, the body checking and the reassurance seeking was endless. I fed the monster kept it alive and strong. I am now a lot better due to starving the monster. It does rear its head and it has been trying to come back recently, and it takes a massive amount of self discipline to crush it all over again. It's a battle, but I am winning.
Love this!
Well done. I will also win.
I was diagnosed with OCD 18 years ago as a teenage. Spent my whole life fighting OCD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Yes he's Dr.benfungi.Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
From my experience it really works excellently! It doesnt even need to be a full hit. With potent shrooms 2-3 small ones will still make a clear difference. It will be a few hour cosy rumbling moment around rest time, but afterwards its just calm and you feel amazing and gain your freedom. Psilocybin is different dudes, its the only "treatment" I would recommend to someone who genuinely wants to get better. There is no addiction, withdrawal, or negative side effects. It's just pure healing., far more effective than any anti-depressant. You can thank me later,
My beautiful 29 year old son has sufferd for over a decade with severe OCD, Insomnia, and depression💔my heart breaks for our children.
God help him!
He has my sympathy...
My son is 27 and is suffering worse for the last year than he ever has in his life. He has several types of OCD along with chronic pain and depression. It makes you feel so helpless as a parent to see your child completely debilitated. I am desperately trying to seek help for my son. Thank you for sharing.
@@lyndamackenzie6476 I hope he is doing better
@@kristymarie6065 thank you. He is doing better! Not great, but thankfully he has more ok days than bad ones. 🥰
It feels like every time I tell somebody I have OCD, they always go "me too!" and go on about how bothered they are if their house isn't clean. They never talk about sitting in bed, unshowered, in tears, unable to eat or breathe, writing a letter to their internship supervisor from 7 years ago about a perceived wrongdoing that their OCD is now blowing wildly out of proportion.
I just wanted to take some time to share my experience.
I had a severe “pure o” ocd episode that lasted a year. Then, I was ocd free for one year ❤️ ☀️ and words cannot express how happy I was to be free of mental torment. It felt like I was freed from prison. I was a normal, happy person again.
Then, one year later, unfortunately OCD came back in a whole different theme. I’m currently struggling with it. I think OCD it’s making its last attempt at me. It’s making me recount all the mistakes I’ve made in my life and punishing me for it pretty severely for it. This is what is called “real event ocd”.
I plan to fight this monster the same way I fought and beat the other monster.
Stay in the fight everyone. You are not alone in this. 💕
I think I have pure o I have been struggling like 4 months and I’m scared that the thoughts and feelings won’t ever go away but you overcame it for a whole year! You can do it! And I hope I can too
@@chelzyramirez3663 , what has helped me is what I call “breaking the loop”. I took a week and overbooked myself to exhaustion, every single day, and surrounded myself with lots family, friends and coworkers. Get as busy as you possibly can and like that you won’t focus on the thoughts. Humans can’t multitask and focus on two things at once. Stay away from your home and only go there to sleep.
This will break the loop!
I’m feeling 80% better already. Trust me in this... it may be difficult but it will help you.
@@ElizabethGonzalez-jt7ns all I do is stay home though :( I’m 17 I don’t have a job which I’m hoping I get one soon and I do online school at home so it’s going to be so hard but I’ve been feeling a bit better for three days so far I haven’t reacted or question my thoughts and I’ve been feeling better
@@chelzyramirez3663 we can talk if you want to. Trust me I have the same situation as you and I am also having online school. I can give you my insta id here. I think having someone with similar situation and whom you can talk to will help both of us.
@@ElizabethGonzalez-jt7ns has the loop come back. I break it only for it to come back.
Your voice is so calming and satisfying....its like a meditation
Part of my OCD is voice triggers, and this woman’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard. It makes me sad that I can’t even listen to this whole thing ☹️
Lovely Liz
Exactly! Her voice gives me extreme anxiety and I don't even, usually, get that anxious anymore.
OCD for me is just PAIN. I don't know how to explain it but yeah just pain
ikeme Shitshow can i help u in anyway ??
"overcoming unwanted intrusive thought" on amazon that book helped me alot.
@henri fenix i too suffered from this .. its just take your life away.. but now after medications .. i can say .. i am completely fine
HENRI fenix Yeah i do have alot
HENRI fenix If u want i can send u
This talk had me in tears the whole time. OCD is so insanely painful and can tear families apart. Thank you for this presentation
Excellent. As a sufferer I found this very helpful!
i have kind of something like ocd....obssessive thoughts that need to be calmed down by reasoning all the time and its a drug ...a mental drug when you finally calm down your mind by reasoning you get a huge sense of relief kinda like an opium high....and the very next second the monster comes back and demands that you calm him down again.....one practical advice....the monster loves caffeine!
Look up Pure "O" OCD.
Anna Greer is pure ocd in the dsm?
William Diament it is ocd. Just as much as any just with repetitive thinking as a loop to decrease anxiety. Same game slightly different twist.
I hope you get over your caffeine addiction
"Pure O" is really a misnomer - you still have compulsions, they are just in your head so they aren't seen as the stereotypical physical compulsions (handwashing, checking, etc.) that many people associate with OCD. I have several OCD themes where both the obsessions and compulsions are completely mental. Rumination, thought review, mental checking, self-reassurance, self-punishment - all of these are compulsions, and all of them are done mentally. It's all just OCD. If you have thoughts/images/feelings/urges (obsessions) that take up a significant amount of time or have a marked negative impact on your life, and you do some kind of action (compulsion) to alleviate the anxiety caused by them, you likely have OCD and would benefit from seeing a specialist trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and possibly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
As the survivor of a brother who lost his battle to the monster it makes me so angry when people make it a joke. The jokes make harder to accurately identify uncommon presentations from the outside. Every joke feels like knives
@@rebeccaj7164 i feel sorry
So sorry for your loss ❤ sending prayers your way
I am so sorry for the pain that this monster has caused you and your family and so many others😔
All my love and prayers to you and everyone❤💐🙏
so why should the mentally sane people suffer because of these mad people. These mad people can easily lose control grab a knife and attack you..they should be treated just like drug addicts - locked in a special hospital and treated accordingly.
I would do anything in the universe to take away my son's OCD! It is just awful.
Pray
Me to
i tried homeopathy eventually helped mine 80% no joke. I wish you the best
God help your son!
Try Niacin (Vitamin B3) in larger amounts- about 500 mgs. Get the flushing kind Nicotinic acid but be sure to taper up to that amount slowly. And make sure he's also taking a B complex vitamin as well, as large amounts of one B vitamin can cause deficiencies in all of the other B vitamins. Make sure it's immediate release.
I have struggled with OCD since my 14. And even before seeing this video I always visualised it as some sort of monster and indeed I have found out that you have to try and ignore the compulsions and realize that the intrusive thoughts are not thoughts you want, it are just random images, when you however show fear towards it, the mind believes it to be important and latches on to it.
OCD intrusive thoughts are so bad. I have struggled with it for so looking. It feels like I'll never win. 😓 this definitely gives me hope.
Have you tried the amino acid n-acetylcysteine? It's helping me so much. Just sharing my own experience and wish you luck, you can beat this!
OCD is not just a chemical imbalance. It can be caused from many things, including trauma.
Trauma can trigger/ cause a chemical balance. Her point is that the basis of OCD is due to a chemical imbalance, whatever the cause might be
Indeed. I think firstly one needs to look at parenting. I do wonder about this speaker.
@@1stabletourMost of the time parenting and how you grew up doesn't matter,atleast in my case it happened when my brother left home,it was a big change that woke up the monster again.
I am literally in tears I so needed this prayers for Breland.
Living with ocd is a mental, physical , emotional battle .. it’s not some trend....
It has ruined me but I am fighting every day...
Are you okay now how is your condition now after 4 years
Guys I recovered from Ocd, just be courageous it is very important, and never do compulsions ur brain tells to do don't listen to it, take deep breath and do other work, never ever think of it again, if ur compulsion reason is high then think and do compulsion of not doing compulsion it helps to some extent, but don't ever try to do compulsions if u dont do compulsions u can recover easily, have courage and sit in sunshine for 15-30 mins(for serotonin) and read books, I read bhagavatgita it helped me a lot do read it ,u will get some courage(u can find it online ) in that god says to fight and gives u courage to fight and says many more things about mind,
keep ur self busy don't think too much and do the work more and also exercise and don't respond to your thoughts
What was the theme of your OCD?
I think by far one of the greatest take aways from this is how dedicated, compassionate and open she seems to have been with her child with this disorder. It's incredible the amount of benefit, or detriment a parents actions and words can have on a child, and especially a child with mental illness. It is truly unfortunate that mental illness has been tabooed, and it is even worst that there is such a lack of access to education for a lot of parents in regards to mental illness. I have severe OCD and grew up in a household that did not understand this disorder, and the consequences of that reverberated into every aspect of my life for years. My OCD was crippling and I suffered silently until I was 25 years old and was able to finally fight my way to access and education. Had I been shown just a hint of kindness and compassion, or had more access to help and information, things would've been so different. It's important to remember that OCD causes massive amounts of doubt and guilt, so reassurance, empathy and compassion are especially crucial in a person with OCD's life. Keep this in mind when interacting with a person with OCD, whether that be a stranger or a person near and dear to your heart.
So true, from fellow awful OCD sufferer
Well said. My parents were very cruel towards me any time my OCD was visible. My little girl has it, and I am on a mission to show her nothing but love and compassion, and help her work through this.
I don’t think very many people truly understand how excruciating and painful OCD is. It has ruined so many days and led to so many tearful nights. I wish I had the support that Breland’s parents gave her.
@@chris1806 the way you talk sounds like you need to be thrown away exactly how you describe, you sound like you live in the 17th century. mentally sane people can also struggle with mental health disorders! i won’t waste my time trying to educate you because clearly you have no basic foundation of what it is to be a human in the first place
This is what I did when I was young. I starved the monster and it became weak. I still have it sometimes but it's something I can just starve easily unlike before, I would spend hours checking on something just because my brain tells me I didn't do what I had to do . This can be healed trust me. Hardwork and perseverance and you will be cured.
How are you now?
I am at work right now and watch this video in between during a break because I needed it so badly. I've been battling the monster of OCD since about age 21 and I'm now 43 and the mother of six beautiful children and the wife of a lovely husband. OCD tries to dominate my entire life and this video gave me hope! My ultimate hope is in Jesus Christ and he is the ultimate healer and will heal all of our minds and souls in heaven with him if we believe in him as our Savior and Lord and repent of all of our sins you forgive those who sin against us. Thank you so much for this video
And u make another 6 Ocd sufferres cos Ocd is genetic, bless u u r a monster as well! 😏
I'm happy to have found this video. I, being a OCD sufferer from when I was a child, am happy to acknowledge that there is a mother so involved in learning about OCD and trying to help her daughter. It feels like a prison because it is a prison. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the right approach. Don't be ashamed, it's a disorder. Intrusive thoughts are just thoughts. Actually very bad ones but they don't define any of you. I send an hug to all of those who, just like me, are tortured everyday. Have faith in yourselves
We the sane and mentally strong people have to bear the emotional burden caused by weak and mentally sick people
Thank you I'm also a sufferer just recently noticed my repetitive actions. I'm scared that it'll interfere my academics. Please I just need someone to talk to cause I don't know who to share it with. I'm constantly suffering and mindgraines. Please can we talk?
Am grateful for this. People don't realise how disabling and also strange and random OCD actually is and that it can be many different things that are often deeply embarrassing. My OCD has in the past made me do things that are so bizarre I feel deeply upset about and ashamed of them
I feel you. My OCDs are often so embarrassing. I hope I can find the strength to win over them.
The part at 7:00 brought tears to my eyes, fighting back the monster almost feels impossible, but we're left with the choice of either giving in to the compulsions and suffering, or starving the monster and living a happy life
that’s the thing, the monster will be angry at you since you aren’t feeding it, but if you keep starving it it’ll become weaker, quieter, and die
I hate when people say they are like I am so OCD today, like as a person with OCD that's so annoying. I hate OCD. OCD is not clean your damn room or your bathroom
Her voice is so relaxing I can listen to her talk about something I hate but she just makes it sound like “you’re ok”
I love love Love this talk!! You have helped me to stop feeding my monster. I’ve had it since I was 8 years old. We didn’t have names for it back then as I’m almost 50. But in recent years, I’ve tried yoga and supplements which work best for me. But this talk and not feeding the monster, not doing the compulsions and rituals is so helpful. I have watched others talk about this, but something about your voice and the way you present the material soothes me and makes sense.
what are the supplements did you take?.
I haven't been diagnosed yet but I swear that's what it is. No one understands. I feel so sick and disgusted with myself. My anxiety is through the roof everyday. I can't even focus on work. I can't focus on good things or positive things. My parents don't understand they don't think I need help but they don't know what's going on in my head. I wish that someone could cast a spell and it just be gone forever. My heart goes to everyone going through this. Stay strong and remember you are not alone ❤
I'm in the same boat. ❤️
It’s heartbreaking and it’s ruining my life, this touched my heart because I understand.
Did you get better?
This is the sweetest voice I've heard ever, I can listen this for hours. Thank you for your talk!
thank you so much you spoke from the bottom of my heart. i've been suffering for 7 years now and still .. your words are so sweet i could feel their warmth ... i have just gone through that anxiety i rushed into the net for some support speech i swear your words have compensated the harm .. thank you for caring this much .. it really means a lot
🌻
You brought reality into the room.
Your name agitates my ocd
*Lisa*
But I feel it has to be *Lica* for some reason
But than again is it pronounced "Li-ka" , "Laaika" or "Leesa" if spelled "Lica" ??
@@Cecilxii please look up OCPD.
@@annak3325 My mother has OCPD but she doesn't wanna hear it
I know
Its bad
I have OCD and it's bad
But so is her OCPD
She thinks her Obsessive Cleaning and "perfectionism"
Is normal and everyone Is Like Her
I didn't get diagnosed until this year (I'm 29). Lovely to see that this girl grew up in a supporting family and was diagnosed early on in life
For those of us who are suffering with OCD, there is Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous and it really really really helps. G-Dspeed
How do i contact t them
I've been suffering since I was 15, now 28 and still fighting..I have pure ocd which is also causing me anxiety and depression.ive always felt alone, but it seems like so many people suffer with it. Insallah I will keep fighting and I hope you do so too.
Check out OCD Recovery on Instagram. The guy is Robert Bray. Honestly, he is the best out there. He is recovered but had it for years and understands it so well. You can recover inshallah! 🙏🏼💓
My daughter suffers from pure O. And I've suffered from a different form from the age of 8. Now 62. 54 years of OCD. :)
I feel ur pain cause i’m going through the same thing and its killing me😕🥺...we will overcome this
Thank you everyone for kindness. It gives me strength knowing that I'm not alone and that I can talk about it here
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Yep, nice to talk to others. When I first suffered from OCD 54 years ago nobody had heard of the condition. Now is a well known disorder and we have the Internet and social media to talk with others.
This fine lady is spot on. I suffer from OCD and know it can be an ongoing battle. But her suggestions of not feeding the monster is exactly what we must do; as painful as it can be.
I have OCD and I cried while watching this. I realised at 22 that I have been suffering from this. I don't take regular therapy and haven't been diagnosed but my therapists keep on saying I have "obsessive thoughts" and "compulsive behaviors". I have had suicidal phases because of my intrusive thoughts. I have started meditation daily which has helped me considerably. Hope I can get rid of it someday.
Thank you so much for advocating for those with OCD. God bless you.
I am a 54-year-old man. I have been suffering with OCD since I was a child. This presentation is excellent, and helps others to discover what I have had to discover on my own treating this situation. I like how you have separated "the monster" from the person. Because it is 100% true, that this monster is not the person. It invades my thoughts, interferes with my actions, it's everything you have described and I felt heartbroken for your daughter. In realizing that the monster is something separate from me, I have recognized it and learned to dismiss it: as you noted, starve the monster. It is always there, always, but if I acknowledge it and realize that it is misleading or misguiding my thoughts, I can beat it. My OCD has been crippling at times, where I have a thought about something bad happening to a family member if I do not perform a task in a proper manner, or if while I'm performing the task properly I have the monster give me a negative thought about my family or pretty much anything in life going bad or wrong. I can only emphasize separating the monster from our real selves. The monster is not who I am, and I can starve it best when my stress levels are low or when my medications are working properly, lol. Even doctors have a very difficult time understanding this disorder. When I feel well, I can dismiss the monster easily. When I am stressed and under a lot of pressure or anxiety, the monster sees an opportunity to feed. I do not know anything much about OCD in the social media venues that you mentioned. But I would like to know more about the group you discussed and the website you discussed so that I can read more about our disease or disorder, and help me understand that I am not alone. Thank you very much for what you have done.
Had the same affliction for years during my childhood to late teens . It is true; the more you perform the "rituals" and give in to the anxiety, the more it starts to take over your life.
When the OCD was at it's worst and the anxious toughts consumed most of my mind, the rituals, had less effect and became more numerous.
Ultimately it took hours of every day doing everything just right, just so that the anxiety would subside. But the slightest thing could make it flare up again.
I never told anyone in my family and did my best to hide it, since I'm not particularly proud of it.
In the end at 18 years of age, I decided I could not go on like this, life was miserable, and I stopped performing the rituals. The fear one faces then is a mortal fear, you no longer have control, the mind constantly wanders to the bad things that will happen. But I bit the bullet and kept ignoring the unimaginably strong urge to perfrom the rituals and take back control and eventually the anxiety, the dark toughts subsided, when it became clear they did not become reality.
Now, years later I still have a very mild form OCD, where I will sometimes check and recheck things many times just to make sure, but it only comes in periods and it's manageable.
Looking back on that whole period I've come to the conclusion that it was an attempt to have control over things, life, death, tragedy, that are actually beyond my control and the only solution was to accept that they are beyond my control, ignore my anxiety and take life as it comes.
@@chris1806 I don't think you really really know what OCD is.
They have the same negative thoughts everyone has every once in a while. The difference is, OCD sufferers can't get over those feelings so easily and really think something bad is going to happen unless they do some kind of ritual.
They are absolutely scared to death of harm coming to their loved ones, hence the rituals.
They aren't any more dangerous than a person without OCD.
@@clubtcb Did you even read my comment and try to understand my point! Do you have OCD ? it's a simple thing, you either harm those around you or don't. The OCD people are so self - absorbed and egoistic that they don't realise how they harm those around them. Not fair ! So you are just trying to force me to understand them and accept their toxic behavior but you ignore the feelings of the normal poeple. Those with OCD or mental illness should be segregated from society and placed in a mental asylum/hospital, receive adequate treatment and once they recover they can be released. This what happens to criminals and that's why we have jails so that criminals can change their behavior and not harm others. Another analogy would be Covid if you wish or someone who has a virus. The infected person should isolate so that he/she doesn't infect others. Simple! It's the same with mentally ill people. They need to seek medical attention as soon as possible and do something about it rather than make excuses all the time.
My 12 year old is showing signs and it is HEARTbreaking. I am right there with you Tauscha. xoxo
You're daughter is so Lucky to have such a great mom , it's difficult for non OCD people to understand the pain of sufferers
Thank You very much for your wonderful and kind words ❤
To all the people who are having aggressive OCD like me , don't worry , we can all get through !
I suffered from OCD since I was 6 and my family would always make jokes because they saw me counting they thought It was a habit of mine or pretending my parents would get mad at me every time because I didn’t stop they didn’t know I couldn’t😣and I really thought I was the only one in the world like that I started hiding it and my anxiety got worst when I was in high school. I had never heard the word OCD. Until I saw some one on RUclips explaining exactly the same rituals and feeling I always had that gave me hope. I started practicing meditation and praying this has helped me a lot.
I pray for those who suffer from OCD can overcome and defeat that monster you are not alone🙏🏻
It’s crazy how many times I fake a smile and let no one know what’s wrong but on the inside I’m constantly fighting with myself
Boy, that's me that's me
I started crying when she said that it wasn’t something that was our fault and it wasn’t something we could control. I swear I’m not like this on purpose 😭😭😭
Listening to this brought a couple of tears to my eyes because I go through the same thing with my own OCD.
so glad to hear , she had such an understanding parent. For me, I had to isolate from my family and correct it on my own .
OCD has crippled me more than I could ever imagine, I care so much for people and try my best to do kind things for them yet I still keep finding ways to torture myself and it kills me knowing that i’m doing this to myself but can’t help it. The intrusive thought part of it is one of the hardest struggles I ever had to deal with, fears and constant thoughts of hurting others or hurting myself when in reality all I want is to see the people I love succeed. If you’re dealing with this just know that you’re loved and things will get better as long as you keep fighting ❤️
First of all... I have to tell you that YOU ARE NOT THE MONSTER. You need to call that monster out and externalize it so you can see it for what it really is. It is not you! And you can starve it.
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@@chris1806wtf is wrong with you?
@@chris1806 i hate to break it to you…. but you don’t seem very mentally sane. seems like you’re at the very least lacking a lot of empathy for others.
in order to fight my ocd I just think about the face my heart can stop any second without any prior warning and that makes me so calm.
This is SO good. ERP therapy is based on this principle. It is so true. ERP has helped me tremendously.
Thank you so much for this. I’m gonna try to stave the monster today! Thank you so so much for this presentation ❤ your are a special human being
Thank you sooo much. This gives me faith that someday somehow I will be able to starve and slay the monster which has been destroying me for the past 16 years
This gives me so much hope. I have been fighting my ocd as hard as I can and its definately working
To everyone in the comments: you can beat OCD believe me, recovery is 100% possible no matter how bad you are. I had it from 5 years old and hid it for years, getting diagnosed at 15. I was free of the disorder for around 3 years by using complete acceptance and agreeing with the thoughts (so hard in the beginning but it works so well). In the last 6 months it has crept back in. Excruciatingly painful however I am determined to beat it once more. We are all in this together 🙌🏼
How r u now
OCD is the fight of my life every moment of everyday. A constant battle with yourself plus all the challenges in life on your shoulders.
This really helped me the mind can take you to the moon and back good luck to everyone who has OCD we can do it 🙏🏻
OCD is destroying my life. I have been off work for the last 7 days and in hospital care for several. Heading to youtube alongside professional help to get all the resources I possibly can. I try not to be sensitive when people talk about having OCD flippantly ... But the part they are missing is the DISORDER. Everyone has small obsessions and compulsions... But not everyone has a never satisfied monster that takes over their mind for hours on end and alters their way of functioning on a basic level. This video was super helpful. Thank you xx
I hope you are doing better.
Thank you so much, Tauscha. Understanding that OCD is never a choice is the reassurance that it has nothing to do with who we truly are. That’s a reassurance that I am forever grateful for. 😇
As a person with OCD, I totally understand how she was suffering. OCD awareness and providing free resources that will provide OCD sufferers with coping tools is absolutely important. This woman is doing a great service.
OCD is a real nightmare, i live with a spouse who had OCD it's been a hard life. My entire family is suffering because of it. It's not a joke, people who joke about the condition, doesn't even understand the gravity of this illness.
this is smart, I got rid of my OCD the same way
First it was anxiety, then it was derealization, then it was back to my normal anxiety, then to OCD :/ started a month and a half ago.
How are you doing now
@@isabellawillberg3872 Good question. I didn't know derealisation was part of OCD. I had that when I was younger. Before my OCD developed.
I am amazed by how soft and peaceful her voice is.
Brilliant gesture of support to the entire OCD community. It was very touching ❤
Why should the sane feel compassion about the mentally ill if the mentally ill makes the sane's person life miserable ! so why should the mentally sane people suffer because of these mad people.
@@chris1806you sound like a psychopath. Have you heard of empathy? I doubt it.
Amazing mom. Amazing partner in the healing process of this insidious, manipulative disorder.
I have been dealing with a though that says I should throw up everytime I'm at university and that's why it is so hard for me to live my university life and I'm so scared that I'll never overcome this but I'm also happy to know that I'm not alone and I hope that all of us will win this fight 💜
It is like you spoke to me, I’ve struggled and still do daily. Thank you for this video.
I have been suffering with OCD for 26 years..I have been on countless meds have seen tons of drs..even UCF have studied me...I am worse than ever...I am suicidal...I look forward to death daily because I would finally get some peace...I love my family Wich is only reason I'm still here...
Bless you Kerry, I have suffered my whole life with OCD. You are loved and needed on this earth. I understand what you are going through.
Just keep loving your family if that is what you can do today.
Keep loving your family and let them love you too!
I didn't know what is ocd until my young brother who was 16 year old had sucide few months ago after his death, we found out that he was suffering from ocd. No one deserve ocd. Ocd had robbed out my young brother enjoyable years and life. I pray for all of them who is suffering from ocd, god may heal u. But plss don't do it like my brother because it give us lot's of pain to my family and me also😭😭😭
I'm sorry for your loss my friend. God bless you.
For someone that is even on medication and fighting ocd everyday this video is so necessary ❤️
We the sane and mentally strong people have to bear the emotional burden caused by weak and mentally sick people @starkissed
@@chris1806bro what
this starving the monster concept was so incredibly helpful! thank u for this beautiful talk and for raising awareness on the true monster ocd is xxxxx
I sobbed watching this. I've suffered with OCD since 8 years old...it's ruined relationships, friendships and my life.
One of my Intrusive OCD negative loop systems of thought (going round and round) that controls my time, controls my mind is thinking that things i do are never good enough. I struggle in trying to perfect things over and over again until it makes me feel so tired i fall into a deep despair as nothing is ever ACHIEVED to my satisfaction. Pure 'O' takes a great toll upon my body it leads me into depression and the stress causes my limbs and bones to ache very painfully .
Its the compulsion you have to stop by thinking that nothing bad will happen if you don't do that. By doing that you could be able to starve the monster. Try some medication alongside.
You are “good enough” even though things will never be perfect. 💕
Brought me to tears. Suffered this far too long myself. Thanks for sharing
OCD makes you a prisoner in your own body. Controlled and never satisfied
When I gave my life to Christ in 2008. That Monster was killed and I’ve been free ever since
DID YOU IGNORE IT OR FACE IT? PLEASE HELP😢
smirkovs I could never ignore it because it controlled my life. When I found out that it was a battle in my mind. I knew it wasn’t good and it wasn’t from God.
Jesus gave me freedom over it 100% and it’s like that mindset was broken in me. The voices stopped and I could finally live my life free.
@@torythewild6409 I'd love something like that. To simply fade away. But I don't believe in god, what to do?
@@AssasynCounterExtrem Talk to your GP, they'll refer you to therapy if they think that it will help you x
@@AssasynCounterExtrem start believing. God is real. So is Jesus Christ. Go to a good church. Not a political church. Bible believing church.