2-Minute Neuroscience: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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- Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a condition characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions. Although the neuroscience of OCD is not completely understood, in this video I discuss one supported perspective on what happens in the brain to cause the obsessions and compulsions that occur in OCD.
For a more in-depth discussion of the neuroscience of OCD (on my website), click this link: neuroscientificallychallenged...
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a condition characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions. Obsessions are recurrent unwanted thoughts, while compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts often performed in response to obsessions, typically with the goal of reducing anxiety and discomfort. It’s important to note that OCD is often very distressing, and is not just a preference for orderliness, as the term is sometimes used to imply.
The neuroscience of OCD is not completely understood, and it’s likely that different neural circuits may be involved based on a person’s age and symptom profile, among other factors. One supported perspective on the neuroscience of OCD, however, points to a prominent role for circuits that connect the orbitofrontal cortex with a group of structures called the basal ganglia. According to this perspective, increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex is associated with a heightened focus on concerns that spawn obsessive thoughts. When the orbitofrontal cortex is activated in response to something the brain perceives as a danger or concern, it communicates with the basal ganglia. A simplified version of basal ganglia circuitry suggests it consists of two opposing pathways: an excitatory pathway called the direct pathway, and an inhibitory pathway called the indirect pathway. When the orbitofrontal cortex sends a signal to the basal ganglia, it often leads to an action designed to alleviate the discomfort caused by the perceived danger; that action is mediated by the direct pathway. In a healthy person, the indirect pathway then inhibits further action. In someone with OCD, however, the direct pathway is over-excitable, drowning out the activity of the indirect pathway and causing a difficult time switching to a different behavior or turning focus away from the concern causing the discomfort. Thus, according to this model, overactivity in the orbitofrontal cortex and the direct pathway of the basal ganglia increases the occurrence of both obsessions and compulsions.
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This disorder is absolute hell, I can’t even think normally without obsessing over an addiction and acting out on it as if I have no control, which is ironic because I know I do I just want it to go away. I hyperfocus to see if it’ll work but I’m carving the addiction even more, I sometimes feel like dying would be a mercy
there's a bit to unpack here, first off that feeling where you realise you've been living more of your days in pain then you have enjoying or even just in a plateau state is torturous, the fact you have this level of awareness though is beyond commendable and a beautiful staring point when talking to a pro, you'll be the kind of person to get a lot out of speaking to a psychologist, so addiction and ocd are massively comorbid, they feed into each other but are technically two different but similar behavioural based forms of a mental challenge one may face, as for your comment about having no control and wanting it to go away, that can be a really dangerous story to tell yourself, because we can create a guilt trip cycle whereby our awareness and understanding of that behaviour being self-defeating is then utterly defeated by the intensity of the craving we are staring down the barrel, no matter how much you know logic makes sense, the draw to relieve that craving will most likely prevail, so please start to think about this in terms of management rather than a fixed solution, you will be able to manage what your experiencing, that's the thing, your ability to manage your experience will be the key, and from my experience, going through any mental health challenge makes you a more authentic, understanding and relatable person, I would never take back the suffering I've endured because I wouldn't be the person I am today without it
Hi
A r u ok?
Pls tell me about solution to this disorder
if you are reading this comment you are so lucky because probably your ocd will get treated after you read this comment. I have been suffering from ocd the last two years and finally got a treatment for my ocd and i will summarize the treatment for you. the reason you have ocd is because you have a phobia of some thing like losing weight or losing your jop because you are worried that you may not get another great jop like the one you have. your ocd my start with you breathing by breathing manually or even start with your blinking by blinking manually and it spreads to other things like jumping in public places or moving you neck back to hurt your self but you can't stop your self from doing that . your body may try to tell you these ocds are different ocds but you should know they all are one ocd and they are connected and if you solve the thing that caused the ocd to you they will all go, even if you take the path of solving the that reason your ocd will slowly vanish, some people may say but I have so many things that cause phobias to me so how can i know the thing that causes ocd to me . the answer is ther is always one main thing that causes phobia and that phobia turns to ocd and the ocd creates other phobias so you just need to remember the main thing that caused the phobia to you and solve it. if you read this comment and your ocd got better or even fully vanished you can give me some tip💵 because it took from me two years to figure out this treatment and i summarized the treatment for you in just one comment and if you want to ask me more questions you can easily contact me on my Instagram: ten598g
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1. recognize that your intrusive thoughts are just that, thoughts. Don't suppress them. For example, try to avoid thinking about the number 3 for a (literal) minute. It's hard right? The more you try to avoid it, the more implanted it gets in your mind.
2. Try to avoid acting on them. Your mind currently goes: "I'm acting on my compulsions and [insert bad thing here] isn't happening. Therefore, it's working." Avoid acting on them as a) if you keep acting on it, it will affirm your fallacious logic, b) you'll see that it's not going to happen anyways and c) this will help you with the first thing, recognizing that they're just thoughts and not reality, nor you.
I hope this helped. I don't have it personally nor am I qualified to speak on this matter, but I hope it helped.
Jesus Christ is God and He is very, very merciful. Believe in His blood sacrifice on the cross, His death, burial, and resurrection accomplished our salvation. Grace through faith so no man can boast
My ocd has pushed me to the very bottom of the earth. I would not want this on even on my worse enemy. It kills me every day. I cannot go even 5 minutes without exausing and tiring myself from mental rituals. I wish people around me would understand. Mine makes me believe wild thoughts that are by no means true. It scares me and fills my body with fear and anxiety. I know these obsessions aren't true but for some reason I believe them until I perform my rituals... until the anxiety comes back again and I have to do it again. The cycle never stops. I am 20, in college, good looking, and am on my way to becoming a doctor and live a life that most people would love to live. I wish I could start enjoying life. I will never stop pushing and I will keep on trying my very best. Best of luck to all of you here. May we all rid of this curse in the near future.
I hear you and I am sorry... It is hell
I feel you😔 it's so tiring like sometimes I think "am I going crazy?"
Hey man, how are you now
Peace be upon you, my brother. I was suffering from obsessiveness and I was relieved of it: God Almighty says, “Only in the remembrance of God will hearts be at peace.” Repeat the word “There is no god but God” with certainty, and you will feel that the obsessiveness is starting to go away.
So relatable, it is exhausting to do all kinds of rituals and I just want to live a peaceful life . And the fact that people think it good to have OCD because they think OCD=organised and the fact that no one can understand our problems except people with OCD.
OCD is fear based. I also believe it is sort of an addiction as well. I also believe it stems from childhood... Looking at this video, OCD is wiring of the brain issue. I believe through proper therapy and us attempting to agree with ourselves that we cannot control everything, the healing can be done in our brain. Sounds easy, but it's not.
The only thing i have seen cure ocd is psilocybin. Worked for me
@@EroticMotionShufflin was it during a trial or just recreational?
Tell tht to me n Howard Hughes
Weed helped me out big time
I’ve never thought of ocd as a type of addiction but that’s an interesting thought
I have OCD, it was extremely severe when I was a kid, but as I've grown up, it's become almost non-existent, or much more manageable
It started after I experienced head trauma when I was 8. I fell down the stairs and gave my self a nasty concussion, which put me in the hospital for 3 days. The same year I ran into a tetherball poll playing tag and reconcussed myself.
I ended up developing intrusive thoughts, mostly based in fear, and would have to perform some sort of ritual. "If you don't flip the light switch 4 times, a burglar will break in and shoot you" or "If you don't breathe in 3 times through your nose and 3 time out of your mouth, you will die on your sleep" Very specific, and even at a young age, I knew it was irrational, but the fear was still very real, so I would follow suit. The intrusive thought would just pop into my head, almost every minute of the day.
The doctors would try dozens of antidepressants and anti anxiety medications, but all that managed to do was introduce me to mind altering substances at a young age which eventually got out of control.
As I stated, the older I got the better I became at managing my OCD. I still had compulsions as a teenager, but was able to take some control over what they were. I would create more subtle compulsions to deal with the thoughts like a quick flick of the hand or a quick wink, and as I hit my 20s, I no longer felt the need to do the compulsions at all
I'm lucky in the sense that my case improved with age, I do still suffer from the occasional panic attack and am prone to anxiety, but I've deleveloped coping skills like grounding or slowing down my breathing to bring my heart rate down, and that has also become much more manageable
I know this was long, but I wanted to provide some insight, I hope this helps
Same for me except for months ago I got hit out of the blue to the point where I'm looking into treatment and medication again. Supposedly mine started after childhood trauma
thanks for the comment
I have not looked at the clock correctly. So i go again heads up to wall and note time and come back. Then again it is not perfect or i should do it one more time. This goes like 20 times. If not done properly my friend will die.
In the notebook i leave the first line. Then one more line and atlast whole page or pages are left.
I will do anything in the 'correct way' only.
Hi, great story. Did you mean Earthing by the term grounding. 💛
Thank you for sharing. For me growing up I always felt the need to count things. I would count things i saw like cars, people, anything. The way i counted was weird like 1,2,3 and then 3,2,1. Then i would count 1,1,2,2,3,3, etc. It was this obsessive thought that i had to complete this sort of count. I also noticed that i would have this thought which had a voice warning me that if i dont tap, touch, walk over or repeat certain things then that would open up a path for harm or bad luck to me or my loved ones. Its kind of like the movie "Final Destination" or "The Butterfly Effect" where i wanted to control my future. If i didnt do these particular things a certain amount of times then i would hear a warning in my head indicating that if i dont do this then it will lead to some wacky dangerous scenario. Kind of like doing these actions will prevent or delay some type of impending doom. It will throw off the timing so to speak. I never got medicated or help i just remember one day of being fed up and exhausted. I didn't care anymore of what was gonna happen if i didnt count or listen to the voice warning me in my head. I began to ignore these thoughts and replaced them with this "i don't give a f**k mentality". I just wasn't going to listen anymore. It took a bit of time but eventually most of the madness went away. The madness being the NEED to count, do things and even the negative voice in my head. I think the best move was to give up control of the future and to recognize and gain control of the voice in my head. The real voice/thoughts will tell you it will all be ok somehow someway but it will work itself out. The negative voice will try to bargain and promise you if you do this.. then it will guarantee this other bad thing wont happen but we all know this isn't how the world works.
I've been suffering from OCD for 7years. The thing is, I know that these thoughts are just thoughts. I know that whether I perform the compulsive action or not, nothing will happen. I understand it all, but still cannot get out of this. I've been in therapy for 3years, I've been working on myself, I've also been suffering from depression and to be honest battling with these mental illnesses I've become stronger and I started to see myself as I am, not what society percieves of me, just the way I truly am. So if anybody is reading this comment, I see you, I'm with you and just know that your biggest friend and supporter is yourself, rely on yourself and believe in your abilities, cause you're the only one that truly knows who you really are!❤
Good to hear you’re working on yourself and only becoming better 🎉❤️.
What worked for me was avoiding compulsions.for example whenever I stand in front of mirror I used to get an urge to do compulsions and stand in front of the mirror for a long time to confirm my jawline exists lol.As soon as I avoid compulsions my anxiety peaks and so much that I suffer from facial inflammation and my muscles across my body get stiff due to extreme stress.but within 30 minutes my body gets normal and stress levels go down.now that I avoided compulsions within few days I noticed that the anxiety attacks that occurred everytime I went near a mirror no longer happen.the body adapted and now I’m at relative peace.but beware.if you agains start to do compulsions,this adaption that your body does to stay normal and not produce abnormal amount of steer hormones can be reversed if you again start doing compulsions.
Hey. Try eating pumpkin seeds. That will help you out a lot.
wow, never thought I could read a comment like this on youtube, love you, man
Yes u're right ..no one can be ur best friend except u..not even your parents understand what u're going through..and they just scolding and taunting u again n again so what to expect from other when ur own family members are not with u..it's seriously pain over pain..and now that I'm married so my husband also like society 😢
I've been crippled with ocd all my life I'm 50 3 times a minute for 15 years, but I'm still here , I had kids late and now I'm a dad , ocd ruined alot of my life but as hard as it still is I'm OK, I love my kids , don't Eva give up , I will struggle tomorrow but I'll deal with it , love you all x
Hey. Try eat some pumpkin seeds. They will definitely help you.
Genuinely thank you for the encouragement! :) Been crippled with OCD all my life as well, and it's really hard some days.
Do Inner Engineering by Sadhguru, it will cure OCD, cause yoga goes down to the roots and heals you..
OCD can be significantly reduced by mindfulness, those struggling with it I highly recommend it. Simply each day focus intensely on the breath for 20-30 mins each day
Im 19 and have ocd😢
thanks and good luck
Thank you for explicitly stating ocd is not just "quirky perfectionism 🤪" and is is alot more distressing
neurotic perfectionism is its own mental health challenge and can be extremely distressing, think of perfectionism as a spectrum disorder! it can completely get out of control and become totally obsessive and defeating, at the end of the day, whatever tricks your mind is playing on you, you're facing a mental health challenge when your experiencing more days in pain then you're not
A cashier told me she had OCD because I put a random object by her register 😒
Mam I get your job is to also be organized I was there before too but you don't have OCD. You're just passive aggressively telling me you don't want it to be disorganized in your area because you don't want to get in trouble.
@@yeimigarcia3161 the o in ocd doesn't stand for organized. The c in ocd doesn't stand for clean. The d in ocd definitely stands for DISorder
Stress is a major role to play a part in all of it best wishes and best of health to all ♥️♥️
I’ve had ocd since I was six or seven, it started as physical compulsions and slowly progressed to mental compulsions which are insanely hard to deal with, I label things good or bad every second of my life, thanks for the vid
I have the same kind of compulsion about thinking things good and evil. Mine came from being raised religious but since I've stopped believing in God it has somewhat lost its power. Though my OCD has moved on to other topics now 😂
Thank you for this film. I have had OCD since childhood and have tried many times to find how my brain differs from that of a healthy person. However, often the scientific articles were too complicated. Your video is short on topic and easy to understand. You also have subtitles which is a very cool plus. Best regards from Poland. 🇵🇱
@@narendrasinghbhandari6971 I'd like to hear it, but I'd like the full name or link.
@@narendrasinghbhandari6971 No, because you didn't give the full name. RUclips search engine is broken lately. Sometimes, even after typing in a certain name, the video will not appear. I'm from another country so I have other offers.
Eat pumpkin seeds to boost your serotonin.
What do you think about the idea of OCD being a disorder of free will? Also have you heard of Alien Hand Syndrome? I wonder if there is some overlap between the two, in terms of a lack of self control...
I like the idea of "2 min". Long enough to understand the info, short enough to not getting bored. 👍
My OCD Is pretty much constant. Aside from when I sleep. But when I'm awake I almost constantly check what and how I'm doing my actions to reassure myself I'm doing them right. And I'm constantly repeating my actions in my thoughts. And I do them in particular orders. I also look around me a lot to check If I've not dropped something or forgotten something. And probably many other things which I can hardly describe. And I realize this all but I just can't help but do my " ritual actions " to calm my anxiety or whatever it's called. And this makes me hate myself and feel depressed almost all the time. Cause I realize how messed up I am but I can't help free my mind from this constant strange obsessive thinking or whatever it is. It's like I even find it likeable that I repeat all the weird compulsions to calm myself thinking it's all fine and perfect around me and there's nothing to worry about. It's just a constant mental torture and exhausts my head all the time and I have difficulty focusing without the weird thoughts interfering. I just wish I hadn't been born at times. Realizing how messed up my mind is. Guess I'll just have to live with this curse which few understand.
Bro I can understand you, the very earlier I thought I was the only but now..... :) I have the same
@@tejastalukdar2171 I tried to describe my experience with my disorder as best as I could in my comment. And it's still difficult to imagine someone else having it like me. But I guess it's true.
I just try and control my mind as best as I can, and the rest I hope it will go away one day and my mind will feel free of it.
@@Gielderst you're and mine thinking matches the same about feeling life being messed up and let's hope for the best to come yet even still this time while writing this comment to you I'm having obsessions and compulsions
@@Gielderst it feels supportive when you find someone same like you :)
@GielderstGaming btw from which part of the world are you, right now here is night 3:00 am in India
I've had OCD since a early age and now just realizing that IT IS a problem, my OCD is centered around safety, to help cope with trauma from a early age- I'm doing wayy better now though but it lingers still 😭 I hope it becomes all a bad dream Someday
You say you have improved, so don't worry it will all become a bad dream some day! Positive thinking works magically for our body and it's a proven fact. Have faith in yourself 🥰😊
memory boosting foods and supplements help in ocd
hmmmm...I challenge your own narrative and self-talk about it being a bad dream, once we unlock these kinds of issues they kind of never go away, but through time and practise they become so manageable not a soul could tell that you've had to overcome this challenge, think of your progress in terms of management and progression rather than waking up and everything being back to normal, plus on the flip side, having these experiences makes you a more authentic, understanding and relatable person, I wouldn't take back my struggles because I wouldn't be the person I am today
My son seems to have OCD...it's tough as a parent to witness
@@Corrans give him memory boosting supplements
I have OCD (diagnosed by a doctor) and it was way worse when I was little than it is now. When I was little I would have to repeat my sentences constantly and NOBODY was allowed to move or speak while I tried to say the perfect sentence. Sometimes it would take up to 1 hour for me to get the right sentence. It’s much better as a teenager and I can thank Zoloft for that.
Edit: by perfect sentences I mean,
1. Can’t breathe while saying it
2. Can’t stutter when saying it
3. Can’t blink when saying it
4. Can’t move when saying it
There is a bunch of other things but those 4 are the only ones I can remember.
when i was 10 there was someone in my mind who named teacher if he tells me something and create rules i must do it they were weird rules like only can walk on the middle of the stair case if i have to go to downstairs or upstairs, repeat the same thing in 3times with the 0 counted and list goes on and i still do have them sometimes but not the teacher anymore
I was 8, first time i noticed thoughts going round and round with feeling anxious was recounting the exercise books under my school desk just before going home as the school bell rang like I wanted them to be safe overnight, and probably because I thought I'd get in trouble if any were lost.
I would count them 9 and then think I better count them again to be sure, but felt anxiety and I found it really difficult to get that feeling of relaxed resolution of finishing 9 done and just leaving the room, and because I felt anxiety and not the relaxed feeling of resolution i'd do it again to chase the right feeling - also knowing that i was running out of time as the loud kids around me would soon be leaving the room to go home too and i couldn't be there on my own counting books. The loud kids didn't make counting and trying to get the right feeling any easier! Somehow in the last split seconds I'd get the feeling of 9 all there like the thought of looking weird if on my own there made me say to myself 9 stronger to remember the number so i could leave with everyone.
Even back then I knew this really sucked and tried to count the books over like i was just looking for something on the floor or just bending down to do my shoes up but kind of panicking to count and get the feeling 9 was right, it was really difficult to move on! I can still remember from about 40 years ago that I had 9 brown paper covered exercise books on the right side in a perfect lined up pile under my desk, counted in 3 x 3s.
Another thing i remember thinking back then was seeing other kids under desks were all messy books and all sorts of crap stuffed randomly in there like they didn't care and thinking why do they seem to not care, how can they be like that, and why am I like this?
ive found that ocd is linked to anxiety and that anxiety is the cause and trigger to my ocd so whenever i get the urge i breathe and reduce my anxiety that way which works very well and the key is to do that while also making sure your mind is clear and relaxed so that when the anxiety fades, your back to normal that way or at least i am
Your comment made me anxious just reading it. Anxiety x5 to be exact haha
Thank goodness! Finally a video on this
This is a great explanation that helps to contextualise some of my experiences. For example, feeling the need to perform actions in a very specific way and getting frustrated and upset when I can't. Or repeatedly going down to check the door is locked, because the physical sensation of checking the last few times didn't satisfy that urge. Or this weird arbitrary urge to avoid letting something enter my field of view. Or random objectives driven by vague sense of fear, like "pass that lamp post before the approaching car, OR ELSE", or "get to the top of the stairs and clear of the view below, before someone else comes out, OR ELSE". 👀💦
Edit: There's also a weird thing I experienced with music. I'd have a song or a particular music cue in a game that I become super self-aware of, and it's something I don't want to hear repeatedly. But at some point, I suddenly find I have an anxiety reaction to it. And the sad part is, more often than not, it's music I like, and that anxiety and hightened awareness makes it difficult to enjoy it. :(
I too.
God that’s just me. I’ve been 60% sure I have ocd for a while now.
I compulsively check doors. I have a routine I go through where I have to know the last 3 messages I sent and I repeatedly check the wifi symbol, the symbol for my headphones and the battery symbol. I can’t explain why I need to do it but I do.
Recently I’ve also started with counting. Which I’ve heard is associated with OCD. I have to count the major things in the rooms or floor or even the whole house repeatedly (things like what doors I want shut, window I need to know are close, what dogs are where, where my headphones are, where the milk I just used is) despite knowing exactly where they are
I am also a compulsive door checker, as well as checking the stove to make sure it is off, and the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms to make sure they are working. I also compulsively check my wallet to make sure I have all of my cards, at least several times an hour, if I’m out, at least twice for each time I take my wallet out of my bag and put it back in, etc. This shit is exhausting but I always fear the worst, and most of it is safety related. It’s good to hear I’m not alone, even if it does make me sad other people have to deal w this shit.
if you are reading this comment you are so lucky because probably your ocd will get treated after you read this comment. I have been suffering from ocd the last two years and finally got a treatment for my ocd and i will summarize the treatment for you. the reason you have ocd is because you have a phobia of some thing like losing weight or losing your jop because you are worried that you may not get another great jop like the one you have. your ocd my start with you breathing by breathing manually or even start with your blinking by blinking manually and it spreads to other things like jumping in public places or moving you neck back to hurt your self but you can't stop your self from doing that . your body may try to tell you these ocds are different ocds but you should know they all are one ocd and they are connected and if you solve the thing that caused the ocd to you they will all go, even if you take the path of solving the that reason your ocd will slowly vanish, some people may say but I have so many things that cause phobias to me so how can i know the thing that causes ocd to me . the answer is ther is always one main thing that causes phobia and that phobia turns to ocd and the ocd creates other phobias so you just need to remember the main thing that caused the phobia to you and solve it. if you read this comment and your ocd got better or even fully vanished you can give me some tip💵 because it took from me two years to figure out this treatment and i summarized the treatment for you in just one comment and if you want to ask me more questions you can easily contact me on my Instagram: ten598g
I feel the music thing too.
I'll never forget the day when I was 10 years old me and my family went for a walk and I remember having the thought appear in my head "your mother is fat", which bugged me at the time because as a child I didn't know whether that meant I think that she is, basically my ten year old mind was questioning why this is a thought that is in my head. I couldn't shake the thought it would reappear on that day and only ceased when I would tell myself "shut-up head" as if I am directing that speech towards a separate entity - differentiating the origin of that thought - that is to say "my head" came up with that though and it is separate from me. OCD definitely has an anxiety mechanism within it's principles of functioning, this further descriptive anecdote describes this: my mother was very conscious of her weight when I was a child growing up and I have one particular memory where my cousin as a child at the time made a comment about my mum's weight in front of everyone and I have the memory of her crying in the bathroom the next day and my dad consoling her. I feel like the memory of this mixed with my love for my mother played a role in my OCD at this age when I would be fear driven by the thought of "my mum is fat" as this thought is something intertwined with my personal memory and plays on my own fear of how this subject upset her at the time.
Despite the fact that my "shut-up head" compulsion would relieve the anxiety I would feel at the time, this obsessive thought would not only consistently reappear but haunt me for many years to come, amongst other obsessions which I developed towards things I specifically care about like my family, relationships, myself and self-features and more. My OCD has always been something I've been aware of since that age of 10 but it was fairly calm during my teenagehood in the sense of I would have periods where it would become worse but periods were I wouldn't be affected by obsessive thoughts, then there were periods were the obsessive thoughts were present but I had compulsions and mechanisms in place to deal with them. As a child and young teen I would mainly have compulsions which were physically acted out so to speak like counting items, tapping/touching things a number of times or flicking the light switch on and off a certain number of times to "avoid something terrible" or the like. However, I feel like because I was aware that this behaviour wasn't common (a.k.a not 'normal' - which I don't like using this word) and therefore I would be judged for it, my compulsions overtime developed to become more mental based - that way I could relieve myself from my obsessions without outwardly displayed any obsessive behaviours to anyone around me. For a while I believed my OCD was "pure-o OCD" (purely obsessional) due to how sources describe it as mental imagery and entirely thought based OCD, however I now understand that OCD is a brain type/mechanism which is comprised of a few elements such as the physiological component (communication between orbifrontal cortex and basal ganglia system), anxiety mechanism and anxiety processing centres etc. (just to list a few factors in the OCD equation). There are a plethora of different types of OCD's out there although I believe that OCD is a brain mechanism as I mentioned and that all these different labels for different OCD types such as "sensory OCD", "purely obsessional OCD", "magical thinking OCD" etc. are simply describing different people's OCD's focuses, not describing the actual deeper workings of the OCD mechanism within the brain.
One other very important note to make is, I moved out of my family's house and lived on my own for the very first time in my life when I was 18 for university. I'd never lived away from my family before. The first month or so into it I was fine and settling in however I will never forget how enormously my OCD had just blew up in such a short space of time. To this day, no other period or time in my life rivals the magnitude of OCD and anxiety I was experiencing. I couldn't do normal tasks like going to the bathroom, getting out of bed, cooking food without trip wiring my OCD in some way. Bear in mind, how I had been dealing with OCD in my teenagehood beforehand with it seemingly becoming more manageable and under control as I developed becoming older up until this very point when everything changed. I'd read briefly online that many people with OCD are most at comfort when around their family or within the comforting walls of their familiar homes. This would make sense in theory as to why I had rapid onset major OCD symptoms, for example: I had never lived on my own before away from family in a big city and eventually moved back home as a result of my mental health.
Quick side note on the above story is that, my sister who never left home to go to uni or live on her own, she lived at home during her time being 18 and she also developed worser OCD symptoms than anything she ever experienced before (she had OCD symptoms before at different stages but definitely nowhere near as prevalent as me), BUT SHE HAD THE RAPID OCD ONSET AT THE SAME AGE TOO - despite being at home with her family. So this straight away tells me that OCD has at least one factor being physiological/genetic since both me and my sister experienced OCD having a sudden spike in symptoms around this same age in different settings/circumstances.
I want to wrap my insight story up by saying how for the majority of days (not every single day) since 2019 I smoke cannabis which is something I started in Feb 2019 up until this point I still use it in a regulated fashion. At first it seemed magical and as if a veil was lifted, I was able to think clearly in a way were I wouldn't constantly pause on my thoughts and become stuck on certain thoughts in an OCD loop. This was what I needed after my horror OCD experience at uni. Some days the high from weed would help my mental health by alleviating any OCD symptoms and other days not so much. On some days the OCD was powerless and I was able to understand better and clearly gain a grasp of how irrational and illogical certain compulsions and behaviours were, not like I didn't know before but just before I couldn't see through it/escape it at the time - the high allowed me to see through this more clearly and therefore helped reduce symptoms.
However, I want to make the point that sometimes the high made my OCD symptoms worse and there would be days (especially if I felt more generally anxious on that day) were my OCD was more of an issue as my high made me focus on the symptoms more. So although cannabis can be a medicinal tool which in some cases may help someone with OCD, it's important to consider the other factors involved which may affect how you perceive your OCD, such as the strain of the weed, the amount you smoke, stress/anxiety, etc.
Today I am choosing to delve into as much research and insights as possible to guide my understanding on the exact workings and mechanisms of OCD in order to not only structure my lifestyle routines to benefit me as much as possible but what potential medication I may start taking to help reduce symptoms. I heard getting a right amount of sleep can make a big difference to someone with OCD and the symptom they experience, as well as other factors such as eating a balanced healthy diet, drinking plenty of water, meditating and exercising. So there's definitely a lot to soak in... I believe that in our modern world today we are only beginning to learn the true depth and nature of the human mind and how it works, we are only at a stage what one might consider to be the first step in tackling the worldwide phenomena of OCD. Look after yourselves brothers and sisters, always be kind to your mind.
damn you just described me
Reddit has an OCD bot which brought me here. I'm glad it did as this video is very informative.
cognitive behavioral therapy or mediation have been proved effective in reducing the symptoms and even heal it completely as the mind having power over the physical brain as well
I have it and in my way to healing through meditation
Very simple yet informative explanation of OCD 👏💯
Meditation or medication?
@@juandiegovalverde1982 meditation and simple mind tricks like for instance if i checked the stove I made another move tapping on something or saying a word and then if my mind telling me you didn't check it I remember the move or the word so I don't get caught in this meaningless repetitive compulsive cycle and it worked cuz the less you respond to this repetitive compulsive cycle the weaker it gets until it vanished completely
@@maxd3028 so you replace a compulsion with another compulsion?
@@juandiegovalverde1982 read what I wrote again for the sake of understanding not just responding
It really helps?
Recently starting medication has helped me manage my OCD and anxiety disorder so much. This was super interesting to see exactly what occurs in my brain! I think the OCD thought patterns are almost hardwired in there to some degree though, I was diagnosed as a very young child and it’s taken a lot of work to think more “”normally””
Hello friend Im glad to hear you’re feeling better 🙏 what medication did you start? I have something called fluoxetine but it doesnt seem to help alot 😕
we are fucked
How are you after medicine
Idk if i need the medicine...
Like I love doing the thing so much it's not bad. I will go insane though if something is not perfect
Go with Therapy, not medications. Medications are not a cure for OCD.
every time I have to remind myself “ you’re not making excuses for yourself, it’s OCD “ when I get this out of the blue intrusive thoughts, and I started recognizing them. It’s very specific thoughts that make me questions my beliefs ( in my case ) and they try to tackle and destroy everything I know about myself. Then to help unwire the situation I have a little notebook where I write down all the thoughts and process that baffled me. Then I slowly start to unpack why am I feeling like this and I slowly come to terms with the thoughts, and I feel better
For me, I get the intrusive thoughts so often that if I try to reassure myself every time I would spend the whole day doing it
"out of the blue" is a good way to describe these sudden silly thoughts that pop into somebody's head - and the thought can be anything anytime, something you NEVER thought you'd think and definitely have NEVER done. Or they can be an old thought coming back you worked on in the past but you have to go over why it doesn't make sense AGAIN!
I've had a thought I've never had before out of the blue split second stuff, that makes me doubt something even though I know at the time everything IS or WAS ok, like there's no reason to have the doubt, but i still sometimes find myself having to go over this thought and reducing its anxiety by pushing back against it almost like debating it with all the reasons this thought is irrational and not based in reality, like i'll have list of reasons why this thought doesn't make sense - thing is this list, even though logical, sometimes becomes OCD like against the OCD if that makes sense.
The thing is though, they say you should just ignore the thought but the anxiety is what draws your mind into the intrusive irrational thought and then it can go round and round. They say you should just dismiss it as an irrational thought and move on do something else, and give the thought very little attention to lessen its hold on you.
I sometimes think people take drugs and drink to block this recurring mental stuff but won't admit that's why, I tend to rationalise against OCD's irrationality, but it can become like rumination. And I sometimes tend to have avoidance behaviour if I haven't completely pushed back against it.
I've spent my whole life trying to figure out what was wrong with me and just recently broke it down and then these videos started popping up and now that I understand what's wrong with me I'm not sure where to begin I've lost a lot of people in my life because of OCD people think that it's something more sadistic or psychotic or schizophrenic and I've never been diagnosed properly always misdiagnosed as anxiety and given a bunch of antipsychotics that never worked the only thing that ever worked for me was Klonopin that I had to get off the street and I just watched this video on a soft white underbelly about a woman with obsessive compulsive and she said the only thing that she does is take Klonopin. Such a great video though everything she said is exactly what I'm going through it's like having someone in back your mind constantly screaming at you about the things that you care about the most I've lost a lot of friends because I'm constantly guilty because I have this voice in the back of my head screaming I don't like you I don't like them I don't trust them I hate your friends you should kill yourself you should tell them you hate them you're going to do it anyway with everybody thinks you're a pedophile or a murderer or a creep
Hey you're just like me. Sadness.
You seem like the exact type of friend I'd have. Good luck with your ocd like me
My brain might have turned completely different due to childhood trauma, i'll say it's related to bullying
Glad to see people like me out there. Makes me feel a lot better
@@necroavirus we are not alone! finally i feel normalish, like atleast there's more of us
i relate to this so much u aren’t alone, i get very lonely because i push everyone away for the same reasons as you and then feel even worse about myself because i go through many phases of having almost no friends
Get some pumpkin seeds and start giving yourself positive reinforcement. Be aware of it and counter it with rational thoughts.
Do you feel like there is some overlap between OCD and alien hand syndrome? Seems there is disruption to some free will going on with these kinds of disorders and some overlap in the brain mechanisms.
OCD is absolutely hands down one of the most debilitating conditions.
So true
I have OCD thankyou, had for about nearly 15 years now
12 years, in my case.
@@username3543 I was born aspergers, not to get pity but childhood abuse causing schizoids with avpd, ocd came after isolation outside of school. It's very common with people on the spectrum
@@Stoogie we are very similar, fortunately I didn't experience any childhood abuse.
You can overcome this❤️❤️ much love. I’ve had OCD for a year and a half but I can happily say I’m fully recovered((:
@@shrey245 praise be, blessings to you!
OCD can be significantly reduced by mindfulness, those struggling with it I highly recommend it. Simply each day focus intensely on the breath for 20-30 mins each day
An OCD sufferer, I just love when others think I can and should snap out of it without realizing that’s a lot like telling a deaf person to listen harder.
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Thank you, King!
I also have problem with compulsion... specially I have compulsion for counting letters of words while I am reading...it have really hampered my academic status... others think that I am just being ignorant but it's really hard to deal with it...... and there are a lot of those compulsions in my daily life .... It really feels soo bad but I can't deny!
Same here no one understands
Selective Serotonin-reuptake inhibitors. Antidepressants. That’s the best treatment.
@@juandiegovalverde1982 Can't take SSRIs anymore, but when I did they helped my OCD and CPTSD symptoms tremendously
@@elise7593 why can’t you take SSRIs anymore?
@@juandiegovalverde1982 Ocular inflammatory reaction
I have this extremely bad. Thanks for educating!
Same
Does anyone else have lots of head pressure in the center of their brains like I have? It's not a headache, it's just this pressure that's always there. It's like that part of my brain is always over working.
Youre most likely feeling pressure in one of your sinus cavities; there are no receptors in the brain for pain or other sensations.
Yeah, feeling like there's a stone inside my head
@@joshgreen19 How to fix it
Always
I have always time
Hello everyone, I had OCD, it creates a feeling of anxiety or some terrible things will happen if you don't do what it commands you, but the simple way to escape from it, the method I used to escape is " Do the opposite it(OCD-Brain) tells you" For example, when I was walking I see a leaf on the road, my OCD will tell me to pick it up or else something terrible will happen or I will fail my exams, the time I had my OCD High was when I was in my grade 10th ( sophomore year) if I didn't pick the leaf I would fail the exams if I didn't do what it(brain) said I would fail my exams or get low scores, Now just create a program in your brain, whenever the brain(OCD) commands you to do something, do the opposite, if it tells you to pick the leaf and it will notify you if you didn't pick it up you will fail the exams or get low scores, Create a program that tells you, if you pick the leaf then you will fail the exam, if you did what the OCD(fear) tells you then that terrible thing would happen, this really helped me, This is what I call the "REVERSE OCD METHOD", it counteracts the effects of OCD's Command, The root of OCD Is Fear(Something terrible would happen)if you didn't do what it says. You obey its command to not let terrible things happen and you get relaxed after obeying its command this forms a loop, Now follow the steps to counteract OCD
Step1: Identify that fear(which the OCD Brain uses to command and bully you), if you couldn't identify it, Simply note(Be aware) the next time when the OCD Brain commands you, and know what it notifies you if you didn't do what it said, In my case, it was fear or obsession of my school grade-the OCD identified it and used it against me "Your brain is your Greatest servant or worst enemy". For example, if it tells you to do something like organizing the items, re-check things, things don't make sense, etc. Find the root fear and what it tells you if you don't do what it said, This will help you know what is the root fear or obsession you have and have an attitude of letting go of what you obsess
Step2: You found the next time the OCD Arises( It will tell you to do something or something bad will happen on your fear or obsession) Do the exact opposite of what it said (for example, if it tells you to open and close the door again, which already is closed), you control the urge to not do what the OCD said you, The OCD Knows you are resisting against it and it will create fear on your obsessions( For example, If your obsession is to get a girl love you, It will create fear that says, She will hate you if you don't do it, or you will lose her to somebody, things like that)
Step3: You create a program in your mind that says " You will do the exact opposite of what the OCD Tells you or If You did what the OCD said then that bad thing will happen (Like the girl you love will hate you or she will love someone if you did what the OCD Tells you. This program counteracts the OCD Effects in your brain and in the long term the urge to do what it said will diminish and you can finally get rid of OCD, This is what I call the "Reverse OCD Method" use this method never let OCD Control you.
Thank you for reading, If you read this please follow the steps mentioned above, Thankyou
I need to talk to you. You tried those steps?
What he's describing is basically a version of ERP which is a standard treatment for ocd. He puts it well though
The only thing imo that has helped me deal in some way with my ocd is the fact that I accepted that I am capable of good actions but also acknowledging I am also capable of horrendous things as well. I think people like us struggle with finding a balance with ourselves instead of accepting who we truly are we try to hide and sedate a part of us that is just as big and important as our “good side”in other words we struggle with our duality . I’ll leave you with this quote that helped me “It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war” we must accept who we are and what we are capable of if we ever want to feel at peace with ourselves .
That makes sense, however you are the only one having that conflict as a result of your condition. Try eat some pumpkin seeds and see if that helps.
You are right, there actually is plenty of literature examining how OCD can manifest as linked to a patients moral self-image. You aren't alone!
ruclips.net/video/Q9yKaI0vLJs/видео.html id like to leave this video here which discusses this manifestation in "Pure-OCD"
I never even realized it until now but i think i had OCD when I was younger (and still partly today, but not very severe). I had some really complex and weird rules I gave myself for some things. The most prominent one probably this one: When I went to the bathroom, I would have to step on all of the (4) little carpets in my bedroom in the correct order, without stepping on the floor. The first one was infront of the toilet, the second one infront of the bathtub, the third one infront of the shower and the fourth one infront of the sink. So I would have to step one the first, second and third carpet, without touching to floor, before I could step on the one in front of the sink. Failiure to do so by, for example, touching the floor, would result in me having to punish myself by going that same round twice without breaking any of the rules. Failing again meant I would have to run an extra two more rounds. I thought that something very bad would happen if I didnt do that, so I kept on doing it for many years. At some point though, I loosened the rules more and more and i dont know when but suddenly I just stopped doing it and just went to the place I had to go to in my bathroom without following th rules. I remember that I had A LOT of other stuff back then where I made rules for myself, but honestly I dont remember any of them, except one where I only allowed myself to drink sparkling water when the water actually made that sparkling sound when I shook it. Thankfully that stopped quickly, otherwise I would've thrown a lot of good water away. Anyways lets just get to my current situation. As I said in the beginning I still have that disorder a little bit but definitely not in the same magnitute as before. The only thing I still do today, is that when Im in my bed and I crack my knuckles, I have to crack the same number of knuckles on both of my hands. For example, when I crack two knuckles on my right hand I have to crack two on my left one as well. But when one knuckle doesnt crack and its not the same number, I can crack my back or neck to "reset" it. Im also not telling myself anything that would happen if i dont do it, I just do it because im like literally forcing myself for no reason at all. And when I fail, i usually just accept the defeat and just get to sleeping or standing up or whatever. But honestly, Im not really planning on changing that, as its really not an inconvenience for me and I really just dont care enough to change this "habit". I do gotta say though, that I never actually got diagnosed with it, as I kept it really really hidden from my parents and Im pretty sure they havent seen my do that stuff like ever. Honstly though, im not even gonna go to the doctor because of this, as it is really no inconvenience for me, as I already said. Im pretty certain this one last "habit" will go away soon too, like all the other ones did and I'll finally be able to crack my knuckles in my bed in peace lol.
Edit: Wow that was long, really a lot I had to get off my mind there
Edit 2: I just remembered two of the things that i once did but forgot what they were. So another rule of mine was to get out of the bathroom after I flushed the toilet, so I wasnt in the bathroom anymore once it was done flushing (tbh i still do that often today) and another one was that when I wanted to close the fridge, I had to cross an imaginary line that was a few meters away before it closed shut, so I always had to give it the door of the fridge a little swing to close it instead of closing it "normally", as I wouldn't have been able to cross the line before it closed otherwise. All really random.
Now it makes sense!👌 good explanation. Thanx😊💪
I have OCD. Thank you for the video 💜 Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
Find a good homeopath , your OCD it will be cured , YES you can heal it !
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an imbalance in brain chemistry. It is irrational delusional thoughts in the brain that are malicious false thoughts that force a person to perform compulsive rituals such as checking door locks or cleaning hands.
Since my childhood, I have always believed that everything should be perfect in what I do, meaning no mistakes, no chaos..
This caused me great symptoms of hallucinations and dissatisfaction, because with time I discovered that you cannot control everything and must fight hallucinations with a brain challenge ..
Having obsessions is bad enough then i get obsessed abt whether i even have ocd or not. It thrives on uncertainty
Terrible. Boost your serotonin. Eat pumpkin seeds. You'll feel better.
During my Masters i couldn't even concentrate properly on my thesis and i ruined my presentation because of it and the full neurosis came when i came back to my home where i just became fully depressed because of it but i got back up after ssri treatment and understanding and reading a lot about OCD and spirituality, gathered a lot of will to do this and again i feel like i have become normal if not completely but it's satisfying to get over it, makes it not a complete loss of life but i did learn a lot from this experience of my life.
Anyone can do it just never let it control you, you should never stop doing something you love because of it, that's the key takeaway i have from it.
Wow that’s fascinating and interesting. Thanks! Always love these videos
I fucking hate ocd....i cannot control my thoughts and my feelings, it ruins my life everyday ...and i cant cry about it to anyone cuz they'll think im crazy. I pray for a cure.
You're not crazy, that's for sure. If you are able to, you need to visit a therapist in order to tackle this issue and learn how to act whenever your OCD is triggered.💞
@@evelynbecker4916 I hope you don't mean drugs. There's specific medication for OCD that someone can be prescribed if they're having trouble with therapy
Simple and powerful. Thanks.
Great video!
ocd is my greatest battle but i also deeply believe that it is my greatest gift
Huh
with OCD “calm down” aint possible our brain literally going insane with activity giving us the feeling of anxiety
Eyyy interesting! I have OCD and depression. Those obsessive intrusive thoughts are torture! Especially now when it sky rocketed along with anxiety during the pandemic
Try to use methylfolate and fishoil capsules ....just Google it about these 2 .
it may reduces ocd and depression
Same bro , wish we will be fine !
@@sivasakamuri8 I am suffering from bathing OCD since 15 years. It takes 4 to 5 hours for me to complete bathing. I am unable to do any other work and wasting my life and time simply for bathing OCD.
@@venkatamadhava278 I suggest you to try to use methylfolate for a month and observe changes. Fish oil takes little longer time to show effects..may be month or 2. Methyl folate will show effects in days...it's our personal observation. Right nutritional supplements will definitely decrease the severity of the OCD.
@@venkatamadhava278 did you took counseling? ...telling and convincing your brain that taking bath for 10 mins or for 5 hours will have same effect in removing dirt? Taking 5 hours may washout normal flora in skin and increase the chance of skin infections?...why don't you experiment yourself? 30 mins of bath...for a month and see if you get any skin infections? If you don't get any your brain convinces itself...and you can give yourself some gifts or etc..for the achievement.
its really causing me so much stress i cant enjoy like my friends and cousins do and because of this i can't sleep in night idk how to stop these obsessive thoughts
I hope this helps someone out there: Had OCD/obsessions/compulsions for a long time since young age, probably since i was like 7-8 years old. When i reached middle school it kinda went away (i guess i got busy with so many things i stopped caring? Idk) and was good and manageable for about 13-15 years. Now im 24 almost 25 and it’s comes back almost full force. Idek from where. It’s odd cuz whenever i get into an episode i know very well thats its an obsession/compulsion but its so hard to break free of it. Some times im able to stop caring just enough to pass thru a scenario without the compulsion, and other times it goes full force stuck in a loop. The biggest piece of advice I think I’ve ever gotten is with ocd, to “break it” you have to essentially just become careless. Don’t try to fight it, don’t try to argue with it, don’t try to logically explain to yourself how you actually did a thing or how you didn’t forget a thing or how such and such a thing is in order. Rather, when it hits you with a fear just be like ya probably but i dont care. It feeds off of your fear and anxiety so you have to Almost like give it a shock factor that you just dont care. It’s difficult at first, but you are bigger than your fear, contrary to how it might make you feel otherwise. Treat it like a little rascal kid asking you useless what if questions. Just be like ya probably but who cares? Eventually that acting careless will “rewire” your brain on how to manage intrusive and see them for what they truly are.
Thank you so much
I have OCD. It holds me back from a lot of things. Especially reading. For instance, I read the title of this video as, two tac minute Neuroscience colon Obsessive tac compulsive disorder open parentheses OCD close parentheses.
Nice. I tend to wonder if a mini-version of this is what is happening with animal instincts...Like bees, beavers, nest building with birds, etc.
I'm getting into a clinical trial for fMRI-guided focused ultrasound to try and interrupt the looping neural circuitry that is behind OCD. So far they have a 2/3 success rate in decreasing symptoms.
I am 33 have had a heroin addiction, was dx with this at 7. Then ptsd and adhd and more more more. I am trying to address this again and starting over.
Thanks!
Thank you!
OCD is a private hell.
OCD aka The Torture chamber
@@richardsmith8790 yes. 💔
i have OCD and it’s the worst, thank you
Thank you😊😊😊
I woke up one day 4 years ago and started repeating phrases in my head and thought it was weird, now 4 years later its about looking at the hour and halts my thoughts all the time and takes up a lot of the time i have each day
I had the same problem but I learned not listen to them and now I'm fine just give me your insta or anything and I will help you
@@randomMacedonianguy I had way worse ocd back then but now it's starting to slow down
@@Catroll111 that's great if you need eny help you can give me your insta
Smart definition
I have suffered from OCD for years,I suffer from epilepsy and had right lobe surgery as they say the brain is an organ that is very complex medically and psychologically
the scariest part of about OCD that it can come in many forms...
Been seeing a therapist for a few months now and finally speaking to a doctor soon about my condition and getting prescribed medication.
Therapy has opened my eyes to what’s going on. I’ve never been an advocate of medication for myself but now I know there isn’t another option (not that it’s bad thing).
Lastly, I knew I had OCD tendencies… but I had no idea that it was responsible for my intrusive thoughts, including suicidal ideation, etc.
OCD seems pretty innocent… “oh, you just wash your hands a lot and are neat and tidy”.
Well yeah, that’s a PART of it… but when my OCD is bad it’s like a nightmare that I cannot wake up from. And again, the thoughts are terrifying, unwanted and feel like they are coming from somewhere else.
Please talk to a therapist and not rule off medication. I’m going on 36 soon wishing I would have done this at least a decade ago.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your experience. I only began to understand my ocd situation as an adult because it got worse as I grew older. I am still skeptical about medications.
@@flowboyle8376 I had been skeptical and avoided medication for years. I even told my current therapist that I wanted to try avoiding medication. I wanted to go to therapy weekly and work on it for awhile.
I finally came to the conclusion that no amount of therapy will help me get over “the hump”…that something chemically was affecting my brain.
I have trust in my therapist and will continue to speak to him weekly. He reassured me that if any moment, I don’t feel right about the medication, that he would talk to my doctor and me.
I’m really at a point of desperation. I need to try medication and continue to work on it.
I have ocd i have not told anyone i cannot sleep during day i m ok but whenever i try to sleep my compulsive behaviour worce i dont know how to tell this to my husband 😢
I have been suffering from ocd and ptsd for 20 years. I am on medication and practice martial art. But good at studies ,so now i am a lawyer, and a writer.
I'm suffering from OCD for 11 yrs
Now I'm 18 yrs old
This disorder kills my hapiness
I feel so lonely
This disorder are increases day by day
How I can avoid unwanted thoughts
My OCD has left me to the end of my studies I cannot think of studying because I am quite depressed.
I also have same problem brother.
I felt very irritated in my third eye the centre it wasn't my awakening for spritual people but that part hurted a lot now i know why
Whenever a negative thought comes to your mind, or even in any situation, you can instantly relax your mind by saying, "It's a false thought and lie". This way you can completely eliminate the compulsive part. It's like trying for 5 minutes not to think about an elephant. When you try to do that, your mind fills up with nonsense like this. You can relax your mind by knowing that this things just mental garbage and lies.
Idk if I have ocd or not but I think I live with mild version of this too
Like I have my own rituals, It's like I'm bound to do it
I also made a ritual that whenever I climb stairs,I would skip a stair
If I don't do that, it would bother me all day
I've seen similarities of ocd in myself
Sometimes it's annoying
Like I have my own rituals, It's like I'm bound to do it
I also made a ritual that whenever I climb stairs,I would skip a stair
If I don't do that, it would bother me all day
And I would say to myself "If you don't touch that wall, everyone will start hating you"
After laying down in bed, If I see the curtains are open just a little that isn't a big matter, My brain would say " get up and fix that curtain or else you won't sleep for 2 days" 😭
Could dopamine over production in the pars compacta be the cause of the direct pathway over expressed and the indirect pathway under expressed?
why does this disorder have to attack what I love most? why couldn't it just make me worry about stupid shit I don't really care about.
If you stall, it’s going to get worse, basically to say if you can obsess over one thing surely you can make your mind obsess over those thoughts being rid of
Obsessions are unwanted thoughts.. images, or urges.
I gotta remember to say "Sorry guys my Basil Ganglia is acting up again" next time I have a really bad OCD episode.
Lmaoo
I wonder if there is a way to have group therapy online with zoom? That would be so great to have help
Very interesting to say the least. Could this result in head ache in this overstimulated area then?
I’d rather be in a wheelchair than have ocd and intrusive thoughts
Whenever a year comes up in the past I have to count how many years ago this year took place. Sometimes I have to count the amount of letters there are in a word. This is very time consuming!
I have always had OCD but it has seemed to have gotten worse the older I get. I was diagnosed at age 16 and have been getting treatment for it for years; but the symptoms are still strong although a LITTLE bit more manageable. SSRIs don't work for me (I have tried them all) and I found the best working combination of medicine I can get though it only offers some relief. I wish it could give me more relief because some symptoms that I didn't even have younger I have now and are still powerful.
I know OCD is a tough life 😔 I havent been diagnosed by an actual doctor but i have gotten treatment since summer, the psychologist (or whatever its called) says i do have this but its at the point where it can be treated and stopped. So ive gotten better with training and her tactic of ‘exposing’ the ocd monster inside of someone that grows whenever you do these obsessive compulsive thing. I constantly do weird stuff still and its like an addiction, i dont get the feeling that something terribly bad is going to happen if i dont do these things (various things, thankfully i have stopped the one that was actually extremelt bad for my limbs) so i know that my case isnt as severe as an actual ocd diagnosed person, and therefore i would never dare to relate too much, but i really REALLY hate how i have it with this because i constantly have to do these random things and they all have to be done an X amount of times, to think that someone like you are living the same but worse and so bad you have to take medicine, i feel bad. Im praying for ocd diagnosed people, i hope you will recover and get better atleast some way and i wish you the best ❤
@@bacon7149 thank you
@@lisa78419 did you try cbt or pscotherapy that helped me alot
@@AesthethicAkhira I've tried it
@@lisa78419 it didnt help?
I was thinking about ocd days and nights Struggled with it for 6 years. I knew in my heart that its getting worse because I was doing something wrong. I heard people saying about praying to Jesus. And reading the bible everyday. But I didn’t know how to start. I knew I needed to stop sinning (like watching porn and thinking about the temptation before I will start reading bible) And then I totally stopped watching it for a month, and started to praying to god all the time. And I felt truly happy and relieved for the first time in 5 years I m really know now how to handle ocd. And I am truly grateful to God. If I didn’t stop sinning I would be still struggling till this day. For anyone who has questions you can ask me I ll try to explain everything and answer your questions
That’s not good advice because that can be from reassurance and god does not cure mental illness. Good for you though
Sounds a lot like religious OCD to me
The irritating myth of orderliness comes from people confusing OCD with OCPD.
OCPD is an ego syntonic condition which is characterized by orderliness and obsessiveness as a feature of their personality. OCPD subjects don't think there is anything wrong with their behaviour and aren't distressed by it. Excessive orderliness may affect their functioning, but it is perceived as reasonable and desirable by them.
In contrast, OCD is ego dystonic. It's distressing because the thoughts and obsessions are alien to the sufferers ego and are known to be illogical yet no less compelling.
The overactive OFC in OCD leads to intrusive thoughts which demand an action (compulsion) to alleviate the distress.
But the due to dysfunction in the Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop, the task is never registered as complete so no alleviation of the intrusive thoughts are achieved.
This causes more distress because despite a memory of the task being completed, people with OCD have more faith in their distress and anxieties at the task being incomplete than of the objective reality of the task being completed, which leads to spiraling distress and the repetition of the task and subsequent intensification of the intrusive thoughts and compulsive action in a vicious loop.
Fundamentally what keeps us stuck in a loop of distress, obsession and compulsion is the disproportionate amount of importance we place on our imagination/anxieties/paranoia (our subjective feelings) over our senses (our objective experience).
Inference based therapy is a great way to get a handle on this, and I suspect many persons with OCD who find they gain more control over their condition over the years end up doing so by unknowingly incorporating principles of inference based therapy as a coping strategy. This is what I did, and like me, I suspect that many had never even heard of inference therapy or knew that this is what they were doing at the time.
When I read about inference based therapy I was shocked as its principles were behind what I'd developed as a coping strategy over the years.
So to anyone suffering with OCD I'd recommend looking into IBT as an effective way to ameliorate the hold this condition has over your life.
Wouldn't they realize that it doesn't work?
@@Anonymous-df8it sorry mate, I don't quite understand what you're asking (as the question could be interpreted a few ways).
Please can you be a bit more specific and I'll try to provide a good answer.
@@westonloomis I'm referring to the compulsions
@@Anonymous-df8it people with OCD feel compelled to perform the compulsion because of the catastrophic nature of the perceived consequences of the intrusive thought coming true.
The anxiety and distress drives the actions.
OCD is not a rational disorder.
When your brain is screaming at you to do something and the immediate consequences of not doing so are intense mental anguish then you'll tend to do what it says.
Opioid addiction has some parallels with OCD that may illustrate my point:
Opioid addicts are highly obsessional about the drug, struggle not to think about it, and experience psychological and somatic distress in response to the obsessions.
The distress and desire to ameliorate that distress leads people to do irrational and harmful things to procure the drug and relieve the obsession.
If they cease the drug they know their life would become better with time, but the obsession with the drug and compulsion to use the drug are so strong that it overrides rationality.
In this regard opioid addiction is often ego dystonic (especially when it's advanced). The users desperately want to stop but feel compelled to keep using. The intrusive obsessions drive the compulsion. Sound familiar?
One of the reasons for this parallel is that the endogenous opioid system is involved in compulsive behaviour and dysfunction of the opioid system has been implicated in OCD.
@@westonloomis Yes, but the intense mental anguish will still be there even if you do it "The overactive OFC in OCD leads to intrusive thoughts which demand an action (compulsion) to alleviate the distress.
But the due to dysfunction in the Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop, the task is never registered as complete so no alleviation of the intrusive thoughts are achieved." So why not just save time and not do the thing?
I kinda feel like I have ocd, this type to be exact. I took a quiz, and I wandered the questions as true fully as possible once I got my result I searched it up, which led me here.
Things that concern me: Whenever I talk I think about my ugly voice, my pimples, and my hair. I have always been called the “emo in the back of the class” however, I sit there cos my friends do. ATM I cannot let go of this stuffed tiger my grandpa gave me as a child, who is now seriously ill and has short term memory loss. My brother is serving in the Ukraine war, and I’m praying for both atm, every night I pray for them. Next at school all of my supplies is always supposed to be on my desk, neat, tidy, not an inch out of place. That’s all I’m willing to share, just wanTed to let it out. Ty everyone
I hope you, your brother, and your grandfather are doing well, and I'm sending you positive wishes over the internet 🫶 it's really hard to deal with but we'll make it through.
@@anna-fleurfarnsworth104 thank you 🙏
Listen, having OCD feels like absolute hell.
"Touch the table 10 times or something bad will happen to you", "Jump 2 times or someone will cut your legs". If you don't do it or don't finish what you have to do, it makes you crazy and you have no choice but to complete those tasks. It sometimes takes over your brain, the same task keeps on popping until you do it. If you still won't do it, you get uncomfortable sometimes. It literally interferes with your life. I tried to help myself but I can never do it. I force myself to do the tasks because of my fear of the "consequences" that might happen if I don't do it. I don't know how and why I got this but from what I remember, I got it when the quarantine happened. To anyone who has this disorder, I wish you all the best!:)
(This is just my experience btw, idk if you guys experience the same thing but i've done enough research and i'm now sure that what I have really is OCD. And, if you guys have any tips on how to overcome this, i'd appreciate it.)
What the hell.
I thought that I was the only one having these thoughts. I thought that this is linked to Autism because of the numbers (5 is good, 14 is bad, etc.).
Is that actually OCD? I am really flashed now wow
I can give you a tip:
Give a fuck about the consequences. Do not listen to that voice and just do not do it, so many times how you can. Then wait until something good will happen. When the good thing happened, you slighty convince yourself that these thoughts are useless. But the thoughts (at least for me) never disappeared. Sometimes it bubbles up, sometimes down
Only those who suffer from OCD understand how torturous and life crippling it is! I never knew I have had it since childhood but I always thought something was wrong with me. I would also like to add that the types are infinite. I ain’t a neat freak at all. I don’t have the intrusive thoughts of harming others but I have had uncontrollable and the most irrelevant thoughts disturb me since my childhood. OCD is like battling with your brain every single day, you feel like you have to be in control, doing some rituals that act as a defence mechanism or a routine which makes you feel better. I developed trichotillomania due to this this. You live inside your head all the time and it’s very difficult to live a normal happy life. Doesn’t mean you can’t be in control of your thoughts every once in a while, you do enjoy moments too and it’s manageable but it does consume a good proportion of your day. The thing which OCD feeds on is fear, it can be of any kind but you can’t make your brain understand that the fear has no basis. A shout out to all the people who are battling this illness everyday, you are one of the most mentally strongest people out there because it’s one of the worst mental conditions to live with!!!!
I have it since forever.
I am suffering immensely from ocd its so difficult living like this my life is in ruins almost bed ridden intrusive thoughts and anxiety dictate me 😔 help me please
Hi Dr, need your advice, Took SSRi, benzo, anticonvulsant, AP and sleeping pills for work anxiety only for a period of maximum 2 months. Brain is now conjuring random images (like a broken tv), memories flashback, false memories, inner monologue, earworms (24/7) and jumbled words with extreme brain pressure and pain. I have been bedridden with debilitating and worsening cogniive symptoms. Is there anyway to cure it? I've done MRIs, CT and spinal tap with no findings and neurologists said its chemical imbalances caused by the intake of psychiatrist meds while psychiatrist thinks its adverse reactions or neurons excitability. Can you help? willing to pay for online consultation. I was functional, healthy, working with no history of mental illness/cognitive symptoms until being polydrugged
I did search to come here and I wanted to watch this, yet it did trigger my ocd by “if you watch THIS, things will go bad for you”
Don't worry. I have a solution. Eat pumpkin seeds. Nice and easy.
Nice
My coworker has OCD and she’s driving me crazy at work every single day! its very scary to work together with OCD PEOPLE!
I have never told this anywhere because this is so humiliating. My ocd is not the generic blink three times stuff. But I have ocd regarding gecko poop. Which is almost everywhere where I live. And it had increased over the years. I don’t know why, deforestation, global warming no idea. This is a tropical area and no you can get to seal houses or do any sorts, they are of high maintenance in areas like this. And you can’t call any management services too, because it’s normal and people would be like, “what?”
It’s disgusting. No you can’t clean it. Clean everything up and next morning you’ll see wet chunks on all your windows, door areas, desks, dining tables, chairs, sofas, floor and everything. It’s so damn repulsive for me.
It had made me so damn compulsive that I can’t even function. I don’t like to go to the kitchen anymore. If I didn’t live with my roommate I would have starved myself to death. I don’t do chores at all. I am the one earning for both of us, so it’s ritual that she does the chores and I work. But I used to help her a tons when this didn’t make me feel like this.
It’s even started to affect my daily life at work even. I feel so stressed everywhere I go. I can’t enjoy anywhere. Please help.
Reading these about having ocd I fill is wrong . We all try to make our life better in ways that help find things and make you fill happy about what you worked hard for and by keeping it clean and valuing it cause we worked are buts off for these things and now we're older and understand stand so we clean take care of them and show great appreciation for the cheapest to the most expensive things we purchase. And having things in order helps find what your looking for and everyone else cause things are right were you need them to be . How many people hate looking for things in your home knowing you have it there but to lazy to look . So you try to minimize the hassle of looking and so we pass this on to our kids . And then wonder why we got lazy kids . I fight my family cause I put things in a way like a store and tell everyone how and why so to clean is better to see what we're out of and make a shopping list to stay on top of things so people who come over will also respect your house and see how you got everything and how comfortable it is to come and stay with out looking digging and most of all help them as well put there house in order and teach there family the value of things . If not just like I was a kid was not really told are understood the real value of things . Now I try and I'm always 🥊 for it and I said to my family try it this way and if it does not work then we will do it your way and who else Gots a better way but know will try things my way cause it simple . Who don't work why is it so hard to take your time and clean and prep for who will cook dinner. And why is it so hard to not put things back were you got them from if your working are not . Like the refrigerator knowing regardless if you work who cleans is working by cleaning by organizing so once a month are twice a month you give your house a complete cleaning under the couch your kitchen your bed room and then you have money to do family things are you have to money to do things . Like in our house we got left overs and cause we got food will make more food and have left overs from that and it goes to wast I try keeping it separated from the the food we have not cooked and refrigerator orderly so we know what we got and need to stock up on and there are no kids in the house I scrub my shower once a week keep my stuff organized cause I don't have much but it helps with finding things and what I don't need and need to not become a hoarder and dump are sell . So cause I'm always cleaning and take pride in keeping things a certain way is wrong. I'm not working and can pause a t.v show rewind it and I'm wrong for washing cleaning up after myself and I clean everything thing else so no can say I'm not paying my part of the rent if I didn't do it my family would pay someone to do it 🤯🤔🤐🧐🤨😩🤐🤦🤷🙍 so why be upset if I got ocd and take great value in what I got if you don't then you get bugs people come over and won't eat are drink can't host dinner parties and pretend your life is so clean but it's not and when you do take charge and do it right your wrong 🤦🤷🙍
I was suffering from ocd from past 3+ years ...currently i m getting treatment from Mumbai ...this is the type of disorder you cannot explain anyone they will think you have got mental and then you will obsess with that sentence i cannot explain everything but only my mother and psychiatrist are understanding and my life became hell ...my age is 23 ..i want to share many thinks but i m already making obsession about this disorder its a slow poison disorder
I have OCD, and I’m one of the least organized people you’ll meet. I have superstitions for controlling things that are unpredictable, but impact me in a major way. It reminds me of ancient people sacrificing grain on certain days so the weather allows their crops to grow.
My big thing is sex, because in the chaos that is modern dating, I go from having a string of partners, to no partners for months, to a partner that I care about, to something sudden causing a fallout with said partner. I eat certain foods at certain times, only engage in certain activities and only listen to certain RUclips videos because of that. It’s also why I abandoned polyamory, because I just couldn’t take the stress.
The part that sucks too is that you KNOW it’s irrational, but your brain always finds ways to go “See, you have to do that ritual to make good things happen and prevent bad things from happening!” and it’s a hell of a task to stop.
I hope you heal. Wishing the best for you. I have ocd too and I totally understand
if you are reading this comment you are so lucky because probably your ocd will get treated after you read this comment. I have been suffering from ocd the last two years and finally got a treatment for my ocd and i will summarize the treatment for you. the reason you have ocd is because you have a phobia of some thing like losing weight or losing your jop because you are worried that you may not get another great jop like the one you have. your ocd my start with you breathing by breathing manually or even start with your blinking by blinking manually and it spreads to other things like jumping in public places or moving you neck back to hurt your self but you can't stop your self from doing that . your body may try to tell you these ocds are different ocds but you should know they all are one ocd and they are connected and if you solve the thing that caused the ocd to you they will all go, even if you take the path of solving the that reason your ocd will slowly vanish, some people may say but I have so many things that cause phobias to me so how can i know the thing that causes ocd to me . the answer is ther is always one main thing that causes phobia and that phobia turns to ocd and the ocd creates other phobias so you just need to remember the main thing that caused the phobia to you and solve it. if you read this comment and your ocd got better or even fully vanished you can give me some tip💵 because it took from me two years to figure out this treatment and i summarized the treatment for you in just one comment and if you want to ask me more questions you can easily contact me on my Instagram: ten598g
It's a fear based disease. I'm constantly locking doors, turning off a elements over and over again. Checking everything up to 20 times. Even in my dreams I do it
Me too,,,
When he said "in a healthy person" then describes what doesn't happen during OCD, it made me feel like it's impossible to be a healthy person with OCD :/
my friend must suffer from OCD although he has never been diagnosed,he said that his ex-girlfriend put shredded glass in his clothing and under garments as a result glass has gotten in his hands,feet and the rest of his body and he constantly picks at his skin causing bleeding and sores,i told him to wash all the contaminated clothing or buy new clothing which he did but now he tells me the new clothing somehow got contaminated and still gets glass in his skin,he doesn't want to go for psychotherapy he believes their is nothing wrong with him
i have intrusive thoughts when i’m doing anything then have to do that thing over and over again like even taking steps so i have to keep touching that same spot until i’m not thinking of anything weird but when i don’t do it i think about the thing i was thinking of everyday how can i be normal
Ok so a few days ago my little sister punched me in my arm and instantly I did the same to my other arm I punched it and form then on when ever someone hits me (jokingly) or touches me I have to do the same to the other side of my body so
Is this related to ocd cause I have ocd?
Those who suffer can realize how painful it is
I have Somatic OCD. I’m just living life normally and the thought of my blinking, breathing, and heartbeat will dwell on me so now I feel like O can’t breathe, I constantly have to blink, or i’m disgusted by my heart, or scared my heart will stop. Even simple muscular movements I find myself compulsively doing. Examples are wiggling my ears, shrugging, half-smiling, nose scrunching - and I could go on and on. I feel like i’m the most somatically ocd person in the world. There’s been times where i’ve coped with these, but they relapse bad and new compulsive ways happen.
Does anyone have these same issues as me? Has anyone found ways to cope better? This is the worst thing ever, I hate that I have it
Mine are a little different but definitely not the only one, my compulsions are usually very internal because my obsessions tend to be rumination, existential, relationship related, or violent thoughts, and even like health ones sometimes but I'm just lazy and constantly tell myself I'm fine instead of doing anything usually so I can't really do anything besides think or Google search. I thought I was the only one with only visible somatic symptoms but I constantly move my face, hit my head, shrug, blink, wiggle my head around and everything you said with the face stuff (constantly picking my ears and nose and just skin picking and I feel so gross about it but I can't really help it when I feel like I want to) , eye rubbing and hair picking and pulling(which is the worst) and restless less syndrome too. or constantly rearranging yourself and never feeling comfortable in your skin bc something is just not right with the way your body is placed. My posture is always weird and I think I've done permanent damage to my neck and I have hair loss it's so embarrassing. Like I know it's insanely uncomfortable but just try to go periods of time just sitting still or when you think about it just squeeze your face really tight and like scream at your thoughts to go away I know it's weird but it's what I do especially with the stuff that worsens my appearance or physical health :/
It's really interesting seeing how many other people who have had OCD since childhood have since developed methods of coping with it.
This is similar to my experience. I remember having OCD badly since around the age of 6 and was diagnosed in my teens. I developed a lot of avoidant behaviours in my teens which lead to a 7 year opioid+benzo habit.
Once I sacked off the drugs and immersed myself in normal life I developed strategies to cope and nowadays it greatly diminished. It's still there in the background but doesn't affect my ability to function anymore.
In addition to OCD I have a schizotypal personality and I'm told that this is commonly comorbid with OCD.
Paranoia and distrust, heightened suspicion, flight of ideas, superstitious or "magical" thinking, and behaviour that seems bizarre and eccentric to others but is perfectly logical from the subjective perspective.
Schizotypal personalities AREN'T psychotic. They don't hallucinate and they aren't delusional.
I think it's something caused by the OCD and has related underlying mechanisms. It's something else which doesn't affect my functioning anymore as I have learned to filter which thoughts to pay attention to, but it caused me to be very avoidant, withdrawn and paranoid in the past.
Like the OCD I think it's just a part of me that occurred due to a complex interplay of genetics and environment in my developmental years. As a part of me it will never be completely gone but by developing coping mechanisms with age it's interference with functioning can be greatly ameliorated to the point of appearing and functioning completely normally to others.
My point is never give up. You typically suffer much worse when you're younger but if you persevere and confront your condition you will develop coping mechanisms as you age.
Hey, sorry for responding to such an old comment but I'm interested in knowing what coping mechanisms you developed that helped so much. Its fascinating to think that there may be undiscovered therapeutic techniques out there that alot of sufferers keep to themselves.
hey-im also interested in learning about your other coping mechanisms; it sounds like you’ve experienced EXTREMELY similar things to me
OCD can cause headache, depression, tachypnea, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, unemployment, hopelessness etc. The world may you please save OCD patients ❤❤❤
Don't worry. Eat some pumpkin seeds and see the results.
Is the DMN network at play in OCD? How does it differ from ADHD?