Living with OCD With Zainab Ahmed - The Mindful Muslim Podcast Episode
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2023
- The Mindful Muslim is an [Inspirited Minds](inspiritedminds.org.uk/) podcast that hosts raw, open, and honest conversations on various topics within the sphere of mental health, psychology, Islam and spirituality.
This month, Sivan spoke to Zainab Ahmed. Zainab is a volunteer with The Lantern Initiative*, which is a Muslim mental health charity. She also works for *How Are You Peterborough as a digital and communication specialist, where she regularly engages with the Muslim community to understand what they need from mental health services. The projects Zainab has been involved with include facilitating weekly Chai & Chat sessions*, assisting at *Connecting Muslim Mums sessions, delivering workshops and organising and hosting events. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing and going for walks.
Their discussion explored:
- The different types of OCD, including religious OCD and relationship OCD
- Her journey towards receiving a diagnosis and what helped her on her healing journey
- More about Exposure Response Therapy (ERT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- How she struggled with negative, intrusive thoughts and what helped in dealing with them
- The misconceptions surrounding OCD and how its not only about cleaning
- More about her work with The Lantern Initiative
- & so much more!
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I am a muslim and ocd sufferer. Alhamdullilah for this!
I have pure O ocd and religious OCD has been very hard but Alhamdulillah because of Allah swt it has gotten better but it's still hard and this video helped alot jazakallah khair
What kind of ocd you have
I had perinatal OCD before I became aware I had OCD, I feel it is really challenging and thank you for sharing this.
Can you please give me how you started having ocd
Sister Zainab is such a sincere sister MashAllah, may Allah reward her for her bravery. Sivan is also an unmatched epic host MashAllah!!
I agree MashaAllah, is there a way to contact Zainab?
Amazing watch, really informative and insightful 🙌🏽❤️
Thank you for this.
Amazing focus
We do pride of our professional sisters. Its great to hear that we've these capacities in our Muslim community in the UK.
Does anyone have the same OCD Theme as Me? I have constant doubts when I read Islamic Knowledge knowing Full well its The Truth and I should believe it, how do I overcome this? i cant even read quran sometimes because of This 😢😢😢 please does anyone have or had the same issue? I am Afraid It will Impact my certainty in My Belief 😢 and how do i know if it is actually OCD and not myself questioning it
I don’t like reading islamic related stuff as i know my mind will play devils advocate on every topic. I will be screaming shut up to myself while reading so i dont bother. I cant read quran as my mind always tells me im reading it wrong so if somebody heard me read they would think i have a stammer as i keep going back and repeating. Plus takes me an hour to do ghusl which i do instead of wudu.
While typing this my mind is telling me to delete this comment as others may read it and end up with same compulsions as me. Curse of overthinking.
I experienced this as well. How you know is your reaction to it. Since you are certain and believe it to be the truth, those doubts (waswas) are causing distress.
I’ve had this
@inspiritedminds I think one of the things you may need to explore with anyone who speaks about OCD in the future is the relationship with autism spectrum disorder or traits. (there may also be a relationship between asd and eating disorders). I think, it is something looked at in some of the research literature.
Anyone here who suffers with ocd would do well to explore the possibility of traits of ASD and family members who have similar symptoms. Autism spectrum Manifesting differently across genders.
There's a lot I would also like to have asked Zainab if she has explored that too, neurodivergence in herself.
May God bless you for doing a series of podcasts on this matter, it is beyond needed. Also the adhd one is better.
Many thoughts, would love to email some questions.
Mujhe OCD 2012 se hai.. mujhe, kuch log hain jinko dekhne se bechaini shuru ho jaati, tez ghabrahat, aur mann me sawal aata kyun dekh liya, aur phir us din kya date h, time, month ka last h ya start, kuch special days like holidays k din ho jaye toh aur zyada ghbrahat hoti aur phir mann me sawal, k last time dekha toh .. phir compulsion krte kisi aise aadmi ko dekh kr jo neutral h..
Brilliant MashaAllah, Is there a way I can contact the guest on this episode?
Nice
I can strongly relate cuz I myself have contamination OCD, it's really tough to live with it , but I would like to tell everyone to live ur life to the fullest this type of disorder is really torturous
What is "contamination OCD"?
Hi there!!! Salamun alykum
Im an ocd patient myself and have overcomed it without medicine, its getting easier and eaiser, Im planning on building an instagram community to help people for free (non sedcutive community)
I hope youre doing good!!!!
@@anaszakirkevinism Assalamualaikum anas plz let me know whenever u will make the page I m thinking about the same and want to help people from my experience so I too want to be a part of it
@@LoveAnimals753 pls help me
Need help @@LoveAnimals753
السلام عليكم يا أختي . . .
Please Add subtitle …it will be helpful to watch then
JazakAllah for your suggestion. We will try our best to add subtitles in sha Allah!
Does sister zainab have social media?
I am diagnosed with ocd since I have 12,its been 14 years,I have one issue is anybody is willing to help?
You can get therapy even from a non muslim. Religious ocd is known by many therapists as people from other religions suffer from it too
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