@@ocdandanxiety you’re amazing! You’ve helped me and so many others through some very dark times. I wish you and your family blessings upon blessings! Thank you! ❤️
I've actually been doing this. Ever since my worst time with OCD I was forced to deal with it and tried to comprimise a 100% I am and going to be uncertain about many things, even if I really care about those things. So I've been able to function pretty well for a while now but uncertainty and feeling fear has become kind of a lifestyle at this point, I don't mean that in any negative way, in fact, I think I'm slowly inching towards being a happier person because just now I'm dealing with stuff I've been afraid of my whole life like socializing or just going out in general, trying other kinds of clothes even lol, so many little things really make the difference. Anxiety isn't necessarily a bad thing to feel, most of the time we just label it "bad" but it's just a feeling, if you think like this feeling anxiety may just feel like breathing, these experiences are the product of actively living.
My small business is so slow and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to pay rent. Uncertain and scared. Trying my best to stay calm. Thanks for the video.
My intrusive image doesn’t go away. It is more than one month. I have done everything. Sometimes i feel better, but the next day the made up disgusting image pops again. I am so disturbed by this
Don’t be scared. I’ve had obsessions that have lasted a whole year almost. Where nearly every waking moment I’m just being attacked by these thoughts and images. Do not engage with it and when you have free time you probably should try doing ERP and think about it on purpose and become comfortable seeing the image. Stay strong !
Hello sir I am studying for my compitative exam but the problem with me is that when I learn something then I feared that I have forgotten it so I visualize that ,time after time and this is so disturbing. So can you please make video about it.
Thank you very much Nathan! I have OCD and I am trying very hard to not let my intrusive thoughts win, but its not easy. Your way of explaining about uncertainty was very good.
Thank you! I keep trying to embrace the "maybe, maybe not" mentality. It tends to work but I still have a lot ahead of me. But I'm really grateful for your videos. ❤
Thanks for your videos, I was crying one night and was able to soothe myself by listening to you. I'm tired and angry about OCD. I'm tired of the worrying. I can't even settle on a job because I fear I'm going to experience more workplace bullying. I'm tired of fearing if my family is ok, and the fear of God. I was relatively happy but I fell down in life and ocd, anxiety, and depression are getting to me. I can't even lay my head on a pillow and sleep due to the crazy dreams. I feel like I need a babysitter constantly now. I don't want to deal with all this.
I feel ya bud. I am 21 and back in April, OCD caused me to have the same issue. Depression, anxiety, and chronic worrying caused me to almost be house ridden, but toughened myself to move forward. It all sounds crazy, but you can get through this, man.
@@rickitysplitz7035 Thank you. I'm glad you were able to make progress. I'm trying to regain my strength but it is difficult. 1 step forward and 2 steps back. This may sound selfish but I just want my freedom to do what makes me happy in life. My mind cannot deal with all the tragedies in the world. So what if I just want to work in retail or whatever for the rest of my life. I just want to live in peace in a small town surrounded by nature. Is that too much to ask. I know I'm reaching out for help and it seems hypocritical because I don't want to counsel people. I hope God is OK with that.
@@JesusChristISLord12Hey man. I hope you recover from ocd soon but the thing is you gotta be selfish , ignorant and uncertain if you wanna beat ocd. At first you will feel guilty but thats the trap, don't fall into it, just believe that you are not a bad person even if your brain says you are. Just respond to this thought differently or just agree with it.
Thank you so much for this video!! I'm currently dealing with some old Harm OCD coming back. It always creeps up when I'm depressed due to my phobia and panic attacks. It makes me scared to be alone since I could do something bad, despite me knowing I would never. Your videos helped me a lot over the last days when I couldn't talk to my therapist🙏
Can watching your videos be a compulsion? I have a hard tjme figuring out what my actual compulsions are. I think sometime excessively researching about OCD, anxiety, and depression can be one.
Im 23 almost 24 and right now I’m worried about of what if I don’t get the life I want but I decided to let God decide and hahaha take the ucertainity and just say maybe yes maybe not, I don’t care I would live my life the best I can 😊
You have helped me so much you don't even know.. so much that even your voice calms me now.. its the nonchalant way you speak.. it makes all these mountainous obsessions feel tackleable.. thank you so much for everything you do out here ❤
I don’t know if you take requests, but I’ll just leave this here in case you do. Do you think you could do a video about how OCD attacks you as soon as you start getting better? Specifically.. “oh, so you’re ok with it now? that means you’re DEFINITELY going to get sick/hurt someone/are a terrible person.”
This left me flabergasted that when ever i need your video it suddenly pop up on my ph. I was searching for the old videos and sudenly got new one. Feels so happy. 😊😊
Sir,when i am trying myself erp then i am exposing to the thoughts but it is disturbing my focus on studies and i can't study effectively plz sir🙏 tell me the solution after 3 months i have exam also😢
How can you differentiate OCD from real life ? I find myself in situations where I feel like I need to confirm if something happened or if there is a threat , I don’t do the compulsion but then I drive myself crazy thinking I should of checked in case what had happened is real or is it was a threat. For context I suffer from relationship OCD.
How can I know if the thought of getting involved in a relationship with a man causes me distress or pleasure but I feel distress because I like that thought?
Hi, another good one! Could I ask, 'How long it takes to do a video? Is it only you that produces and edits them? Can you do a video on fear of the moment of death and looking back at that moment, or fear of dreaming every night. (which I do... every night)' If the answer is 'yes' to the first two questions - 'do you still have a wife and family!' - only joking for the last one - where do you find the time. Thanks, Mark
My OCD is really special : it's not based on intrusive thoughts, but on real situations that involved coïncidences such as thinking of someone and hear about him just after. It makes me feel anxious and contaminated.
It's still OCD which try convice you that your is SPECIAL, but it isn't. This thoughts, situations it's game of OCD. It can change a topics, places, things when you feel anxious but its still the same. Topic and situations its not important. If you have OCD for a long time try to see that how many times it change. One topic can be harder to beat but its possible, its very hard, but you can do it. Try to live normally and when you get anxiety, thoughts try to not do any compulsion or ruminate about situations. Good Luck!!
I watched your videos a while back. I have been trying to deal with OCD for years and with covert compulsions.Most of the compulsions were way too tricky to find out. Like there was one of your videos in which you say to delay the compulsions. And after many months i realized that it became a compulsion for me. Whenever i had any anxiety i kept repeating this in my brain delay delay delay.......... like non stop. So repeating delay in my head became a compulsion. I put all my faith in this because most of the other stuff i was doing was not working. I really was disappointed when it didnt work.
Nate is there such thing as Inner Monologue OCD? Where say Harm OCD latches onto your inner voice? Or If a word in my mind says say “Kiss her” but my inner mind whispers “Kiss Her” and I can alter the voice to anything I want.
Can you do a video or you might already have done one. With unwanted pictures in your head I know its probably the same as thoughts but I want to know your view of it?
I'm suffering from peripheral vision OCD I want to face my fear but when I'm seeing any female she is reacting like she is uncomfortable and I dnt want to make her comfortable and I'm not seeing her again how anyone please help me how to face it I can't make her uncomfortable it means I can't face my fear how can I come out of it can any one suggest any solution for this please
I was diagnosed with anxiety, my doctor always say to me that I'm good person, because he see something i can't see, I kinda hate that i always share the same story to my family about my thoughts, my mom said that people on internet have different points of view, and they are normal thoughts, and we are not our thoughts, because our thoughts change, but we feel that they don't
What if the thought is about not sleeping and the effects that lack of sleep has on your body? I feel like these fears tend to come true because obseesion over sleeping leads to lack of sleep which does have real world consequences. So I cant really say to myself that my thoughts about this are powerless
I love the videos! They are so helpful and cheerful too! Will you please give your opinion about Inference Based Therapy for OCD? I've had great success with ERP, but I am considering learning this treatment method too. I'm a bit hesitant about this, because I have read that it relies heavily on reasoning. Thanks!
Great video sir, please please response to my problem below I have ocd from my childhood now i am 26 age, my problem is saliva intrusive thought and worryness .let me explain in simple word consider i playing game my focus on that game then suddenly this saliva intrusive thought comes into my brain then i am not able focus on that game, then my focus on saliva activities then i start swallow the saliva. Swallow saliva Because i am focusing on saliva so next stage is dryness in the throat. This is my problem please suggest me that how to get rid of them please please reply me Intrusive thought and fear be like you swallow the saliva then dryness of throat happens, then thought says you dont want also swallow saliva happens. So this is my problem so please suggest me how get rid of this problem
Hello Doctor, I would like to ask you. For a while, I was unable to resist excessive thinking, and when I learned that overthinking is harmful to the brain, the next day I tried not to deal with these thoughts, but I was accompanied by an unprecedented headache. I don’t know. Perhaps the headache had come to me and I had not realized it before. Then, when I immerse myself in excessive negative thinking, of course, I get headaches, and I don’t realize that after I learned that it was harmful, I started getting headaches, and now I can control my thoughts and not swim in negative thinking. When an annoying thought comes by, my brain cancels it, but the headache stays with it, and now anything is annoying. It gives me headache
You are all amazing! 😺
Thank you!
you are to blame ;)
Your videos are so helpful thank you so much
THANK YOU🤍
Thank you for your help! Your videos are so helpful! I wish you offered live therapy. I’m in desperate need of help.
I am still struggling with ocd, intrusive thoughts and anxiety, but these videos are very comforting for me. thank you🥶
The work you’re doing is really saving lives. Thank you, please never stop❤️
Thanks so much. You're keeping me motivated!
@@ocdandanxiety you’re amazing! You’ve helped me and so many others through some very dark times. I wish you and your family blessings upon blessings! Thank you! ❤️
@@ocdandanxietyi have been ruminating on the comments who that was put like I has ___years and i thinking that many years I should ruminate plz reply
I've actually been doing this. Ever since my worst time with OCD I was forced to deal with it and tried to comprimise a 100% I am and going to be uncertain about many things, even if I really care about those things. So I've been able to function pretty well for a while now but uncertainty and feeling fear has become kind of a lifestyle at this point, I don't mean that in any negative way, in fact, I think I'm slowly inching towards being a happier person because just now I'm dealing with stuff I've been afraid of my whole life like socializing or just going out in general, trying other kinds of clothes even lol, so many little things really make the difference. Anxiety isn't necessarily a bad thing to feel, most of the time we just label it "bad" but it's just a feeling, if you think like this feeling anxiety may just feel like breathing, these experiences are the product of actively living.
My small business is so slow and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to pay rent. Uncertain and scared. Trying my best to stay calm. Thanks for the video.
My intrusive image doesn’t go away. It is more than one month. I have done everything. Sometimes i feel better, but the next day the made up disgusting image pops again. I am so disturbed by this
Don’t be scared. I’ve had obsessions that have lasted a whole year almost. Where nearly every waking moment I’m just being attacked by these thoughts and images. Do not engage with it and when you have free time you probably should try doing ERP and think about it on purpose and become comfortable seeing the image. Stay strong !
Hello sir
I am studying for my compitative exam but the problem with me is that when I learn something then I feared that I have forgotten it so I visualize that ,time after time and this is so disturbing.
So can you please make video
about it.
You’ve genuinely changed my life. Thank you for the work that you do.
You are so welcome. Comments like this make me feel so good. I hope that you're doing well.
God bless you Nathan! You’ve helped my little boy (he’s 10) so much!!! Very thankful for YOU!!!
So amazing! I find that kids do really well with treatment with the right guidance! Say hi to him for me!
I really believe God led me to you, I've been going through hocd for 3 years now and I only recently found out this was ocd
So glad you have more knowledge. It can be life changing.
how r u now
Thank you very much Nathan! I have OCD and I am trying very hard to not let my intrusive thoughts win, but its not easy. Your way of explaining about uncertainty was very good.
The trajectory "they ask you how youre doing" black and white part cracked me up 😅😅😅😅😅
Thank you! I keep trying to embrace the "maybe, maybe not" mentality. It tends to work but I still have a lot ahead of me. But I'm really grateful for your videos. ❤
Thanks for your videos, I was crying one night and was able to soothe myself by listening to you. I'm tired and angry about OCD. I'm tired of the worrying. I can't even settle on a job because I fear I'm going to experience more workplace bullying. I'm tired of fearing if my family is ok, and the fear of God. I was relatively happy but I fell down in life and ocd, anxiety, and depression are getting to me. I can't even lay my head on a pillow and sleep due to the crazy dreams. I feel like I need a babysitter constantly now. I don't want to deal with all this.
I feel ya bud. I am 21 and back in April, OCD caused me to have the same issue. Depression, anxiety, and chronic worrying caused me to almost be house ridden, but toughened myself to move forward. It all sounds crazy, but you can get through this, man.
@@rickitysplitz7035 Thank you. I'm glad you were able to make progress. I'm trying to regain my strength but it is difficult. 1 step forward and 2 steps back. This may sound selfish but I just want my freedom to do what makes me happy in life. My mind cannot deal with all the tragedies in the world. So what if I just want to work in retail or whatever for the rest of my life. I just want to live in peace in a small town surrounded by nature. Is that too much to ask. I know I'm reaching out for help and it seems hypocritical because I don't want to counsel people. I hope God is OK with that.
So sorry to hear you're going through all of that 😔. Have you tried therapy?
@@JesusChristISLord12Hey man. I hope you recover from ocd soon but the thing is you gotta be selfish , ignorant and uncertain if you wanna beat ocd. At first you will feel guilty but thats the trap, don't fall into it, just believe that you are not a bad person even if your brain says you are. Just respond to this thought differently or just agree with it.
Thinking of you I feel the same way may god bless you 🙏🤞
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Also, wonderful video man. Uncertainty is key and the “maybe, maybe not” quote has been perfect.
Yesssss! Thanks so much. I hope you're doing well.
Thank you so much for this video!! I'm currently dealing with some old Harm OCD coming back. It always creeps up when I'm depressed due to my phobia and panic attacks. It makes me scared to be alone since I could do something bad, despite me knowing I would never.
Your videos helped me a lot over the last days when I couldn't talk to my therapist🙏
👍Right Now Im Uncertain....Like a Boss
Yeah you are!!
Can watching your videos be a compulsion? I have a hard tjme figuring out what my actual compulsions are. I think sometime excessively researching about OCD, anxiety, and depression can be one.
Kind of but it also helped me through a ocd relapse
Im 23 almost 24 and right now I’m worried about of what if I don’t get the life I want but I decided to let God decide and hahaha take the ucertainity and just say maybe yes maybe not, I don’t care I would live my life the best I can 😊
You have helped me so much you don't even know.. so much that even your voice calms me now.. its the nonchalant way you speak.. it makes all these mountainous obsessions feel tackleable.. thank you so much for everything you do out here ❤
This guy is just the best. Thanks for what you do Nathan!
I don't know if i will ever feel better or normal again. Maybe i will, maybe i won't.
I don’t know if you take requests, but I’ll just leave this here in case you do. Do you think you could do a video about how OCD attacks you as soon as you start getting better? Specifically.. “oh, so you’re ok with it now? that means you’re DEFINITELY going to get sick/hurt someone/are a terrible person.”
This left me flabergasted that when ever i need your video it suddenly pop up on my ph. I was searching for the old videos and sudenly got new one. Feels so happy. 😊😊
Glad you're here!! 😄
Sir,when i am trying myself erp then i am exposing to the thoughts but it is disturbing my focus on studies and i can't study effectively plz sir🙏 tell me the solution after 3 months i have exam also😢
How can you differentiate OCD from real life ? I find myself in situations where I feel like I need to confirm if something happened or if there is a threat , I don’t do the compulsion but then I drive myself crazy thinking I should of checked in case what had happened is real or is it was a threat. For context I suffer from relationship OCD.
How can I know if the thought of getting involved in a relationship with a man causes me distress or pleasure but I feel distress because I like that thought?
You helped so much I wouldn't be here without your content ♥️
I am uncertain that today I will be uncertain !
This is really good info!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you from Portugal you help me a lot thank you
Is sleep ocd a thing ?😢
Hi, another good one! Could I ask, 'How long it takes to do a video? Is it only you that produces and edits them? Can you do a video on fear of the moment of death and looking back at that moment, or fear of dreaming every night. (which I do... every night)' If the answer is 'yes' to the first two questions - 'do you still have a wife and family!' - only joking for the last one - where do you find the time. Thanks, Mark
Man. I do everything! It takes hours and hours. Only recently have I gotten some help with the editing. 😄 I'll add your request to the list. 😉
@@ocdandanxiety Cheers! :)
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My OCD is really special : it's not based on intrusive thoughts, but on real situations that involved coïncidences such as thinking of someone and hear about him just after. It makes me feel anxious and contaminated.
Same as mine.
Yeah so that guy is wrong saying that all ocd are the same. Its so much easier to fight a thought than a situation
It's still OCD which try convice you that your is SPECIAL, but it isn't. This thoughts, situations it's game of OCD. It can change a topics, places, things when you feel anxious but its still the same. Topic and situations its not important. If you have OCD for a long time try to see that how many times it change. One topic can be harder to beat but its possible, its very hard, but you can do it. Try to live normally and when you get anxiety, thoughts try to not do any compulsion or ruminate about situations. Good Luck!!
Save the lives in Gaza
Do you ever recommend hypnosis for OCD?
Thanks for your help brother
I appreciate you!
Thank you
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Thnks a lot Sir 📱...
I watched your videos a while back. I have been trying to deal with OCD for years and with covert compulsions.Most of the compulsions were way too tricky to find out. Like there was one of your videos in which you say to delay the compulsions. And after many months i realized that it became a compulsion for me. Whenever i had any anxiety i kept repeating this in my brain delay delay delay.......... like non stop. So repeating delay in my head became a compulsion. I put all my faith in this because most of the other stuff i was doing was not working. I really was disappointed when it didnt work.
Thank you
Nate is there such thing as Inner Monologue OCD? Where say Harm OCD latches onto your inner voice? Or If a word in my mind says say “Kiss her” but my inner mind whispers “Kiss Her” and I can alter the voice to anything I want.
Can you do a video or you might already have done one. With unwanted pictures in your head I know its probably the same as thoughts but I want to know your view of it?
I'm suffering from peripheral vision OCD I want to face my fear but when I'm seeing any female she is reacting like she is uncomfortable and I dnt want to make her comfortable and I'm not seeing her again how anyone please help me how to face it I can't make her uncomfortable it means I can't face my fear how can I come out of it can any one suggest any solution for this please
I suffer from crippling contamination OCD. Please help 😔
I was diagnosed with anxiety, my doctor always say to me that I'm good person, because he see something i can't see,
I kinda hate that i always share the same story to my family about my thoughts, my mom said that people on internet have different points of view, and they are normal thoughts, and we are not our thoughts, because our thoughts change, but we feel that they don't
What if the thought is about not sleeping and the effects that lack of sleep has on your body? I feel like these fears tend to come true because obseesion over sleeping leads to lack of sleep which does have real world consequences. So I cant really say to myself that my thoughts about this are powerless
Thanks a lot
Sir I have a fear of people how I will remove it from my personality
when you say "dude" , you are saying it for man and girls?
your videos have really helped me! Thank you so much!
you are great! thank you so much for your help
I love the videos! They are so helpful and cheerful too! Will you please give your opinion about Inference Based Therapy for OCD? I've had great success with ERP, but I am considering learning this treatment method too. I'm a bit hesitant about this, because I have read that it relies heavily on reasoning. Thanks!
Maybe it is a good thing to expose yourself to uncertainty over 😊 Make the decision yourself ♥
Great video sir, please please response to my problem below
I have ocd from my childhood now i am 26 age, my problem is saliva intrusive thought and worryness .let me explain in simple word consider i playing game my focus on that game then suddenly this saliva intrusive thought comes into my brain then i am not able focus on that game, then my focus on saliva activities then i start swallow the saliva. Swallow saliva Because i am focusing on saliva so next stage is dryness in the throat. This is my problem please suggest me that how to get rid of them please please reply me
Intrusive thought and fear be like you swallow the saliva then dryness of throat happens, then thought says you dont want also swallow saliva happens. So this is my problem so please suggest me how get rid of this problem
Ok have u ever had suicidal thoughts because of OCD have u ever tried to 😢
Thank you Doc! Slowly getting better thanks to you.
Hello Doctor, I would like to ask you. For a while, I was unable to resist excessive thinking, and when I learned that overthinking is harmful to the brain, the next day I tried not to deal with these thoughts, but I was accompanied by an unprecedented headache. I don’t know. Perhaps the headache had come to me and I had not realized it before. Then, when I immerse myself in excessive negative thinking, of course, I get headaches, and I don’t realize that after I learned that it was harmful, I started getting headaches, and now I can control my thoughts and not swim in negative thinking. When an annoying thought comes by, my brain cancels it, but the headache stays with it, and now anything is annoying. It gives me headache
Would the tightness in your neck be the cause of head aches
Jesus can help you
what bout adhd?
You are such a light, thank you
Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤
god
YOU are amazing 🌹
Great video 👍🏼
I have anxiety and OCD and I stand with Palestine
I don't mind having ocd ,it helps keep the house clean & tidy 😁
That doesn’t sound like OCD. That sounds like you like cleaning.
That is personality OCD. Totally different
That is not OCD. Please do not trivialise a deeply upsetting disorder.