5 Top Tips for OCD

So, make your anxiety exponentially worse and more terrifying, and that will make all the thoughts and fears go away? 🤔

I find it hard to notice if I am having a compulsion sometimes. For example I remember a show and start to question which character did this or that and feel the urge to search or rewatch the whole series or else and I feel this heavy feeling on my chest when I am about to search it or when I don't want to search it. Is it OCD? What do I do?

Iron vitamis.. Jesus christ is the only way to heaven only savior only healer only answer 💌✝️♾️

ocd is terrible, im so so exhausted. i even find my down part hella dirty i cant even get my home pants off everytime i go out i wear another pant on top of my home pant. im exhausted i want to be like me years ago again. im so tired idk how to stop i wash my hand so so much my skin is always gettin so ao dry

Wim Hof saved my life with OCD ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I also had ocd in my early 20s..and now it's gone.

Voice was not clear.

I have a friend with bi polar and OCD.
I actually need help to cope with his OCD.
Can you help me?

I think I seriously need a help.....

thank you rachel for these tips. this simple and quick video has helped me a lot already

Can OCD cause alcoholism?

I think the core of fear is that I'll be afraid to call for help. Because I want to keep my phone at a 100% all the time. Because I had cancer and I got paralyzed when Iover dosed on the medications they were giving me. And I couldn't call for help because even after I got a little bit better and I could kinda speak. No one could understand me too too. Well, and I needed my phone and it was dead and it sucked.

You my future wife

You my future wife

i am feeling like i will die😢😭😭😭

I think I have this Disorder

Guys could help me,why i'm too concious about someone's private parts even though i'm not looking into it and and they felt uncomfortable no matter how i tried to not look to someone's private body my mind doing it this so embarassing i don't know how to stop this😢😭

I can’t put into words how helpful this was and I’m glad it was concise and entertaining enough for my limited gen z attention span 😂 thank you

Thank you.

I have a really big problem.... I've had this for a year I don't know if I can do it anymore..... No one understands what I Go through they just tell me get over it but It's so hard..... I'm OCD About a lot of things, But none as bad as my fear of botulism, I know it sounds dumb but it really affects my life, sometimes I don't eat because I'm afraid something's going to have Botchelism in it, And I know I probably should be a little bit scared but not to the point Where it affects my life how do I get over it but still be cautious?

I was hospitalized for 15 months cause of severe OCD 9 yrs ago....very helpful tips

Fuck OCD i dont even sleep at night 😢

Believe in Jesus Christ and you will have Everlasting Life, to believe in someone, you are convinced that they are true. If you Believe in Jesus Christ, you will be Saved by Grace Alone through Faith Alone in Jesus Christ Alone, John 3:16, KJV. Once you are Saved, you are always Saved, John 6:37, KJV...

I just can't help myself from washing my hands every now and them. Everytime I touch something which has been touched by other people or everytime I see something a bit dirty when its not but my brain makes up this thing. I keep on cleaning my surroundings too much for me to sit there. Now this has increased so much that I'm slowly drifting away from everyone. I don't even sit with my family members just so that they don't touch me or something. This is really killing me. People think I'm going crazy. I try to avoid this but I just can't. Its like my body moves on its own. I've lost control over myself. I don't even know when I started doing these things but I now know that I'm suffering from OCD. But is my condition a little to much? Has the OCD increased too much since I didn't acknowledge it at first?

1. Would I rather live my life with risk, or have to live my life like this
2. Am I approaching or avoiding
3. If you can make room for this, it'll make it less scary
4. Make it worse to make it better (with assistance)
5. Stay with the thought, play with the thought.

Thank you for this video 😊

What a plie of crap...I came for help.not nonsense...I have no fear just pointless ovd urges...no help at all ..if I want the the thoughts to go I have to die simple ...

@mikeodee1164
3 minutes ago (edited)
i have ocd i took a few different psych meds none of them ever helped for the past 2 years i been taking alpha lipoic acid for nerve pain and pumpkin seed extract for enlarged prostate i also take valerian root my depression is 100 percent better my ocd is alot better instead of buying 5 computers with in 16 months i only bought one and i am not compulsively buying tvs or any thing else for hte past 2 years since i started taking all of these pills since they truly work i will continue to take them and i have no side effects and these pills are one thousand times safeer then psych meds also anti depressants that i took years ago only helped for my depression 40 percent i take what truly helps me not what the doctors tell me to take for the past 2 years my depression is 100 times better i beleive the alpha lipoic acid is what made my depression 100 times better the one computer i bought was not ocd i had to buy it because my windows 8 computer was no longer supported by microsoft so i had to buy windows 11 computer

OCD need not necessary come with a set of rules, it is overwhelming anxiety and uncertainty that causes a spiral a thoughts. Decluttering is a way to go like compartmentalization but again that might not help while experiencing a panic.

hello dr. i want to ask you some questions related to ocd
please reply if youre reading this

Hi, I have diagnosed with OCD, Body dismorphic disorder and have been taking antidepressants since 2017. I have been facing a phobia, anxiety, and fear of making girls my friends. Whenever I aproach a girl even as a friend, my mind start running with instrusive thoughts. I lost interest in everything until I delete her contact number or tell her that please do not call me again. I don’t know why is it happening with me. Please assist me in this case. I am tired of this fear

I have a question , allowing thought to pass is different while in our case thought or feeling gets stuck . If we allow negative thoughts with blind acceptance the content of the thoughts feels real and sudden feelings fuels in more to the fear . This is with my experience. Rather I would like to handle them with mix approach of Cognitive + Refocus + Allow with disregarding .
But ya slowly we need to reduce the efforts and start disregard without much effort and heal from within.
But I do not know how to do.

OCD is not sexy!

Struggling with hand washing.

I totally agree, i measure my furnature. But im feeding my brain to keep doing it. Its everyday, takes over your life.

I really hope I manage to do this, I have lived with ocd for so long and am now keeping my self up all night carrying out distressing compulsions, while im carrying them out in the moment I feel incredibly tense, stressed, I start to sweat, I become serverely distressed and even start slapping my self in the head because of how fustrated I become and it actually makes me suicidle. After carrying out these distressing repetitive tasks I will feel incredibly annoyed, dissapointed and ashamed of my self. There are no posotive emotions when it comes to ocd, I feel completely and utterly trapped in it, but im going to try my best to listen to this video and overcome it even if it isnt simple, which i know it wont be, but i cant keep living like this

I improved by just being yourself. The more you doubt, overthink, etc, the worse your ocd and intrusive thoughts will become because you now associate the thought or pattern with fear. If you be yourself, and think about what just comes to your head at the moment without fear or worry, the once negative thoughts if they do come will more than likely just pass and with time you will get better as your fear subsides. Why ocd and anxiety are interlinked, its fear about something. If an intrusive thought happens, you will eventually just see it as a dumb thought and go on being yourself. It takes work and time for the brain to learn, the brain is plastic and changes

These tips are absolute GOLD... I will definitely be giving them a try, as I struggle daily with Pure O and it can feel like absolute hell at times. Thank you so much Dr. Rachel Ginsberg!!

Best tips I ever have seen

OCD is the fierce evil disease in humanity history 😢😢😢 It is the strong painful mental illness. It makes the constant tremendous mental torture and completely destroy the quality of life endlessly. Living with OCD = Living in doleful savage hell ! OCD is very strong painful constant impulse with hopelessness, unsatisfactoriness, fearfulness, boringness, anger, tiredness , headache, restlessness, no readiness, withdrawal , and escape. OCD can cause headache, depression, tachypnea, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, unemployment, hopelessness etc. The world may you please save OCD patients.

I did it. I just did the thing that I couldn't do for so long the thing that ruined my life for so long. I made this journey by myself, but I just wanted to share it somewhere. I do have those negativethoughts and feel the bad sensation that was associated with it and I am not yet where I need to be. But for the first time in my life, I truly feel like I am in actual reach of being able to achieve everything I have ever wanted and be "normal". It seems like I gained the skill to solve my problems.

I have suffered with OCD for a long time I know what it's like to have unwanted intrusive thoughts and things repeating over and over in your mind constantly checking things not knowing who you are and so on my advice is to talk with a therapist and be totally honest also CBT and exposure therapy can be helpful but also create some new structures in your day to take you away from your obsessions and compulsions and always try to question your intrusive thoughts weigh up all the bad things then consider all the good things that you do to try and create a strong positive mental place in your mind where you can start to cope, some medication can help but really you have to be focused and have a clear understanding of where you want to go in your life set a target develop strong positive coping strategies. Unfortunately you may never cure yourself completely but you can overcome the worst parts of OCD I also try to focus my compulsions and obsessions on doing good things that could be helping out other people a family member etc kind of like using OCD for good even though it's hard and still feels like an illness hanging over you. Stay strong show yourself love and never give up the fight until your at a place where your comfortable enough to live your life with some happiness. I don't know if this will help anybody but regardless im sending love and hugs to all you people who suffer with OCD take care

Thank you for trying to help but it doesn't help my case. I'm having trouble eating my dinner because of OCD.s9 if you can give any tips about that then please do.

Advice: The heart full of Compassion is the Altar of God (99) 🙏

Is it pure ocd? Recently ive been having thoughts that i like my own brother, i struggle a lot with it, we went out for shopping few times and i loved it, but suddenly thoughts came; "you like your brother" "what if i like my brother" "i might say something to my brother" and this makes me very anxious, is there any tip for it or is it just ocd? I do have a partner so idk

Something worth looking into is vitamin deficiencies. I read that some people with OCD may be lacking with these vitamins. Vitamin D, Vitamin B12 and Zinc.

Meqns if the thought comes think of worst on it and it will reduce space in ur mind right ?

OCD is very strong painful constant impulse with hopelessness, unsatisfactoriness, fearfulness, boringness, anger, tiredness , headache, restlessness, no readiness, withdrawal , and escape.

Yes I am suffering from OCD😣 does all things happened what I am thinking please say me😨😣

Someone can help me. I always say to my self that this the last thoughts that i will follow my thoughts but after that it will be worse more and more 😪 im curios of all things.