17. OCD Treatment - Doing ERP with 'Pure O'

You cured me. I cannot express my gratitude in words. God bless you

Can you make a video regarding ocd and thinking you are going to die of a heart attack and correlating high heart beat stress and panic attacks to dying

I'm worried about future about Can I recuit in a job ? Or can I marreid ?

I'm worried about future about Can I recuit in a job ? Or can I marreid ?

What if one of your obsessive intrusive thoughts is your fiance betraying you? She hasn't done anything to give me a reason to worry about it, but I do.

Woweeeee this really helps

I doubt i have OCD but i know god hates me for sure

What if my obsession is that I am not showing that I am paying enough attention when listening to someone, and my compulsion is to try to look more interested and examine the person's non verbal cues to try to determine if they think so too? I guess I should just close my eyes and ..leave? :D

What if someone else had an obsession that they will kill someone? Should they do it as a means of exposure therapy? 😅 it's tricky when what I am afraid of is about doing an actual disservice to someone.

thanks

Man i defeated pure o actually by not thinking of it i just treat it like its not common sense to think like that and then i made myself to not think all the time when studying and little by little i developed ways to control it yeah i didnt cute and plan to do so in future as i cant right now but surely i will get rid of it no matter what just believe your brain like it knows everything and your thought is just a thought

Thank you for sharing ❤

What if my fear is having depression and talking my own life? How am I going to expose ?.. also my other fear is going crazy and thinking stupid things imagining crazy things and going crazy.. how do I do ERP for that?

Hi Katie. Miss u so much❤ pls produce more videos for sufferers like us

As soon as you started mentioning doing the opposite of what my OCD tells me, I literally tensed up from fear. God this is hard, lol

But it'll not work for someone with health anxiety, can't expose themselves to actual diseases and get comfortable, I don't understand how a person with fear of a certain diseases when logic also supports it - like I take finasteride for Alopecia and I read that it can cause PFS which is incurable - so my ocd kicked in and so did anxiety, how can I use ERP in this case? As I won't be exposing myself to the actual PFS and get comfortable with it. The more I read about it the more paranoid and anxious I get thinking I've already taken the dose, I can't undo it and logically it can happen. So its not a fear of something that is logically impossible; which makes it more real and threat.

What?

What I find helps me is to do an nlp technique where you swap the thought that's disturbing or distressing me with a positive thought , vision in turn helps cut it off ,then I repeat it every single time .. I usually swap it for a vision that has made me happy or a want and desire like a house or car I want 1 day . Remember team just like everything IT TO SHALL PASS

This is the worst advice ever for someone with pure O OBSESSION not compulsions. I’m about to have a panic attack from this video…

Are you talking about compulsions? Because with pure o there aren’t compulsions at least for me. It’s mental image or thought and then convincing myself it’s not true

excuse me? Expose myself to the fears? Wtf 😂😂 is this woman okay

Im fine with some thoughts - others not so much. I ERP'd them ( the ones im openly mentally fine with now on command ), but then theres other thoughts that are sooo bad and annoying that i cant get rid of them. So, should i try ERP? My anxiety doubts ERP for certain thoughts, idk if its cuz of the theme of the thought, or just my anxiety fckin with me lol. Please lemme know what I can do 😓

But how do we prove we did the right thing this is what plagues me like how does someone who's terrified of blaspheming actually blaspheme 😢

I'm not sure how this will help me overcome my fear of my child drowning in a pond? Please advise because generally speaking I am finding your videos very helpful.

I'm about to cry in the train while I'm watching videos of Katie in regards to OCD pure O. I was recently diagnosed with OCPD and for years I have been surviving on my own willpower to go against my thoughts. Realising how fucked up it feels now. Most of my mechanisms are upside down and I'm afraid that each day is going to be the day that I fuck up everything. It hurts realising how what you thought of what's probably normal for everyone, it actually isn't and that I'm dealing with something that's been eating me from the inside. I know this is an old video and I'm not even sure that you'll reach back but what's your opinion in regards to SSRI - meds in response to OCPD - anxiety?

I have thoughts in my mind I cannot get rid of, they keep showing for at least every 10 minutes. They are causing me tremendous stress and anxiety, it's one single thought that has been repeating in my mind for the last 2 years nearly every day, something happened 2 years ago that triggered it, it's very difficult to explain it as the situation that happened sounds trivial and really doesn't deserve to give me this kind of hell I'm experiencing. I'm not sure if what causing those thoughts to keep appearing are lingering emotions?

what can I do to resolve this? I tried everything

my obsession is breathing so am I to stop breathing?

In pure o.. for exposure… how long should i expose myself to thoughts… just once.. 5min… 10 min…. Plz reply

I love this.

I wanna smash the dislike button; this is very poor and simplistic explained; just common sense;

maam i cannot do it i feel like im gonna pass out

thank youuu so much i really needed this

My compulsions are all arguments in my head about something i heard someone say or something someone said to me or even a social media post from a year ago. How do i do ERP i have no idea.

My fear is to look at the bag, if someone handle theire bag, my eyes focus on theire bag, even tho im not thief. I hate thief, and my fear is judgement of others, please help 😭

How do you do this with things like — “I’m having _ symptom, I think I’m gonna die?” Would it be to just not check things like pulse or what not and continue to do what you were doing?

I dont get it , so if you are having suicidal thoughts , go and confront yourself for example with pills and do it ?

My Pure OCD manifests as fears of neurological disorders and other kinds of nonsense. I'm seeking treatment and I'm back on mood enhancers. I'm determined to learn techniques with my Therapist to permanently help me cope with the white noise. I'm so sick of this shite!

I remember as a 10 year old boy, I watched the 1979 Amityville Horror movie, and it terrified me to the point where I could not shower alone or go to the restroom alone lest the black ooze came out of the sieves. Even going down the stairs was terrifying as it evoked the scene where George Lutz falls through the basement stairs into a pit of black ooze. But for some reason, I still liked the movie and watched it again,and again, and again, until it did not scare me at all but fascinated me. I even drew my parents nuts as allI could talk about was Amityville. I drew the house on my school notebooks, rewrote the story, and even researched more about the story and the case. So instead of avoiding the movie, I might have done ERP without knowing.

Kathie, what if doing the comlulsio was doing the the thing the .ade me feel bad so that i would knkw it isnt true, but over the years that begavior caused me to feel bad..what if my compulsion is already in this case drawing the devil.. what should i do? Should i just ignore and not do the co.pulsion, without the next step? Thank you

Thankz Katie for the Golden Rules of ERP😍 Definitely going to try.. Thank you very much again!❤️

Hello can you tell me what to do for improving focus in pure o?

Maam what should I do if I get groinal responses while doing erp ? Getting groinal responses make me loose confidence in myself and i feel so much guilt..please help me maam.

pls make more erp videos for pure o
this is really helpful

So you can do erp without knowing it

I have a question please . Can i overcome my ocd for organizing thoughts in my head and checking by watching these videos by myself ? Because i cant do therapy right now

I’ve heard that erp is used to treat intrusive thoughts about death and dying. I don’t know how this is possible. my therapist isn’t going to kill me

I am in China, and there are many OCD patients here, but CBT and ERP treatment are not popularized in China. Many patients have been ill for more than 10 years, have not received effective treatment, and have given up their studies and jobs.

Too gorgeous. I have to listen to audio only.😯

Does this work for social anxiety? What is a neutralizing compulsion?

So if I go to watch a play at a haunted theatre and I get a thought if I go to bathroom I will get bad luck should I just so to my self ok give me bad luck and just go? Because that’s scary but that’s what u asking for

Think my compulsions are mental