WOW😮 I just had this talk with my wife. When I feel anxious, I do exactly that, I think it’s the intrusive thoughts, but when I realize it’s not, I start thinking about the intrusive thoughts. 🤦🏻♂️ wow, can’t win for losing. It gets old!
I struggled with debilitating chronic pain for years and it was a mind body issue and they teach indifference to your pain to get it to stop but they don’t teach it as effective as you do! Your videos not only cured my chronic pain but also stops me from absolutely ruminating about mistakes I make etc because after the pain left, anxiety and rumination over everything I’m doing in my life took over and I used the same techniques to tap those down too. I cannot thank you enough for your videos!!!
This us what I have decades pain upper body constant it has moved over years decades are you hypermobile found out I have asperger's so it's the OCD turned to somatic symptoms? Brilliant what pain have you cured
While the message is the most important part, can I just say that I love how you’ve been experimenting with lighting lately? Light is important to mood and perception. So good. And the editing is really getting engaging as well.
Thank you so much Nate, so for me, never do compulsions but welcome the gear and anxiety feelings, sometimes anxiety is feed by intrusive thought so never respond to those thoughts, just say yeah or maybe it is maybe not I don’t care even I super care in my heart I need to fake it one time by one!! Got it
Fake it until you make it! I love it. I often think that we have to act like the people we want to become. Thanks so much for the donation. Super kind of you!
Love your vids Nathan! I have a constant fear of what if I've committed some crime and go to jail and it keeps me in anxious thoughts and feelings I know it's ocd but the what if thoughts are relentless.
OCD may be still latching about thay because you are too rigid about juridical law and you think you are not "those who break it". Law is a suggestion of behavior, it becomes an obligation when the State catchea your crime, not before
I'm having the same problem brother.. I constantly find any possible threats and find solutions to it and really tiring.. But the good part is, it was pretty severe 3-4 years back that affected my daily life and now it's just another stress that's all and this video is really good at explaining it.. I hope we both find happiness together. Have a nice day!
This is not really about the specific content of the video but just to comment your channel is beyond useful and a great resource for knowledge and well being. Thank you so much for what you do from the bottom of my heart, and for sure many others!
I know it's hard for you.. I used to have constant rumination 3-4 years back that affected my daily life but now it got a lot better and it's all about learning about your anxiety and handling it with care.. This video is a gem for me.. Things that could help you: 1. Physical exercise - Try to find games that you love. You will forget everything when you focus on other things that you really enjoy. (For me it's volleyball) 2. Meditative state - Allocate time where you won't think or ruminate (For me, hot water bath while hearing jazz) 3. Don't care - As long as you stay alive and legal, everything is fixable. (Failing a semester, Getting fired from job, Being broke, being a failure) 4. Give in on things that you can't control - Everyone single living thing have this uncertainty (Health issues - heart problem, kidney failure, accident) - Ask your friends and family why they don't have this fear and learn their responses (It really helped me) So basically, I realised it's all about learning how to respond to the anxiety fears. What is the difference between us and normal people? How do they react differently? Try to understand the difference. That's exactly why I like this video. It helps me cope with my anxiety fears too.. Hope you get well soon!
Here’s what my ocd does. I have to watch your video again because my brain was fixated on your frog picture behind you keeps moving keeps disappearing and reappearing in different videos and then today there is bowser last time I think it was something from Star Wars. I don’t know what it is. I am guessing lack of sleep. I love that frog I collect frog theme things. I guess today my brain wants to see it as weird, strange a game maybe(peek a boo where did you go). Ok it moved so what. It’s not the first time it has moved. Weird? Maybe maybe not. Maybe I find comfort in the familiar. Maybe I’m like monk. At least you’re still in the video 😂 and that’s a good familiar. Keep up the good work.
Hi Nathan! Is it normal for OCD to cause thoughts that make you to think certain things are signs of something? Like sometimes if I have a nightmare I’ll wonder if it was a sign telling me my fear is real.
Due really think of your dream. Look at it and question how you identify the dream. If you feel comfortable believing it's real then that's fine. But if your uncomfortable or unsure it's best to ask yourself if it is a sign or not. I'd normally freak out and say, "WHAT IF IT IS REAL!?" And even though those thoughts feel my head, I tell myself. That if it was a sign it would have happened already
Not necessarily, unless it becomes a source of distress, brings up intrusive thoughts, or disrupts your life consistently. Dreams are there to help process your feelings and solve problems, so fearful dreams could be an indication that there is something that your unconscious mind is trying to work through. Taking these as a sure sign of things to come could be a cognitive distortion if it comes from anxiety, though. If you have a tendency for deep insights and pattern-matching (intuitive thought, arising with calm/clarity instead than fear), this may be a consideration as well. What do you think?
My thoughts make me anxious...how I know that is anxiety.depression...one thing I know that I have always intrusives thoughts negatives or about past or future! Can you advice me
Having bad times myself with it but I do know one thing if you can get the courage just ignore the whole thing then hours later your see everything is just fine,,I know easy said like I said going tnrue the sane horrors of ocd ,,you can try that and say to yourself " hey,,everything was just normal,nothing g happened " sometimes we as humans just need that kind of proof just ignore it andby end of the day see if you made it or not ,usually we all make it by the end of the day
Hello Great video, I just have a question. I was on medication for OCD and went through 12 weeks of CBT and things are much better. As advised by my doctor, I stopped taking my medication quite a few months ago, however recently, as I've moved to university, there are some compulsions happening that make me think maybe I should be back on medication. Do you think this is just a defence mechanisms of my brain of some sort or should I consider going back on medication?
This seems so obvious but I tried exposure for years just trying to keep track of it all in my head. Your advice from this and other videos to actually write down the thoughts and responses pulled me out of some very difficult OCD. Seeing it on paper has helped me so much in identifying the thoughts as just thoughts and not real threats. ETA: writing the thoughts was scary and its own form of exposure - that’s why it helped.
Hello! Nathan watching your videos might help understand me that I have OCD, but at the same time I don't think I do and I'm afraid. Also, I would like to ask a question can you develop OCD because of bad stories or movies that traumatized you by having intrusive thoughts?
Why is it that I can go two years without even thinking the thoughts or if I do, not caring about them. And then all of a sudden, the anxiety happens and all the thoughts flood in. I tell myself it’s just that I’ve given up faking it and this is truth but I don’t want it to be. I want to be normal me again but it feels impossible ☹️
Your video makes me anxious and annoying with the technical video effects. Even changing colors and static etc. Like making it psychedelic or “cool modern special effects”. It’s awful for anxiety. Content is good. Video effects no. Has opposite effect. Makes me nervous.
