How to Get Free Of OCD 

1 it's not me, it's my OCD 2 it's not my fault, it's a symptom of my mental illness 3 I can refocus 4 these thoughts have no power, unless I give it to them

My brain tries to control me, buy I can use my MIND to control my brain.

Your videos have really been helping me get a grip on my feelings and have been helping me understand that I'm okay and it's just my mind playing tricks on me. I will be praying for you, thanks so much!!

I wish I could like this a million times! Thank you SO much for this!

Thank you for this video Dr. Bloch! So unbelievably helpful!!!

God bless you doug. I seriously cannot say it enough

Thank you for all your videos. They are so helpful! I am going to tune in for your live session this Sunday for the first time, can't wait.

happy new year dear Mr.Douglas,thank you so much for your efforts,you were the reason i did not end my life last year,i have hope now and i m trying to do things one day at the time...thank you for the light you spread!

Thank you Douglas!

Man , the really good thing you really say here is that you are not your thoughts and they are from ocd and you need to ignore them. You didn't mention a thing about ERP wich is the gold standard in treating 100% the problem. I can really just stand and watch how you tell to people in comments that OCD is permanent and have to manage it for life .No way, ocd is 100% curable with ERP. I know you want to do good things for suffers but you didn't have the right tools for doing that. For everyone that is in pain please watch Ali greymond/you have ocd , Katie d'Ath, Mark Freeman video's about Ocd, Dr. Steven Phillipson and Dr Reid Willson video's about Ocd , they really give hope to people 🙏🙏🙏

This is a great video! Thank you, Douglas.

Thank you for sharing Douglas! This video, in addition to your other work, has been helping me tremendously with managing my anxiety and depression. Thank you so much for these strategies and your videos.

Thank You Dr. Douglas Bloch.

Thank you! Wishing recovery for everyone suffering including me. This gives me hope that healing is possible

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed this video. Helpful advice.👍

This video has helped me a lot, thank you!

Thank you for these videos. I’ve been down lately and like my obsession over my brain got a lot more stressful and these videos are definitely helping me with my depression and anxiety ❤️

Thanks I'm really usefuled from four steps to Jeffrey Schwartz..

Thank you douglas ❤

I relate with you, I will pray for you.

The greatest information about ocd thank you

Please Take Care. You are a Good Man.

Great advice Douglas, thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍🙂❤️

Because of some of you videos sir, I feel like my eyes have really been opened and I think I am well on my way to healing. Now that I am one whos have fallen victim to mental illness, I believe that I can begin to understand the struggles that those around me afflicted with similar ailments have much more. I just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful work you do. You are incredible

Thank you for doing this.

I've bought Brain Lock... It's on my shelf here ready to read x🍀💛🌞

Thank you Douglas. I just found your channel. This means a lot to me.

This video is a gem !! So helpful

Thanks Douglas I have OCD and this is helpful information

thanks doug. very professional

Wonderful video.

Dear Prof. Thank you so much 🙏🙏 for sharing this very useful information. GB.

Informative as always 👍😊

Your the best!! Thanks you for all this!

Most helpful Douglas, my mom has extreme OCD. Her life is imprisoned by it. At 83, it has become almost impossible for her to get out this grove. She so needed the right therapy treatment decades ago...she feels it's too late. she refuses help from me. Her lifestyle housebound is stuck in an OCD rut. Her OCD has now created the conditions she fears most. That's the sad sad irony and outcome of her OCD. I'm going to buy that book now. Thank you 🌞🍀☀️🌞

Thanks Douglas. I am noticing an OCD tendency when I text. I want it to be completely aligned. If it is not I fear something bad will happen to me. This video helps I will put the book on my wish list. Thank you! 🤗

I relate so much, now I am aware. Thank YOU!

Thanks Douglas,you are great and your advice has helped me alot.😊

Thank you for this valuable information 🙏

thank you for this video. i have dealt with ocd with thoughts for years and only recently discovered that it was ocd.

Loved it !!

I am really glad i have found your channel,Mr. Bloch. I am suffering from anxiety,i had panic attacks most of my life caused by a pretty rocky childhood,but i managed to overcome most of my problems,i learnt to forgive and forget. But sometimes,when i am really stressed,i still get anxious and even have some panic attacks. I found your channel because i looked for ways to stop intrusive thoughts,i have seen your video. I have never actually experienced intrusive thoughts,this is the first time and it's pretty scary. I understand that they are just thoughts and anxiety tries to bring up my worst fears. These last few days have been tough,but i think i am starting to slowly fix my brain,or so i hope. I don't think i have OCD,it's been just 4 days,i've been to therapy and there they said they are just thoughts caused my my childhood problems. These thoughts are pretty bad because they make me think i might hurt my loved ones,although i know i do not want to and it's my biggest fear. I told my partner and he fully supports me,my therapist helps too. But it's still pretty bad,to feel like this. I am hopeful i will get over this and things will get better. It looks like i can find help here too and i am really grateful. I wish you all the best!

Thank you so much for your time, support & help. You’re an inspiration to many , I’m thankful for you and hope you stick around for a long period. You’ve been very helpful to me in particular. Just know that I appreciate your sense of humor, your jokes ( love them) as I myself have a great sense of humor as well. Thanks Douglas, you’re appreciate very much.

amazing video Doug, thank you :)

Thank you.

Thank you so much this helped me a lot 💜💜💜

Thankyou!

Thanks Douglas. Pretty useful vedio

Thanks bloch Sir love and respect from India.

Thank you for this my daughter is struggling with this.

After a lot of pain and practicing, this book is helping me cope. Once you start helping the main problem, everything else just comes naturally. You just gotta trust it even when it's hard to. Day by day. This is how I see it & Idk this is what's worked for me so far.. to anyone reading this.

May Good GOD Bless You.

Hi Douglas. I love your work and am grateful for your channel. I’m quite new here and am wondering if you have any information on eating disorders co-existing with depression, Specifically which do you deal with first. It’s hard to be in an addiction and work on your poor mental health as the addiction provides comfort, however the mental health issue makes it very hard to deal with the addiction so there lies my question/confusion! Thanks for any information ✌️

Thank you

Homieeeeee~ Thanks for the step by step instructions ~

Many thanks for your support Mr. Bloch... Appreciate. Btw this became the 100th comment :)

i have pure o you right in the way you look at it i say the same its just the ocd it will calm down in a few days our weeks the thoughts wont be here forever

Thx sir

U are a lifesaver

Many people don’t know that OCD actually falls under anxiety disorders in the DSM (book used to diagnose). 💜

As someone in my late teen I had a quite bad case of ocd. Much later when I thought about that phase this notion struck me that this ocd and its symptoms would actually have been "a prior warning" as well as prior symptoms to whatever would turn out to be the ultimate strike of good fortune....Clinical depression.

After suffering from this "shit" for a lifetime, I still don't feel like I have a choice...but if I can hold my breath and wait for just one more minute, I just might make a better decision...Thanks to people like you, one more minute doesn't feel like an eternity...thank you.

Mr. Douglas do you have any suggestions on how to help people who are in the bouts of a depressive episode? What to do or not to do? What to say or not? Thank you very much for your sharing.

I used to check what I was wearing on my way to school. Going over and over what I was wearing from my head down to my toes. During the rest of my life, I wasn't even aware if it was there. So now for years I've been on 4 different ssri's and didn't have such luck with any, ecept Paxil for 13 years. My question is, Does repeating in your head the last word (for a few seconds only) in each sentence you say, still fall under ocd? I'm so confused and wondering if ssri's are doing more damage than good. I'm thinking of just staying on clonazepam and mood stabilizer and see how it goes. Any advice? Love your channel. Thank you. With Love and peace of mind, Dorothy.

Also, I do appreciate this for I do think of it it just seems like my mind wants to go but what about this or what about that and it just keeps on and on and some of its I don't know. I just I got to keep praying trying and hoping.

I particularly like Dr. Jeffery Schwartz's approach when I obsess over someone. I realize (1) she is only one of billions of people who have lived, (2) she is a separate entity who has been walking a different path than me, far across a valley on a distant mountain and whose path has only temporarily crossed mine, and (3) my thoughts are not a reflection of reality, but only in my head, and therefore can be controlled and dismissed.

OCD comes from certain areas of the brain. When one notices that something is off, the orbital cortex lights up. This sends a signal to the cingulate gyrus which is the center of anxiety, it lights up whenever anxiety is a present reality. When the issue is addressed, a signal is then sent to the caudate nucleus which then directs the brain to relax and that its OK to think of other things. OCD occurs when the caudate nucleus is unable to shut off the signals that it gets from the cingulate gyrus in a vicious repeating loop of signals between these two areas of the brain. This is known as brain lock. One way to reprogram the caudate nucleus is to tell oneself that this is a result of a faulty wiring in the brain. Then to wait fifteen minutes before doing the OCD activity. Then increase the time to more than 15 minutes. After that time, the OCD activity will most likely be forgotten.* *source. Science of how OCD works (Dealing with brain lock). from What I've Learned. RU-vid

Hi I’m just slightly confused, in the third step, when you refocus, what if thoughts keep coming in when you’re doing these activities? Like when your refocusing and say going for a walk, what if more thoughts just keep coming in?

You say “we can only control how we react to what comes into our minds.” What’s hard about understanding that theory with having ocd is, that I would ruminate about which is the right or wrong way to react to what comes into my mind. Ocd has a lot to do with trying to find the “absolutes” in situations, which most times there isn’t, so that’s what causes the anxiety and compulsions, because it’s unsettling if you can’t.

I've been trying to control my OCD for many years. I will try this strategy I appreciate it for him it's just that I need to exercise or if I won't I will get depressed. Sometimes when I do think this my mind wants to think opposite of whenever I say. whatever I do, in this lifetime, Iwant to be forgiven. I wrote this down and I am going to to try it. Wish me luck!

OCD depression and anxiety and ADHD are all comorbidities come together and hurt the patient very bad

My ocd has to do with fear of hell. When I'm ocding it feels like someone tapping my head. I can't escape it. Eventually it goes away. I come to my senses and say worrying about hell which I believe isn't even real, is silly. And I move on. Could be months without ocdn about it...but it always comes back :(

Rtsm or Deep Tsm treatments can be very effective for OCD. It's worth a try :) Blessings

I find your talks quite intimate and not like you are trying to sell ideas you know..I think the reason is that you suffered and experienced a severe depression.Thank you so much for guiding us. I have a question: I cannot make a decision.I strongly get away from making decisions and life is full of things about decision making..In those times like these I think"No.what if?what if I 'm wrong.What if I regret this?I cannot persuade myself just do whatever it is and go on and will see what it brings...I hope you make a video about this..thanks😔

I accaptet yesterday, and its working and i was shocked ! After 3 years ! But today i cant accepting this why ? How i can do this again ? It was one of my best day in my life :(

Travelling with OCD for 10 years !

Douglas, is your book good for people with anxiety?

Addiction sounds heavily related to OCD. obsessive thoughts to use drugs then a compulsion to use.

I have contamination Rituals aimed at protecting what I Love.

Am struggling with it a lot 😢😢

I started doing that like I would do mindfulness close my eyes an concentrate on my breathing and every time as I breathe in I hold it and then in my mind I say it's not me it's the OCD and then I let the air out and then I brief back in hold it and I say it's not me it's the OCD and I breathe it out I won't lie it actually does help.

Sir neuroplasticity is permanent or temporary in ocd sir please reply

They always come in the form of what if & chasing certainly can you tell how to respond

Tats why I bodybuild😊to snap out of those things.

I hear some therapists don't recommend brain lock. The refocusing part I believe is important but the relabeling and reattributing (which to me sound like the same thing) may be too similar to reassurance. I have to do more research on this though, and ask my therapist as well

My mum's life has been ruled by her OCD for over 40years. I used to think it saved her, but now sadly it is dominating her existence and more to the detriment now she is in her 80s. I obviously won't go into any detail of her particular OCD behaviours / thinking, but for me observing, barely able to help, it is like caring for someone who's OCD leads to more 'self harm' outcomes 😿

I read that low dose naltrexone might work for ocd. Look it up.

Thank you so much Douglas❤️ I would to ask you one thing: is it possible to get rid of OCD completely? Or one can only learn how to manage it? I mean, it's like a forever thing or it can disappear for ever?

I have a bad thought about myself and then I try to remove it from compulsive behaviour, but after it if I think about it again I have to think about the the positives before I think about the negative thought again. Or else I become a bit like am I really that person and start to dig deeper to something that is not really true. I have like weird compulsive behaviour. I have to think positive things first or I can't get rid of the negative.

Does OCD link with over thinking for example thinking about let’s say I want to go on this ride In 3 months time but I’m scared in case they put the age limit to 18 then I’ll have to wait 3 years is That OCD

Is rumination symptom of depression or cause

my son is too far gone. He's 23 and he has chosen a trigger in our home. It's our family dog. The dog is fat and breaths loud and also drips urine around the home. He has chosen to be triggered by anything and everything to do with the dog. If he gets triggered he can get violent depending on the situation. It's been going on for awhile now but he doesn't want to get rid of the dog. We have to keep our eyes open every minute and tell him where the dog is at all times which is debilitating around here for all of us. I don't know if anyone can help him with this.

Idk what this is but before I eat I have to go out and shut the door if I don’t do that I can’t eat and before going sleep I have to shut my door go sleep then bang on the door then go back in bed get up bang on it and and go back to bed do it one more time then go sleep and when I shut the door but don’t hear the click I have to do it or that irritates me and if I have to repeat things more than once if I don’t I’ll think something bad might happen and I keep getting really bad instructive thoughts about illnesses death and etc and also sexual images and before back in 2019 I was fear of being gay or bi and i can’t sit on letha chairs coz it seems dirty and I can’t sit on chairs that r dirty coz it irritates me and when I wash my my hands and touch objects I have to keep touching it to make sure it’s dry and if someone knows what it is plz tell me

Douglas, do you take video request via email?

I struggle with OCD. Not Good.

Dr if i stop stress anxiety will destroy?

This is a serious disorder that ruins our lives. How can we completely free up ourselves from OCD and the fear(s) that it causes except obeying the rules of those 4 step? It suddenly began to appear and it was not here almost a year ago.

I have OCD and I feel my OCD thoughts come to me time and time again. Am I doing something wrong? I do try to contain some, but my thoughts goes the same loop over and over. I do have some evil thoughts, but. I DON'T want want to speak Evil against God! Ever! I feel weak and my brain confuses me. I know this is a lifelong problem, I need to hold me. Besides, it feels like it me, since it's coming from my brain. I'm responsible for my actions. Thank you.

People say that there is no cure for ocd Now please say something about it ' It makes me worry even more that ocd has got no cure

I’ve had ocd for years and I think about the intrusive thoughts I had back then that never happened. I know I’ll never act on any of them And I know this to shall pass but the thoughts /images make you feel bad so not me. not my true heart because I get involved with the thoughts. I want that “ oh yeah that shi “ attitude not omg why did I think or feel that When I do not give it attention and time passes I do see what a foolish thought it was. But I pray in the sacred name of Jesus Christ for everyone going through ocd.