Nick great video! You have come so far and it’s inspirational to watch how you have become more rational and improved overtime. Keep up the hard work !!!
Hi Nick, how can I address swallowing awareness connected to social situations - I am scared to be judged by people when I swallow (loud especially). And everytime I am with people, my mouth goes dry and it is hard to swallow and it makes me try it more often. Was swallowing every few seconds for many years, now for a few years I leave saliva to pool. But it seems I am still thinking about it, whether to swallow when breathe in our out etc.
Hey Nick, if you’re suffering from blinking ocd and let’s say you’re reading a book, and you notice the blinking sensation, do you just acknowledge that you noticed your blinking and continue reading the book or would that be considered avoidance?
Your videos have helped me tremendously with my sensorimotor OCD and I feel now as if I'm almost completely recovered from it, however, I still find myself ruminating about my "problem" and whether I "feel like normal" again, almost like I'm trying to figure it all out. I'm not sure how to tackle this.
Hey Travis! I really appreciate the comment. So I know this sounds redundant, and it was certainly frustrating for me to hear lol, sometimes we truly need a little more time for the unconditional life acceptance to really set in. Overall after I was in a really really good spot, acceptance wise, it actually took a little while longer. I am really happy to hear my videos have helped man.
It's not about telling yourself statements. It's about changing the way you think and perceive things. Breaking down beliefs and looking at your fears is done through disputing which we have done many videos on, and originally found in Albert Ellis' books on the reading list.
Hey! So momin explained it perfectly. When we are going through ocd recovery we believe we need to tell ourselves statements. Whilst this is understandable our ocd recovery doesn’t require such statements💪
I asked this question a month or two ago but I never got an answer unfortunately, so I’m going to just try again. Do you (as someone who has had sensorimotor OCD and is basically recovered, as you say so yourself) think it’s possible that sensorimotor OCD can be linked to traumatic experiences in the past, just like you said, not talking about feelings, repressing them, bullying or something and basically living on auto pilot and basically ignoring your body and bodily sensations, and then it sort of hitting you as a sort of link to trauma and as my former therapist said, kind of an extreme form of a coping mechanism to deal with things that haven’t been dealt with in the past? Because we tried symptom related therapy, but it didn’t work for me, so they had several meetings with the entire staff about my case in particular, and they think the hyperfocus that I have now, is because of living on that autopilot, not paying attention to my body for so many years, not being assertive in any situation really and being severely bullied which kind of means being linked to traumatic experiences? Do you know if that’s a possibility? I hope I can still have an answer even though this was uploaded 8 days ago. I’m not asking out of reassurance, just mere curiosity because I never heard a therapist talk about OCD in that way. Thanks. Nice background by the way.
