Hey y’all, glad to be here!

Thank you! I lived with HOCD for 6 years undiagnosed and untreated so I understand the torment! It’s so nice knowing we aren’t alone ❤️❤️

Love your youtube channel, you always help us a lot with hocd. Is nice to have you here too

Thanks so much everyone for your warm welcome! It’s so nice to be surrounded by people who just ‘get it’! It warms my heart and soul to hear that my videos have helped y’all. I felt so very alone for soooooo many years like I was some alien or monster. My goal is to reach as many people in the world to help them feel less alone and validate they are not a ‘bad person’ just because of thoughts. So glad I’ve been able to reach you ❤️❤️❤️?

Hey there Addie976. When I get the Groinal syndrome, I choose to not give it any opportunity to feel relevant through emotion or logic. I recognize the feeling and even if it gives me a zing of anxiety, I choose to believe, maybe it’s real arousal or maybe it’s not! Engaging in trying to figure out its ‘meaning’ does nothing but make it stronger!

Hey y’all! To answer questions above: 1. depersonalization and derealization are just themes/symptoms of ocd. They should be treated the same as any symptom, let it be there, embrace it and try not to fight it. Definitely seek out an ERP therapist to help reduce symptoms! 2. Glad my response was helpful on the Groinal—and Dr. McGrath is so funny but can also be brutal! Haha I love him! 3. My YouTube channel is Chrissie Hodges/Pure OCD Advocate. 4. I’m doing the best I can with my recovery daily. Some days are tougher than others but mindfulness and embracing uncertainty helps me so much! 5. My suggestion on worrying that might hit you again/relapse is instead of fearing it, expect it! Relapse is inevitable, so if you are in the mindset that it’s gonna happen vs I hope it doesn’t happen, it will lessen the blow when it does. Be confident in the tools you have learned to manage it. ❤️❤️??

Chrissie you are a legend. Thank you for all you do

Chrissie I’m pretty sure you are the reason I’m still here :)

You have no idea how NICE and safe i feel that you are here Chrissie. You are an angel on my mind

You have helped me TREMENDOUSLY! I am so thankful that you make your videos. I would have been completely lost without your help.

Your tocd videos are really helpful! Keep doing it please ♡

Chrissie ♡♡♡

Chrissie your videos help me so much please keep up the great work in advocacy

Woahhhh Chrissie you are awesome! Just yesterday I listened to a podcast in which Kimberley Quinlan interviews you. It was so inspiring. Thanks for what you do for the ocd community!

This is so amazing that you are here!!

Chrissie! You are an inspiration. I’m “in recovery“ now, but also weaning off meds, and getting reminders of what more intense OCD feels like. I’ve learned so much about OCD, and someday I’d like to be an advocate too!

Hi chrissie. Nice to have you here. Watched all your videos. If made me understand OCD alot easier than anywhere else. I have secretly suffered in silence for many years. I've got an appointment to see my doctor tomorrow I'm hoping to try to tell them about it. But my anxiety gets so bad, I struggle to speak. So I've wrote it down just incase they will be understanding enough to read it. Rather than coax me to talk out loud. I'm petrified. But just want to say thank you for your videos. Your a breath of fresh air to us all.

Thank you for everything that you do Chrissie. I am so so so grateful. You are such a great person.

Nice to meet you!

You are so inspiring, Chrissie!!

I’ve literally watched all your videos!!!

Yeah! Big fan from México right here!

Hoje Chrissie :) I need to thank YouTube só Michael because You helped me understand purê ocd. I suffer from POCD and i AM not diagnosed yet. You helped me alot in this nightmare. Can I ask You to talk more about POCD, here or in the YouTube? It would be Nice. Again thanks a lot, I am Glad to ser You here :)

Wow, hello! Finding your YouTube channel was a real turning point for me - you made me feel less alone and more understood. Thank you! (I wanted to email you once but never got the courage to... It's really great that you're here. ? I only joined recently too)

Oh Chrissie, you literally saved my life with your videos!

Love you sooo much Chrissie! You are one STRONG person and you inspire me to just keep going no matter how hard this OCD is! You are an angel thank you for being YOU ???

Hey Chrissie, how do I deal with depersonalization and derealization, I get blurry vision and I always feel like I’m high or in a dream, it’s starting to turn into a theme of my OCD and also I get homicidal and suicidal ocd intrusive thoughts along with the depersonalization! Any tips for what I’m dealing with currently?

Awesome to have you here Chrissie- how are you doing with your recovery?

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Hi Chrissie!! It's Maru, I just joined a couple days ago. Nice that you're on here. Awesome avatar!!?

Heyyy , so exciting that you’re here !

Watching your videos was like a breath of fresh air for me! Thank you so much ❤️

Nice meeting you!

Much love Chrissie

Omg it’s the legend herself that got me through so much! Thanks Chrissie!

Saw this link you shared on Facebook. Thank you. Just getting started.

Omg it’s amazing to have you here Christie!!!

Chrissssiie! Hi from Belgium and Spain! ??

So happy you are on here now. You have been so much help to me through your YouTube channel. ❤️

Hey Chrissie! My name's Madeline. I worked with Dr. McGrath this past December. He showed me what I believe is your video on groinal sensations. It's the hardest OCD topic I've yet to overcome. It was hard but helpful to hear someone elses experience of it. Do you have any tips to getting past the horrendous thoughts that come along with it?

Chrissie, thank you for all you do. You helped my so much. You’re videos helped me understand what my counselor was teaching me. More liked you helped me to accept what she was teaching me. Lol POCD nearly took me out!!!! James from Florida.

Chrissie thank you for all the videos and your message you are a God send

Thank you so much for responding! It's the weirdest one and my OCD tells me that if I have a thought like that and a physical sensation then it verifies the thought. Dr. McGrath told me I think like a Freudian. Lol which I did not appreciate.

Welcome ?

Hi Chrissie and thank you for joining the app! I have heard your interviews on The OCD Stories podcast and want to personally thank you for all the work you do to support individuals struggling with OCD!

Love you Chrissie I am a big fan of you from Costa Rica

Omg I love her

Good to have you here!

Hey!! Happy that you are here! Just signed up!

Hi chrissie

Hi Chrissie :)

Welcome

Chrissie, thank you so much for your YouTube videos. They have helped me so much!

Hey Chrissie, do you have any tips on accepting that groinal responses don't prove intrusive thoughts? It's a huge hurdle I cannot get over.

Thank you so much Chrissie

Chrisse how do I get to your podcast

Nice to meet you.

So glad to see you here!!

Nice to me you. Welcome.

Hope you are having a good day

You were the first one I saw in you tube talking about pure OCD.Always cool ☺??

As everyone has said, thank you so much Chrissie. You've helped me so much

I am still not with it on pod cast

Please tell me where you can see the video’s?

Cool.

Hard to find.

Hey Chrissie! I know he's great! There were times in therapy that I got so frustrated...I might've called him an a**hole, and then immediately apologized. He was like, it's fine, I like assholes, and went on with my therapy. I could be candid without being judged. He spoke so highly of you. :)

Chrissy? I had a hard time finding your video’s but I think I was able to find one and you are good.

Good Morning aa hope everyone is having a good day

Right back at all of you about having a good day.