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It depends . If you watch a video to confirm that you DONT have the disorder cause you wanna compare your symptoms - then its a compulsion so you shouldn't do it in my opinion. BUT ! If you're afraid to watch it cacause you'll be afraid it will confirm you INDEED HAVE a disorder then watch it cause it will be an exposure . But dont watch scary videos, educational ones are better like ted talks. Docs a re very often made with dramatic style so you think that certain disorder is worse ,in reality it is not that bad and you can live with it. Like with everything
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I think it would be better to distract yourself and work on discipline . Discipline I mean you need discipline to stop digging in this mental health videovideos or googling symptoms . But if you cant resist just watch videos made by people with those disorders , sometimes if yyou watch a documentary or read googled symptoms you Can imagine them differently than they really are and it makes you feel worse. But from my experience when I watched videos made by I'll peoplpeople Like Ted talks or from "private" YouTube channels I felt more ededucated and didn't feel anxiety. I hope it makes sense what I just write cause I'm walking on the street and have problems focusing right now xd
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I mean that if you're afraid of developing illnesses just educate yourself from good source like TED talks, yt videos that are made by certain illnesses sufferers, watch educational videos about OCD ! This is what you should be doing the most- if you wanna watch mental illness viDoes! Just simply watching videos and reading stuff that aim to stigmatize illness Makes everyone feel bad ! Even people without OCD .
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Maybe try the thought flow ?
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Ok i will try to let the thoughts flow ? Thank you
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I have hierarchy OCD, schizophrenia OCD , and I had ROCD when I was in a relationship . Now I have a little break from OCD idk why. Maybe cause I changed my diet a little bit and taking new antihistamine pills for allergies that makes me calm . Idk . But I generally had all the themes of OCD just ththose 3 were the worst for me and the most difficult
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Same with me
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You dont know what is epilepsy ?
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Have you ever seen when person faint on the street and start shaking ? Its epilepsy ,googling it will be a waste of time .
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I am afraid to see these videos because then I obsess about having the disorder . So I should watch them . But I obsess about many mental disorders now and if I see more of them then there is no end to it. I will be trapped.
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Help
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But when the idea of watching these kind of videos came up ? You were just interested in a topic of mental illness and then you started obsessing ?
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I saw a post about schizophrenia on Instagram last year. And from there this all started. I started googling symptoms and then I came to know about bipolar disorder. After that it was dyslexia . I know I don't have anyone of them . Then my fears started then I avoided those videos . Everything was going right .Because I didn't have fears . But this month on 12 february I saw a video about probability of mental disorders and when I read those . My ocd got worse after that . And now if I see anything that I fear I get obsessed about it. Like I don't have pedophile ocd and religious ocd but when I read about them I got thoughts about getting them .And after these my old themes of of like tocd also came back . I think this is happening because of lockdown in my country. Because iam in quarantine since 9 days. I just get obsessions after I come to know about them . And now I am avoiding youtube videos. Help me !!
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How did u get over HOCD?
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I don't usually search videos about disorders to check my symptoms . Because I know it is a compulsion . My problem is that whenever a video pops in my recommendation about any mental disorder . I get thoughts that I will now start to obsess about it . Suppose I saw a video on autism and my brain tells me you have it and I know I don't because the symptoms don't even match . What should I do to that thought? . Should I tell myself that you don't have it . Or should I let the thoughts flow . Or should I think that I have this mental disorder for erp ? Please reply .
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Js64 i got a thought that i like boys and from the point my life got ruined , i got depressed . But when i did self erp and let my thoughts flow naturally these thoughts distressed me less . I have some thoughts nowadays also but it does not effect me that much . But yeah it worked .
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What kind of ocd do you have ?
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Me ?
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Yes
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Do you go to therapist ?
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No. Doctors in my city barely know what is ocd. :(
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I have one more question . I was watching a video which was funny. There was a joke about epilepsy and I don't know what is it . But my mind wants me to google it . But if I google it I will get obsessed. I am an a dilemma . I think that if I don't google it . It will be avoidance which is a compulsion. Please reply .
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Oh thamk you
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*thank
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You are really helpful. Thank you.
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I have just recently realized that I had SO OCD. This began whenever I was watching porn and had an intrusive thought about the guy in the porn. It was more minor at first, it was a majority of what I was thinking about throughout the day but it didn’t feel as distressing at first. If I had downtime to think about it, it would affect me but if I was just going about my day I wouldn’t notice it. I began going through the compulsions of checking myself. This lasted for a while until another obsession occurred. Then it seemed as if my SO OCD took a step back. I would have flare ups but they would seem to pass. Recently, I had a very bad night of constant compulsions and looking at pictures and imagining things to check myself. After that night it was very distressing, it affected me to the point where people around me began to notice and ask me if I was okay. One of the big reasons I was so upset was my girlfriend, we have been together for over 3 years and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I was thinking “Oh my god, if I am gay I can never be with her.” I would sit and cry about it thinking I would lose her and that might life would change because I was gay. I finally had enough and talked to her and my parents. We did some research and I was so shocked to find out that I had a form of OCD, it was like a weight being lifted off my shoulders just knowing that other people have been where I am and that I’m not gay. However, I may have naively expected the compulsions and obsessive thoughts to go away now that I knew I had an actual problem. But I found that the compulsions and thoughts were still there and I was going to put some effort into getting better. I have researched and now know what to do when experiencing intrusive thoughts, yet I still have been performing the compulsions which is just feeding into the OCD. I find myself having intrusive thoughts and then start performing compulsions to see if they are true. What really bothers me is when I have an intrusive thought that tells me that I do like something. But when I think about it I have no desire to pursue those thoughts. However when I feed into the compulsions they just seem to feed into each other. It is like my OCD ignores all the things that I know I like and goes straight to panic mode. I am also trying to do ERP and am going to start doing my best to get better. Does anyone have any tips for not performing the compulsions no matter how anxious you are feeling and no matter how real the intrusive thoughts seem to feel?
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I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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Hi this is my first time posting on here. I wasn't sure if I should because I want to make sure I'm not seeking reassurance because I heard that makes ocd worse. I don't want to talk about what my ocd problem was, but basically I was really upset about a religious ocd problem that I know isn't true. I'm feeling a lot better about it now, but when it was bad I decided to try and get better on my own. I read about ERP therapy and how you're supposed to make a list of your ocd problems, from least distressing to most. So I wrote them down on two pieces of paper. At first I started with the simple ones, like looking for spiders before leaving the room. I have a tendency to look for spiders before leaving a room but lately I've been trying not to anymore. Then I decided to try and do one of the hard things. It was a religious ocd problem. I decided to start simple, and just write the problem down on a piece of paper. So I went downstairs and got some paper. But then I thought, oh no, my ocd is probably not going to like this. What do I do with the paper once I write it down? If I think what I wrote down is bad and going to upset God and I will go to hell, (even though I know logically it's not), my ocd is probably going to freak out if I throw away the paper. It probably won't calm down unless I erase it. So I just decided to not write it down on a paper, and just type it on my phone instead. So I did, I typed it on my phone. So, even though I didn't write anything down on the paper, now it feels like that peice of paper is bad. I feel like it's connected to the problem I was having, and I was so upset I called my mom crying asking her what to do. Eventually I decided to just put the paper back with the rest of the paper downstairs, but I'm still upset. I feel like I have to throw away all the paper downstairs, the pencil I was going to use to write down the problem, and the eraser I was going to use in case I needed to erase anything. It feels like if I use any of those items I will make God angry and go to hell. I know I shouldn't do this though, so I'm not going to. I don't know what to do with the papers where I wrote down my ocd problems. They are on my desk and I'm too afraid to move them. And if I put them in my desk I'm afraid they will get mixed up with other papers. I guess I can do whatever I want with them. I think I'll put them in a folder or binder and if I make any more ocd papers I can just put them in there. I'm just really confused on how to move forward. Right now, I'm too afraid to use the papers, pencil, or eraser for anything. I feel like I can't write on them, draw on them, or anything. It's even making me feel like I can't make digital art. It's making me feel like I can't do a lot of things. I guess what I have to do is just do whatever I want to, because I know the ocd isn't true and doesn't make sense.
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