Living With Pure O (OCD And Mental Health Documentary) | Absolute Documentaries

In this short absolute documentary, we explore what Pure O really is and how it affects people living with it. Pure O stands for 'purely obsessional'. People sometimes use this phrase to describe a type of OCD where they experience distressing intrusive thoughts but there are no external signs of compulsions. Pure O is sometimes mistakenly seen as a “less severe” form of OCD, yet those who experience symptoms of this disorder find that the characteristic intrusive thoughts can be very disruptive and distressing.

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[lucasjohnstone]

It’s pretty interesting when you think you’re alone and then a YouTube video hits you and explains it

[melo]

I was convinced that i was a horrible person and definitely narcissistic and that nobody should ever have a relationship with me because i will definitely cause some kind of mental illness in them, until i realized that i had ocd just yesterday. it still feels surreal that there is another better and easier way to live this life.

[suvrotica]

I am convinced that the more we know about mental disorders, the more we can perceive the importance of proper diagnosis, classification and treatment options. I also think, documentaries like this fill the void we have in the everyday investigative journalism which doesn’t give these enough exposure. This is important. I am suffering from depression trying to make something out of my life, I can't imagine how much more difficult it must be for these people with pure obsessions.

[Anne_Onymous]

As someone that used to suffer from constant rumination and repetitive thoughts, I have immense sympathy for "pure O" sufferers.
The important thing is there's hope (even if they aren't always capable of seeing it at the moment). 💜

[kyleerose]

Yeah the worst thing is when you say “it’ll go away if I don’t think” but that makes you overthink about not overthinking and the intrusive thoughts just get worse

[justmadeit]

It takes the thing you feel most disgust about and apply it to yourself. It’s torment, you feel like the worst person which then triggers depression. Also, you might remember something from 25 years ago that you feel bad about and add more to it in your mind or doubt yourself. It can cause serious depression and insomnia too

[nakitah]

16 years!? I can barely live with this for the last month. I’m so sorry for her 🤧

[koneking]

I could never go into specific details of the absolute sick thoughts I've fixated on over the years, especially to someone who doesn't understand how the condition works or what it's like to live with it but it came with great comfort when I discovered I had OCD, it was a huge weight of my chest to realize that I wasn't a terrible person and that these thoughts, even though are my thoughts, are not a representation of what I am, the fact that I find these thoughts so disturbing and become so disturbed by them, is what makes you understand that you are not these thoughts, they are just thoughts and you cannot control them and they cannot control you. You are not your thoughts, you are your actions.

[tranquility]

OCD is not a chronic disease, you don’t have to live with it or endure it this is the case for anxiety and depression. As a person recovered from OCD - understanding rumination is the core of the disorder, trying to solve an unsolvable problem, an unanswerable question in your head with analysis. The key to recovery is understanding you don’t need to answer the questions, you don’t need to analyse it, you can just leave it alone. At its most basic everything after the intrusive or automatic thought is optional. We choose rumination to fill the need to feel safe, it is a safety behaviour a compulsion a habit. You don’t need to do it to feel safe, the thought pops in there is no need to do anything - don’t push it away, don’t analyse it, don’t try and solve it its a nothing. You can choose not to engage and you can choose not to answer it - let it just be there like covid was there, or bad weather you don’t do anything. Don’t redirect your attention or try and think of something else - the need to ruminate is just a compulsion and you have absolute control not to do this. Look up Rumination Focussed ERP it is a game changer.

[siftubes]

I dealt with this in an unceasing manner for around 9 months when I had encephalitis - due to what I believe was the super high level of anxiety. I can't imagine how someone would live with this their whole lives. It's a cruelness of one's own mind that's just completely incomprehensible if you haven't experienced it.

God bless you guys.

[Moustache_Mysteries]

whenever ur in the slightest silence you just replay the same thing and you just can't stop.

[limeflake]

It just reminds me of my everyday suffering, i never voiced what's going on inside my head and it doesn't happen often but at least all 3 days i will have these thoughts for different periods in the day and it really feels like im not myself and its just self contained suffering, fighting with my own mind to just stop. Thanks for making a Doc about this

[Son_of_aesthetics]

I can't watch this without tears in my eyes.
I hope they will get treated thoroughly, and people pray for me pls, I believe in praying, it doesn't have to be long, just wish me get better❤much love

[giannispsillias]

its so helpfull realising that you share the same intrusive thoughts with thousands of others...for me it makes thinks so much easier

[larajenko]

i was struggling with it from age 12 to 14. those were the worst years of my life. i was convinced that i was a psychopath. i was so anxious i coudnt eat, sleep or literally do anything accept sit and constantly fight my thoughts. during that time i also developed an ed and skin picking problems that still haunt me to this day

[littleearthquakes]

I have OCD. I think it is very misunderstood by the general public and so I appreciate this video. They call it Pure O in this video, but there are still compulsions involved. It is just that the compulsions are predominately mental and therefore invisible to other people. Its the constant rumination and trying to get certainty around the obsession. It can be rough when it is unmanaged. I have had bouts of ruminating on the same topic for 6 months straight, almost all day everyday, and daily anxiety bc of how upsetting the thoughts were. Noone would ever know I have this disorder if I didn't tell them. Outwardly, I have a successful life, but a great deal of it has been secretly miserable and filled with panic. I've gone through some good periods too and I"m currently doing erp to try to get OCD back into the background.

[dawnp]

Thank you for this documentary I have lived this for many years & finally hear other people saying the same thing.With medication it has definitely helped me but it’s taken a over a year for it to work, the intrusive thoughts would take me over. When you think it’ll never end just remember it will get better!

[oracionoftime]

Dealt with it almost my entire life until it brought me to a psychiatric facility, where I finally got the proper treatment I really needed. Although it didn’t get better at first, bc my nervous breakdown caused my brain to kind off shut off and bring me into a severe depressive episode of more than 10 weeks filled with the worst thoughts of my life, I got better. It’s been almost 2 years by now and sometimes I still loose control of my thoughts and simply fall into a smaller depressive episode, but this time I know how to handle it properly. Therapy helped me realise, that the only solution is to take it slowly and accept it as it is and by thus more and more take control over urself. Therefore I encourage everyone to seek help and not be ashamed of it AND OF COURSE THAT BABY STEPS ARE TOTALLY FINE.

[mattbee]

Strategies to help Pure O:

•Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms
•Meditation
•Journaling
•Exercise

[jaeden]

Started as magical thinking, perfectionism. I still have those. I've always had intrusive thoughts but it used to be once in a blue moon and I never really gave thought to them. Start of 2020 I had a bad drug experience. Through the pandemic I've been in absolute turmoil. I have brief periods of feeling alright, the thoughts still there but still able to do normal things. Now I'm dealing with real event OCD. Over sexual things during my teens years. I'm so lost and in pain. I just want to be locked up or die. I can't comprehend anything else.