A Genuinely Dangerous School Of Life Video

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[jamrocks]

As someone with severe OCD, hearing "The best way to solve OCD is to think about it really hard and find the root of the problem" is just... wow. I literally cannot think of worse advice to give someone with OCD.

[Luigiofthegods]

School of Death be like: "OCD is a complicated issue with various potential factors and no one right answer"

[L_Aster]

As someone with ocd, I watched this with growing horror. This is maybe the worst advice you could give someone with ocd! Ocd revolves around intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and rituals born from those thoughts (compulsions). A lot of the time, ocd intrusive thoughts are *explicitly the thing that will upset you the most*- and they’re really convincing. Ocd can make you believe you’re an abuser, the person you love most hates you, your house will catch on fire, or that you’re just a bad person. One of my past themes was a completely fictional childhood trauma my brain made up (which I have proof never happened, for the record) so this kind of thinking would have really hurt me.
Treating these thoughts logically, like they were triggered by something, gives them so much power. They aren’t logical, or born out of truth, or anything. It’s just what your brain thinks will upset you- or more accurately, random shit that only sticks if you let it.
The best way to handle ocd in my experience is to learn to ignore them. It’s hard, but it’s gonna be a lot more effective than this shit

[jeffreywilliams]

If I had a dollar every time my mom wanted to asphyxiate me during childhood, I would have an unknown number of dollars. Possibly none. I'm not going to ask her.

[sherkonia]

telling OCD sufferers to basically ruminate is wild lmfao

[Vooblebooble]

That video genuinely feels like if OCD itself made a video about how to deal with OCD. Like hearing a scam artist try to explain why you should in fact give them your credit card info

[stephmcnuggs]

As someone that finally got their OCD under control recently, the biggest realization I had was that you cannot rationalize away OCD - ruminating never leaves you feeling better about your compulsion. While OCD may be caused by childhood trauma in some cases, it’s way more productive to learn methods to ignore/cope with your compulsion than deeply psychoanalyze it

[theanarchistcook]

I think they've confused mental illness with the plot of a ghost story.

[greaterthanharrowk]

I like when little joel revisits his past adversaries from the big joel timeline, really helps tie the joel universe together. Quiet but effective world building.

[lzgnooop]

I’m also thinking about how quickly a sentiment like “the secret to your illness is in a childhood trauma you can’t remember and the only way to fix it is to go digging” will itself become an OCD thought spiral

[TheCursedJudge]

I'm personally enrolled in the school of little joel.

[SussiestCat]

I can perfectly picture the School Of Life writers room in my mind. Just the worst, fart huffing, overly confident know it all types that will just throw random psych diagnosis for every behavior at you.

[lilamasand]

when i developed severe depression in middle school and started seeing a therapist my dad would constantly be like "so are you figuring out the 'root cause' in therapy?" and became increasingly concerned that because i wasn't really finding one, i would never get better. as if there's always some root cause for mental illness that needs to be eradicated in order to be "cured" instead of just learning coping skills that help you deal with it lmao. fucking thanks a lot freud

[laccordeoniste]

As someone who suffers from severe OCD and needs medication for it I do not think confronting my childhood trauma would help this is so stupid and weird wtf I also feel like there is a huge issue in general with OCD never being taken seriously enough even though it has one of the highest suicide rates of any mental illness literally no one understands what it is actually like I can’t believe how the common perception of it is so utterly alien to what it really is how did this happen

[thelastchannelonyoutube]

I feel like while we’re on the subject of blaming things on childhood trauma without evidence, I feel like it’s relevant to mention that looking for childhood trauma where it does not exist can lead to causing more problems (and played a role in the satanic panic).

[xingcat]

I got treatment for debilitating OCD via CBT and exposure therapy, and I can't imagine looking back into my childhood for a substantive reason why I did things like count all the stairs in staircases and read text forwards and backwards, because the root cause wouldn't have done anything to shed light on how to fix those behaviors.

[benzur]

For The School of Life childhood trauma is simply the atomic base for all behaviors they deem unpalatable

[mateostenberg]

Jesus fucking christ just the intro to this video made me so upset I cried. The video is saying exactly what at least my OCD paranoia says. In both cases, they're telling you to ruminate on your past and view having this one fix as the ultimate goal in life. The beliefs this video projects are literally what I've been fighting against my entire life. The beliefs this video project have caused me more pain than anything else in my life specifically because it's so Especially that raw image of like looking into your past like a crystal ball and that's how you fix your problems. I've wanted to do that my whole life to the point it has caused psychotic symptoms. I'm genuinely so so angry at what this video represents.

[mbrambles]

I had a wonderful childhood with no trauma. I still have OCD

[Segkee]

The problem with OCD (and other anxiety disorders) is that it FEELS like the house is on fire and something needs to be done. What we need are tools to acknowledge that the house is, indeed, not on fire and nothing can be done.