The Best Way to Treat OCD [Without Medication]

OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, is a mental health condition characterized by obsessions and compulsions. If you or someone you know is living with OCD, watch this short video to find out what the best non-medicated treatment is and if it’s right for you.

This video is brought to you by Columbia University's Center for OCD & Related Disorders. The mission at the Center is to improve the lives of people with OCD and related disorders by conducting cutting-edge research to transform how we understand and treat these disorders.

For the patients of today, they examine how to combine and sequence current treatments to maximize outcome, and how to explore novel treatments. For the patients of tomorrow, they collaborate with experts in neuroimaging, genetics, and basic science to examine what causes obsessions and compulsions.

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[luscao]

Guys, in the name of Jesus, I declare: We are going to win this!!!

[syedzabiullahlangari]

OCD 😢 Devastated my life 😢😢😢. Took my energy and diverted me from my dreams. 😢😢😢

[leiaspillane]

They always refer to phobia of germs and never intrusive thoughts, dreams, anxiety about those fears

[imnotokay]

Ocd makes me feel trapped and tired, I feel horrible.

[nfsboy_]

May god help every person who struggles from mental health.

Ameen

[Waleed]

Thank you for this video. It got all the answers that I needed. I am having suicidal OCD from last one month. A continuous train of thoughts and ways that I might do it this way or due to this reason or that setback. It makes you very uncomfortable and disturbed. But like any OCD it's just a fear and thought and ERP along with some SSRI really helps. Talking to your family and friends along with a psychologist is the way to start. I wish everyone healing and good health.

[GloriaJWimberley]

A helpful companion video to this is to explain precisely✨HOW✨ to resist rituals, etc.This detailed explanation is much needed.

[Uobserve]

❌ Don't skip this comment it can be your best OCD treatment (afterall you may loose 1-2min reading this)
Keep all this aside,
I have overcome my 10years ocd following this 3:

1- understand ocd & your triggering thought of ocd

2- Dont try to escape the that thought which triggers ocd.

3-Dont try to create opposite thought like "I should not think like this", "I should end this ocd", "it is sin" bla bla....

Now i explain following this 3:

How ocd works on your mind?
Ans:- Conflicting thought and fear is the reason. And if you see it is all Psychological and the more strong the opposite thought like -->" i should not do this", " it harms " or " it is a sin" more intensely you have ocd.

Example:- You have some intrusive thought and you try to oppose it saying i should not have this thought and its creates conflict which comes in cyclicle patterns (or) You try to escape thought by doing activity or other it is also conflict same continues.

And also if you have any strong beliefs such as religious etc., Dont have beliefs just question the belief understand the root of that belief why it is so.

Solution:-
Example:
Suppose i have a ocd thought to beat the person opposite to me some stranger(😂). Wait dont beat him we wait to face it psychologically
The moment this thought comes, we oppose this thought with (oppoing thoughts)"I should not have this thought", "it harms him", "its unethical", "Its creul". Or try to escape that thought by vacating the place(escape).

So what to do is let the thought run in your mind completely and understand and question the thought like "I will beat him" and dont ❌judge your thought whether its good or bad
✅Just silence your mind and just observe the thought
❌dont add any other thought like peacfull thought or any other opposing thought
✅just be quiet and observe the thought after sometime and After some incident of ocd thoughts you will go beyond your thought

it my friend your out of

I CAME TO THIS UNDERSTANDING FROM THE CONCEPTS OF PHILOSOPHER JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

[evelynbecker]

Psychedelics are just an amazing discovery, it's quite fascinating how effective they're for depression and stress disorders. Saved my life

[rdqffwo]

My ROCD is killing me😭Im dying daily, I just want to live a happy life with my partner.This ROCD is taking all my energy and not letting me focus.I deserve to be happy with my partner.We really deserve to be happy together.God please help

[Scooter]

I'll be praying for all of us! Matthew 19:26 "with God, all things are possible."

[Peanutsareyummy]

ever since i realized i had ocd all this time, my mind was filled with suicide, i wanted to get rid of this, but after i seen all these other comments, i realize im not the only one, hopefully i can over come ocd.

[x..x.]

Yeah but whenever I try going against my OCD bad stuff ends up happening in real life and it freaks me out and I get scared back into it there is clearly some type of power it has that's beyond therapy and I don't know how escape it without risk of harming the people I love

[theunicorn]

I am exhausted....I just cannot resist those meaningless rituals. I scared if it makes me apart for my dreams

[yamant]

I am afraid it's not that easy, OCD is like monster that eats through your brain if don't obey it 😢

[sampledegree]

I talk to myself when these thoughts come and then they listen me and they finishes
I want to know is it a good way to treat them

[harinandhr]

I too have OCD😭😭😭😭. I realised it recently. I didn't agree I have OCD

[shaunbarnett]

A bucket of ice cold water can stop thoughts pretty quickly.

[nataliemeenakshithegreat]

Unfortunately psychiatrists therapists are not trained for that in paris France

[Aashka_The_Mystic]

Overcoming compulsions is the easy part. What about the intrusive thoughts?