Real Event OCD | 10 Treatment Tips

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Real Event OCD is a tough one. There actually is something that has happened in your past that is causing the rumination and anxiety. Even if it was 5 minutes ago. Luckily there is a treatment to teach your brain to no longer see this as a threat and ways to retrain the brain.

Chapters:
00:00 10 tips for real event OCD
1:36 Tip 1
2:44 Tip 2
3:35 Tip 3
4:14 Tip 4
4:54 Tip 5
5:35 Tip 6
6:07 Tip 7
6:40 Tip 8
7:42 Tip 9
8:27 Tip 10
9:09 Where to find treatment
9:27 Question For You
9:45 Bloopers

DISCLOSURE: Although I am a licensed therapist. This video is not intended to replace medical advice. This is for information purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a local mental health professional.

[ocdandanxiety]

How do you experience Real Event OCD? 👍🏻

[lauraska]

My real event OCD comes with a lot of shame, almost like my brain is looking for reasons to make me feel bad. It also overlaps with other themes. Sometimes it feels so real that it's difficult to believe it's OCD..

[craigharrington]

As somebody who suffered for years I found my salvation in a simple response of “I don’t know”

I was bombarded by multiple memories and thousands upon thousands of relentless questions until they just went away. I offered nothing more than “I don’t know”

No matter how impossible it felt to move on, no matter how terrifying it was, no matter the guilt, no matter the shame, no matter how desperate it felt. The thoughts went away.

I honestly hope my experience can help someone to move on with their life. But ultimately “I don’t know” 😄

[gojibbq]

the really frustrating thing about confession compulsions is that no matter how many people tell me that what happened isn't a big deal, the ocd tells me they're biased or I'm not telling them enough or they must just be wrong

there's no way to satisfy it, but it still feels like it's eating me alive

[pumpkinpepsi]

My brain always goes "yeh but THIS TIME it's real, THIS time you NEED to be thinking about it"

[kevinhermi]

I feel like searching for these videos is a compulsion 😂

[nurmayanti]

Reviewing the Tips:
1. Use your obsessions to understand yourself
2. Make a list of what gets neglected in your life because of compulsions
3. "If I let these thoughts and emotions determine what I do in the next few minutes or an hour, will it get me closer to the person I want to be or will it move me even futher away"
4. Put a visible reminder somewhere that it's OCD is the issue. Not the past event
5. Practice self-compassion
6. Do not try to get rid of your thoughts and emotions
7. Ban rumination
8. Be willing to live with the fact that your scary thoughts may be right
9. Seek treatment
10. Make sure that your therapist specializes in OCD and practice ERP

[rennjohnston]

I have done things in my past that are bad. My OCD uses this to reassure I'm a bad person. The guilt of the past and the fear of intrusive thoughts can be overwhelming at times where I cant breathe or be comfortable. I cant help ruminating as I need to KNOW I'm not a bad person. This video helps and the comments do as well. Does anyone else feel this way, extreme guilt and fear of uncertainty? Thanks for the videos, you're calm demeanor and understanding give me hope

[saarapandey]

It's like my ocd is trying to prove by bringing up these memories and thought is that I am a bad person

[flamingoxx]

You are such a generous soul to share this with us asking nothing in return, thank you

[Wayfaringmusician]

Your videos are helping me a lot.

In my early 20s, while struggling with alcohol, I did a lot of stupid things. Around seven whole years later, even longer for some of these things, I am now two years sober but these memories are popping into my head consistently and causing loads of shame. It drives me to believe I will experience consequences in the future and that I should not pursue a music career that could possibly make me famous or something.

I am now having other strange anxiety related attacks and panic attacks centered on some of these memories, occasionally leading to borderline blackouts though. I think I need to start making the push for uncertainty.

[ecoh]

My brain recycles different experiences on a weekly basis. It tells me that I’m horrible and that I’m going to end up being a felon or serial killer because I’ve done some stupid things as a teenager. I have a week without any symptoms then it crashes over me like large wave and then I go back to 24/7 rumination about the experiences. This is getting rough

[pumpkinpepsi]

I really suffer with this one. I suddenly remember things I did or thought or felt months or years ago and feel just crushed by it until I'm disconnected from reality and I just can't believe I could have not only done the thing but not realized how bad it was until now.

[_seagull]

Remember you are not an exception. You are trying your best like most other humans on this earth. It's not like you're uniquely evil. Other people don't talk about these things because they can be shameful and they don't have an obligation to bring it up or dwell on it. Please seek ERP therapy and get your life back on track. That is what I am doing. I know it feels so threatening, but you can do it.

[rishiattri]

The guy with the most authentic solutions ❤️

[tryingtodobetter]

This has been a really tough thing for me for the past three weeks. I am currently obsessing over some pretty bad stuff i did as 12 year old without noticing it by then. It also overlapses with my moral scrupulosity OCD and my POCD, especially this one. It makes me feel like I'm worthless and a bad person and like i don't deserve a good and fulfilling future. It stands in the way of healing myself and connecting with people and simply living in the present. Thoughts like "I am a horrible monster and everyone around me is normal and can enjoy a deserved happy life and I don't" are daily basis. I also suffer from extreme disconnection from reality, my friends, my family and mostly myself. I look in the mirror and don't know who i am anymore and i feel no empathy for my reflection. It causes s*icidual thoughts even tho i actually love life and don't want to d*e. What i did doesn't align with my values at all and the most terrible thing is that i am incapable of forgiving myself or showing myself compassion. I just want to be normal and i want to do school and love myself but i feel so undeserving of love

[Naomimarsden]

As much as I know I have OCD, the things I have done in the past aren't small.
I believe I deserve to be punished for them, even if it's just beating myself up mentally about it.
I don't want to be oblivious to what I've done and blame it on OCD.

[MooncrafterUTAU]

I’m glad you made this video, because I genuinely didn’t know this was a thing and incorrectly assumed it was just me experiencing flashbacks from my PTSD. The lens of OCD makes a LOT more sense when applied to my experiences.

[EggsToYourBacon]

Every time I think about anything, my brain connects it back. I can't sleep, I can't even sit blanky without thinking about it. Thanks for this. It's helping a bit.

[zzzcocopepe]

I envision "the mists of time." We want to erase it. But we can't change the past. So instead, we can leave it in the past. Allow your brain to forget it even happened. Envision the mists of time, and allow them to have that moment, instead of you. It's not who you are. It was just a stumble. Stand up now, in the present moment.