How exposures for OCD and anxiety work

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Exposure and response prevention works for OCD and Anxiety. I use a fun way to explain why exposures work and what happens in your brain. Kinda! 🤪 Pretend your brain is a grassy field!

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[ocdandanxiety]

Have you tried using exposure and response prevention? 🤷‍♂️What were your results?👍🏻

[jackbrown]

This is soo true. I like the grass theory ! We are stronger than OCD even tho it tells us that we are not strong and we have to think about it. We do not have to think about it or do any of the rituals. We have uncertainties and confusion like he was saying but we must ovoid it because it is just OCD. This guy is soo good and therapicual at explaining stuff. Please keep posting good content up. Congrats on your dedication and consistent on these videos 🙏🙌

[laurahedley]

This is so helpful! It's easy to feel guilt still when I try to do this, so I think it's very important to understand how it works!

[bs]

UK mental health nurse! I use exact same analogy for neuroplasticity and forging new pathways in the brain 🙂

[irsayson]

this is basically changing your habits by fixing your mindset!

[JustinFisher]

I have a great deal of gratitude for the work you're doing here. It's incredibly helpful.

[MzMinnie]

I hope one day I can try therapy again. I went for six months and I procrastinated all the homework and just misunderstood the exposures. I feel like I’m not ready to give up my ocd.

[kevinhermi]

Mate you are literally doing more for people than these 'celebrities' can't thankyou enough we don't have many ocd specialist in my town but I'm switched on enough to understand it, when I'm not having strong fear emotions but thankyou

[AnsleyEverett-dx]

Great video. Very clear and helpful.. 2:59 - 3:15 I can't even explain how relatable this is..

[josefkobzonovski]

Three years ago I did LSD and during the trip I decided I no longer had OCD and began touching things no human should ever touch, just to prove a point. Next morning when I regained my grasp on the reality and I realized what I had done, it threw me into a year long severe OCD cycle. You are correct, it has to be done under a trained specialist supervision, exposure that is done because you're so mad at OCD and you begin touching and licking toilet seats is a super unhealthy practice.

[cutefoxRC]

Hi Nathan! I'm trying to get rid of OCD in 2 years already (if not more), i watched a lot of videos and i know how OCD works and that with every compulsion it becomes more bad. One time i manage to do ERP and not giving reaction pretty well, but then other days my will power goes to zero and i can't do anything against OCD but only compulsions compulsions and compulsions, even if i understand that i do steps back. I feel how something huge blocks me from preventing responce. I'm getting able to stop reacting only when i really will get tired of doing a lot of compulsions in a cycle, then again i start to get some better days and then soon again like no any success was, zero of will power and days are going bad. I feel like this cycle of ups and downs is going for more than one year. I remember there was some period of time when i felt better and my OCD situation overall was better, i felt myself more free and i felt strong against my fears. I'm not sure when exactly it went down again, but now i feel that it's super bad again, i can't work properly, all these silly thoughts in my head distract me and they push me to keep doing rituals. The problem is that my brain makes these silly thoughts so strong and scary, it gives me phrases or scenes / ideas and then makes me feel like i asked god to make them real, while i didn't, i'm not really religious person and i understand that they are just silly thoughts, but they still bring me SUPER STRONG fear of that all that can happen because my brain mentions god in my phrases with other very bad kind of content. I'm trying to do ERP but simply can't prevent reaction because everything in my head yells that this stuff will happen if i will not re-do my previous action with trying to not have these thoughts. Please, any kind of advice would be really appreciated.

[hazeelford]

Hey! Is there any chance you could make a video on healthy self care and lower anxeity techniques that doesn't reassure or feed into OCD?

[nataliesharaf]

Great video, very good metaphore with the grass paths! Thank you!

[Esha-iu]

Thank you resisting a compulsion and listening to your video to help me and disregard the thoughts in head

[emmamoss]

Your videos are fantastic I'm so grateful I discovered you thankyou

[clementfer]

Thanks very much for all your very informative and helpful videos - I truly love them, please keep posting them.


Just wondering, are you an OCD sufferer yourself?

[Magnate]

Thank you so much. You are a blessing. :))

[ekaterinag.]

Thank you very much for video, very nice example with grass. How to make Erp for Rocd?

[geogithomas]

i have a fear that i am touching a person in a bad after just touching a person i feel likei touched them badly and i think about it every now i am like scared if i am a bad person

[dynamicmusic]

I do seek uncertainty for compulsions and obsessions and i think its easier to let down on your bed and juste gaving therapy Time so you Can heal