OCD and Anxiety Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #29

In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about OCD and anxiety disorders in the hope we'll understand what people with actual OCD have to deal with as well as how torturous anxiety disorders and panic attacks can actually be.

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Chapters:
Introduction: Social Stigma of Psychological Disorders 00:00
What Defines an Anxiety Disorder? 1:55
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 2:35
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) 4:17
Panic Disorder & Panic Attacks 4:48
Phobias & Avoidance Behaviors 6:06
The Learning Perspective 7:38
The Biological Perspective 9:14
Review & Credits 10:38
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[EllieMcHale]

"Being neat and orderly and fastidious does not make you OCD." YES. Yes.

[evanfox]

When you crave social interaction but your anxiety makes you think everyone hates you.

[lizzykate]

" *interferes with the ability to function in a normal way* " THANK you. anxiety isn't being nervous, shy, or really worried; it literally traps you in your own fear and you interact with people differently, you can't do things you like or want to do, you feel like everyone thinks you're diseased, and you can't escape. anxiety is just. bLEh

[sunfly]

My anxiety makes me nauseous and when I’m nauseous I can’t eat and not eating makes me more nauseous it’s a nasty circle I can’t escape.

[shaywalters]

I suffer from ADHD, GAD and OCD and I hate when my friends say "Everybody has a mental illness" and what's worse is that some of them make up excuses like "I can't present my work, I have anxiety"
I've had an anxiety attack while presenting. I try not to let my illness get to me.
They just don't get it.

[gin]

Something that sucks for me is that I have Social Anxiety Disorder and I'm afraid of meeting people, but I'm also incredibly lonely and have a fear of being alone for a long time. I feel so conflicted and I don't know what to do.

[hobilifers]

Those people who judge a person for having Depression, Anxiety etc
Doesn't know how hard and painful it is.

[forestl]

I always think when someone in laughing near me they are laughing at me

[AudoricArt]

I grew up with severe generalized anxiety, and for a while I was contemplating suicide because of it. Sadly, my parents had always found it difficult to come to terms with my GAD, saying that it's just a phase, a cry for attention, or an excuse to be lazy. However when I showed them this video they were finally able to understand the kind of difficulties I go through every second of every day, and they were willing to help me see a therapist. Although the road to recovery has been long, I'm now doing the things I would have never imagined before, like simply learning how to drive.
Seriously, this video saved my life. Thank you so much for providing this resource.

[lyricalcereal]

I hate how loosely “OCD” is thrown around in our society, it seems like everyone says the have OCD and then the people like me who ACTUALLY HAVE OCD are just diagnosed as normal people without a problem

[dragon_molar]

my ocd manifests more on the mental level...intense, obsessive fear-based thought spirals and intense self-policing of what i say, think, and do. i feel saddened or distraught by any fault i find in myself, especially in my thoughts. it's so hard to function, sometimes. i am grateful for my life and all of my experiences!! but i've struggled with increasingly changing mental health for years, coupled with diagnosed PTSD & panic attacks, it's exhausting, sometimes, and hard to explain to people who don't function this way? it's so hard to find quiet and peace. does anyone out there feel the same? i'm praying for all of you out there, i love y'all.

[JadeDRail]

As a joke, I like to describe Generalized Anxiety Disorder is like a plate at a buffet of anxiety disorder. A few symptoms from one, a few symptoms from another, etc.

[pandora-world]

I have social anxiety, and I hate it when teachers don’t understand why I don’t talk in class, they don’t get that talking in front of a class makes me physically feel bad

[BhuvaneshKodem]

My OCD is that I have to do random things throughout my day over and over until I get them "right", and if I try to ignore it, my brain would tell me that someone I love will die. Let's say, for example, that I was closing a door. If I do it "wrong" the first time, I open it and close it over and over until I get it "right". This can be as small as that, and it can get as big as a series of actions like going to the bathroom and picking up a snack and then pouring a glass of water. If I mess even the smallest thing up, I'd go back to where I started, and then start making my way to the bathroom again. The things that define "right" and "wrong" are things like how many times I've done it, what I was thinking while I was doing it, how many steps I've taken, etc. This has sometimes taken hours out of my day. It is truly a living hell.

Thankfully, I started taking medication for it, and it started to get better. If you have OCD or any other mental disorder, you are not alone and it will not last forever, I promise :)

[CASwagg]

Every time I have a panic attack I convince myself that I’m having a heart attack or dying. It scares me so much

[Sofia-qsry]

I HATE when my friends say like "Oh no I'm sooo nervous of presenting this in front of the class, i aM aBOuT tO HaVE a PAniC atAcK" I am like, bro you don't even know what it feels to barely breathe, shake, being nauseous and that your heart beats unbelievable fast, and only a week or a month far from the day of presentations, and the day you are presenting wanting to escape, you can't breathe and then, you have a good presentation, but when you present, you think everyone is laughing at you and you think you did it wrong, so yeah you don't have any idea of what is having a panic attack or Anxiety, just shut up, please

[BonjourBit]

My heart goes out to all of you experiencing these disorders. I finally went to the doc after suffering frequent panic attacks and years of anxiety. Find medicine that works for you, find a therapist or someone you can trust to talk to, and most of all learn more about yourself. Trust that things will get better and it's ok to have bad days. But all of you deserve and have the chance to live lives detached from the chains of anxiety. Do NOT give up ---- there is light at the end of the tunnel.

[lisettegold]

one time i told myself repetitively not to have a panic attack right before an audition and i ended up having a panic attack because i was so scared of having a panic attack. so much fun :)

[TheGamingBacklog]

The people who disliked this video probably make anxiety jokes.

[ketikatz]

I have social anxiety and it's sometimes really hard for people to understand how scared I actually am to interact with other people.
I cross the street just to avoid walking by someone, I get anxiety attacks just thinking about having to go in somewhere and talk to someone I'm not use to talking to (and it took me over a year to get use to going to my bank), parties are just a nightmare because I'm sitting in a corner hoping no one talks to me, anytime someone says something to me all I can think is "please stop talking to me please go away" while my heart races. Anytime someone walks by me I have trouble breathing and I think "just please ignore me and keep walking"
It's so hard to hold down a job or even go anywhere I'm not use to