8 OCD Self Help Principles in 5 Minutes

From his acceptance speech at the 2019 OCD Conference, Reid Wilson, PhD, outlines the top 8 principles of self-help for obsessive compulsive disorder. (Without the Service Award presentation by Mike Jenike, MD.)

[BrownGeorge-pwxo]

I was diagnosed with OCD since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting OCD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[TakeResponsibilityforYOURLife]

Great advice - with the right attitude and a fierce determination OCD can be beaten.

[yemkonhongha]

OCD is very strong painful constant impulse with hopelessness, unsatisfactoriness, fearfulness, boringness, anger, tiredness, headache, restlessness, no readiness, withdrawal, and escape. OCD is the fierce mental torture 😭

[inigoke]

Dr Reid i dont know if you will read this but anyway...
THANKS from the bottom of my heart.I have OCD since i was a child (7years old)
but following your principles now i have a GREAT life (1 year of protocol) something that time ago i didn't think it would be possible.
OCD is always there and thats awesome cause it forces me to train the protocol, it is like my sparring and everyday i am better.
This protocol is great not only for OCD but for everything in life.
People like you should be live forever. Again THANKS.

[samanthabray]

You are an amazing OCD expert and teacher. Thank you.

[silent]

OCD is harder to treat when ur surrounded by strict, brutal parents and community.

[coreytaylor]

I love the way how dr explain it all so simply without long explanation 🙏🏻❤️

[matthewalderink]

This guy's instructions have helped me more than anything

[theotherway]

Thanks. Another helpful resource is that book "30 Days to Stop Obsessing" by Harper Daniels.

[wrightcarl]

My going to bed security check regime lasts a good 15 minutes, hopefully I can get this time back and ignore the doubts

[mariaafrah]

Thank you sir!!! I cant reallu thank you enough😭💛💛💛💛

[yemkonhongha]

OCD is the fierce evil disease in humanity history 😢😢😢 It is the strong painful mental illness. It makes the constant tremendous mental torture and completely destroy the quality of life endlessly. Living with OCD = Living in doleful savage hell ! OCD is very strong painful constant impulse with hopelessness, unsatisfactoriness, fearfulness, boringness, anger, tiredness, headache, restlessness, no readiness, withdrawal, and escape. OCD can cause headache, depression, tachypnea, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, unemployment, hopelessness etc. The world may you please save OCD patients.

[lindachristensen]

Thank you Dr Reid, Though I considered myself in great FREEDOM from OCD over the last years, I fell back in it during some very hard times the last few months. I want to tell you how your information is very clear and has helped me so much watching your OCD videos ‘right in the throes of that painful/threat’. I actually got so much from one of your videos on threat, it’s like, wow…it was made just for me😊I’m sure many people find your information so helpful in their lives. When anyone needs a boost or refresher, listen to Dr Reid Wilson, but, ‘we must do the work’👍

[suninkim]

It's a pleasant and good lecture. Have a nice day.

[Earth]

This is great. But he didn't mention that we also need to have a long term goal.
Long term goal: To get rid of OCD or get it under control
Short tem goal: You seek doubt/anxiety/discomfort

Without the long term goal, we don't get the motivation to do the incredibly hard work

[robynrose]

Tomorrow I’m traveling 80 miles to a recording studio to record a song I wrote about this disorder even when it’s telling me I shouldn’t get in the car

[matthewalderink]

I'm going to war with OCD I'm not going to let it fuck over my life anymore that shit has put me on the streets I've turned to drugs to deal with it I've been in the mental institution but I'm standing up to this shit I'm fighting it till my death

[matthewalderink]

The number one thing that stood out in this is that he said the topic has nothing to do with anything it's not the topic that is the problem there is always gonna be some topic some theme but it's always meaningless

[siabrogden]

OCD sucks, thank you- for sharing your strategies and support. I try not to play the game, exposure never works it makes it worse. Do you have an suggestions for Schizophrenia and OCD together?

[matthewalderink]

Problem with me is when I don't give in to my cumpulsions I get so overwhelmed that I get aggressive and the smallest things can set me off I don't want to hurt anyone are damage property so I usually do the cumpulsions because if I don't I get so overwhelmed I get aggressive