5 Top Tips for OCD

Today we are talking about OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. For those of us with OCD, there are a variety of techniques and treatments that can be extremely helpful towards living a healthy and fulfilling life with the disorder. A diagnosis of OCD does not need to define you. We also know that while the pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, it has been particularly challenging for those of us with OCD. In today’s episode, we are going to speak with a leading OCD expert about what the disorder is, how best to live with it, and how to help those around you with the disorder.

Dr. Rachel Ginsberg serves as the Assistant Director at Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders—Westchester, and the Assistant Quality Director of the Department of Psychiatry Faculty Practice Organization. She is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and specializes in the evaluation and treatment of adolescents and adults with mood, anxiety, and related disorders. Dr. Ginsberg is trained in evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and has worked in a variety of settings, including pediatric and adult clinics, as well as partial hospital and inpatient hospital settings. Dr. Ginsberg is passionate about finding novel and creative ways to personalize and innovate evidence-based treatments.

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[yemkonhongha]

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

[luckygirl]

1. Would I rather live my life with risk, or have to live my life like this
2. Am I approaching or avoiding
3. If you can make room for this, it'll make it less scary
4. Make it worse to make it better (with assistance)
5. Stay with the thought, play with the thought.

[dragonlord]

I did it. I just did the thing that I couldn't do for so long the thing that ruined my life for so long. I made this journey by myself, but I just wanted to share it somewhere. I do have those negativethoughts and feel the bad sensation that was associated with it and I am not yet where I need to be. But for the first time in my life, I truly feel like I am in actual reach of being able to achieve everything I have ever wanted and be "normal". It seems like I gained the skill to solve my problems.

[antoinelaurin]

Wonderful ! The tips were significant and made me feel like : "Yes, OCD is something that could be improved". Thanks 🙏🏻

[chazzat]

I really hope I manage to do this, I have lived with ocd for so long and am now keeping my self up all night carrying out distressing compulsions, while im carrying them out in the moment I feel incredibly tense, stressed, I start to sweat, I become serverely distressed and even start slapping my self in the head because of how fustrated I become and it actually makes me suicidle. After carrying out these distressing repetitive tasks I will feel incredibly annoyed, dissapointed and ashamed of my self. There are no posotive emotions when it comes to ocd, I feel completely and utterly trapped in it, but im going to try my best to listen to this video and overcome it even if it isnt simple, which i know it wont be, but i cant keep living like this

[ianhust]

These tips are absolute GOLD... I will definitely be giving them a try, as I struggle daily with Pure O and it can feel like absolute hell at times. Thank you so much Dr. Rachel Ginsberg!!

[CrowdPleeza]

Something worth looking into is vitamin deficiencies. I read that some people with OCD may be lacking with these vitamins. Vitamin D, Vitamin B12 and Zinc.

[kungfumcgee]

I can’t put into words how helpful this was and I’m glad it was concise and entertaining enough for my limited gen z attention span 😂 thank you

[davidmacdowell]

I wonder if she's ever had OCD, or if this is all from her text books.

[JeremyStress]

thank you rachel for these tips. this simple and quick video has helped me a lot already

[mcminicoconut]

I find it hard to notice if I am having a compulsion sometimes. For example I remember a show and start to question which character did this or that and feel the urge to search or rewatch the whole series or else and I feel this heavy feeling on my chest when I am about to search it or when I don't want to search it. Is it OCD? What do I do?

[jithamukundan]

I don't know what happen? Suddenly my mood changes 2 months before. Still now i couldn't enjoy songs that iam already heard before. And i don't have any interest in my lyf. I forget the things thatt i already done before..

[fordfx]

I improved by just being yourself. The more you doubt, overthink, etc, the worse your ocd and intrusive thoughts will become because you now associate the thought or pattern with fear. If you be yourself, and think about what just comes to your head at the moment without fear or worry, the once negative thoughts if they do come will more than likely just pass and with time you will get better as your fear subsides. Why ocd and anxiety are interlinked, its fear about something. If an intrusive thought happens, you will eventually just see it as a dumb thought and go on being yourself. It takes work and time for the brain to learn, the brain is plastic and changes

[fischersmethod]

I was hospitalized for 15 months cause of severe OCD 9 yrs ago....very helpful tips

[pritamshil]

Ma'am, can physical pain tolerance and mental pain tolerance give psychological strength and power?

[Dinazingo]

ocd is terrible, im so so exhausted. i even find my down part hella dirty i cant even get my home pants off everytime i go out i wear another pant on top of my home pant. im exhausted i want to be like me years ago again. im so tired idk how to stop i wash my hand so so much my skin is always gettin so ao dry

[debbierobertson]

I totally agree, i measure my furnature. But im feeding my brain to keep doing it. Its everyday, takes over your life.

[suraj]

HOW to stop compulsions like in my case excessing checking?

[eagle]

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[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.