Is It Me Or OCD?

Post psychiatry appointment thoughts.. Don't let OCD take over your beliefs. When you have OCD, you can't trust your feelings. You have you go by what you know. And even then, uncertainty happens. You can't escape it, you just have to learn to live with it.

[dIMPULSEj]

It fills your body with doubt, it stagnates progress, it takes away mental clarity/inner peace, it ruins relationships, & so on. It's so strange how this "1%" convinces us to believe in fear, even though we know otherwise..

[madelinestevens]

Me: I know I'm not attracted to my brother Ocd: Yeah you are

[AshBennett-rjef]

I’m at the point of no doubt and this is me and this is what I want i like this, this is 100% who I am and can’t believe I have ocd its took over its won and I don’t know how to be me again before I woke up on day with this theme

[yanoliveira]

Psalms 139 for you, Kat! I hope God always give you sharp discernment between what is really, genuinely in your mind and what OCD is trying to make you believe you think and feel but actually you don't.
Here's a prayer I wish you meditate and rest upon, feel relief in your mind:
"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psalms 139: 23-24.

[broojie]

I feel the same way about the attraction, I'm afraid I'm attracted to girls and guys when I genuinely just want a relationship with a male. I try not to focus on the maybe's rather than my actual beliefs. I'm 99% sure I'm attracted to males, and then my OCD focuses on that 1% that this MIGHT happen. I don't trust my thoughts, but I do let them consume me. A thought is a thought, I'm trying my best to understand that. I know what I believe and what I believe is that being with a guy is what is best for me overall, and that i believe my OCD and the 1% chance rather than what I've known my entire life. I thought it was a real identity crisis, it's just my thoughts. I'm not bisexual, i know that and I'm happy with knowing that. But my OCD says the opposite. It's very hard to understand and not believe these thoughts when they're coming up so much. Thank you for making this though, I feel like this is something everyone with the disorder needs to understand

You are NOT your thoughts and your disorder
Please, never think you are something you're not, and never trust your mind.
It'll doubt, it'll try and sound logical.
But don't trust it, you're just making things worse if you do.

[NoxForest]

I'm going through hocd. I'm living in hell.

[alyaa]

yo i just wanna say that on this ocd matter i admire you because you can talk to ppl about your ocd and its helpful to us to find someone we relate to.. its really hard for me to talk about my mental illness to anyone. i fear they, who knows nothing about ocd, will get the very wrong idea and im not so good at explaining esp when it comes to ocd it just makes me nervous

[alessirhodes]

i am 7 years late to this video but i just want to comment to say - you just saying “i believe ocd more than i believe myself” really resonated with me, i’ve had ocd since i was a child and i’ve never been able to put words to my experience until now so thank you so much 🙏❤️

[roaaabdullatif]

I thought I'm the only one!
Thanks Kat for sharing this, it means a lot.

[Nutellaella]

Honestly you're the best. I get these thoughts and was scared to go see someone because I thought I was the only one, but you convinced me that I'm not alone. Now I'm seeing someone and I think she's helping! Thank you so much!!

[patrick]

The fact that you already have so much insight into this as you have is very important and very promising, even if it doesn’t seem like it. Keep up the wonderful job you’re doing. You are going to have a beautiful and happy life.

[WriterNinja]

I can't imagine how difficult it was to talk about this, but honestly, this video was incredibly informative, and well put. Thank you for the content you create. You are improving the lives of people affected, and the knowledge of mental healthcare providers. Thank you. xx

[stanlie]

You have touched me. I am crying right now. I am normal.

[madskittls]

Thank you, thank you so much. I struggle with this everyday. "Is it me? Is it OCD? What if it's OCD? Does that mean I'm broken?" Your videos have shown me that I need help, I have reached out for help and I know that your videos have been a huge influence on me in seeking help. Thank you.
Zach

[hxk]

Thank you for this video, i've been fighting against ocd for over 10 years(almost as as far as i can remember). And slowly but surely i think im defeating it.

[layceelay]

a lot of you're videos make me cry. i feel less alone now and I hope you never quit making them sister. <3

[elizabelthe]

I haven't been diagnosed with OCD but I really think I have it. I feel what you're saying exactly, and I've been experiencing it severely with different things for a year now. I even had intrusive thoughts as a child. I just started therapy and am going for a psychiatric evaluation so I'll soon know if I do, but reading the symptoms, mainly of pure o, I relate so much to it. I just want it to stop but I don't even know if that's what's happening to me.

[DestinySomeone]

I have had OCD for years. My mom knows I have mental illness of course but never really bothered to learn about all my dx I just told her the other day I have OCD and she told me no I don't. I got so mad I was yelling without knowing. She told me my house is a mess so I can't have it. It hurt so much I cried. I had cereal types of this disorder let people think that it's just about hand washing. My OCD was so bad in highschool that I wouldn't get on the bus because I thought the bus driver was going to kill me and my House rituals still to this day take about 10 minutes my mom course at me about not being really good I to check the light 24 times lol (how else will I know it's off) I'm so scared of exposure therapy I think you're brave. One of my fears are the dark and at my old therapist office it would unlikely turn off is known was in the room. I would see the dark under the dark and flip each time

[Halloweinie]

SAME SAME SAME. HAVING THESE FEARS IN A RELATIONSHIP IS TORTURE!!!!

[samanthanicolettesemakulak]

This is absolutely terrifying. I think I know how you feel