Anxiety or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

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OCD isn’t just about cleaning and I see so many comments saying things related to that. OCD is anything that you obsess over or about. It can be a person, an item, a process, literally it goes way beyond “germs and contingent”. I was diagnosed ocd do to the fact I obsess over literally everything & anyone that brings good serotonin

Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.

For years I’ve struggled with OCD tendencies but I thought since I didn’t count steps or have physical compulsions that meant I couldn’t be experiencing ocd. This was so enlightening.

My therapist told me that my OCD was related to have ADHD. It didn't make sense at first, but after some time I realized that checking several times to see if electrical gadgets had been turned off before leaving my house, checking several times to see if I had my phone, pocket book in bag and all needed items before leaving, driving back after a few miles down the road to check to see if I had locked the door.. or even closed it or to see if my oven was on... was because I, indeed, had forgotten these and been in difficult situations because of forgetting. I am an obsessive list maker.

OCD can manifest in four main ways: contamination/washing, doubt/checking, ordering/arranging, and unacceptable/taboo thoughts. Obsessions and compulsions that revolve about contamination and germs are the most common type of OCD, but OCD can cover a wide range of topics.

I always wondered if the mental checking was an OCD thing for me. In second grade my mom had to talk to my teacher about letting me skip out in the timed times table tests we did daily. You had to finish your page of math problems perfectly before you'd get the next sheet of problems, the idea being to get so automatic that one would barely have to think about the answer. But for me, it didn't matter if it was 2x2 or 7x9, I'd have to check and recheck my answer, adding it and then counting it over and over and over... and over. Add to that the anxiety of the timed aspect and it was even worse.

I love how Dr. Yup herself suffers from OCD and is simultaneously also the expert in it. I am a med student and i often feel inclined towards psychiatry but i worry my anxiety and PTSD would get in the way. But i love how she took the power onto herself and is now helping others do the same❤

When I told the closest people to me that I had OCD, I had several responses of -no you don’t - you don’t have OCD, for me I felt so very alone and invalidated….I still often do. It really is a severely distressing thing to live with 😢. Please don’t ever say these things to someone who tells you they have OCD.

I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder, but I sometimes wonder about OCD. I have these obsessive ruminating thoughts often regarding work and just general life. I worry so much about everything that I just figure it's due to having an anxiety disorder. I can relate to the perfectionism, because at work it takes time for me just to send an email because I reread often and worry about if I get my words right. Also, I avoid the phones because I worry that I may confuse people or misspeak, or my voice doesn't sound right. I want to make sure that I'm doing the best that I can and when I mess something up I beat myself up about it for days or weeks. My nerves are really bad so I bit my nails often and the inside of my cheeks, and sometimes pick at my skin. I guess I fear failure or that I'm just not good enough. I often have problems sleeping through the night. I find it hard to relax, people say to me just relax and telling me that is like saying don't breath, I have to breath and my thoughts just keep going. But I've been having these issues all my life so I should be use to this but here I am middle aged and it's tiring.

I want to thank you for making these videos. They helped me so much to understand myself. I've had OCD since I was a teenager. I never really understood it, no one ever helped me. It got worse a few years ago, so when I found out this channel and started learning more about OCD, it was a blessing to finally understand what was going on. I took an appointment with a psychologist and now, a year after, I feel so much better. It has taken me over 15 years to get diagnosed. It's an everyday fight. I want to say to people with OCD, you're not alone. Be kind to yourself, take your time to feel better, baby steps are great. Allow yourself to see the right psychologist who's truly going to help you, who'll never judge you and find the right therapy for you to follow.

It takes 17 years to even know what label pertains to us. Wow no wonder it’s taken me forever to become self aware. At least I’ve been on a consistent path of researching my family of origin dynamics which is the core to all of our issues.

Wow! I suffer from severe anxiety and never considered that I might have OCD. But after this explanation I may have OCD. I definitely have intrusive thoughts that I need to do something perfectly to avoid a negative reaction or consequences by checking countless times. Anxiety like OCD, in my opinion, are extremely difficult abnormalities to understand and get rid of!

I would argue that OCD is a coping mechanism for anxiety.. so anxiety would always be the cause and not the symptom

my OCD was treated as anxiety and it made me constantly afraid of becoming my worst fears. most of the treatment i did get was centered around perfectionism.

I'm honestly keeping back tears hearing this. I feel like for years I've been struggling with this intense need to avoid the big catastrophe and everything falling apart (from things like me not including the necessary info in an email - lmao .....) I sent this video to my therapist cause this week we are going IN on exploring if this could be what I'm dealing with. I've had anxiety that's been very present since I was a teen and have always been a perfectionist.

Best video about OCD I have seen! This video really does capture the essence and nature of the different aspects of OCD. The Pure O, the absolute truths, the checking of your work, the ruminating! Highlighting the parts of OCD that cannot be seen hopefully shows people how painful OCD really is, not just someone who likes to clean.

after suffering it undiagnosed for a few years when I got the diagnosis everything I've been going through made so much sense, I was so exhausted from ruminating 24/7 I thought I was losing my mind, thankfully with the right treatment i am starting to make some progress

"...all in the service of getting at certainty. OCD and anxiety thrive on doubt and the purpose of these mental compulsions is to get absolute truth." So simple, so spot on.

Thank you for this! I had a psychology teacher who was absolutely flabbergasted when we were talking about OCD in class and I told him I have it. I was diagnosed as a child so talking about it is not a big deal for me, not embarrassing. Anyways he almost didn't believe me because he had a student previously who disclosed he had OCD and before class would come in and arrange things and straighten them. Apparently because I didn't do that it was bizarre lol. Even people who should understand it in theory often don't really get it and ai think that causes a big problem too because people will go to a professional and get bad information.