as a person with OCD i find this very helpful, thank you prof. Sam!!!

The first time I had a panic attack, I'm 20yrs old. I was crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. The slats of the bridge put me in a sleepy trance and I panicked until I was off the bridge at 19th Ave. Whew! what a scare that was. I progressed to having panic attacks with people. Shallow breathing, couldn't see straight, dizzy, felt weighted down, flushed face. So humiliating. After 4 decades, I'm glad they're not as frequent as they used to be.

You mention panic attacks as something one could become addicted to. The solution to addiction is often "tapering off". How could one taper off of panic attacks?

@Theworldhasgonebonkers

6 ай бұрын

Avoid triggers

Love the warm opening "I am the anxious former visiting professor of psychology" ☺6:01. I don't know if there isn't an anxious soul in this dog eat dog world.

Thank you Professor. I am very thankful to you. ❤

Thank you for your content, Professor.❤

Hiya Sam. Yes this is very true. I have developed anxiety after a very unhealthy relationship. It unraveled a lot about myself. Now i have anxiety issues as I am so aware of myself if that’s makes any sense at all! But my anxiety is worsens when being pursued as of the previous experience- I have tried just being with it… but it then has perpetually effected my nervous system. Which leads to more severe anxiety and worsening of health and mental health.. I recognise this… I am aware of this… but how the hell do we break the cycle… it’s like I am bordering a psychosis’s when it rears its head to extremities! Being new to anxiety this is very frightening- and a side of myself that is new tor has at least worsened through a bad experience! Much love

Well done, Sam. My experiences align with your theoretical framing here.

I think anxiety is overlooked by most schools of therapy! Thanks for your breakdown of different flavors of it. Have you done anything on how OCPD and Cluster C personality disorders have similarities or differences with anxiety, fear, panic, paranoia?

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

Not fully.

Completely believe you, seen this many times, took me years to work this out.

Nailed it.

Sam can we get a video on how the narcissist encounters the vastness of nature? Like a Chinese landscape painting with the little farmer in the bottom corner. Is there an "oceanic" feeling and is there therapeutic hope in being in nature?

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

No.

Hi I really like the idea about OCD being addictive! You get addicted to being in a state of obsession. That is your comfort zone and you end up enjoying it. Even when you're calmed down you begin to obsess just to get back to your comfort

What is causing that constant anxiety/fear in people with GAD/OCD can it be a result of childhood trauma, cptsd? Living in an environment that made them exist in fear/tension/+ day to day and then finding out ways to ”manage it” either by going through it and even inventing new narratives to go through or by rituals and more, depending on which coping strategies were favored for some reason. And then from the baseline constant anxiety brought on by trauma branches the need to justify it and all the behaviors youve described, narratives, delusional thinking then the compulsive „need” for the breakthrough and afterwards feeling more settled (after going through whats so familiar, ”rehearsed” so many times, known) Can someone have both GAD and OCD, sort of overlapping? Always a pleasure to listen to you

Can you make a video about agoraphobia and how to fix it

I‘m extremely afraid of people randomly leaving me or men cheating on me - I can hardly accept peaceful moments, I always have to start fights and I feel somehow relieved when they do leave me. But most of the times these people have indeed lied/betrayed me - so what do I do to break that cycle????

@bernardonunes2085

8 ай бұрын

I feel the same way, my ex that was "trying to go back on a relationship with me" i think, discarded me when i went paranoid of her using me ir cheat on me by stalking her when She got mad at me for Days and talking with other persons, and Said Im a paranoic stalker (even her cheated on me before)

Professor Vaknin, so how to stop catastrophizing? I have been afraid of many unnecessary things for as long as I can remember (fear of illness, fear of bad events, fear of death, betrayal etc) I've been undergoing therapy for a few months now, but I don’t see any great results. I’m a child of alcoholic father and rather narcissitic mother. How to stop negative thoughts which often ruin happy moments in my life? Please help🙏🏻

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

Therapy.

Sam, since "when there is calm the patient constructs a catastrophy" is there any benefit / why would a therapist prescribe antidepressants?

@samvaknin

2 ай бұрын

Search the therapies playlist.

@davidlunt1126

2 ай бұрын

@@samvaknin magic! Thanks.

Hi Sam, Do you mean to say that the treatment needs to be changed from erp to not catastrophizing?

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

ERP is a failure.

@hharancool

8 ай бұрын

Then the solution? I think in your earlier videos you told to addict in everything. And you said like change your addiction one by one and don't stick on to any one for long..

@nicknorizadeh4336

8 ай бұрын

​@@samvakninWhy is it a failure? It's the best know treatment for OCD

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

@@nicknorizadeh4336 I thought you meant as a treatment for anxiety (the topic of the video).

@nicknorizadeh4336

8 ай бұрын

@@samvaknin well in general? Do you find it useful for anxiety disorders such as OCD, phobia, GAD etc? I'm currently undergoing ERP for OCD so would love to hear your opinion about it

Why is there anxiety in the first place ?

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

In my opinion, it is a mutation of fear. A pathological variant of fear. Like cancer.

"they are at home, most comfortable when they are having a panic attack - they know where they are going" - Sounds like a High

Can you please make a video about the woke ideology in western countries? I would like to hear more a psychological approach rather than a sociological one

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

Search the channel.

@noidea3326

8 ай бұрын

@@samvaknin thanks. I obviously completely missed those

Can you make a video about the difference between a Covert Borderline and a Borderline Narcissist?

@samvaknin

8 ай бұрын

What's a borderline narcissist?