Existential OCD | Treatment and What It Looks Like!

⚡⚡Online Recovery Courses⚡⚡
► Master Your OCD From Home (try for free)
www.ocd-anxiety.com/master-yo...
🎉 Want extra support? - LIVE Q&A, discord chat rooms, & early video access.
click here ➡️ / ocdandanxiety
► Parents, spouses, and families - How to support someone with OCD
www.ocd-anxiety.com/how-to-su...
🛒 Shirts, stickers, awesomeness 🛒
www.ocdanxietyshop.com
► Rise From Depression course (try for free)
www.ocd-anxiety.com/rise-from...
► BFRB's (hair pulling, skin picking, nail-biting) (try for free)
www.ocd-anxiety.com/bfrb-online
⚡⚡Join the OCD support group⚡⚡
🔷 / ocdandanxietyonline
⚡⚡LIVE Masterclasses and Q&A⚡⚡
www.ocd-anxiety.com/masterclass
⚡⚡Take an OCD Test⚡⚡
💜 www.ocd-anxiety.com/all-tests
➼ Do I have OCD?
➼ Do I have HOCD?
➼ Do I have Harm OCD?
➼ Relationship OCD
➼ How severe is my OCD?
➼ Do I have hair-pulling disorder?
➼ Do I have skin picking disorder?
➼ Depression severity scale
⚡⚡Connect on social⚡⚡
🩵Instagram - / ocdandanxietyonline
🩵Facebook OCD group - / ocdandanxietyonline
🩵Twitter - / ocdandanxiety1
🩵TikTok - / ocdandanxiety
⚡⚡Video Playlists⚡⚡
👉🏼OCD - • Do You Have OCD? What ...
👉🏼Reaction Videos - • Therapist Reacts To Ex...
👉🏼Depression - • 5 Tips To STOP depress...
👉🏼Scrupulosity - • Scrupulosity: What Is ...
👉🏼Harm OCD - • What is Harm OCD? Can ...
👉🏼POCD - • What is Pedophile OCD?...
👉🏼Sexual Orientation OCD (HOCD) - • HOCD | Intrusive Thoug...
👉🏼Relationship OCD (ROCD) - • What is Relationship O...
👉🏼Real Event OCD - • How To Know If You're ...
👉🏼Existential OCD - • Existential OCD | Trea...
👉🏼Symmetry OCD - • What Symmetry OCD Look...
👉🏼Touettic OCD - • What is Tourettic OCD?
👉🏼Superstitious OCD - • What Is Magical Thinki...
👉🏼Contamination OCD - • What Contamination OCD...
👉🏼Just Right OCD - • Just Right OCD - A Fee...
👉🏼SOCD - • How To Know If You're ...
👉🏼Sensorimotor OCD - • What Is Sensorimotor O...
👉🏼Social Anxiety - • Social Anxiety Disorde...
👉🏼Anxiety - • Anxiety vs. ADHD - The...
👉🏼Magical Thinking OCD - • What Is Magical Thinki...
👉🏼Responsibility OCD - • Responsibility OCD | W...
👉🏼Tics and Tourette's - • What are Tics and Tour...
👉🏼Postpartum OCD - • Postpartum OCD (perina...
👉🏼BFRB (hair pulling/skin picking) - • What are BFRBs? (Body ...
👉🏼Body Dysmorphic Disorder - • Body Dysmorphic Disord...
👉🏼Panic Disorder - • How To Stop Panic Attacks
- - - Disclaimer - - -
For information purposes only. Does not constitute clinical advice. Consult your local medical authority for advice.
Existential OCD involves intrusive, repetitive thinking about questions that cannot possibly be answered. Individuals will think about really any question. Most don’t have answers, but they feel the need or urge to find the answer right then and there. Often feeling anxious until they do.
Let’s go through the treatment for existential OCD and what it looks like to those experiencing it.
Chapters:
00:00 What Is Existential OCD
3:23 Existential Obsessions
4:15 Existential Compulsions
5:48 Treatment for Existential OCD
9:40 Online OCD Program
10:02 Question For You!

Пікірлер: 805

  • @joseymagosey
    @joseymagosey11 ай бұрын

    Coming back to this video 4 months later to say that I’ve finally recovered! No more DPDR or existential OCD, I get to live my life again! So thankful to have gone through this because thanks to all of it I’m stronger now. Sending love to anyone currently struggling with this. I know firsthand how scary it feels, but you can absolutely go back to how you were before, just live your life holding hands with your fear and give it space to leave naturally. Thanks for reading this, you are strong enough to handle this.

  • @tjkeegan470

    @tjkeegan470

    11 ай бұрын

    Did you ever believe you were the only human on earth?

  • @GuadalupeGomez-ms6uo

    @GuadalupeGomez-ms6uo

    11 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@tjkeegan470 I didn’t get this thought but I had similar ones a couple of months ago, like being stuck in a dream or a high trip or that I everything I was looking at was an ilusión. So very existencial . As soon as the anxiety started to get less severe the thoughts became only thoughts , and now u rarely think about it, and when I do I literally right away associated with just an anxiety thought that once went trough my head. So it does go away but it takes time , you need to get rid of the anxiety as a whole , for the thoughts to go away .

  • @joseymagosey

    @joseymagosey

    11 ай бұрын

    @@tjkeegan470yes, but that was just another symptom. Analyzing each thought on it’s own will keep you stuck. It’s all just OCD.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tjkeegan470are you afraid to be the only real person ?

  • @wdlybusiness6360

    @wdlybusiness6360

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks you so so much for your comment! This really gives me hope... I am really struggling with these thoughts. Can you please describe the top 3 things that helped you get over it? Thank you once again

  • @kristianda6728
    @kristianda67283 жыл бұрын

    I have read a lot in the forums about how much Existencial OCD is hard to get through, but that's not true. I have been there, with DP/DR 24/7, I had suicidal thoughts not knowing where tf I am, why I'm here, I once passed out because of my overwhelming fears. After 3 months of Therapy, I can say that I am almost 95% cured, and will tell you what, they key is actually ACCEPTANCE, rather than exposure. If you keep exposing yourself to the idea that nothing might be real and we're all gonna die, this is gonna creep out almost everyone, even normal people who don't have OCD. But when you learn to accept, that ok, we're gonna die, and just continue what you are doing: work, gaming, whatever.. things will get more real, and you will no longer feel overwhelmed by it. NGL, without my antidepressants I wouldn't have reached to this point, they have been a major contributor in this journey, they actually stop panick attacks and helps in being more acceptable, and with time, things will get more normal. You will get through this, just like I did. Peace and love my friends

  • @Havana428

    @Havana428

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is a great comment! I feel like I am stuck in this. I also have Suicide ocd which makes it even harder. I try to accept everything as most people told me. But it seems pretty hard in the beginning like the anxiety gets even worse. Was it the same for you when starting the process of recovery? I have constant thoughts of “what’s the meaning of life, we’re all going to die and forget about everything so what’s the point anyway?” And this makes me feel depressed and doomed 🥺

  • @ScottJ_Moses

    @ScottJ_Moses

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this comment. I’m currently struggling with the nature of reality and if all this is real, and while my logical brain knows I’ll never quite know, the thought still keeps me up at night, or when I’m out. This gave me hope, so thanks again.

  • @GHBC21

    @GHBC21

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Havana428 I believe aerobic exercise is an important part of getting better. It plays a key role in changing your brain. Stay strong and keep fighting. Things will get better without doubt

  • @flynncremin-cullen8175

    @flynncremin-cullen8175

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Havana428 I have the same thoughts. Somehow it feels comforting knowing that someone else understands and has those same thoughts. I am beginning to meditate, aiming to do this daily. It helps ground me and shows me who I really am, detaching 'my' thoughts from my actual self. I am the observer of my thoughts. Likewise, you are not your thoughts; simply the observer. Love

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ScottJ_Moses do you still struggle with it? Are you afraid that other people are not real?

  • @debra1758
    @debra17582 жыл бұрын

    I've never been so proud of me in my entire life. I suffered a panic attack 2 months ago who gave me DPDR and an existencial OCD and after that EVRYTHING seem so meaningless. But, instantly I started to accept the syntoms and uncertain...that's why today I can say I'M FREE. Makes me want to cry because I proved myself that I'm SO STRONG

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are SO strong!

  • @julietahernandez9203

    @julietahernandez9203

    Жыл бұрын

    You are very strong!! Thanks 4 sharinf

  • @bxnkxvva

    @bxnkxvva

    Жыл бұрын

    I can’t believe you are real to believe that

  • @kingrobotnik6950

    @kingrobotnik6950

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bxnkxvva they are real and you are too. Just relax

  • @Mattyzin385

    @Mattyzin385

    Жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @Megan-zp2rb
    @Megan-zp2rb3 жыл бұрын

    I'm so scared this wont ever stop and I won't ever believe in reality again. I feel paranoid that people don't actually recover from it in the way I hope.

  • @meringue3288

    @meringue3288

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dont worry, I had the worst panic attacks of my life because of this, but now I can think about existential questions literally for as long as I want without feeling any anxiety. Trust me, if you don't let your ocd make a big deal out of this, you will genuinely stop feeling like it's a big deal. Good luck with your recovery!

  • @Megan-zp2rb

    @Megan-zp2rb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@meringue3288 I'm scared the anxiety will go away, but the thoughts will still feel true... I feel like everyone I love is just gone.

  • @meringue3288

    @meringue3288

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Megan-zp2rb Oh that exact thought was the scariest thing about my ocd, but now I see how it's something you REALLY don't have to worry about. I don't know how else to say this, but the part of you that thinks about existential things is NOT the same part of you that loves your loved ones. You have the side of you that wants to protect you from perceived danger, and the side of you that wants to live life, and one of them doesn't affect the other. You need to learn that the protective side of you is just a tool that you need to learn how to use effectively, and nothing more. You can be terrified for your life in a minute, and in the next minute be full of bliss while you're with your loved ones, and if your train your mind for that you can concentrate only in your current state whenever you want. I promise you will get better soon

  • @Megan-zp2rb

    @Megan-zp2rb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@meringue3288 Is it like in the video, it's back to being just a thought?

  • @meringue3288

    @meringue3288

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Megan-zp2rb Yeah, but actually, the best way to fight this is to prevent reaction no matter what you feel. You feel anxious? It doesnt matter, dont react to the thought. You feel like the thoughts will never go away? It doesn't matter (because ocd always makes you feel that anyway), just keep trying not to react. You feel like this technique isn't working? Keep trying not to react. That's the key to cure ocd

  • @coreyms
    @coreyms3 жыл бұрын

    Damn. Never seen a video on this before. Sounds similar to what I’ve been going through the last few years. I’ve always had these questions, but it’s only been the last few years that they’ve been so frequent and accompanied with anxiety/panic attacks. Finally decided to see a Psychiatrist. Fingers crossed. Thanks for speaking about it though.

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope you can discover what you're going through! I wish you the best!

  • @natalemaucelli82

    @natalemaucelli82

    3 жыл бұрын

    Question Was it around August of 2016 ? Would really like to know. But my friend you Are Not Alone Believe Me

  • @bifrost8832

    @bifrost8832

    3 жыл бұрын

    Omg I watch your coding videos. Going through the same thing right now. Small coincidences like this scares me though. :-(

  • @bifrost8832

    @bifrost8832

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are you doing? @Corey

  • @SheydokGear

    @SheydokGear

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm really hope you're doing better.

  • @14lolapapi
    @14lolapapi9 ай бұрын

    I get questions like: “what is life?” “What is feelings?” “Do I really love my mom?” “Who am I?” How do I exist?” It gets so overwhelming that I just start crying. I’m scared of life itself! How you overcome this? It’s nuts

  • @portamix581

    @portamix581

    8 ай бұрын

    Hey, I’m the same. How are you now? Can we talk somewhere?

  • @Rrrmmmmm

    @Rrrmmmmm

    7 ай бұрын

    I have the questions. What is my brain. What i am. What am i seeing. And i get anxiety. Are These thoughts also normal exictentiel ocd? I feel like in the only one with this questions.

  • @karlomoonblade

    @karlomoonblade

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Rrrmmmmmsame here, but its actually fueled by anxious feelings, primarily caused by anxiety overall, because if your not anxious, these thoughts are not that scary, the anxious feelings makes the brain find for answers to calm down your anxious feelings. Just stop the loop as it is just caused by your anxious feelings, I manage my anxious feelings overtime and these existensial thoughts do not bother me anymore.

  • @pavlejovicic2463

    @pavlejovicic2463

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Rrrmmmmmi got those same questions, domt worry you are not the only one haha

  • @wolfypup5999

    @wolfypup5999

    6 ай бұрын

    have a purpose and meaning in life so that in your death bed, your existence make sense because your existence CHANGED SOMETHING so in the last moment you''ll be like ""ahhh so that's the reason why I existed", justification of your existence is what you need to fill the void between your anxious questions and everything,

  • @gabrieljordan8015
    @gabrieljordan8015 Жыл бұрын

    While I went through all this day and night 24/7 back in my 30s - after turning 40 I noticed that it didn't really bother me anymore. I accepted my mortality and came to peace with the idea that one day I'll die. It's actually helped motivate me to work and study harder than I ever did in my youth. Even hitting the gym harder and eating healthier foods. My life may not be super exciting but overall I"m doing all right.

  • @TerryTibbs-oj1fy
    @TerryTibbs-oj1fy4 ай бұрын

    Please don’t ever delete this video you’ve just explained everything that goes on with me meticulously

  • @MrBrandonLau
    @MrBrandonLau2 жыл бұрын

    I take the approach that existential thoughts and associated anxiety are the symptoms of a state of mood. Only when you are in a depressed and anxious state do you have access to these intrusive thoughts and fears. When you are healthy and enjoy your journey, you don’t even care about these questions. So I try to do all the physical things I can to get my body and brain well again. Fake it till you make it. Good sleep, diet, enough sunlight at the right time, vitamins, doing my job, some exercise, enough water. It works for me

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @carolynjc1

    @carolynjc1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I struggle with this when my anxiety and depression are out of control.

  • @eduardo479

    @eduardo479

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow that is a great advice. I havent been strong or discplined enough to "fake it" but seems to be a good way to forget all this intrusive thoughts and get back to normality. How has it been for you?

  • @humanvoicemail5059

    @humanvoicemail5059

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes, obviously not the solution for everyone but this helped me a ton… certainly options like being outside, pushing yourself mentally and physically to accomplish fun and meaningful goals is worth trying if you feel stuck. But like this video said no one knows how you feel but you. I don’t know you better than you know you, and if you don’t know yourself, then no one knows you. Which gives you the power to be whoever you want. You are not beholden to be the same person you were 5 mins ago. Someone said that in something, and it resonated ❤️

  • @MrBrandonLau

    @MrBrandonLau

    9 ай бұрын

    @@beeberry8055 I haven’t had that thought before. I have felt like I was dreaming for a good solid month though a few times. I found out it was depersonalisation

  • @licensetochill4992
    @licensetochill49923 жыл бұрын

    This channel makes me feel more safe with uncertainty, I've always felt that I have to have the right answer to everything or I won't be safe. Weirdly enough the statement 'I'll never know the meaning of life, that is awesome' made me feel extremely happy for some reason. Kinda cool 🤔

  • @mariellarusso2268
    @mariellarusso22683 жыл бұрын

    I wish you were my therapist. I love that humour man!😂😂

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha. Thanks so much!

  • @Maniac45864

    @Maniac45864

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ocdandanxiety while I think most what you said is accurate I felt it came off in an offensive tone. I’m not sure why you had to elongate every word with an exaggerated tone. It felt kind of belittling.

  • @renakmans3521

    @renakmans3521

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Maniac45864 I think it’s just his style. Plus I know from my OCD I perpetually feel like a child trying to get control, he’s talking to the OCD often.

  • @zandilenkomo3303
    @zandilenkomo33032 жыл бұрын

    I used to have this for a couple of years and it plagued me. The more you think about the deeper you go down the rabbit hole with no answers. I woke up one day with no fear or care of wether we live in a simulation/mass experient or or if the world is round or flat. As Long as my family is safe and I have peace in this life

  • @Bookycus
    @Bookycus7 ай бұрын

    Hello everyone, I just wanted to share something: I've been dealing with existential anxiety and OCD my whole life (As long as I can remember), and I want to let everyone know that even though these fears and triggers are things that can be hard to reassure, they are just as weak as all other OCD thoughts. They can be defeated, make sure to say this out loud, they are things that can be defeated. My suggestion is going onto youtube as a start and just look at thumbnails of videos that make you anxious, which is what I have been doing, and it's so rewarding once your done. My suggestion is you play music to hype yourself up while you do it, and make it feel like you're winning, because you are. Imagine it as a boxing match lol. Good luck everyone, remember that OCD can be defeated.

  • @thepincushion1835
    @thepincushion18353 жыл бұрын

    I’ve found that answering my ocd thoughts with something logical helps. If I ever get the thought of “what’s the meaning of life” I tell myself “there is none but that’s doesn’t matter. Life’s only meaning is the meaning you give it.”

  • @harshpherwani6590

    @harshpherwani6590

    3 жыл бұрын

    It does help but I worry if we are just enabling the OCD by doing that.

  • @delia5588

    @delia5588

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing. This is a good response.

  • @lammyphuong2627

    @lammyphuong2627

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is actually a good response

  • @kianurobertson3858

    @kianurobertson3858

    2 жыл бұрын

    That became compulsive for me

  • @blessingmadariola7546

    @blessingmadariola7546

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then my brain asks me, "what if you are giving it the wrong meaning?" Then I say there is no wrong meaning, but what if there is?

  • @ahmed2741
    @ahmed2741 Жыл бұрын

    Im 25 and you just described my life since 16 , i never knew i was suffering from that, there isn't a single day that i dont spend about 8 hrs aday thinking about my existential existence, every time i figure a solution out i overthink it over and over again until at one point i realize it is no more working that solution and enter the loop again... Thank you, you don't realize how much helpful this video was 😭 it was a relief to know i have a condition and finally figured it out.

  • @jayb9717
    @jayb971711 ай бұрын

    I have been struggling with DDD (depersonalization and derealization disorder) for years and the obsessional part of the disorder is the hardest to deal with for me and probably what keeps it going. The feelings of unreality of my self makes me think about thinking itself/my thought processes because it seems very strange and unfamiliar. Everytime I tell myself ''it's just a thought'', then my mind asks ''but what is a thought, how weird is it that you can speak inside your head and see pictures within yourself, how weird is it that you are self-aware?''. Thinking seems meaningless and like I've just ''realized'' that I do it or like I've just ''acquired it'' (even though I know logically that I've been thinking my whole life). I don't feel like I need to find an answer to all this, it's more like a constant realization of my own existence that I can no longer be comfortable with, a hyperawaress of my self. I feel more like a need to know that I'm the same person and that my inner reality is the same as before (even though I know that DPDR can't change me and how my brain work) I feel trapped inside my head with thoughts that don't feel like mine. How do I let go when my main obsession is about the process of thinking itself, fueled by feelings of unreality and the intense anxiety it constantly gives me?

  • @Steven-fz6ib

    @Steven-fz6ib

    10 ай бұрын

    Hey, I’m dealing with this EXACT thing right now. How are u feeling?/ doing?

  • @freeviebee

    @freeviebee

    7 ай бұрын

    I know this so well. I had it many years ago for many many months and many setbacks, but it's crazy that you stay indeed the same person...it's really just intrusive thoughts and as you say hyper-awareness and thoughts about yourself that keep the loop going. Sometimes I now get flashbacks when I am super stressed and I think: wow, it's crazy, I remember it was so intense but now I barely remember why I was even so scared...keep going, it will all be back to normal :)

  • @bobtim1008

    @bobtim1008

    5 ай бұрын

    You need to stop caring about those thoughts thoughts are like airplanes that fly over your head you can choose to disregard them(takes practice )when you choose to engage those thoughts you basically tell the planes that your mind is an airport

  • @jayb9717

    @jayb9717

    4 ай бұрын

    Update: Still struggling but I've had good weeks with minimal DP, anxiety and obsessions. I also had more positive emotions.

  • @freeviebee

    @freeviebee

    4 ай бұрын

    @@jayb9717 Thats amazing. Keep on going and it will eventually fade. :)

  • @Powellyy93
    @Powellyy933 жыл бұрын

    This came to me all of a sudden during COVID and was quite exhausting - I’ve now let those ‘noises’ (thoughts) just pass by with a shrug of the shoulders and allowed my focus to switch to quite frankly much more interesting topics. It takes practice and persistence and it takes time to learn to not react to a thought - now there is no difference between thinking ‘isn’t existence bizarre and isn’t that really scary’ to ‘what do I want for lunch today’ Enjoy your recovery

  • @ellalusk7036

    @ellalusk7036

    3 жыл бұрын

    this helped

  • @tph1237

    @tph1237

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate this is really helpful. I’m struggling at the moment but I know I can get better.

  • @lotusrain4102

    @lotusrain4102

    2 жыл бұрын

    Really encourging. I suffered from it since i was a kid, and now i'm in my early twenties. But never thought of the possibility of ocd until recently. Now when i start to panic, i just try to calm myself by thinking that 'hey, it's just my brain being weird again. Move on.' I wish i could have therapy but my country is in a dangerous situation so i can't really go to a psychiatrist. Reading words from survivers really comfort me.

  • @filmmakerdanielclements

    @filmmakerdanielclements

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lotusrain4102 I look at it as an emotional sneeze. An involuntary hiccup of fear. Just chill, it's your body, not you.

  • @brendenstein3285

    @brendenstein3285

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @ca7582
    @ca75823 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for your videos. I am having those same thoughts 24/7. It's so relieving to know what it is. I'll try not to get reassurance compulsively, but, honestly, sometimes I have to fall because it feels SO lonely and SO disorienting... like I'm losing myself, like I don't exist. I know I'll get through this. I don't have anxiety anymore, that's good... but now I feel that reality is distorted, weird, like turned upside down. If like to see the world as I used to see it. Well, there you go, I ranted. Thank you for reading me, whoever you are.

  • @mastepara

    @mastepara

    Ай бұрын

    Are you better?

  • @loganjames960
    @loganjames9603 жыл бұрын

    This channel is so underrated thank you so much.

  • @antonivarsson5051
    @antonivarsson50513 жыл бұрын

    I was diagnosed with GAD some five years ago. It's crazy how accurate some of these videos are, I have booked a meeting with OCD specialist after watching a bunch if these, I think it might help me. Thanks so much.

  • @pault9544
    @pault95443 жыл бұрын

    The obsession makes me feel like I’m being torn in two. There’s really no sense of enjoyment anymore because I feel like I can’t enjoy life without knowing for sure. I am constantly obsessing about the afterlife, specifically NDEs. While some people may find them comforting I am utterly confused by even minor inconsistencies between them. I really wish there was a cure or a way out of this.

  • @Happys_Art

    @Happys_Art

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hello brother. Would you like for us to be friends. We can talk about all of it my friend.

  • @soph_8491

    @soph_8491

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m struggling with the exact same thing, NDEs. They freak me out to no end and I can spend hours upon hours watching/reading/thinking about them, just going over them in my mind trying to make sense of them (though now that I’ve been diagnosed with OCD I’m trying to resist). It’s such a relief to see someone else mention them by name since I’ve never seen anyone else mention them while talking about existential OCD. Best of luck to you!!

  • @Happys_Art

    @Happys_Art

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@soph_8491 I’m feeling the same right now. Every time I wake up it feels like the feelings come back and the thoughts pressite. If you want a friend I’m here. God loves us.

  • @pault9544

    @pault9544

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@soph_8491 I’m so sorry but yea I know what your going through. My first word of advice is you definitely have to stop watching them, they will only make things worse!!! I stopped watching about 2 months ago (yes I know the urge to watch can be really strong but once you sternly pull away for a while the temptation DOES die down). I am still struggling but since I stopped watching them they’ve faded a bit into the back drop and I’m able to focus on other things better. I’m also taking antidepressants which I think is helping somewhat. Still severely depressed though and numb no emotions. It sucks having this kind of OCD but let’s fight through this!

  • @soph_8491

    @soph_8491

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pault9544 Thanks for the advice and kind words - I’ve been avoiding them as best I can. It gives me hope to hear you’re doing better.

  • @Bipradeep_Biswas
    @Bipradeep_Biswas2 жыл бұрын

    "What is the purpose of life ?","Life is meaningless" all these kind of thoughts and questions constantly comes in my mind. These thoughts are really eating me.

  • @aneeholy

    @aneeholy

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's only meaningless if you don't ascend.

  • @jackgrock4248

    @jackgrock4248

    3 ай бұрын

    @@aneeholyyea thats the problem tho theres nothing after death so life is meaningless im literallt going crazy

  • @alfieflores1336
    @alfieflores13362 жыл бұрын

    Coming across this video has brought this massive sense of relief to me because I've been struggling to pinpoint why I've been spiraling so heavily lately and this gives me something for consideration to bring into therapy and a baseline to work with.

  • @AppaStappa
    @AppaStappa3 жыл бұрын

    This has been one of my themes lately. Thanks for the video, I always come to your channel as reminder almost to keep my OCD in check. I fall into compulsions sometimes and don’t realize it until I come here. Thank you.

  • @bedhead5410
    @bedhead54103 жыл бұрын

    I've had SO many themes when it comes to my OCD. I didn't know that this was one of them, and it explains why I have felt like I'm going crazy for the past few months! Good to know that it's just my OCD so that I can just add it to the list of things the stupid little OCD voice in the backseat of my brain car likes to annoy me with!

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @lucywright3312

    @lucywright3312

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love this comment, it’s funny and good to label it in this way, I hope you recovered

  • @benjamin_fwn

    @benjamin_fwn

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@beeberry8055 I'm also here, don't worry. :)

  • @KK-lu1vh
    @KK-lu1vh2 жыл бұрын

    THIS CHANNEL IS THE MOST UNDERRATED CHANNEL IN THE WORLD. HOW CAN YOU NOT ADORE THIS GUY

  • @sarzinabegum8308
    @sarzinabegum83083 жыл бұрын

    if he was my therapist, i d have been cured the day it started

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha. I'm not sure I'm that good. 😃

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @nickh.44
    @nickh.44 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this video. For over 3 months now, I have been obsessing over existential questions also accompanied by occasional panic attacks. This has been an eye-opening video and has made me feel less crazy lol. Thank you very much. 🙏

  • @carolynjc1
    @carolynjc12 жыл бұрын

    It’s just a relief to know that others go through this.

  • @q2_20
    @q2_20 Жыл бұрын

    This is a super helpful video! I've been feeling very tortured and isolated by my mind lately and I intend to stop caring so much about unanswerable fears and I choose to start living and enjoying my life instead. I can appreciate the mystery of life. Thank you thank you thank you!

  • @suzannep
    @suzannep3 жыл бұрын

    me obsessively trying to figure out if my mental health disorders are diagnosed properly, "do i really have the symptoms i have"... "did i really experience what i experienced"... on and on and on!!! its so frustrating and stressful

  • @jerzboy2011
    @jerzboy2011 Жыл бұрын

    Nathan, I just want to say from someone who has been suffering from this type of OCD, THANK YOU for putting this out. You described everything perfectly. Living with this debilitating feeling like what if I'm in a simulation, or what if I'm really alone and this is all just projections of my mind have caused me IMMENSE anxiety, feelings of terror, depression, you name it. But these tools you described are exactly what is needed to help recover from this. Thank you for all you do for us living with OCD.

  • @Rocio-wy2eg

    @Rocio-wy2eg

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been going through the exact same thing, that fear of being the only one!

  • @sophiethelk9557

    @sophiethelk9557

    9 ай бұрын

    I deal with the same thing. You’re not alone in this! It’s hard but I keep telling myself it’s only temporary. I am safe. We are safe. A year later, I hope you’re doing amazing rn

  • @taylorerickson9994
    @taylorerickson99943 жыл бұрын

    This was my most recent theme and it was paired with suicidal OCD. When I first started having the obsessions, I thought I was depressed and then started getting really worried that these thoughts were indications that I didn't care about life, etc. This was also a very difficult theme to work through because it's everything! But my greatest success has been making scripts that end with something about never knowing the true meaning of life and never finding my purpose. I also have made major strides with just allowing the thoughts to be there and not giving them the time of day. For anyone suffering with this- it's difficult, but you can get through it!

  • @taylorerickson9994

    @taylorerickson9994

    3 жыл бұрын

    For me, these thoughts brought on a sense of impending doom and a very intense fear. Lots of anxiety, lots of worrying about the meaning of the thoughts.

  • @graciegavin745

    @graciegavin745

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@taylorerickson9994 how'd u recover i'm rly struggling with it rn

  • @taylorerickson9994

    @taylorerickson9994

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@graciegavin745 Sorry that you're going through this. It sucks. Unfortunately I have no specific plan that I followed outside of just accepting that the thoughts exist and riding the waves of anxiety that accompany the thoughts. Eventually, your brain learns that they are not threats. I would recommend checking out the work of Mark Freeman. He has great tips for cutting out compulsions (mine are mostly mental like rumination and assessing EVERY feeling) and explains that anxiety will amplify before it gets better. But it DOES get better. I also recommend finding your "why"...why do you want to get better? Why do you want to go through the hard work of recovery? ANY reason is valid if it aligns with what you value as a person (though I'm sure OCD likes to make you question that... what a turd!). Finally, educate, educate, educate! I feel like I turned a corner when I learned how OCD operates in my brain- I recommend Reid Wilson's work, The OCD Stories, Catherine Benfield, Shala Nicely, Peace of Mind, Jon Hershfield, Steven Hayes, and Jonathan Grayson... among so many others like this channel! Good luck. You've got this. Don't let OCD tell you otherwise.

  • @Havana428

    @Havana428

    2 жыл бұрын

    OMG Taylor i am dealing with the exact same thing! My first theme was Suicide OCD and then this one hit. These 2 togheter are tormenting. I always check if i am depressed. I am terrified of Major Depressive Disorder and everytime i get existential thoughts from the EOCD it triggers my SOCD and i start to think that i am suicidal and there’s no much time until I kill myself. I am crying everyday. I am doubting myself a lot. Do you ever felt like this? Do you feel better now and have some advice for me? Thanks a lot in advance 🥺🤗

  • @enimo9241

    @enimo9241

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm going through something similar rn...

  • @quentinbarth3268
    @quentinbarth32683 жыл бұрын

    I was pretty obnoxious with this in high school, constantly asking classmates and teachers, "does truth exist?" I didn't know how to move forward with planning my life before I knew the meaning of life. Got diagnosed with depression and GAD back then and eventually ended up landing on absurdism as the closest thing I'd get to an answer. Diagnosed with OCD now, thanks to other themes. Finally realized that was probably OCD back then about this time last year when I was feeling a lot of distress over Poe's "Dream within a Dream."

  • @alexanderfridayeagle9146

    @alexanderfridayeagle9146

    3 жыл бұрын

    Final year of school, Scrupulosity, religious ocd back then along with existential issues. Everyday I would be engaged in conversation with people at school and in general, people of various beliefs. I would be asking them non stop about what their views were on heaven and hell. About what they thought happens when we die. Expressing to them that I feared I would go to hell. Asking the religious ones how can I be sure that I am not secrectly a satanist. Asking how can we endure eternity. Asking about reincarnation. Asking how can we be sure that you are you and I am me.I feel you deeply.

  • @dylansimmons4589

    @dylansimmons4589

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderfridayeagle9146 I have this right now, how do I fix this?

  • @debrajchoudhury9316
    @debrajchoudhury931621 күн бұрын

    I have suffered for a long time from this condition. Your advices are really helpful. Thank you very much.

  • @toddoman4636
    @toddoman46363 ай бұрын

    Your videos are so great! I can’t stop watching them.

  • @RSBloc
    @RSBloc Жыл бұрын

    Recovery is possible I promise you guys,I recovered fully from ocd my life back to normal

  • @palak6952
    @palak69523 жыл бұрын

    Oh my God. I have never had anyone describe my suffering so accurately. All my life people have seen me as if there's something wrong with me or I am crazy. But for now at least I know there are more people out there going through the same and I am not alone in this.🥺🥺

  • @nadiadalleh4940

    @nadiadalleh4940

    3 жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t agree more!!!! It’s so relieving and terrifying all at once!!! Glad to not be alone, hate that we all feel this way…..it’s putting my stomach in knots thinking about it all now and can’t sleep.

  • @palak6952

    @palak6952

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nadiadalleh4940 I too had sleepless nights when I first read about it. But I feel I am in a better place as I know the what and why about these feelings. I feel validated.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nadiadalleh4940 are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @nadiadalleh4940

    @nadiadalleh4940

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beeberry8055 what do ya mean real person? Like if it’s a simulation? That would definitely freak me out!! Is that your fear?

  • @Diegolima-ui1uz
    @Diegolima-ui1uz3 жыл бұрын

    just wanted to express my gratitude, natan when I was struggling really bad I used to watch your videos. applyed all the tools,I was able to cut out my compulsions and now I love living,hardly get anxious. thank you❤ hope you keep saving lives

  • @pedroduartedovale

    @pedroduartedovale

    3 жыл бұрын

    Comecei a ter esse tipo de OCD no primeiro ano de faculdade. Acho que por ser uma pessoa bem analista e o meu curso (Computação) desenvolveu ainda mais esse lado, cheguei a ter ataques de pânico e de ansiedade por causa dessas questões, minha vida saiu completamente dos trilhos, saí da faculdade, terminei com a minha namorada, não consigo comer direito, tenho vivido péssimamente nos últimos anos, o seu comentário me dá um pouco de esperança de que dias melhores virão. Que esses dias melhores venham logo para nós!

  • @Diegolima-ui1uz

    @Diegolima-ui1uz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pedroduartedovale Com certeza meu amigo! Fiquei num estado extremo de ansiedade por anos. sinto muito pelo que você está passando agora,tem dois canais no KZread que me ajudaram demais q foi o Ocd Recovery e o Mark Freeman,recomendo muito. se vc quiser eu tenho uns livros mt bons em pdf. posso te enviar por email É necessário bastante esforço e dedicação mas é possível ter uma mente tranquila de novo.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Were you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @Diegolima-ui1uz

    @Diegolima-ui1uz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beeberry8055 that wasn't one of my fears,but with ocd you need to deal with any fear the same way. It's about cutting compulsions and accepting that even if the worst scenario you could imagine happens,it's not the end of the world.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Diegolima-ui1uz thanks

  • @mallowjim1107
    @mallowjim11074 ай бұрын

    I had a full recoveryand I'm so happy about it. I used to think that we're in a simulation when I was 15 and I couldn't bear the thought. I didn't know it was OCD. My therapist told me it's OCD but I just couldn't see how since I was just a child. Until one day I saw a video of someone explaining the matter without saying anything about ocd and he said "I guess we'll never know, so who cares" something along those lines and I immediately had relief and since then I never thought about it again. Basically, I went through ERP without even knowing it lol 😂 Now I can easily go back to videos o what ever trigger I had and feel absolutely no fear or anxiety/panic and I couldn't be happier about it. Stay strong yall we are stronger than our dissorder and it's lies. We are all brave warriors❤

  • @PiccoloPremium
    @PiccoloPremium Жыл бұрын

    This month I’ve been dealing with health OCD. I took some antipsychotics and they really messed me up. Had my first panic attack and thought I was gonna die or dying. Now after going to the ER my OCD has jumped over to this. This video made me breath. Thank you

  • @clarealice9622
    @clarealice9622 Жыл бұрын

    This is 100% me, although I don't really have the compulsions and the researching. Just the ruminating. Such a helpful video. Thankyou for encouraging us so much.

  • @lazieramen185
    @lazieramen1852 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video, I haven’t finished it but to know others have the same issue as me is so amazing. (I mean like I’m not the only one type of way) People don’t understand what it’s like to have OCD and these thoughts, we keep rethinking and analyzing the same questions. Others can just push it off or get a answer and go on with their days, but people with ocd can’t. We overthink the answer like “that’s too small of a percent” or “they said probably which means that might not be the answer” or we just throw the answer out completely. It’s hard to deal with and when our friends and family push us away and ignore us or get annoyed it hurts us a lot. We try to get better but being in our brains all day is stressful and tiring.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real person?

  • @KK-lu1vh
    @KK-lu1vh2 жыл бұрын

    THIS WAS ME WTF THIS IS SOOOOOO ACCURATE THANK YOU SO MUCH

  • @Sophiasticated77
    @Sophiasticated773 жыл бұрын

    Your info and understanding is pure gold! Please do a video on Retroactive Jealousy OCD 😩

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This has been on my list for a while. I'll see if I can push it up!

  • @Knowledge.Seeker13
    @Knowledge.Seeker13 Жыл бұрын

    It really seems you made this video based upon my life. Now I understand so many things about me. Thank you.

  • @DRBur1991
    @DRBur19913 жыл бұрын

    I had a few things going on and was low key stressed, I had a panic attack, the first & only one i've ever had. I woke up the next day and felt detached and my mind was running a million miles per hour. I thought I was on the brink of insanity. I just wanted to feel normal again and constantly checked my emotional state, this is when hyperawareness OCD started/Depersonalization. I blamed the stress on my job and asked myself "what do I want to do with my life?" Well well well, this triggered existential OCD. I didn't know I may have been suffering from OCD at the time, I just thought I wanted to figure my life out and make sure that I wasn't going crazy. I had a deadly cocktail mix consisting of existenital ocd & hyperawareness ocd with a dash of depersonalization....it was hell. I finally recognised that it was probably hyperawareness OCD/DP and I wasn't going mad. This helped me realise I wasn't going mentally insane. However I didn't realise I still had Existential OCD, I thought I was going through an existential crisis, I ruminated for around 2 years trying to figure out the meaning of life and what my purpose was. 2 whole years non stop to get basically nowhere, the question is unanswerable. I thought I'd come to a satisfying conclusion a few times but I still couldn't shake the urge to know. I then I accepted it's probably existential OCD. It's so difficult to be aware and accept what you are doing could be meaningless? This is what drives me to figure it out. I get one life and could live it pointlessly - that frightens me to death. On the flip side, i've wasted 2 years worrying about wasting my life - very ironic. "If you enjoy the time you wasted then you haven't wasted any time" Great video 👍

  • @anthonymazzullo721

    @anthonymazzullo721

    3 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap the same thing happens to me I had a extreme panic attack and I woke up and everything was completely different it was like I had an extreme awareness of everything that was going on around me and I had slipped into a crisis about life itself and I got extremely delusional and developed an extreme amount of anxiety and discomfort and at first I was wondering how is anyone supposed to live without knowing.i thought I was on sum sort of drug trip it is the worst thing I’ve ever experience I thought I tripped out on sum sort of drugged and I was stuck like that forever and got extremely suicidal and got taken to a mental health hospital,it took months for me to even calm down in the slightest,it takes a bit of time to be okay from this,as I was getting better certain thoughts from your first experiences come and go but will get a lot better over time and the thoughts themselves get less debilitating and the anxiety will start to slowly lower and lower and lower,and as time goes on it gets easier to go about your day and won’t always be thinking about it and then when your almost completely recovered the thoughts you are having will start to be thoughts just like they would have been before the extreme panic attack,the best thing you can to is just relax and stay calm no matter what and it will get better and never research any questions you might have and try not to analyze the thoughts you were thinking as much as possible,I’m glad I’m going threw this now at 15 then to be going threw it later down the road anyone who is going threw this just no it’s going to be Okay :)

  • @ellilasaridou5769

    @ellilasaridou5769

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Anthony Mazzullo I am literally experiencing the exact same thing!!! Just like you explained. First I though I had depersonalization or smth but now I think it could just be existential ocd. What helped you overcome it and did you fully recover?

  • @DRBur1991

    @DRBur1991

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ellilasaridou5769 How do you feel? As if you're trying to get back to your "old normal" self? And you can't stop trying to figure out how to just be yourself again and never think about any of this again?

  • @ellilasaridou5769

    @ellilasaridou5769

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Dave Burns yes Kind of. I feel so much better now That I realized it was ocd all this time bc I have dealt with different types of ocd in the past so it would Make sense but it also started all of a sudden when I woke up and it felt so real that I convinced myself it was dp.

  • @DRBur1991

    @DRBur1991

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ellilasaridou5769 hmm DP does come with existential thoughts. What are your existential thoughts if you don't mind me asking?

  • @lucywright3312
    @lucywright33122 жыл бұрын

    This video is exactly to the word how I feel and have been feeling on and off for a couple of years. I’ve had to really learn what triggers me, it’s hard because I’ve had to leave work places and other situations because of feeling over stressed and overwhelmed which then causes me insane anxiety and panic. But it’s true, it’s how you respond, on other more peaceful times a thought can come into my mind and I don’t react or care at all. Physical anxiety is important to manage and then your mind will follow

  • @ScottJ_Moses
    @ScottJ_Moses2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this. This is exactly what I’ve been going through for the last few months, and it has been a nightmare.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real person?

  • @sarasharpe8734
    @sarasharpe87343 жыл бұрын

    I got existential ocd over the summer when I was working in busy food service. I had no time to think about anything while I was fixing food. Intrusive thoughts hit me with thinking “what if I’m not real and I just haven’t disappeared yet.” I got through it but it comes back sometimes.

  • @alannasoutherland5172
    @alannasoutherland51722 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much !!! This has calmed me down more then any doctor or therapist I’ve seen !!

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person ?

  • @ratguy1921
    @ratguy19219 ай бұрын

    This video definitely helped me calm my nerves, I’ve been dealing with Death Anxiety and Existential OCD lately but this video put a lot in perspective for me. The answer does not need to be known, as ignorance is bliss.

  • @KarlaRei
    @KarlaRei3 ай бұрын

    I just got this diagnosis a few weeks ago and I appreciate this video so much! It's so strange to hear exactly what I've felt for so long.

  • @danathurmond4340
    @danathurmond43403 жыл бұрын

    I didn't even know this was part of OCD. Nice to finally have a name to this.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @NoName-rd5sj
    @NoName-rd5sj3 жыл бұрын

    Really needed this one bruhhhhh. Thank youuuuuu 😂❤️

  • @yuwerly8280
    @yuwerly82803 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU. SO MUCH. I have been struggling with OCD for the past 4 years now and this really helped. I have phases with OCD where I know the treatment but I just ignore it and bop there I am in the OCD circle/phase again. thank you! this really gave me insight into it and I think I'm ready to start working against it again. thank you. I will try my best.

  • @lifeofh9824

    @lifeofh9824

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have phases too! I was just diagnosed with anxiety and depression, but no one ever told me about OCD!

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real person?

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lifeofh9824 are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @DickieJ87
    @DickieJ872 жыл бұрын

    I feel this is really closely tied with mental hoarding for me, because I get answers about or perspectives on my life/OCD/anxiety/time and feel I must hold on to ALL of them for dear life, and it feels like my whole future depends on keeping them in mind. Sometimes it's like trying to catch sand. And of course it doesn't take much for self doubt to be triggered, if someone else has a different view etc, even (and perhaps especially) implicitly. Sometimes if I have perspectives that contradict each other but feel equally true, I worry about which one to take forward, and again, my entire future happiness is at stake, or I feel sad at having to lose one that felt so true before. Anyway, thanks as ever for your videos, they're so so helpful!

  • @katiec3768

    @katiec3768

    11 ай бұрын

    Sounds just like me!

  • @daveclifford7895
    @daveclifford78952 жыл бұрын

    Great video ! Extremely informative 👏👍

  • @VincentVanBro
    @VincentVanBro4 ай бұрын

    thank you thank you thank you. I've struggling with increasingly regular and prolonged thoughts about death. I'm talking entire weeks spent just engaging or running away from these intrusive thoughts, followed by possibly a brief respite of a day or 2, and then back at it again. These loops predispose me to emotional outbursts when other people spend time with me, and they don't understand because they don't realize I'm in the middle of processing a week or month long intrusive thought marathon and my nerves are frazzled. I realized recently that my existential OCD is probably rooted in playing too many video games a kid. Video games always have concrete objectives and there is an answer for basically every problem in a video game. Not so in real life. This has presented a major challenge for me in my 30s as these intrusive thoughts have taken a very dark turn lately. This video helped me understand that there may be some form of relief, so thank you.

  • @thebaileyjamesgang
    @thebaileyjamesgang2 күн бұрын

    In the worst flare up with this, I will get through. Thank you for this.

  • @MrSauceman09
    @MrSauceman093 жыл бұрын

    For me its the fear that life is a trick being played on us. When we die we'll be mocked and humiliated for our lives and how pointless it all was.

  • @horsesofhelios

    @horsesofhelios

    3 жыл бұрын

    Think about how much you would be mocked and humiliated if you spent your entire life wondering this. Go and live your life. Be happy.

  • @skylarmalone8380
    @skylarmalone83803 жыл бұрын

    Omg I never knew this has was an OCD subtype, thank you! This bothers me al the time

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @GHCODPvZ
    @GHCODPvZ Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget to exercise guys. I had a rough day and then went for a run. It opened my eyes to how important it is to exercise. This relaxes you and gets you out of the thought loops :)

  • @lemmychibuye2346
    @lemmychibuye234611 ай бұрын

    been there and fully recovered..it just faded honestly..the DP/DR was the worst of it..but im doing so good right now..

  • @_kh3lluxv66
    @_kh3lluxv666 ай бұрын

    I've had OCD for most of my life, switching and combining many themes, and this has been a consistent, and lately horrifying, theme, but i didn't know it was OCD! Thanks for putting this out,bthis is somehow making it better, a little. Thabks again

  • @bagmitabaishnabi3979
    @bagmitabaishnabi39792 жыл бұрын

    Getting to know myself better and better.... From this channel

  • @gavinduggan1147
    @gavinduggan11473 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this. Really struggling with this recently

  • @grackle3478
    @grackle34783 жыл бұрын

    thank you for this!! i’ve been obsessively thinking about the philosophy of solipsism for the last month and it’s been getting in the way of my daily life and i didn’t even know this was a subtype of ocd. i’ll make sure to mention this to my therapist when i see them for the first time next week

  • @heloisa1909

    @heloisa1909

    3 жыл бұрын

    hi! i’m actually going through the same thing :/ are you feeling better now?

  • @skye3830

    @skye3830

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know you may not believe me but I promise I'm alive, breathing, anxious as hell, and also continually worry I'm the only human in existence 😂

  • @enimo9241

    @enimo9241

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know how that feels..

  • @frannynet553

    @frannynet553

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hugs 🫂 my solipsistic brother

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    How are you feeling now? Did you take any medication?

  • @richardmiller8157
    @richardmiller81578 ай бұрын

    thank you sir.. I never heard of this before and you really hit the nail on the head for me. Had depression and anxiety since I was 13 im 33 now so for the last 20 years I've now noticed this is exactly what I've been experiencing. It's exhausting.. I can hardly get any good rhythmic sleep. I just thought I really liked philosophy but I can now realize it's a very unhealthy obsession that has limited my full potential. Now that I know a little more about what I might have I can finally get some help that I was never looking for. I appreciate the video thanks again!

  • @parthapratimdas6283
    @parthapratimdas6283 Жыл бұрын

    Saved me I think. Thanks for this.

  • @valeriagonzalez8321
    @valeriagonzalez8321Ай бұрын

    I know you said that it didn’t matter how our derealizarion/depersonalization happened to us, but I think I figured it out from this video. When I was 14, I had an existential crisis and eventually I became emotionally numb. I tried telling my parents about it but it was so easy for them to think that it is a normal thing to experience. I am now 22 and I still have emotional numbness along with a blank mind (lack of thoughts) and watching this video gave me the answer. Thank you for making this because not many people get what your audience experiences. I am not alone. 💜

  • @BrookeRichey
    @BrookeRichey2 жыл бұрын

    This was the most helpful video I've seen so far thank you

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @kiirsttx
    @kiirsttx3 жыл бұрын

    I had this the other night, started believing the thoughts and that made me cry lol

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Were you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @nuuwave
    @nuuwave Жыл бұрын

    I’m not sure what’s going on but the question examples you gave are fairly rare and a few are stuff I rlly don’t even question. However, it’s similar. For me it’s like when I really sit and think about people I know/knew, I get this sort of “spike” of anxiety once it clicks in my head that they’re real or that I’m real. It’s like I’ve forgotten their personalities and who they actually are. It’s hard to describe in words but here’s one example that is a daily thing (and multiple times a day). So there’s times I think of my dad and like him in an innocent state just being himself. I’ll also think of all the mannerisms and characteristics that make him - him. Then it’s like boom… “oh my god.. that’s my dad…” and I’ll get this overwhelming shot of adrenaline/anxiety that’s immediately followed by depression and guilt. These sensations are amplified when I think about how one day he’ll be too old to do the things he can currently do. Or if I imagine a photo of him and imagine the day I’m told he’s gone. It’s like everything I’m afraid of facing as I get older. Then I feel worse when I think of my dad happy and wonder how he feels knowing he doesn’t have both his parents anymore. And the guilt comes from me not talking to him for years because I’m trying so hard to slow down time… but the only way to escape these thoughts is by distractions which make time pass even more. Idk I realize how stupid I sound but was wondering if those sound like a form of existential ocd or perhaps something similar. It’s like my psychiatrist doesn’t understand fully so i just continue to feel lost.

  • @ethanle7894
    @ethanle78943 жыл бұрын

    I want to thank you so much for this video. I first got scared when my English teacher shared with me a story about a philosopher who is an existentialist and it freaked me out. I had these thoughts ever since and I had panic attacks afterward. I couldn’t sleep because of all the research I was doing and freaking out. For me, I might question why I’m doing something and if humans ever did this thousands of year ago and causes me anxiety. Then I would research about what people think online. This would ruin my day and would be one of the biggest challenges i faced. Thank you so much 😊

  • @commentyoutube8002

    @commentyoutube8002

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have the opposite problem lol I have the most intense intrusive thoughts about converting to Catholicism, and my brain LITERALLY tells me I have no choice. I wish I was caught up in existentialism. I'd rather that, then the hell of feeling like I have to give up who I am, and detach from my friends and family because they are worldly fixtures, and I should be subservient to a higher order.

  • @moonmama95

    @moonmama95

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@commentyoutube8002 I'm thinking about converting to catholicism to cope with existential OCD lol

  • @commentyoutube8002

    @commentyoutube8002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moonmama95 I think there's a lot of good that can be found there! I wouldn't dissuade anyone from converting, its just not something I see as being compatible or necessary for me.

  • @TheNOVAlbert
    @TheNOVAlbert Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this video.

  • @tendum9139
    @tendum91393 жыл бұрын

    Hello ! 🙂 Thank you for all your videos ! They are extremely helpful ! 🙂 Can you make a video about the MCT (metacognitive therapy) for OCD please?

  • @dorissaucedo3728
    @dorissaucedo372810 ай бұрын

    This is such a good video

  • @lyndamartin6468
    @lyndamartin6468 Жыл бұрын

    At 33 years old and after years of being unable to quantify an ongoing fear and hypervigilience inside me I happened to Google "why am do I keep thinking about my breathing" I have ongoing health anxieties and fear of death/dying that loop continuously to the point I couldn't confidently say what was a real ailment or psychosomatic. I studied psychology and philosophy at college thinking these were purely subjects of interest. I'm clear now my thought processes surrounding existentialism and somatic ruminations are obsessive, destructive and preventing me from actually living. This is a real step forward for me. Thank you for your videos. 💗

  • @can03
    @can033 ай бұрын

    Very very much appreciated

  • @palindamadubashana7736
    @palindamadubashana7736 Жыл бұрын

    This is exactly me. Before watching this video I thought I was going to be a psychopath and I am goind to die. I spent too much time in my mind trying to find answers and was very scared and I felt alone. Oh God, I always prayed to give me a normal mind to live like other people. Thank you so much for helping me to understand my mind. ❤

  • @The.Culture.Consultant
    @The.Culture.Consultant17 күн бұрын

    I've been struggling with this for the past 2 years, searching for certainty that there is more after this life. No matter what I read, hear or watch, it's never enough. Finding your video after having decided today that sitting with anxiety while still doing what I find important is an interesting coincidence and helpful in making this decision. I will not know the answers, and that is going to be okay, somewhere down the line.

  • @ellalusk7036
    @ellalusk70363 жыл бұрын

    you may have just saved my life

  • @cazoon
    @cazoon3 жыл бұрын

    Watched this a half dozen times. (a touch of OCD) Diagnosed correctly now. Thanks

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @__Accordion__
    @__Accordion__2 жыл бұрын

    Last year during lockdown, I had (at 17) the first and worst anxiety and depression of my life with existential dread and fear constantly. When I went back to school, my symptoms faded, despite the tragic loss of one of my best friends. I stopped seeing my therapist. Now, after graduating and moving through half of the summer, I find myself stuck with these intrusive thoughts again, losing interest in the things I liked to do, constant fear and nervousness. I never sought a diagnosis, but with newfound knowledge that my Grandpa has been living with OCD, and my Mother with Anxiety, I guess I'll have to get help again.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @mako5286

    @mako5286

    Жыл бұрын

    @@beeberry8055yes all the time

  • @rhondastultz6882
    @rhondastultz68823 жыл бұрын

    omg thank you for these videos. I thought I was just crazy between this and the sensorimotor OCD

  • @emillyzalayet6353

    @emillyzalayet6353

    3 жыл бұрын

    Experienced the exact same thing!!! I was so scared until I found out that both of those were OCD subtypes, also realized that if you think you’re going crazy then you’re for sure not.

  • @Employeeofthemonth2001
    @Employeeofthemonth20016 ай бұрын

    I get that "you need to accept the uncertainty" part but at the same time it is not possible to me to do that because it's the reason why I'm so scared. I can't tell myself "maybe it's all real maybe it's all fake that doesn't matter" no that does matter, it doesn't help me at all, it makes me even more anxious. I want to be like I used to. 100% sure that everything around me is real, that I'm not in a Truman show or matrix type of situation. I can't accept this uncertainty. What am I supposed to do????

  • @chocolateguevos4459
    @chocolateguevos44593 жыл бұрын

    Punk rock is sort of my religion. I struggle with accepting my relationship i have with it. Its kind of an identity thing. Love these videos!

  • @anakarinabanana
    @anakarinabanana10 ай бұрын

    Bless you for this video.

  • @rcf5446
    @rcf54463 жыл бұрын

    thank you buddy so much for this video because i have depression and anxiety as well . also this video is helping me out a lot so thank you buddy because it’s teaching me so much on how to control my anxiety and depression plus this staring habit that i have been trying to get rid of . ps helps a lot 😇

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you also afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @Lullabybabyzzz
    @Lullabybabyzzz2 жыл бұрын

    You my friend made perfect simple sense thank you

  • @alannasoutherland5172
    @alannasoutherland51722 жыл бұрын

    Made me come to the conclusion that I have this disorder and recently I have become so bad that I have derealization and depersonalization. This helped me not feel alone and see it from a different perspective

  • @Iarisap

    @Iarisap

    2 жыл бұрын

    How are you now Alanna? How are you managing derealization and depersonalization? I have it too 😫 And i don’t know what to do anymore

  • @isarizvi1195

    @isarizvi1195

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Iarisap how you doing now?

  • @meryp.6056
    @meryp.60563 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos.❤ I am so terrified in this period because i have a lot of thoughts. One of these is "When did my depersonalization begin? When did my OCD begin? Omg maybe i am false,maybe i don't know what i do,omg maybe i maybe I'm not aware and responsible for what I do. Omg then what do I really want??". It's so orrible because i need to know and i need to know who i was and who i am. I need to know the correct informations about my life and myself. I feel so lonely with my questions and i hope that there are also other people who have my same thoughts.❤😩 i am doing psychotherapy but i am terrified.❤😭 I am so grateful for your videos.❤ Greetings from Italy. ❤

  • @roselia7354
    @roselia73542 жыл бұрын

    i experienced this for the first time when i was 16. it just popped into my head. i panicked and lived in a state of DR for a few weeks. it was horrible and i didn’t even know it was ocd. i should have known though because i have struggled with ocd since i was 5. but i just didn’t know. i asked my father (he’s studied physics) for answers, ALL the time. it helped for a bit but i always doubted his answers. what if i just imagined him saying that? what if that is not true? how does ANYBODY know what’s real? i researched SO much, all the time. my family got so annoyed to the point where they didn’t want to answer my questions anymore. and that kind of helped. i am so glad that i now know what it is and how i can accept it. uncertainty is the key :)

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Were you afraid to be the only real person?

  • @roselia7354

    @roselia7354

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beeberry8055 yes i was. all the time. it was horrible.

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@roselia7354 how did you overcome that fear? Did you take any medication?

  • @rohankulkarni4458
    @rohankulkarni44582 жыл бұрын

    I’m so terrified rn. Those cases of people who remember past lives is giving me so much anxiety!!

  • @camillodimaria3288
    @camillodimaria32887 ай бұрын

    I watch your videos obsessively . They offer a temporary relief. But then the ocd reboots. It’s like trying to dig myself out of quicksand. Anyway, thank you for the videos.

  • @DawnFire05
    @DawnFire056 күн бұрын

    This video really resonates with me, lol, I suddenly have answers (oh no). I recently felt like I’d completely lost my mind and went crazy, that I developed delusions or psychosis or smth. My thoughts are centered around who I am, my identity, self discovery, and having a lack of self. Ofc there’s a lot of DPDR in that tbh. Researching how to tell if you’ve become delusional lead me to discovering existential OCD and how it, accompanied with DPDR, can often look like or be confused by someone for delusions. I’ve been diagnosed with OCD since I was a kid but never really got treatment for it. Actually the part of the video where you say to heal you must realize that these questions don’t matter is terrifying, I don’t really know how to live life where they don’t matter. Cause it’s like “I don’t know who I am, I must discover it”, it feels like if I stop trying I’m just going to wither into a husk of a nothing person like there’s no one there unless I’m constantly on a search for it to fill that identity. Life feels so meaningless if I’m not constantly trying to figure it all out. Yeah existential OCD can be pretty disabling, when I’m spending all my free time just searching through stuff and organizing racing thoughts just to ensure that I’m not going to just stop existing or that life has no meaning so why am I even alive, and I think it’s especially bad with my maladaptive daydreaming (I’ve recently “lost my mind” on the thought that I’d found the answer and that I really *am* nobody, I’m actually my daydream character, it just makes sense in my head). It definitely spirals, I didn’t realize this was existential OCD, I thought that was pretty normal for people esp if you’re autistic, anxious, or depressed already. But it kinda feels like giving it all up means I’m going to lose my life. Like I’m taking my own life, just within the psyche, that there just is absolutely nothing unless I’m constantly trying to figure out the answers to who I am. It feels like I’ll just give up on myself, and just settle to live for a life where I’m not authentically me. It doesn’t help I’m quite self suppressed so it’s like I *know* that the answers are out there, there actually is a *me* somewhere, I just have to keep searching, I’ll discover who I am, I’ll be happy and satisfied in life one day once I have this all figured out, I just can’t let that go I can’t just stop and settle and just be someone that I’m not. I really just don’t feel like I am *me*, it just feels like a body, and everything in my life is just a result of my upbringing, trauma, the people I’ve met, my experiences, it’s all inauthentic, there’s a me beyond just this body living as an animal amongst other animals. How can I possibly accept this as my life? It just doesn’t make any sense. There has to be more to all of this, I really think so, I just can’t accept that there’s not. I think I’m going to be so miserably depressed in my life if I just stop. I’d rather be anxious and paranoid and borderline delusional than depressed and settle for a non life and commit psyche sucid, like what if it even lead me to the real thing, it really feels like not having the answers life is just pointless to live sometimes. I don’t think I could ever accept that my thoughts don’t matter, they hold so much significance to me, it’s like it’s life and death, truly, really, I might just lose everything if I just stop caring about it all. I don’t have an identity, I don’t know what it is, I have to find it, I know I can, I just have to keep trying, I don’t want to be just nothing.

  • @yoyoyo1penaldo
    @yoyoyo1penaldo3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much man ❤️

  • @aramsarfallah9100
    @aramsarfallah91003 жыл бұрын

    I just wanna say thank you so much for this video. I'm going through this rn and this wouldn't have been a better time to see your video on it. in your video u explained every single one of my issues. I went to your website however and didnt see a program for the existential ocd. is there one?

  • @beeberry8055

    @beeberry8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you afraid to be the only real Person?

  • @discolissa666
    @discolissa6663 жыл бұрын

    thank you for helping me this year

  • @ocdandanxiety

    @ocdandanxiety

    3 жыл бұрын

    Happy to help. I"m glad it's helped! I wish you the best!

  • @OREO-ug5qr

    @OREO-ug5qr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ocdandanxiety Hey, if you still respond, can you tell me how I can prove I have ocd to my doctor? I'm planning on telling my parents that I need to get diagnosed ocd so I'd like to know what I would tell my doctor