I am 70 years old and have lived with OCD my entire life. I have been in treatment off and on for years. It does run in families. Genetic. Several family members suffer from this wretched disorder.

Alexandra's explanation of what OCD is really like, touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes because of it's accuracy; explaining what OCD really is to others is so hard.

@DrScottEilers

9 ай бұрын

Check her out on Instagram, she’s great!

You are right! Yhis is a fantastic episode and the description of impulsive vs intrusive is super helpful!!

This was such a fantastic interview :)

The problem with intrusive thoughts is that just sharing them will frighten others. I didn't even know until recently they are called "intrusive" thoughts, but I still don't think it is a good idea for me to share them. I don't think it is even safe to share those thoughts anonymously.

Great video and sharing from Alexandra. Dr Scott, pls can you do videos on the various types of ocd and treatment with even more info given? Look forward to it 😊

Its a horrible and painful disorder, destroying so many lifes, and many suffer in silence, especially children. And its very painful for relatives to wittness and not get treatment for your child...

The most therapeutic part of my 7 week hospitalization was the relationship I developed with so many of the other patients

Please talk about serious harm OCD.

This is so helpful! Do either of you have telemedicine or anything like that? I think you are spot on and my son needs this!

What to do if the intrusive thought are about selfharme, and occour all the time...?

You've missed something pretty big here guys. Let's say the lady has sexual OCD thoughts about having sex with her son and they really disturb her. The point is, she knows she is never going to have sex with her son because she simply isn't paedophile and the bottom line is the activate absolutely repulses her. So therefore exposure and response will be perfect for somebody with these kind of intrusive thoughts. Well what about somebody who has constant intrusive thoughts that they might get raped or murdered. How can these kind of OCD continuous repetitive,, intrusive thoughts be cured by exposure and response, when the scenarios that these horrible thoughts create could actually happen in real life? Exposure and response simply wouldn't work for that because it will always be a possible scenario whether you're walking down a dark alley at night or just shopping in Tesco's. 😮😮😢

Im totally getting intrusive thoughts while watching this and I had to watch it in two parts. Its as if Toby is throwing frozen turds at me all the time. I thought that people get defensive when edgy thoughts are brought up because they are embarrassed about it

@saintejeannedarc9460

10 ай бұрын

I don't know why it struck me odd that you mentioned frozen turds. Why frozen ones? Anyway, I'm sorry you go through that.

@NexViolentus

10 ай бұрын

@@saintejeannedarc9460 they would hurt while not frozen ones would just break apart on impact

@saintejeannedarc9460

10 ай бұрын

@@NexViolentus Ok, makes a sort of sense. Though soft turds would also splat and stain and frozen ones would at least bounce off. If you're going to have intrusive thoughts, at least have some fun w/ them.

Tiger metaphor isn't a good analogy... U never been to a tiger enclosure or with a wild tiger, how would u assume the longer the tiger doesn't eats u, means the tiger isn't gonna eat, if anything it's direct opposite, the longer they not gonna eat u, the hungrier they get, more likely they gonna eat u....

@Carmen_Lapadat

8 ай бұрын

Agree... and also, how can you survive in the pit?

When it comes about getting other people sick, if you have someone more vulnerable, you can just weight the risks and advantages. If you had clostridium difficile for example, I would avoid for a year visiting my parents and I would always take so much more hygiene measures. Let's say something scares you more, for example, letting your children sleepover in others' house. You should not just give in and accept the risk because life is about risks and because you are afraid of fear, and I am speaking about let's say you have other symptoms of OCD as well and you certainly feel also dread, not only wisdom. Yet, if there is no other way than to allow your kids sleep over or be with other people because your city is under fire, attacked or because you cannot just fight the court decisions, then, you can pray, educate your kids and things that you generally should do anyway. That thing with risks are everywhere some people really do, in my country doctors and nurses and you would not believe what rules they can break and I just feel they do that because they have a dread of becoming obsessed with things they cannot completely control.