How exposures for OCD and anxiety work

I always think about my breathing pattern im scared im not be able to breath properly..i feel theres something stuck in my throat..can u please help me..

Thank you so much. You are a blessing. :))

Three years ago I did LSD and during the trip I decided I no longer had OCD and began touching things no human should ever touch, just to prove a point. Next morning when I regained my grasp on the reality and I realized what I had done, it threw me into a year long severe OCD cycle. You are correct, it has to be done under a trained specialist supervision, exposure that is done because you're so mad at OCD and you begin touching and licking toilet seats is a super unhealthy practice.

This video is very useful how to deal with health issues/ anxiety when it’s a thought of something happening that can impact in future?

Wonderful, thank you!

What about for magical thinking ocd?

How long we gonna do ERP?is it any timelimit?1month 2 3

i have a fear that i am touching a person in a bad way..........sometimes after just touching a person i feel likei touched them badly and i think about it every time...........and now i am like soooooooooooo scared if i am a bad person

It can be without anxiety i have erges not cause I am afraid but for that not to happen

I hope one day I can try therapy again. I went for six months and I procrastinated all the homework and just misunderstood the exposures. I feel like I’m not ready to give up my ocd.

This is so helpful! It's easy to feel guilt still when I try to do this, so I think it's very important to understand how it works!

Nathan you are a wonderful person.

Good

Very very very nice explained bro

Excellent explanation 🙏♥️

what if a person has ocd after exposure? oh if my hands are dirty or something sticky is on it, oh is it sperm? etc
if i dont wash my hands, and hand shake with my big brother, will he get sick?
sometimes i ask my brother that my hands were dirty go wash your hands

ocd after exposure gets worse and creates another ocd

Thank you!

I need help on OCD

Fantastic analogy!

Hi Nathan! I'm trying to get rid of OCD in 2 years already (if not more), i watched a lot of videos and i know how OCD works and that with every compulsion it becomes more bad. One time i manage to do ERP and not giving reaction pretty well, but then other days my will power goes to zero and i can't do anything against OCD but only compulsions compulsions and compulsions, even if i understand that i do steps back. I feel how something huge blocks me from preventing responce. I'm getting able to stop reacting only when i really will get tired of doing a lot of compulsions in a cycle, then again i start to get some better days and then soon again like no any success was, zero of will power and days are going bad. I feel like this cycle of ups and downs is going for more than one year. I remember there was some period of time when i felt better and my OCD situation overall was better, i felt myself more free and i felt strong against my fears. I'm not sure when exactly it went down again, but now i feel that it's super bad again, i can't work properly, all these silly thoughts in my head distract me and they push me to keep doing rituals. The problem is that my brain makes these silly thoughts so strong and scary, it gives me phrases or scenes / ideas and then makes me feel like i asked god to make them real, while i didn't, i'm not really religious person and i understand that they are just silly thoughts, but they still bring me SUPER STRONG fear of that all that can happen because my brain mentions god in my phrases with other very bad kind of content. I'm trying to do ERP but simply can't prevent reaction because everything in my head yells that this stuff will happen if i will not re-do my previous action with trying to not have these thoughts. Please, any kind of advice would be really appreciated.

Great video, very good metaphore with the grass paths! Thank you!

Thank you 🙏🏻

What if it’s health anxiety?

any tips for being consistent on the blue path?

Mate you are literally doing more for people than these 'celebrities' can't thankyou enough we don't have many ocd specialist in my town but I'm switched on enough to understand it, when I'm not having strong fear emotions but thankyou

Great video. Very clear and helpful.

Excellent advice

Hi Nathan, just curious if your doing podcasts? Your videos are helping me so much, thank you!

Thank you resisting a compulsion and listening to your video to help me and disregard the thoughts in head

Your videos are helping me. Have you heard of tooth grinding or clenching during sleep as a compulsion, please? Or tension in the jaw as a compulsion? I would value your thoughts. Thanks!

I do seek uncertainty for compulsions and obsessions and i think its easier to let down on your bed and juste gaving therapy Time so you Can heal

Whatsup number sir

But what if u feel certain 😂?

thanks, good video

Wait so we have to practice ERP for the rest of our lives??

Thank you Nathan! u r amazing♥️

Dear can you tell me something.
I have anxiety problem , i now.dont.resist it alowing it its take ita own time. Till the age of 20 to 41 i affraide read newspaper because its content death news. Now o find out my root fear that is death fear. Now i expose i daily read newspaper .
Now i feel sone times i left it but now i know thy it will not good for my treatments.
Pls suggest me

But the level of anexiety and stress that you feel after ERP is so hard and devastating. You have to fight with your brain. Its not simply teaching it. 😢

I have a great deal of gratitude for the work you're doing here. It's incredibly helpful.

Trying to figure out how to do exposures for my theme. It's on my headaches and tooth ache I freak out.

What would be the compulsion when you have sensorimotor breathing ocd? Shall l just let be the thought and purposely focus on my breathing but for how long? I 3months already and anxiety is very high. I try to tell my self that l want to focus on my breathing and l like it but after difficult night, l wake up in huge stress again. I'm working and at times l do not think about the breath but when it comes is almost as its telling me to breathe manually. I will have a therapy soon but if you just can advise what is the compulsion here..what am l doing wrong?

Your videos are fantastic I'm so grateful I discovered you thankyou

What do you do about the terror that comes with not giving into compulsions? I know you’re supposed to start with small exposures, but all my exposures are in the home and i keep walking into them, big or small. Also, no therapy is available to me.

Very helpful

Thank u so much

Imteresting... Yeah, I hate walking through tall grass, haha!

I feel more ready for this.

Today at this moment I was meant to see this video which is what I'm currently going through with my ocd & anxiety that helped & put me more at ease so thank you for that.

Have you tried using exposure and response prevention? 🤷‍♂️What were your results?👍🏻