Backdoor Spikes with OCD and anxiety

You are really helpful, sir.

Thank’s for your work ! Straight Straight from Brazil !!

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Could you please make a video about Swallowing OCD. Fear of others hearing me swallowing. At first it happens to me when people are nearby, and in quiet places. But then it gets worse and haunts me day and night, and even when I'm alone with no one around. It has haunted me for almost 20 years. Thank you so much

Could you please do a swallowing ocd video? It's causing me to be afraid to drink water and interfering with my eating.

I need serious help, I’m worried that I’m going to feel like this forever. Is there a place I can email you?

Yesterday i got backdoor spike and suddenly things chages again i doubt myself its difficult but overcome sooner

I was wondering if someone with ocd can overcome it without talking to anyone about it or seeking a professional help?

I've come to believe that OCD doesn't go away - it's a chronic disease that I deal with every day. I have some bad days when the symptoms of my chronic disease are more acute and some days when I don't feel the symptoms at all. Either way, the treatment is the same - for me that means daily medication and therapies like the ones taught by Nathan. With that combo, I win way more than I lose.

Everytime I have the anxiety I question whether this is real or not 😭

yooo lmaoo, it’s crazy that AS IM GOING THROUGH THIS…BOOM i get this recommendation

Hey is there anyway I can contact you?
I suffer from Scrupulosity OCD.
Please if there is anyway I can contact you please let me me know.

Please help
I am having obsession that ...
OMG I HAVE OCD ! OH NO 😢
it's getting me mad '

Cbt or erp?
Which one I should go for

Currently in a spike... how did i get out of this before?! 😭

Thank you for your videos mate!!! :)

Yeah, have been passing through this nasty matter recently. I used to have sexual intrusive thoughts and, with some ERP, was getting tuned with them. Now, am feeling awkward again that, I don't panick or get annoyed like before when the intrusive pictures appear. But ain't I supposed to feel abhorrence to them? Am I then approving them!! Oh, what a disgust!!!

Could you please talk about Rabies OCD, for me, It's extremely tough to overcome, unlike other OCD I have faced ....

Thank you for posting yet another incredible OCD video! So grateful for your channel!

Sir i have seen one video about your son and jelly fish, in that video did you said our fears will actually happen?? Please reply pls

ive had a backdoor spike like 2 weeks ago and it sucks. i was doing so well and it just came out of nowhere! but i am still actively doing erp, so i am hoping for best!

You are great Man!

I can go half days without ocd, making progress! before it was every 10 min. my main problem is that I blame my wife for my ocd and then I realised this in itself is part of the ocd. my poor wife :(

Yes I have it got to the point where I had to compulsively tell my self (or imagine telling someone) why I am ok. Or loike, I am realizing stuff more, but then it makes me remind myself over; "Oh this is why this is happening" "Because you got this sensation back which is good". Of course I don't want to not realize stuff but, I think when ye constantly remind ye self or that realization or anything loike that, it becomes a compulsion. OCD also makes me forget stuff as well so that's why I remind myself constantly, of so many things :/. I am getting better or just at this moment, not doing anything not even saying the "Maybe, Maybe not" statements. Cause if I know, I know why do I have to say those things if I am ok ye know?

10 Simple Self Improvement Principles For Strong Women

1. Drink more water
2. Eat whole foods
3. Practice daily gratitude
4. Pick up a book
5. Daily walks outside
6. Listen to a TED Talk
7. Forgive someone
8. Join a group of supportive individuals
9. Stop nailbiting/nailpicking habit for good (if you do it — consider stopping it as it makes you mentally weak + affects your confidence and all other areas of your life!)
10. Congratulate yourself for this growth

Take it easy and I hope you found one thing helpful in this list.

If you did, what was it?

oh my gosh I thought my therapist was lying to me when she said that was normal. it really validated my feelings that I was causing my own OCD and lying to myself.

God im having this at the moment !!! Its so annoying

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Anxiety: Remember me?

Happens on dates, after the first 10min i realize im doing well engaging w her and then the spike shows up and i panic that its back, what if i fail completely, then i cant refocus on the moment and then it collapses. I go from the best feeling to the worst feeling. And then i get furious inside abt this huge loss of happiness and want to murder the ocd.

GOD bless you abundantly brother ❤️✝️📣

I am having a back door spike right now and did not know what was happening…. Many thanks!

Your videos are so helpful .. thank you so much !! You have help me so much to learn to deal with my anxiety

This is life changing this response to anxiety and scary thoughts has helped me so much! I appreciate it so much! Welcoming the anxiety and going along with it helps calm down the anxiety soooo much I used to always try and stop my thoughts and it made it worse. Thank you so much words can't express how much I appreciate it

I was feeling pretty well regarding a lot of my obsessive thoughts; I’ve been handling them for years without much issue, largely thanks to a medication which was a total godsend for me, but also because of help from my very kind new therapist. Then a few nights ago, I read something online which hit me like a left hook and now I can feel my head starting to buzz again. I’m very scared. I was doing better and even heading towards the precipice of something good, and now I’m worried that I’ll backslide a decade have to start all over. The medicine is helping to keep it at bay for now, and I’m going to talk to my psychologist about it next session next week. Hopefully I can push through it. Is it possible I’m experiencing what you’re describing here?

Hey! I had HOCD for long but after long, the anxiety and thoughts are going down quite a bit but I feel scared that maybe I am changing because no thoughts, no anxiety, etc. I also don’t feel the need to do many compulsions? Does this mean I’m getting better?

Backdoor spikes have the popular feature:
- you make it subconscious
- unquestionable, taboo
- overwhelming and hopeless attachments waiting for others creating enmeshment

Yeah, started happening to me recently after going through recovery I would get massive spikes usually after spending time outside with my family

You are the best therapist ive heard of! you're so calm and you have helped my intrusive thoughts so much! your like magic! thanks so much! keep up the great work!

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just except it. Embrace it and don’t run from It because why’re you running ? You know what you are originally and always will be attracted to. ( Women ) So let them come. When you try to push the thought away It Multiplies like 🦠 When the thoughts come reply with a “ maybe, maybe not “ or “ i dont care, it doesn’t matter. A Compulsion doesn’t make you who you actually are right? It’s HOCD So why would You so why fear it? one thing that helped me a LOT was Putting my Face In a Big Bowl Of water & Ice. + Cold Showers It relieves stress/Anxiety/Mental + We will defeat these demons soon, don’t worry Bro. 🙂

Currently me. 3 years of relief. Now its back but thankfully its not as ”loud” as it was before because of the tools ive learned.

This just happened to me today.

I have a question! I’ve had little no anxiety for almost 2 years and it got triggered about a week or 2 ago and I’m not sure how to handle it. Back when my anxiety wasn’t as bad and I had little to no anxiety, I decided to go to the gym to lose weight and start working to make more money. Now that my anxiety is back I have little to no interest in anything. Sometimes I feel like I want to call out of work to take a break and I missed a week of the gym. But would it be wise for me to continue working and going to the gym like I did before my anxiety decided to spike. Currently my anxiety is about (fear of anxiety again) idk if that makes sense. Basically feeling like I’m going to be reliving the past on how my anxiety was crippling and I had negative thought consuming me and that it’s going to happen again. Idk how to accept it like. I did used to have negative thoughts when my anxiety wasn’t acting up but they would come and go and I was able to brush them off and not think about it again but now that my anxiety is acting up ik I have to accept it but do I have to force my negative thoughts to come out in order to feel better? While doing ERT do I have to genuinely believe my anxiety has returned or Do I have to believe my negative thoughts or allow them to consume me like they did in the past in order to accept my anxiety ?

Dont worry about regressions guys , use it as a learning process

It never comes back as strong when u have the knowledge

What about individuals who are resistant to ERP treatment ? It has been shown that people with PTSD intertwined with OCD are way more resistant to ERP. In my case mine ALWAYS loses efficacy after 2 months use and that means NO reinforcement of the compulsion added… so that could not be the reason. But. It always does come back… somehow out of nowhere… would be nice to have an alternative solution for these UNREPORTED cases!!

I just experienced it yesterday. I normally challenge the intrusive thoughts by intentionally thinking of them. I imagined I was going to grab my wife's neck just like the previous intrusive thoughts and so there was no anxiety thanks to ERP. And then boom! I became anxious that I am no longer anxious to the thought. It's like my mind thinks I am capable of doing it now because I am no longer anxious. Good thing I learned about this backdoor spike.

I fell for it recently. I was so confident I had beaten OCD, that even when I had intrusive thoughts, I would be able to easily deal with them through ERP. But it wasn't the case. I got lost in an obsession for two straight days, not realising that I was doing compulsions. It was only in the morning of the third day that I understood what waa going on and was able to apply ERP. That was a lesson of humility for me 😅.

the secret for backdoor spikes is when you yawn u should cover your mouth or hold it from happening
The Prophet Muhammad (peace & blessings of Allah be upon him) told us that the devil can enter when you yawn
i never think it was about ocd
today is the first time i felt peace but when i yawn i didnt cover my mouth
and a backdoor spike happened but it passed now
i never would have thanked that the prophet was talking about this
we have Surah An-Nas in quran read it for some time it will help reduce the ocd
hope we all get better soon

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