Video 1 Transcript
So I don't know if this one counts as a coping strategy, but one thing that helped me hugely was therapy that helped me to realize, you know, that what I was going through was OCD. Um, you know, it helped confirm it to me and it helped me identify more things that I didn't even realize were connected to OCD. Um, it helped me connect those dots and help me work through it. And it's something that you really got to get out of your head for, you know, I mean, I'm sure there's people that are able to manage it well on their own, but I didn't make any progress with it until I started talking to someone about it, you know, and it was even years after I first had the notion enter my mind that I had OCD, that I went to therapy, you know, and I kind of thought now that I knew that I had it, that I'd be able to deal with it, but I really didn't make very much progress until I went and talked to a therapist. So highly recommend therapy, you know, try a few couple, a few different therapists if you have to just find someone you really click well with.
Video 2 Transcript
So coping strategies include avoiding strategies and avoiding strategies include not going to certain places because you might put yourself in the situation that you're fearing. Coping strategies include if you're having a thought that comes to mind and you don't want that thought, cancelling it out with a good thought because somehow that with responsibility OCD for example which I have that you marry together the idea of having the thought to who you are as a person so it becomes that oh I'm having this thought therefore I'm a bad person no you're having a thought it's not your identity but having that bad thought and then trying to cancel it out that's a that has been a coping strategy or counting as well some people count if they count to a certain number then they can release themselves from the thought or from the ritual like well I used to check the tap 10 times and then for me that was enough.
Video 3 Transcript
Coping is different for everyone. However, for me, I've started making a list of activities that I can do that just simply make me happy. Things that don't have to be done a certain way outside of obsessive compulsive disorder, such as, for me, it's whenever I go to Walmart and I have my list, I can just go over to the candle section and I just smell as many candles as I can that makes me happy and that is something that helps me to cope with my OCD as well as my anxiety.
