Helpful tips - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Another huge factor that is shown to help people go into remission with OCD, although it's often considered a chronic condition, has been support in a social and emotional sense. So this can be from usually from some social structure like a family or a support group. It's shown that because it's often associated with a level of shame sometimes for people with OCD, it's hard to diagnose and harder to deal with. And so individuals that are able to get help from some kind of established social structure benefit from that a lot. With OCD, some people have shown to benefit from alternative resources. So these are things like meditation, yoga, other mindfulness practices like that, that again have shown to benefit some individuals with OCD.
Video 2 Transcript
Okay, depends on what kind of OCD you got because my sister and I both have OCD. For me, my brain isn't as mean to me as hers is. Her brain is mean to her. So for like people who have just like these thoughts where your brain is trying to protect you rather than tear you down, for I feel like if your brain is just trying to protect you from things that it's afraid of, just try to be kind to yourself and be kind to your brain. Be like, hey, thank you. Thank you for like, I see what you're trying to do there. That's not, that's not gonna help, but I appreciate, you know. But if you're trying to be like, your brain's tearing you down. Also, my sister usually goes, thank you, mind. Not gonna do that, but thank you, you know. I feel like just accept, just accept. You don't have control of these thoughts. Just accept them. And yeah, you have to accept that uncertainty and that, ooh, it's gonna come. It's gonna come, but there's nothing you can do and you just gotta just work on kind of accepting it. So it's a process, but you can do this.
Video 3 Transcript
Helpful tips, remember that it's not you, it's the OCD. That OCD is something that you are experiencing, the brain is wired differently to people without OCD. You are not your thoughts, so if you have a negative thought or a horrible destructive thought, it's not you as a person, it's the thought. Everybody apparently has thoughts and those thoughts come through your brain, thousands, millions of them every day. Try not to attach yourself to those thoughts, just recognise that you are having an OCD thought rather than that thought being part of you. You are having the thought, say to yourself, I'm having the thought that I've left the tap on, that is a thought, it's not a truth. But if you label it as a truth, then you follow with the compulsive behaviour.
Video 4 Transcript
When people are feeling stressed out or anxious during school, one helpful tip is to just cut back. And even though it's hard to decide what things to do and not to do, sometimes it's okay not to do all of your reading assignments. Sometimes it's okay to skim and to cut back so that you can have some extra slack and some free time.
Video 5 Transcript
So I've struggled with OCD-like thought patterns for a while and for me OCD feels like you just get really stuck on your anxieties and it feels like you know it's a loop and it's a cycle and it's hard to break free. So when I get super obsessive about a scary thought, what's helpful for me is to really ground myself in the things that I know to be true. So maybe you are super super nervous about never getting a job, like maybe you've never had a job or maybe your obsession is like you think you're never going to get a good job, never have a good career. Well maybe ground yourself in some things that you know to be true. Well you know I have a high school degree or I have a college degree. Lots of people with college degrees get really good jobs or just kind of remember that the odds are in your favor for a lot of things and there's so much support and help out there. So ground yourself in those things that you know to be true and that will help a little bit with not feeling so obsessive about something scary.
Video 6 Transcript
Particularly for scrupulosity, it is really helpful to really just take a step back to recognize the things that God has commanded us to do. For me to go through the commandments and to just choose to follow those where maybe I can't trust where I feel like my promptings are coming from right now, I know that God has commanded us to pray. It's in the scriptures, so I'm going to pray. God's commanded us to go to church, so I'm going to go to church. He's commanded us to study the scriptures daily, and so I'm going to do that. So just doing small and simple things that do keep the spirit in your life and that you know are right, basically following the light of Christ, has really helped me get back on track with finding the right source and following the right source.
Video 7 Transcript
Two helpful tips that I have learned in how to cope with my intrusive thoughts and obsessions. They're not easy, but they're the most effective. My first coping tip was to agree with the thoughts and start thinking them on purpose. It has a paradoxical effect. If you want to think about it less, think about it more, because the more that you push away from OCD, the larger and the more intense the attacks and the thoughts become. When you agree with them, the thoughts start to die off. It works in a paradox. The second thing that I have learned with OCD is I have accepted the fact that these are intrusive thoughts. I can do nothing about them, so I just let them come and let the anxiety wash over me and take comfort in the fact that the anxiety will die out eventually.
