Rachael DeKoning, LCMFT, LAC
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NICOLETTE :
When it gets hard. I remind myself that neuroplasticity is real!!!! With time and redirection I believe healing is possible.
2025-12-01 18:38:21
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neurodivergentjoy :
This doesn't really match with my personal experience of OCD. I have terrifying intrusive thoughts that play out like a hyper realistic movie happening in real time. I don't have a lot of thoughts about those images, just feelings of terror. Most of my ERP therapy has been centered around tolerating the uncertainty that those bad things could happen.
2025-10-16 12:38:54
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Brittany | Private Chef :
I thought on a clinical level ocd people have an over active amygdala(fear response), and under active profrontal cortex (that filters thoughts) and a malfunctioning basal ganglia (part of the brain that forms habits) so our brains our wired differently and more thoughts become conscience in us than non ocd sufferers?
2025-10-16 01:51:54
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Isabel McArthur :
My guess is a lot of this comes fr an upbringing of Hypervigilance or abuse.
2025-10-15 21:15:19
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Mr. Be :
It's a thoughts-about-thoughts problem
2025-10-15 12:49:10
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☽◯☾ amy ☽◯☾ :
Any advice for a 14yo who gets stuck in loops of controlling her breathing pattern?
2025-10-14 19:12:12
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vale🎈 :
can an obsession of ocd be: have a huge fear of someone thinking i'm a bad person because of a misunderstanding or something like that, and then de develop some compulsions because of that pd. english isn't my first language
2025-10-19 00:54:39
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NoodleBradley :
Therapist here... another key component is the compulsion.
2025-10-16 01:15:34
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ra_kou :
I did the exposure , sat with the discomfort but my mind still keeps the obsession alive and I still get triggered?
2025-10-15 10:59:19
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Daz608 :
I really wish ocd was given more attention
2025-10-15 21:22:39
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HeeHaw :
I literally convinced myself I was a lesbian and just repressed it for a year. I was in fact not a lesbian at all 😭 (not that that’s bad to be lol)
2025-10-17 01:38:45
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❤️ :
This is the kindest explanation I think I've heard...so much hope ❤
2025-10-15 18:28:14
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lala_bloom_ :
I feel like you’re leaving out the physiological nuance to the “thoughts” which is an over active amygdala. That’s not rly a “meanings” issue
2025-10-17 21:50:01
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katie :
What is the most effective treatment for contamination OCD?
2025-12-13 04:26:51
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Rachel Denise :
It’s such an exhausting disorder. Thank you for sharing your videos on OCD. They are so helpful!
2025-10-16 19:49:26
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toni_di_tony :
Super helpful abd straight to the point!
2025-10-15 10:04:01
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Rob :
Very useful information 👍🏻
2025-11-27 23:20:45
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Emily 🌿 :
I'm so tired of it.
2025-10-27 03:04:17
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H :
I love ACT for this. Defusion yess. Noticing our thoughts versus problem solving them
2025-11-08 02:23:56
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Piper :
Everyone has intrusive thoughts but if you have ocd those thoughts conscious thoughts. They get stuck in your mind like a ping pong ball. A non ocd brain just lets those thoughts go.
2025-10-16 01:58:39
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Johan Stevens :
Hello! Nice work. This is ACT right? I love Russ Harris work too. ✌
2025-10-20 05:30:58
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mariposarosa2603 :
I agree with what you say but I have an insight that does contradict what you said about people with OCD don’t have different thoughts from other people who don’t have it. I have had magical thinking since I was in middle school and I still do. Example of magical thinking is: if I don’t reach that telephone pole in the next five seconds my whole family will die. I have talked about it with people who don’t have OCD and they look at me like I’m crazy and tell me they’ve never had those thoughts. Just a thought
2025-10-16 02:46:02
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thebettersarah :
this makes so much sense to me! thank you! my eyes are open! it's like I have magical thinking, I think a thought I have means something about myself. like I have an external apparatus controlling me.
2025-11-28 18:14:13
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🇨🇦 Jackie 🇨🇦 :
Yeah I don’t believe my thought are in any way normal 😬 I don’t have compulsions I just have the repetitive thought which can be extremely disturbing
2025-12-03 18:33:53
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