Rachael | OCD Specialist
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Brittany❤️🔥 :
I don’t have ocd but have bad anxiety if the thought triggers bad anxiety where I can’t sleep I feel sick n just want them to go away is this an intrusive thought?
2026-07-23 12:27:52
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Carly Geoghegan :
I believe I have OCD, but my therapist has diagnosed me with anxiety disorder.
2026-06-11 18:59:35
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Emm :
My OCD is mainly focused on the safety of my children, it’s horrible. Thank you for this video 🙂
2026-06-11 17:35:27
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JustJulie🇨🇦 :
I’ve never sought a formal diagnosis but I can trace my compulsions/intrusive thoughts back to early childhood. I think (?) like many disorders, OCD exists on a spectrum. My compulsions were always harmless to others (rituals like tracing my eyes around every wall perimeter, 7x7 times of a room I’ve never been in Nope, not 49 times, counting in my head 7 times, 7 times. I know it doesn’t logically’make the room safe’ but the compulsion brings comfort. Throughout my life, some compulsions have faded away and been replaced by other fairly minor compulsions (using my finger to trace the last word of a persons sentence on my leg). I have ZERO idea why a particular compulsion will appear, and why a particular replacement appears. I’ve had stressful experiences where intrusive thoughts amp up (mostly surrounding that I’ve failed somewhere, have/will cause a harm to someone, or I’m getting fired)….thankfully I had an obsession/compulsion to devour literature on psychology, sociology, anthropology and learned to use ‘logic’ to quickly look for facts/evidence and quickly dismiss intrusive thoughts.
2026-08-02 20:42:46
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𝑺𝒂𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐 🦋 :
How about the frustration that comes with this. My partner has ROCD. Listening I absolutely hear this and feel this matches.
2026-08-01 11:18:50
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itslianwrites :
I unfortunately have meta-OCD which is OCD about recovery and the very nature of OCD and even just the idea of thoughts and thinking which is weird but ur videos have given me hope thank you for everything ❤️
2026-06-11 20:11:06
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Jordanne l Therapist 🇨🇦 :
I love the way you speak about OCD as a fellow OCD therapist! Do you have any of your favourite trainings or books!? Always looking to learn more!
2026-08-03 00:47:16
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Patti :
Do you have online courses for therapists?
2026-06-12 22:14:33
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Cassidy :
My ocd just played whack a mole wth different topics and subtypes until I actually dealt with the dynamics in my life that chronically made me feel like I couldn’t live in reality fully without consequences ( mostly within my family system where I had to stay quiet to keep the relationships). I feel like the trauma part of OCD is often overlooked. If i’m chronically gaslighting myself out of my own inner knowing of course my brain is going to continue to tell me to be on guard and that there’s hidden danger. I still have to do the ERP work but until i saw the bigger pattern It was constant symptom management for a new kind of obsession
2026-06-24 18:36:57
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dr.adhd💙 💜love me Eternally :
good explanatiion- misconception of ocd intrusive thought is valid.really. justification for it then normalize it n decide to act.
2026-07-27 07:22:08
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Ireneliz_65 :
Is a specific health anxiety OCD?
2026-06-14 17:49:28
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Open Loops :
you cannot overcome something if you cant acknowledge how valid they are. great points.
2026-06-13 15:36:49
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Cassidy :
curious if this is in the literature or research and clinically understood or if it’s just my own flavor of OCD
2026-06-24 18:38:30
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