Video for Kids: Does OCD Give You Bad Thoughts? ( Understanding Scrupulosity OCD)

Thank you!!! My son has been suffering with this for years! Anyone you would reccomend in South Africa - Eastern Cape?

As a teenager, you will have NO idea how much this helped me. i spent months confused about myself & my thoughts. thank you a million ❤

If you had abusive and religious parents, can things like confessional be the affirming action?

Thank you for doing what you do. You are a blessing! Can you speak about the spectrum of OCD symptoms and whether it’s possible to have symptoms that aren’t severe enough for an OCD diagnosis?

I have OCD and i liked ur video and subscribed ur channel but trust me this wasn't OCD i really loved ur video !😃

god i wish somebody would have showed me this before i spent thousands of dollars on obsessions as a kid, cried myself to sleep praying, and became a raging alcoholic at 17!

I wish my physciatrist did this kinda talking therapy with me but all he does is gives me medicines and send me home....thank you maam whoever u are 🧡

This video was so helpful, thank you very much!!!

Merci!

Love this video! Would you ever be interested in doing on on ROCD for teens?

I'm 45 and this is painfully familiar. My childhood was a semi pro nightmare. It's so hard not to lose friends and isolate coming from a christian background(now Agnostic/ Atheist). The shitty part is once you get rid of god, my OCD just picks up it's pace in another area. Multiple hospitalizations (voluntary) and constant background thoughts that are loud a great deal of the time. Therapy has helped, but comorbid conditions make it more complicated. I really appreciate this presentation. Very relatable. Most of my life has been an OCD vortex of horrendous thoughts and contemplations. What's worse is the desire to fix the messes I create. It generally just leads to a worse mess.

Amazing video!

Great video. I am 69. Wis I had it at 13.

Thank you SO MUCH!! This video helps me feel so much better because I’ve been having this one awful intrusive thought and it’s led me to think things like “what if I actually want to do this?” And “What if I’m a really bad person?” And I feel like being able to recognize it and accept it going to be a huge help. I’ll give an update on how I’m doing in a couple weeks!!!

Thank you so much for these great videos thank you!

Pls pls pls pls tell me whether we can self diagnose this or not ?

I am 41 watching this, I noticed I have something very similar to this. I even confessed certain things about my Past to the CPN through the note I written. They are keeping a close eye on me now due to suicide attempt as I did refuse to eat for 4 days.
I noticed any accusations against you can fuel this problem too.

I kept asking the CPN and support workers "Am I a bad person", they both replied No.

I never confessed anything to my parents because I was not able to trust them due to their religious abuse on their behalf. They support workers do believe my parents were very evil for threatening me and siblings with certain things which I grew up believing in.

Only just watching this now. I agree with you on most of what you say. However, i've come to believe that many people who have OCD also suffer from some form of PTSD. Which means that their OCD wouldn't be so strong if they wouldn't have the particular trauma they are going though, and to no acknowledge a trauma is also not a great idea. The OCD is only so powerful because the person in question is feeling so weak because of a trauma.

I’m thinking of getting diagnosed, because of all the misconceptions I have always played down my obsessiveness with my self and how I treat others and caring about having family and all stuff. And it’s scaring me how all this stuff is making sense, I hope it’ll help

My 5 year old daughter calls OCD the little girl in her head. She is really struggling with saying sorry over and over for things that don't need an apology same thing with worrying she is going to hurt me or her mom. Any videos addressing these issues?

My mind will tell me “I really don’t want to dedicate my life to God” or it will blaspheme God or something evil and my emotions will match it and I am almost convinced it’s real but I want God

What about moral thoughts or actions of not following the rules / laws 100% effectively ? Are rules and laws black and white and I’m a bad person for not abiding perfectly ?

The reason I try to solve that ocd and find a sense of releif instead of knowing that it is a intrusive thought and play video games, is because I want to enjoy playing the game and not have it in the back of my head, so what do I do?

Thank you

Natasha! I’m so happy I found you. Do you have any books you recommend for kids with this. My nine-year-old daughter is struggling so bad with intrusive thoughts. And the central theme is definitely about her being bad

I couldn't relate more...thank you so much❤️
Ur videos are actually especially helping durin this quarantine time ❤️thank you!

God bless your Heart and Soul that helped alot

Thank you so much for this video!! Thank you thank you thank you!!

My nearly 7 year old has started having intrusive thoughts and I am started him with a therapist at the end of the month. I have watched videos and read up on this but this video I must say has been the most helpful. I will try tomorrow to implement your advice. Thank you so much x

Your video spoke directly to my 10 yr old son to the point that he asked me, when watching this, if you made it just for him. Some of what you said is exactly what he has been experiencing over the past few months. He's been seeing a therapist, but the therapist has never mentioned anything about OCD. I appreciate this so much....he feels so much better after watching your videos. And we'll be looking on the website you provided for a specialist on OCD in our area.

The problem I'm having is just the fact that I'm dealing with moral OCD with feelings... I keep having my intrusive thoughts mixing in with my FEELINGS and stuff... and I just need help. COMMENT PLS ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS.

OCD made me think I sold my soul

I get thoughts like “If you don’t do _____ (insert a threat about me or my family)” I also constantly get thoughts like “if I’m not SUPER nice to everyone, they will hate me.” And even though I’m really nice people still hate me. I am also constantly looking back at myself and I just hate myself for it. I didn’t think I had OCD because I’m very unorganized. But while watching this video I have seen many similarities. However, I don’t talk to people about it much because I think that they will hate me for talking. And I am afraid to open up about thoughts because I think they will think I am a bad person.

Hi ,my daughter is 9 years old she is having intrusive thoughts and always comes to me saying she wants to confess, me and my daughter were having a real hard time coping with this until I came a cross with this video now it's been two days She is been fighting with her thoughts the way you instruct thank you very much for the video god bless you

we liked the video, thank you for posting. :D

This video is great i had my 8 year old watch this! Thank you so much

Stop being mean to Yourself! OCD is NOT your fault. God and Jesus have so much compassion for your suffering! If you were a bad person these thoughts would NOT bother you. But your wonderful and loveable like all humans who struggle. Thanks Natasha for the great video! solid advice. I am pediatric nurse and appreciate these videos. DONT FORGET there are medications that your doctor can prescribe to help your brain BREAK OCD!

My son is 7 and has developed Moral OCD in the last two months. It's been so hard hearing him confess over and over about his bad thoughts. He is the nicest, kindest kid and it's heartbreaking to hear how these intrusive thoughts are consuming him and making him question whether or not he's good. I'm so glad for resources like this that really help me to better understand what he is going through. We are beginning therapy now and this information is helpful. Thank you SO much for this video!

Thank you so much I was beginning to hate myself to think if I went away would things be better I have adhd and moral ocd together there freaking killing me inside now knowing that a lot of these thoughts I have are things trying to get me riled up I can use your technique and be like hey you are my thought cool instead of freaking out

Bad dreams please

Thank you Very Thankful

You are a saviour!!! Not only kids but adults with OCD

I had this. I would confess to God all the time. It was so terrible. I read the book The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing (or something like that) and it went away.

What if the obsessive thought comes in when another emotion is evoked and OCD is trying to distract the child from the initial emotion? Would you suggest the child think, "why is my moral OCD giving me this thought NOW?" Is this kind of obsessions evoked to get away from other emotions something you see much and/or could talk about?

I have bad thoughts about God and jesus and I love God and Jesus with all my heart but I have ocd and I have very bad thoughts about jesus and I feel like I will go to hell I need help...idk what to do..

Is it normal to have almost all the topics in ocd? I seem to have many themes, not really at once, but it shifts, but, recently I have been thinking like, why I have this, can this come out of emotional neglect? Bad experiences in life with people, without having much emotional support? My family members, always made me doubt, let me feel like if I was less smart, making fun, sarcasm on the negative way, I never really had someone to talk to, so I wonder if bottling up emotions is the base of ocd? because when you don't have a person to talk too, you start to live more in your head no? I need to know why we get ocd, in my case, I notice I can be totally without ocd, when I don't experience stress, but when there is stress, like too much to handle it comes back! but thank you so much already for your videos! they have helped me alot! I feel 95% Recovered, especially seeing your videos for 2-3 weeks, It really gave me a big push forward! still 5 % To go, but theres still stress going on like, divorce of my parents and moving out, and work lol! I keep my head up high! Because I know I can do it! I will be so happy when it stops completely! oh! I also noticed, when you don't sleep well, it's harder to control the mental compulsions too!

Do you perhaps know a way to stop counting with a mental compulsion? For some reason, when I look at something, or do something like combing my hair, washing dishes, my head starts counting xD I don't know how to stop it haha! sometimes it gives anxiety too!

Thank you so much for these Videos, they help understand the issue better. our 5yr old son started having bad intrusive thought OCD from a week and we cant see him suffer.

When i say its not my thought another thought comes in . But u see heres the thing im christian so i know god knows all my thoughts so i dont wanna offend him