what is OCD and do you have it let's
talk about
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that good mythical morning yesterday we
released a brand spanking new music
video on the r Link channel it's called
My OCD a song and it features link
playing link and me playing a man in a
mysterious white C
and uh lots of things are organized and
it's very pleasing so check that out
also I invite you to download the song
on iTunes and rate rate and review the
song properly thank you for that so uh
the conception for this song came from
something that we have noticed we've
actually noticed it quite a bit here on
good mythical morning but I've noticed
it throughout the the internet and that
is every once in a while there' be a
little something wrong with one of us uh
it might be be that our hoodie strings
are a little bit off-kilter or the
camera isn't quite the mic's not right
in the middle and or like maybe my mug
is right here and then Link's mug is
right there well that would be that
would be good and I'll be gesturing like
this and people are like oh gosh move
your mug they're like guys get your
hoodie string straight get the
microphone centered because you're
driving my OCD crazy like it's a pet or
something so this is something that I
mean it's people talk about this all the
time and then uh I noticed there were
all these lists on the internet 39
images that will drive your OCD crazy
and again it's the same kind of stuff
that we featured in the video um things
that are off-kilter things that are
unbalanced things that are you know turn
the wrong way right so it's a common
sentiment across the internets right
that if something's not quite right I I
can't make it right but the best I can
do is comment about it not being right
right so that so that music video is our
attempt to kind of represent that
mentality and to show you some things
and then give you the satisfaction of
Link straighten them out but here's the
question here's the technical question
friends is what we represented in the
video OCD or are people using the term
OCD too lightly H H now we should say
right off the bat that OCD is an actual
disorder that I mean people maybe you or
someone you know out there has is
clinically diagnosed with OCD and it
rocks their world so yeah we wanted to
say right off the bat that happens and
the mission of our music video or this
conversation right now is not to make
light of those people corre who who
suffer from legitimately suffer from OCD
so that being said have a conversation I
can also say no joke my wife has been
diagnosed with OCD so and this is
something she struggled with her entire
life and that you know she's she's dealt
with it or she continues to deal with it
but she's experienced a lot of victory
over it but I know a little bit about it
just from from her dealing with it and
when you pitch the idea and it gives me
the right to talk about it no when you
talked about the music video or the idea
for it she was like this sounds
hilarious I think you should you should
go for it I said is this insensitive to
do this and she was like no it's comedy
go for it it's comedy okay so obsessive
compulsive disorder obviously that's
what OCD stands for so I'm going to
break that down a little bit for us uh
the first part can you start with
disorder uh and I'm going to start with
obsessive okay so an obsession an
obsession could be start with compulsive
and just really screw with people's mind
I don't want to do that I'm going to
start with Obsession okay do it okay an
obsession could be any recurring thought
or idea
that keeps it is recurring in other
words you continue to think about it and
you obsess about it it could be a number
it could be a color it could be whether
or not you're you've contaminated your
hands it could be whether or not you've
hurt someone there are different
categories that people kind of put these
obsessions into but in reality an
obsession could be absolutely anything
it could be like I am obsessed I have a
fear of the color red so anytime I see
red or I see somebody wearing red I
think something bad's going to happen I
don't want to wear red I never I stay
away from Red can almost take on a
Superstition kind of quality to it or it
could be one of the most common uh
Obsession which is I think I might have
contaminated myself so I need to wash my
hands dirtied yeah and it and it it
takes all kinds of different forms it's
not just those ones that you've heard
about it can be like religious thoughts
that people have it could be thoughts
about the devil you can go into lots of
really dark places so that's the
obsession uh ideas thoughts impulses are
images that keep coming back and these
are upsetting these bring about some
serious anxiety and they and and they
keep happening okay the second part is
the compulsive the compulsion and that
is in order to cope with the obsession
that people have they engage in these
repeated almost ritualistic
behaviors to deal with these to relieve
the anxiety I'm obsessed with the light
s well I'm not personally but let's say
I was obsessed with the light switch
being turned off but I I'm I have a
compulsion to turn it off repeatedly
until it feels right well not exactly
that maybe that would happen I have to
keep flipping the light switch 18 times
before I can leave the room okay maybe
it could look like that but it could
also be like
I think I might have contaminated
contaminated myself so I'm going to wash
my hands repeatedly I'm going to wash my
hands more than I need to I'm compuls to
or compelled to in order to keep my
house safe I may go back and check and
check and check and check to make sure
that I locked the door or and it does
have to do with exactness I can't have
anything that is out of order and I'm
constantly thinking about that and
constantly doing things that bring those
things in order now here's here's the
thing now isn't that kind of normal
people obsess about things people have
concerns about things and then people do
things to relieve the anxiety that's
associated with those things isn't that
just a normal thing well yeah lots of
people do these kinds of things and that
doesn't necessarily mean you have OCD
it's when the obsessions and the
compulsions consume you when you don't
have control over them but they have
control over you and they actually begin
to affect your quality right so they
take place you know they get in the way
of your work they get in the way of your
school they get in the way of your
relationships that's when you're getting
into what might actually be a disorder
and I'm listen I'm not a psychologist no
and we're not me this isn't medical
advice we're giving but this is just
this is just sort of where the where the
research is right now now I like to keep
things organized I mean I'm not going to
go up to a stranger and fix his hoodie
strings or fix someone else's candy but
I'll organize my own candy does that
mean I have exent you'll stack it up
like you did in the video if I'm well no
but I I will definitely fix my closet
okay well like look at my closet it's
it's right buddy and it makes me feel
good do I have OCD no so in doing the
research for the video or for for this
uh episode I actually learned about
something that IID heard about but I
thought it was the same thing but it
just shows my ignorance it's ocpd
obsessive compulsive Personality
Disorder so it turns out while they
sound very much the same it's a totally
different disorder they're not even
technically related they have some
crossover but it's a totally different
thing what is it OCD is an anxiety
disorder meaning that those obsessions
that we talked about bring about xiety
then people use compulsions to kind of
deal with those and it's like repetitive
compulsions repetitive thoughts okay
whereas ocpd is a personality disorder
and these people who have it which is a
lot more common first of all they don't
see it as a problem it doesn't bring
about anxiety it's a personality it's a
disposition it's a tendency to keep keep
things well basically it's just a
rigidity about anything it could be a
moral rigidity it could be a rigidity
about cleanliness it could be a rigidity
about Symmetry and orderliness that's
one of the things that it takes that it
manifests itself most often now so it
turns out one of the things I've learned
is that this OCD phenomenon that we kind
of made fun of in the video which is not
making fun of the disorder but making
fun of the way that people characterize
themselves as having OCD anytime they
see these things they're actually
talking about ocpd more likely than OCD
because these are not obsessive thoughts
and repetitive compulsions that we're
talking about in the video it's this
tendency to want to straighten things
out now do you have ocpd well I don't
think so because first of all I'm not a
professional I'm not here to diagnose
you but the D in both of them disorder
indicates that this is something that
affects your quality of life this is
something that is getting in the way of
you living a normal life you know so
just because you're really opinionated
or or picky or organized doesn't doesn't
translate into into a disorder if it's
really getting you down you probably
need to go see somebody a professional
to get them to diagnose you online surve
they should you could do that you could
take a survey just go on the internet no
don't do that now I always gave myself
um the label ano retentive and I have
done that which which I didn't I
wouldn't do that publicly because I'm
not I don't like have a medallion that
says an Oren or a t-shirt right but if I
were going to describe myself in I like
I describe myself as Frugal and maybe
cheap and also separate from that anal
retentive well I'm glad you asked that
link cuz I did a little research on that
too so anal retentive is something that
Sigman Freud came up with you know
psychologists uh you know earlier last
century okay and his whole thing he had
all kinds of theories about the way that
things happen in childhood and your
relationship with your mother and that
kind of thing that indicated different
disorders he thought that people who
experience conflict between the ages of
18 to 36 month months that's when you're
developing control over your bowels If
you experience conflict during that
period you could become an an anal
retentive person that means a person who
literally retains their feces you're
holding your poop in and this is an
indication that you're kind of tightly
wound and lends itself to other things
other personality traits okay now I I
will say that well first of all as a kid
yeah I went I went through some
hardships I guess a little bit you know
some some uh some family shuffles
happened you know in-laws Outlaws steps
this step that type thing um and as a
kid I do
remember holding my poop all the time I
did not want to do number two when I
would go to my grandma's house I
remember I would go outside and I would
go behind the bushes and squat down and
like not poop I would do that to hold in
the poop what were you afraid of I don't
I don't know it was just I didn't want
to go to the bathroom you still do this
today I'm doing it right now well I'm
glad you're not using the bathroom now I
do remember that though and even now I I
re there'll be moments when I'm like
stressed about something and I realize
that my my pucker string is up like
I'm just being honest with you sometimes
you should keep yourself but or share
with the internet and I have to make a
decision like literally on a weekly
basis I make a decision to Decker to
Decker to just relax a little bit down
there you should put a little note above
your desk that says
Decker okay well here's the good news
for you link uh most of those theories
have been completely disproven there is
probably no connection there anal
retentive but the term anal retentive
has been retained as a psychological
term to describe someone who is probably
similar to somebody who's ocpd but the
connection between 18 to 36 months
that's been brought into I don't dispute
I don't know I feel like now you could
bring it back you could be a Freudian if
you want to you can make Freudian slips
all the time on show I'm not yeah I'm
not a I'm not prepared to embrace
everything that Freud uh talked about
because I don't know all of it but this
one thing he may have been on to
something okay so the bottom line is uh
we were not making fun of obsessive
compulsive disorder we were tapping into
that phenomenon that people tend to say
I have OCD but it turns out they're
probably talking about ocpd and most
likely they're not not even talking
about a disorder they're just talking
about the fact that they just have an
attention to detail which you you don't
have to call Eno retened but because
it's you know it doesn't go over well at
parties Thanks for liking and commenting
on this episode you know what time it is
hi I'm Danny and I'm Colton and this is
a massive freaking Cliff who and it's
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got to make things
right make it the way it's supposed to
be it's my
own every night I would pet him on the
head seven times is some yeah like
literally an accountable manner that's
weird I would pet him other times too