Stuck in a Doorway: An OCD Story | movie | 2008 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Short documentary about OCD and the people who suffer from it. It includes interviews with two OCD sufferers and the hea | dG1fanF0clhCWjlSYWc

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00:08 And when I do leave, I'll lock the door.

00:12 And then I have to push it just to make sure it's

00:15 definitely locked, even though I know that I've locked it.

00:18 And I walk away from it.

00:19 And then sometimes I have to go back.

00:20 Well, usually always I go back and I push it again to make

00:23 sure it's definitely shut.

00:24 And sometimes I try with the keys again.

00:26 It'll open it again and shut it just to make sure it's

00:28 definitely--

00:30 and then sometimes I can go all the way down the stairs.

00:32 And I need to come back up and do it.

00:33 I mean, it can be anything from over cleaning,

00:36 disinfecting things in my house, to rituals that I have

00:41 every day that I need to perform.

00:43 And I also get under a lot of stress.

00:45 And it can be quite distressing anyway.

00:48 But it does kind of interfere in my life.

00:53 For instance, when I'm going to meet someone new, unless I'm

00:56 wearing gloves, I might not shake their hands.

00:58 It might make me feel uncomfortable to do that.

01:00 It's mainly about turning things off and unplugging

01:03 things, but that's what it is.

01:04 It's changed through the years.

01:05 I've done different things.

01:06 But it's like when I leave, or when I go to leave the house,

01:10 I have to go around and check everything's off a million

01:13 times, make sure everything's unplugged.

01:15 And when it's in the kitchen and it's a gas thing and I

01:17 have to check they're all at zero, there's five, and I have

01:20 to count one, two, three, four, five.

01:22 It makes me late for everything.

01:25 It stresses me out.

01:26 And it means by the time I leave the house, I'm just in a

01:29 bit of a state.

01:32 OCD is an anxiety disorder.

01:35 And it has certain elements.

01:38 One is compulsion to have particular thoughts, thoughts

01:41 that are worrying and upsetting.

01:45 Also compulsions to perhaps do things like to check all the

01:49 time, rituals that you have to go through in order to ensure

01:53 your safety.

01:54 I tend to wash my hands quite often, probably a lot more

01:58 often than anyone else.

02:00 And if I'm not able to get anywhere to wash my hands, I'll

02:02 carry antibacterial gel in my pocket.

02:06 Also, if I see someone coming towards me in the street and I

02:08 don't particularly like the look of them, I might put my

02:11 hand over my mouth or pull my scarf or my hair over so I

02:14 don't have to breathe where they're breathing.

02:19 When I go out of a room, I sometimes will

02:22 switch the light off.

02:23 And then, repetitively switch it on and off.

02:26 Before I can leave the room, I have to do it a certain amount

02:29 of times.

02:29 It was more like discussing OCD with other people.

02:34 I didn't know it had a title.

02:36 And it was this actual thing.

02:37 It was just like when I was younger.

02:39 And just now, I've always done things.

02:40 And I never knew when I was younger what it was.

02:44 But when I spoke to friends about it, it's like other

02:46 people do these things.

02:47 And there's an actual condition.

02:48 And then, I've been to a therapist since.

02:52 So I know that's what it is.

02:54 I realized I had OCD probably when I was about 15 or 16

02:58 years old.

03:00 I think that what caused it was maybe a combination of

03:04 two things.

03:05 My mother also suffers from OCD.

03:07 And two years previous to when I first discovered I had it,

03:13 we had an unfortunate death in the family.

03:15 And my father passed away, which obviously endured a lot

03:19 of stress because of that.

03:21 So it was really bad.

03:22 When my mom died or when I miscarried and stuff, it

03:25 always gets worse.

03:28 But I don't know why it would have started in the first

03:30 place.

03:31 I don't understand enough about it to know.

03:34 It's difficult to know really what causes it because

03:37 there's still a lot of research required.

03:39 It may be that there's a biological predisposition to

03:42 it through some sort of mechanical fault, if you like,

03:46 in how the brain functions or some chemical element of how

03:50 the brain functions.

03:51 But also environmental influences, like negative

03:55 childhood experiences might be involved.

03:58 Because things have gotten worse, I'm on a waiting list

04:00 for CBT, which they say won't take that long, maybe six

04:07 weeks or something.

04:08 So it's really just because I can handle things myself, I

04:12 think, but it's just for the kids.

04:15 If you can, pass it on to them.

04:16 And I don't know when that's stressing me.

04:18 I think that's making it worse.

04:19 Cognitive behavioral therapy is often used to try and

04:24 change the way people think.

04:26 And as part of OCD is having compulsive thoughts, is having

04:33 the same thought recurring and the same negative thoughts

04:36 recurring and the same dangers associated with not

04:39 completing ritual behaviors, then trying to change the way

04:42 somebody thinks in order to change their behavior can be

04:46 quite productive and is sometimes used as a treatment

04:49 for OCD.

04:52 For those who think it's perhaps biologically caused,

04:55 and for those who think that chemical

04:57 treatments can be useful--

04:58 or a couple of the drugs that are used are drugs that

05:03 prevent the uptake of serotonin.

05:06 Serotonin is a chemical that operates in the brain.

05:10 It's a neurotransmitter.

05:11 And that seems to be quite helpful for OCD.

05:14 It seems to prevent some of the anxiety and some of the

05:17 ritual behavior.

05:18 I just go into chat rooms online.

05:21 There's also a self-help group that I go to once a month with

05:24 other sufferers.

05:25 And we discuss our symptoms and ways to make each other's

05:28 lives easier.

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