Hazbin Hotel Therapist Analysis: Niffty's OCD

and Nifty you don't even want to know what her deal is but actually we do we do want to know what nifty's deal is we're going to go into the psychology of who is Nifty and why does she behave in the ways that she does or at least the possible psychological reasons for them and if you have any bits of nifty inside of you we'll go through a few of the tips and tricks of what you can do about it if you want to change it all right niy Nifty Nifty Nifty has a fixation with bugs a lot of us can kind of be stuck and fixated on something sometimes it's because of something that's happened to us in our childhood or something that's really bothered us but it's a hard thing often for us to figure out what was the cause of this fixation sometimes it's not even the object itself but what it symbolizes or how it makes us feel but Nifty definitely has a thing with bugs and I think that for her it's linked to her want to be cleanly and also her need to control things because you can't really control bugs they're going to do what they want to and for her I think that they are a sign of a mess and an infestation neither of which she likes cuz you can also hear the joy that kind of Primal joy that she has while she's stabbing them that's just this happiness is stab stab like it's it's really kind of guttural and Primal when we're in that zone of what we call Flow experience we're kind of at that Primal State we're not really we're not we're losing space and time and the enjoyment she has that for bugs so it's more than just a fixation for her I think that her she finds a certain amount of pleasure of cathartic pleasure in dealing with trying to harm these bugs yeah your line is we have the cleanest rooms okay have to stop it because like she has this m maniacal kind of personality where she might be kind of dangerous but she also has these really cute childlike features which makes her cute and dangerous at the same time which makes her even more dangerous because you can forget about how her danger in her cuteness the smile that she has whenever she's trying to do something that a figure of authority has told her she also seems to be fixated on following people that are in authority and doing exactly what they said in wanting to please people got it I'm ready [Music] action uh cut so what Nifty just went through in that moment was performance anxiety it's a type of social anxiety and for Nifty it kind of blanked your mind if you've ever been having to give a performance and your anxiety level gets really high you often forget everything that you were about to say or what you had to do and especially if you're about to do a play or a speech or have this important moment it can be really paralyzing when your mind just kind of gets wiped out what happens is that your anxiety level rises to such a high level that it wipes out chemically your cognitive Center you get so stuck in the fear that you've forgotten everything that happened now usually you know that you have blanked out but in very extreme cases yes it can be that you don't even remember what happened or what you experienced in a way that was protective to us a lot of people have forgotten situations or even times or full years of their childhood or lives probably because it was really traumatic sometimes also it's just that we were not that cognitively aware at that time of our life and that can also happen how was that well Nifty you actually have to say the line so let's roll again okay action so what do you do if you deal with performance anxiety and people can have performance anxiety in certain areas and not in other areas for some people being on the stage might cause them a lot of anxiety for other people I deal with people that are performers and have no anxiety performing but in small intimate situations they can feel a lot of anxiety one is you want to breathe you want to lower your level of an anxiety and you want to practice that the second thing is you want to be able to do the thing that you're frightened of in slow small steps so that you can feel comfortable and then the the third thing is that you want to put yourself in situations that you feel anxious you want to learn to become counterphobic by practicing allowing your anxiety system to rise a little bit and then to be able to go down these techniques are best if you have it with someone that you trust or has the therapeutic tools to be able to support and help you this is not the time when someone should pull a prank on you and make you feel even more scared one is you're going to ruin their trust and two you're going to feel worse instead of better afterwards and then after that you want to be proud of yourself for doing it the sentous inventor architect of Destruction villain extraordinaire ooh he's a bad boy and that's another reoccurring theme for Nifty she's really attracted to these bad boys and when we talk about bad boys there's kind of two different different situations there's people that have an edge that are rule Breakers that are doing things that they shouldn't and then there's people that will actually treat you poorly and they're not one and the same you can have someone that has an edge that will stand up to Authority that will speak up and doesn't have to follow the curve and then there's another situation where you can be with someone that will actually treat you poorly that won't care about you that will hurt you and so those are two different situations of bad boys and you really do want to differentiate between the both of them over here we have our made Dy the bad boy is back never leave me again we're about 80% sure she's harmless mostly so and why do people get attracted to bad boys so for some cases it's because they may seem like they're leaders of the pack those leadership skills are something that's attractive or they seem to be more rugged or authoritative or people can be attracted to someone that is is strong and that will stand up for people and for other people it could be just that they're always rule Abiding and for Nifty it seems like she follows the rules that are in front of her and she follows Authority and so bad boys might seem like they're more authoritative and they're people that she would want to follow because in lots of cases we have this person that follows all the rules that wants to be attracted to something that's the opposite of them because maybe inside of them they feel like they should maybe not be following every single ruler they admire someone that can stand up to Authority or want to do things differently we're often attracted to people that have traits that we wish we had or that are our own weaknesses that makes sense to be able to have people that are different than us to be able to help each other and partner up in different areas that we might have our own weakness starts with sorry I hated that song why are you so lame not a bad boy for Nifty it seems like she's more interested in the image than someone's character and who they really are inside but sometimes also repelled by things that are our own traits we may not like someone because they're too often apologetic or they're following too many of the rules because we don't like that about ourself and so I think that in this case because Nifty has this thing with authority and she really does follow rules quite rigidly and I think that she feels like she's kind of trapped by the rules that she's created that she doesn't like other people that are kind of falling into line either and I I think that that's why she's so upset with serenus she had built him up as the ultimate bad boy and then she realizes that he actually has quite a strong heart and a lot of empathy and care which I think is one of the sweetest things of serenus nifty sometimes I kill mother bugs in front of their children as a warning to others yay pain this actually bothered me it bothered me that no one caught Nifty because it broke through the therapeutic rules that they had already set out even if you disagree with what someone is saying if you have made an agreement together as a group that this is the way that we're going to deal with things you have to follow through you have to make sure that the area is safe for everyone and you never know what someone's going to share in a group it takes a lot of risk and vulnerab ability to be able to share deep things and so you have to make sure no matter what that it is a very safe environment and so it really hurts me even though Nifty is okay and enjoys the pain she has some sedom masochistic kind of Tendencies where this doesn't bother her and probably it's a little bit of her own feelings towards herself like she feels like she deserves it sometimes we use pain management as a way to reduce stress even though it's a maladaptive way to deal with with it that she continues to do it and people are just kind of watching as she continues to hurt herself also doesn't make other people that are in the group feel safe either pain I don't know if this is really working the way we hoped now Nifty wanting to harm the bugs to be able to like hurt them in such a deep way a lot of people don't like insects or creatures and feel that it's okay to treat them poorly because of that for Nifty it seems like that she has this deep-seated anger or fixation to it that she has an obsession and for her I think that the bugs are one of her areas of obsessive compulsive disorder they're not just something that she thinks about all the time but something that she has this compulsion that she needs to get rid of a lot of times when we're dealing with OCD it's our way to be able to control situations that we can't control it's our set of rules rules that we believe that if we do them or rituals that we believe that if we do them bad things won't happen and it often starts up in times of stress or distress or when we don't have control in other areas of our life the thing with OCD is that it can take so many different forms they can be compulsions things that we do obsessions things that we think and intrusive thoughts things that we can't get rid of to people that have OCD can look completely different and have completely different reasons for why they have them that being said you can completely treat OCD you don't need to live with it forever it can really wreck lives very quickly it can grow from something that's just a rule that you start with and then kind of exponentially grow out from that where it has now taken over your entire life a lot of times the things that you think that you're controlling are actually controlling you my [Music] go it also doesn't seem like Nifty really has a full grasp of all of the situations that are around her she wants to be involved in whatever is happening but she isn't as aware she really does seem to be kind of taking the place of that ID character the character that is just going through all of those Baseline thoughts and feelings everything that she thinks she says and she just wants to experience but she is isn't aware of the consequences to her actions the part of her brain that deals with that doesn't seem to have been fully developed she often acts at a much more childlike developmental level and so she seems to be much more child than adult in a lot of the ways that she views the world and that can often happen because of trauma we can get developmentally stunted at a certain level and never advance from that can with therapy and time and treatment and being in a safe [Music] place [Music] and she's so proud of creating these cute little blood cookies she definitely has a fixation with blood with murder with controlling things and so there's probably a lot of reasons that Nifty is going through this I would say that she's probably dealing a lot with projection that she's kind of stuck in her own world that in her mind is safe because horrible things have happened or or maybe even that she's done horrible things herself and because of that she's kind of blocked them out and lowered her level to keep her safe and protected from them we can sometimes do that that we don't even remember things that have happened or situations that we've been through because if we did they would be overwhelming for us and we wouldn't be able to cope with them nice to meet you hello I clean it's my favorite line of hers I just love the way that she says it one is it seems like her cleaning is her identity it's who she is it's what she does it's the way that she can contribute something that really in her mind matters and makes a difference to everything else but it's also just so cute the way that she looks towards Authority and with Lucifer being that ultimate bad boy remember when I fix that today I than you there's a certain piece of nifty in that scene you can tell one is that she gets into trouble cuz she was stuck in the toilet which is kind of cute but you can see how she kind of needs help that she's taken on this child role and the way that she kind of cuddles into people to be able to protect her and I think that that goes into her want to be able to have a bad boy her want to be able to have someone that she sees as strong that can be able to keep her safe because probably through her childhood or her developmental years she didn't feel safe and that's why often that we lean towards others to be able to do that or in other cases people will lean towards themselves and try to do everything they can to make themselves strong a lot of times that would depend on their attachment type people that are more avoidant we'd probably want to make themselves strong and people that are more anxiously attached may want to find someone else that is strong for them that they can attach themselves to also depends on your levels of self-esteem if you believe in yourself you'll feel like you could do it if you have lower self-esteem you might feel like you need someone else because you don't believe in yourself hey Nifty what you been up to girly fighting bugs and uh how's that going for you they're winning but not for long a lot of other times when people are developing OCD it's something that you can focus on and be able to deal with that isn't all of the trauma that's around you and so it gives you some sort of wrist bite from all of the dangers or traumas or things that bother you and so you can hyper fixate on something that you can control versus all of the outside things that you can't and can make you feel safe again it's a safety in being trapped and it's a false sense of safety where you believe that this is making you feel better but actually it's making you feel better from the trauma that you've created inside of your own head because it was an avoidance to the trauma that you actually dealt with at a certain point in your life and OCD just so we can say it is not always caused by trauma people that have OCD are often more type A personalities people that are worriers people that are doers people that are good at solving problems the doers and shakers of the world so it isn't always traum based either everything's spinning I think you're done she can handle a little more she's like 10 lb soaking wet and what you go she's definitely lacking that set of social awareness she doesn't know the dangers that are in front of us and she has performance anxiety but she doesn't have that anxiety that is actually there to keep us safe that makes you think about maybe I shouldn't do this and when we're talking about someone that's developmentally very young or is actually very young they often are lacking that they will do something first and think about the consequences later or not think about them at all and I think that for Nifty she's lived such a sheltered life in my estimation at least she's lived such a sheltered life that she is lacking that awareness of what she should do and shouldn't do in the world she's kind of like that indoor cat that's suddenly thrown out into the world and doesn't understand the rules of how you should go about things so that you don't end up getting hurtan damn it Nifty sorry F chlorine bleach she has this like maniacal undertones of doing things that she really shouldn't do but again it kind of in my mind it's not more maniacal it is more like this experimental she doesn't even know the consequences to this and so she's heard or wanted to do something like children that are playing with matches or deciding that they're going to make their own kind of smoke bombs and they don't know how to do it and so they're just going to test out a whole bunch of different things and so I'm not so sure that this is because she is actually wanting to cause harm but she definitely doesn't mind that it could cause harm either you're supposed to be relaxing not playing Nanny look she ain't used to this scene I I just don't want her to end up in the gut like I used to that's why I'm thinking of doing another video on why Angel really is the hero of the show here he is protecting Nifty from herself and there's a lot of other scenes where Angel is the protector of other people as well and I think that would be a very interesting video possibly to do stop you can't take that God ni why are you being such a mess I'm the mess and when that happens when you say something to someone and their reaction is so much higher than what you would expect you can tell that you've kind of hit a trigger or a fear of what they have for Nifty she really doesn't want to be a mess for her being a mess is synonymous with something bad something bad that's going to happen or something bad that someone's going to see that in her a lot of times we're projecting outward what we hope that no one else will see inside of us so a lot of people that look completely perfect perfectly made up everything is in the right place is because in the inside of them if you really saw it it isn't perfect and we're trying to hide that because we believe that if someone really saw us for what we were they would reject us for that or they would see all of the disorganization or all of the errors or flaws inside of us and because of that they wouldn't want to be with us and sometimes it's because we don't want to be with oursel hey hey hey calm down you want to play with the kitty yeah but Angel does a really good job of soothing say her right away try to comfort listen to apologize and then a distraction technique which works really well but again it shows kind of her developmental level because these are the same things that you would do with someone that's really young and a toddler but let's be honest there's a lot of adults that this would work for us as well a good distraction with the right timing after you felt affirmed and validated can definitely be effective Holy Angel Dust who's this chikita you bringing me fresh meat I just want to taste it's inter CU she never tried to bite anyone else so I don't know if intuitively just like sometimes animals know people that are bad people and they kind of don't like them but it seems like she's kind of attracted but in a maniacal way of wanting to kind of hurt him or you know like serial killers kind of get parts from people what for my collection what up guys and then she kind of grabs a piece from him like that's what people would do with someone that is the next person on their list like it gives that kind of little bit of a creepy Vibe but the way that she does it is cute and creepy at the same time and I think that that's why Charlie said at the beginning we believe that she's harmless we're mostly sure that she's harmless to her friends for people that might not be her friends or might cross her or make her angry not so sure you probably should watch her back or fingers so like where are your wings Nifty I don't have did you ever think maybe she's sensitive about her lack of wings just like her lack of yeah where are your so she says things she says the things that just are on her mind like a child would why I say it's more childlike is that it doesn't seem like there's the intention to harm or to be rude or that this is a backhanded comment or an insult she just thinks something and then it just comes out which people that are stronger for the ID that really aren't paying attention to it or just living inside of the moment or people that are neurod Divergent May sometimes say stuff without knowing the full social constraints or rules about what you should and shouldn't say and I really do think that we should be judging what people say from their intentions now that being said last time I was called out on it that sometimes yes when you say something it can hurt others so you want to try to be aware but if you didn't mean to then you want to apologize and people know that you didn't mean harm and for most cases people are really kind about that so we want to be able to know that all of us aren't perfect and all of us sometimes say words that we shouldn't and it just kind of slips out even for me sometimes because I don't have a script I'm just saying things so sometimes I use words that I shouldn't or I say things that are not the most eloquent or if I'd written it all out would have been much more eloquent not D I shall have the staff ready for victorious combat you can see Nifty still like chasing in the bugs that's her fixation that's the thing that she has an obsession over and a compulsion over thank you pen what can I do to help I'm glad you asked Soldier the base needs fortification create a moat around the perimeter to stop a ground assault you can see that for her this is overwhelming this is again her performance anxiety whe you're dealing with something or you yourself are doing something that you have an anxiety towards you want to just do one thing focus on one thing and you want to do it one step at a time if not that feeling of there's too many pieces in play for you to be able to comprehend can cause your entire mind to become flooded the anxiety of like oh my goodness a b and c AB B and C I can't handle it can cause an adrenaline overload and then you're not going to be able to really do any of them because you've forgotten the first thing by the time they've gotten to the next thing we often do that with parenting that we give six or seven things but it's the same thing for work one thing learn learn it feel comfortable and then move to the next one that's the way that most people learn and have the lowest levels of anxiety can only really learn one thing at a time really well so don't be too hard on yourself how about this if you see an angel stab it see that's really simple what Charlie said was a really simple direct rule you take this see an angel stab it and because Nifty does one she follows Authority really directly that's exactly what she's going to do stab stab stab unfortunately Anthony's name is Angel and so she's going to stab him even though she likes Angel but that's what she's told to do so she's just going to follow through so be careful when you're giving someone that is concrete and direct steps of rules they may not understand the nuance and so you have to tell them exactly what you want and why losers whoa hey you got something sticking out your your thing there Nifty and so Nifty without that awareness of the consequences really to her actions she can kind of go through with the plan of what she was told to do with this maniacal Glee Without this even fear of repercussions because she doesn't have that kind of awareness she also doesn't have those limitations and in the end we're often the cause of our own limits and in that way Nifty is the fitting person to be able to end Adam's reign of terror almost makes one sentimental a Nifty I really like the malister they let me put on roach puppet shows without booing you can see that Nifty cuz Nifty also has this genuine childlike Joy which I one of my favorite qualities of her that whenever she does something she does it fully but when she feels Joy she can feel it from that real childlike place place which is I think that for a lot of us the thing that we've lost in adulting and I think that we need to kind of grasp that back not take ourselves so seriously and enjoy life but you can also tell that she really genuinely means it and she notices and appreciates that everyone else appreciates her even for her quirks and unusual things that other people might judge her for I admit one could get accustomed i dub thee King roach oh to understand your Twisted little mind and that is what we hopefully have done in this video helped understand her Twisted little mind I also love that their relationship seem so genuine for Alis it seems like Nifty is the one person that he really feels this genuine affection [Music] [Applause] for and I love that moment I just love the way that Nifty hugs and the joy that she feels because I think that it kind of spreads out to everyone else and that's the thing with emotions when you have a very strong emotion it'll fill the room and it's contagious to the other people around you for the good and for the bad if you hate ads but love me or you want to hear all of the Saucy words that we have to cut out because of YouTube then you can just get nebula nebula is a wonderful way that you get to support me actually support me and you get all the videos that you love completely adree like Wednesday the boys Arcane Last of Us they're all adree sponsor free on nebula and that's the whole purpose of nebula it's a place where highquality video creators can post early videos post extended versions post videos that would never be able to survive on YouTube creators like legal eagle Nando movies alt shift X medlife crisis and so many more and I also have a full course on nebula on how to beat anxiety you can also get exclusive Originals like how they adapted Lord of the Rings the time when and so many more 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Channel: Georgia Dow

Views: 129,540

Keywords: psychology, psychotherapy, therapy, self help, life coach, psychotherapist, self improvement

Id: 2elx4W77yoA

Length: 28min 34sec (1714 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 12 2024