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I think its unfair for your partner to invalidate your ocd and fear, maybe if you feel you can't explain it or she won't listen try finding websites or people who have the same and show her so that she sees its not personal and is part of your illness, my partner is the sweetest and wouldnt hurt a fly yet i still have rocd and he is my focus
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I understand. My partner has stuck by me through some really rough times and for a year was extremely patient with me (before I had a diagnosis) but it really hurts him to be repeatedly accused and questioned. And he says the same thing bc he is a person of integrity. He’s tired and sometimes hopeless bc all he wants is progress in our relationship. He understands what is going on but at a certain point, all he can feel is his pain which is understandable bc sometimes it’s constant. I can be very hurtful. I relate to you too. It feels horrible like torture. I hope you’re seeing a therapist who specializes in OCD and ERP. If not I hope you are able to.
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I'm seeing a therapist but she says that she doesn't want to put a label on me just yet seeing this upcoming session will be our third. I know what I feel inside my mind. No ERP but I'm surely going to suggest it. My wife hasn't been able to get therapy for her mental health and I in some way feel like she's at her wits end. I asked her to just research what I'm going through and she said have I asked you to look into my problems. She just wants her peace of mind. While I go through every horrible moment of the day. I'm taking Zoloft and it seemed okay at first but now I'm at a standstill.
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@JasGee I think if your therapist is not experienced in ERP, you may want to consider finding one who is. OCD is tricky and talk therapy and/or traditional CBT therapy can worsen it (I know).
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Does your therapist specializes in ERP? I ask because I’ve done my fair share of talk therapy. My current therapist hit the ground running with me. I had homework from the start and always have homework. Unlike talk therapy it’s very targeted and goal based. I’ve only been on one med for my OCD, Luvox on a low dose and it’s been very helpful for me. When I’m suffering, yes, I want my bf to be more empathetic but when I’m doing well, I take ownership of it. I understand I’ve done some damage and we’re just trying to heal so I talk to my sister and I talk to my support group. It won’t always be like this bc he’s a very caring person but I really have to work on not hurting him and giving him time to heal.
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Thank you. The sad thing is I've done 15 years worth of damage and only just weeks ago found out that I was suffering with this illness. I just thought I was jealous and insecure and weak. So I drank until and drank until she finally had enough. I now have 19 days clean and sober and that's about the best thing I have going for myself. I'm proud of it too. I haven't even had the urge to go back to drinking. Just wish I could do the same with my thoughts. I appreciate your comments. Don't really have people around me that understand.
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@JasGee Oh I’ve had ocd for 20 years and was diagnosed just this past June! I was mis diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and PTSD. I’ve heard of OCD sufferers being dependent on alcohol or drugs to drown out the intrusive thoughts. You’re not alone in that. You’re welcome! Good luck!
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@LisaP99 Thank You God bless
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i have what i think is rocd, at least many people here told me i do. im going through the worst period ever, my thoughts feel real, i feel like i dont have any feelings for my boyfriend, that i am in denial , that i am a liar, i cant remember how it feels like to love him, my memories with him are distorted. I feel like i never loved him and i was just coping , acting like i do because i could not accept the reality. I see many people saying that once they are with their partner they feel better but it dosent help, when i am with him i still have thoughts and horible feelings. i dont know what to do anymore. I have this problem for over a year and a half, and rn it feels the worst ever. Everything feels urgent and terrifyingly real. I keep thinking that maybe when the thoughts first started, I actually realized I didn’t love him — but I kept saying “no, it can’t be, I love him,” just to deny the truth. And now I feel like I’m only holding on to a false idea I created in my head. I don’t feel love, just pressure, panic, and confusion. I told ChatGPT that I feel numb next to him, I can’t imagine a future with him, nothing feels like it used to, and I’m scared I was only ever excited about the idea of love — not him. Please, I just want this pain to stop.
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Lately my ROCD has been flaring up, making it difficult to even be around my partner. I’m having so many troubling thoughts with the one that bugs me most being, “maybe this isn’t my OCD, maybe I’m just in a bad relationship and I’m trying to cover it up and blame it on OCD”. This thought really scares me because there are valid doubts in my relationship but my boyfriend and I have openly talked about them and are trying to work through. My OCD won’t take that as an option tho. It makes me feel like I need to be 100% certain that these things can NEVER happen again or else we need to break up immediately. So anything he says in that moment about trying to do better, my OCD will not trust anything he says and just wait until the next “bad thing” happens. When I continuously bring these things up to my boyfriend even tho nothing has happened between these conversations, it exhausts him making it feel like he can never do enough. I feel so bad because I know it’s just my OCD getting in the way. But then that thought creeps in saying I can’t trust him because I need to protect myself. It’s just an ongoing cycle that is so tiring. I don’t even know what I want anymore. We are very opposite when it comes to emotions. I am very in tune and very emotionally intelligent, and he is not. He is the opposite. I do recognize that my anxious attachment style may be hard for him too but I can’t stop thinking about all of his flaws and all of the things he needs to do to make our relationship better. It makes me feel like I’m the only one putting in effort when in reality that is not true. But my OCD does make me feel like he doesn’t really love me or want to be with me and that he feels forced to be with me or do things for me. It makes me feel like him being with me is like a chore. Can anyone relate? My OCD just makes me feel like I can’t trust anything he says to make our relationship better.
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I just read a post that said “people with ROCD know they love their partners” right when I read it I got this horrible anxiety feeling rush down into my stomach. My partner asked me to be his girlfriend in December and literally since that night It’s like a switch of doubt turned on and I was suffering with consistent doubt about loving my partner, I felt like I didn’t feel anything anymore and I didn’t know what to do and through out the past months it has been an absolute wave of things going on. He is aware of my ocd and in a way I’m glad that this happened because I have had harm ocd for the past 4-5 years and had no idea what it was until 2 months ago when I got an OCD therapist, I just thought I was crazy so I’m happy to know I’m not. Buuuuttt back to the ROCD, my main thoughts and feelings are about not feeling like i love my partner anymore and if we’re compatible, I hyper fixate on the weight he’s gained in the past few months and all the bad food he eats, I think about if our lives even align, we have very different views on some things but are we too different, what if we really don’t know each other at all and we thought we did because we’ve been best friends for 10 years. This is so frustrating because I’ve gotten to the point where my anxiety is barely there, I was have constant outrageous anxiety for 3-4 months and now I’ve gotten to this numb, I literally feel absolutely nothing feeling and it’s not even with just my boyfriend it’s with everything, I just don’t feel happy with anything anymore, I feel like there’s something wrong with me. We got into an argument the other day about how rude I was and I didn’t even feel sad or apologetic when he was talking to me about it, and I couldn’t stop crying, like I just don’t feel anything. I feel like there’s something really wrong with me. All I can describe it as is “blank” does that make sense? I feel like a bad person and I feel like we’re going to break up and I can tell how sad he is. All I do know is that I don’t want to break up. But anytime I think about him or anything along the lines of my ROCD everything like freaks me out. I like scream “NO” and “STOP” in my head all the time. But it’s starting to really feel real. I’m so scared, and now I read that post that said that “people with ROCD know they love their partner” but WHAT IF I DONT KNOW!!! I WANT TO LOVE MY PARTNER. I want to feel the love I had for him before this all started. We were so happy, and we didn’t even get the honey moon phase because my ROCD started right when we made it official. This is seriously so crippling.
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