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How to enter a relationship with ocd and anxiety without scaring the other person off??
How to enter a relationship with ocd and anxiety without scaring the other person off??
If only there was a how-to guide on this! There's no way we can ensure that another person will not be scared off by our struggles. The way they react is mostly a reflection of them and not you. When beginning a relationship, you get to decide how much you want to share with the other person about your OCD & anxiety. As the relationship progresses, you can keep assessing whether you want to share more. I'm wondering if you're concerned about the other person seeing your OCD & anxiety manifest behaviorally?
I’ve struggled a lot with mental illness (severe social anxiety, depression, OCD), but have done a lot of work to get to the great place that I’m at now. I feel like a different person compared to how I felt a few years ago. Here’s my question: I started seeing someone really important to me. We’re not official yet, but we’ve been in each others lives for years and it feels like it’s the real deal. He struggles with OCD, and it’s much worse than mine ever was. My question is, do you think this is healthy for me, as someone who has done the work to get to a better place? He’s not in therapy, he’s against medication (I love my meds — they changed my life), and is generally in a different place than I am mentally.
Anyone have any advice for dating with OCD? Specifically the more taboo themes like POCD, incest ocd zoophilia ocd, harm ocd etc. I’ve never really dated in my life and the thought of approaching these conversations with people not in the ocd community is kind of scary
is it possible to even have a relationship while i’m suffering with real event ocd and ocd in general. i’m just so scared they’ll find out everything bad i’ve done and leave me
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