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- 6y
Yes it could be ocd. I thought i had something in my heart for months and went to the doctor several times. Had all the chest, blood, urime test anything you can imagine. All turn out okay but i still thought i had something. The problem if it is actually all im his mind he is not gonna believe it until he is ready. It was hard for me to believe it and a bit hurtful to know i did it to myself. My chest and back did hurt you know. Just like his legs probably does hurt. So try to breaking it to him slowly and i guess dont pressure it too hard.
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- 6y
Thank you. He has an appointment with a therapist that specializes in ocd in November. I might send him this article and ask that he brings it up to them.
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- 6y
I have ocd, but I also had leg thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism. My pain started on my chest though, cause one of the clots, went to my lung. After a month of being constantly misdiagnosed, my leg started hurting, really BAD. The pain was unbearable. I couldn’t even walk, I couldn’t stand up without help, I cried day and night. Also, the day that it started to hurt, it was also very swollen. They found the clot trough an ultrasound. Have they performed an ultrasound on his leg? Cause its kinda the only way to find out if he has one or not. I didn’t give up, and looked for second, third and fourth opinions, cause I knew deep down that there was something wrong with me. With that being said, it could be his ocd speaking, and it feels so real, so I think it’s great that he has your support and that he’s going to a therapist.
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- 6y
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I shouldn’t only attribute things to his ocd but I think it’s hard for someone who doesn’t have it to fully understand everything that goes along with it. I’m doing my best to become more knowledgeable but I definitely will never be 100%. So thank you for your story and I’ll be sure not to dismiss everything to one disorder. And thanks mike for the article that I will definitely read when I have more time!!
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- 24w
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- 21w
Someone I care about has OCD, he often gets worried to answer certain things in fear that he might be wrong or gets anxious in times when certain conversations such as dealing with negative emotions come into play and in the event something goes wrong even though we deal with the issue it takes him a long time to put himself back together. Often times worried about his image, hyper focused on being a good person etc etc. I believe I’m doing my best but as someone who doesn’t struggle with OCD I cant fully comprehend him and i wish to learn more about it, not just read it off of google. Any advice would be appreciate it. -Thank you!
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- 14w
TW: death This is my first time posting, but I don’t know what to do. My husband who has never exhibited mental health symptoms before has been showing some OCD symptoms like ruminating (to the point where he can’t fall asleep for hours), asking for reassurance repeatedly, and overthinking in a way that it’s like he’s trying to solve problems by thinking about them a lot, but…they’re not actually real problems?? Far-fetched possibilities? We talk through his anxieties to what I think is resolution, just for him to bring it up again 30 min later. I’ve been in NOCD therapy for a month-ish now, and I’ve improved a lot—especially with the exact things my husband has begun to struggle with. I have not asked for reassurance in weeks. I feel like I infected him. I don’t know what to do because I don’t want to be his therapist or tell him what to do. He is in therapy for anxiety about starting a new job, but honestly, his therapist sucks, and he’s decided to find another one, hopefully, that is trained in ACT. I just feel guilty and helpless. Oh also to make it scarier, before I dated my husband, I was in a relationship with someone who had verrryyy severe OCD, to the point where my OCD seemed inconsequential. I was able to help him a lot, but being with him made my OCD worse because a lot of ocs were normalized. My precious parter ended up taking his own life. I’m just really on edge about this. I don’t want my husband to develop OCD and die.
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