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How has OCD treatment impacted your relationships?
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How has OCD treatment affected your relationships?
Relationship check-in
How has OCD treatment affected your relationships?
Going through OCD treatment brought my family closer together. They became my biggest support and cheerleaders. They have also worked to educate themselves on OCD which allowed them to be more understanding.
@Robyn🪴🧘🏻♀️🧠 I love this
Love this! Education is so important.
@Robyn🪴🧘🏻♀️🧠 I would but you don’t take my insurance
Ocd treatment has helped me realize that I had ROCD. For years I had struggled with it not knowing what I was dealing with. Let’s just say this treatment has helped me in my marriage tremendously.
So amazing to hear!
Treatment helped me to lean on my close friends for emotional support, and to accept their kindness, both of which used to scare me. I also got the courage to tell my family about my disorder. It helped me with my relationship to myself too, in terms of giving myself grace and self-compassion, and ending cycles of negative self talk. Some days it’s hard, some days it’s easier.
This is completely relatable! Giving grace to yourself can feel challenging but can be important in the recovery journey.
My family is very supportive. Sometimes I feel like a burden when I get into a reassurance seeking loop but they are so good about it. My So knows I have rocd and we even joke about it it which actually helps a lot because I don't have to hide anything
I don’t ask my mom for reassurance anymore - I can just be present with her and hear how her life is going and talk about my own without needing to do a compulsion. Such freedom!!
So much hope found in this message! Thanks for sharing!
I’m constantly over analyzing every little thing he says or does and how it can be taken the worst way possible. Always questioning whether things are right and that he’s “the one”, and checking to see if it’s normal to feel the way I’m feeling. It’s so fucking exhausting
OCD can be exhausting, but know that there's hope for symptom management!
OCD treatment has allowed me to grow in my relationship. From the lowest of lows, and now recovering back to that high. My relationship isn’t the same before the OCD hit, but now something different my partner and I have both learned to live with
My OCD was relationship OCD. Therapy helped me deal with my thoughts so we could actually see and enjoy the progress we had made with marriage counseling. Being free from those obsessions gave me time, and motivation to be the mom and wife I want to be. I think the whole family is better because of it.
Wow this is awesome - thanks for sharing this piece of encouragement!
NOCD has helped me develop relationships (marital, family, friends, work) in the sense that before I would avoid mostly all places and people including my family (my kids and siblings) because I never felt like I was there meaning I was physically at a place but never mentally there. I had become a stranger to others and even to myself. NOCD has helped me regain myself and has allowed me to be present for those who matter the most. On behalf of my husband, family, friends and kids but more importantly me, Thank you NOCD!!!!!!!
Love this!
OCD treatment has allowed me to connect better mentally with my friends and have just a better and greater time being in the moment compared to the beginning of treatment and where I was months before now 🕺
I lost my most important relationship due to extremely high OCD and so im committed to making sure that doesn’t happen ever again. It was so painful to have happen.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
I have relationship ocd. For years, my wife has occasionally had to go out of town on business trips. I always get nervous whenever this happens because I have trust issues with her and think of all the possibilities of her with someone else. It drives me crazy. I obsess about it until we end up in a huge fight, and one of us threatens divorce. I have no friends to rely upon when she's gone. I also end up sick and sometimes in the E.R. I NEED TO BREAK MY CYCLE!
Once I found out I had relationship ocd, therapy helped me lean in closer to my values. I am so much closer to my boyfriend. I feel more present in my life and relationship. I have my period where I have more intrusive thoughts, but its mostly in passing now
OCD treatment has allowed me to create relationships that I thought I’d never have 👀
Definitely made all of my relationships easy I wasn't shaking from anxiety thinking harm could come to them :)
Honestly, when I was good for a few months and had zero symptoms. My relationships were amazing. My head was so clear. But other stuff come to the surface and I'm not the best with them right now because I'm almost hyperfocused on what's in my head (creativity wise rather than ocd). So still currently not the best but I am healthier than what I was
Progress isn't linear!!
My parents don’t understand OCD. Especially, my dad, who does not believe in ERP. He thinks OCD can be cured with a pill. I’m alone, on my own. OCD gets triggered whenever my dad argues or has an attitude with my mom (even if they are divorced my dad will find a way to speak bad of her in front of me) I had to learn how to do ERP on my own, but what’s also eating me is my environment. I am in therapy for trauma, but I feel controlled. I’m sinking and each day I can’t see the surface
Meh
Messed up my life I don’t have relationship friends
My OCD GOT SOOOOO BAD ?!!!
Not at all. First of all I’m single and always will be. Secondly my parents have always been there for support
In terms of hand washing, my parwnts(my father, mainly) joke abt me washing my hands endlessly. At this point I’m used to it, but they get rlly upset when I can’t control something, and it feels like I’m just ocd
Boss isn’t happy I’m missing some work. Other than that it’s still pretty terrible hahaha
I have ROCD. My wife refuses to educate herself and tells me that she does not think that I have OCD. She really pushes meds. Which I’ll admit meds have made a huge impact, once I got through the bad meds. I’m doing better but worry about our marriage long term. My relationship with my kids is better and I’m focusing at work better.
That's a loaded question.
My firsthand treatment experience has helped me to educate my loved ones. My mom just recently bought a book about OCD to learn more!
Time. Time is literally being taken away from my loved ones. It’s sad to me, but not only till then end of the day. I go, go, go and do things until bed time comes.
Yes :( friend, family and spouse !@! I hate this sickness t
I used to self isolate switch hurt my relationships with family and friends. I stoped self isolation after treating ocd with greatly helped my relationships.
I finally feel like I can connect to people like real people do. I don’t have the need to anxiety dump or confess as strongly as I used to. I can simply just enjoy the people I love.
I have always felt so guilty and ashamed around my family but still reached out cause I didn’t want to fight it alone as a kid- I would sleep next to my mom for comfort in the night, through my teens it was so bad, and like mumbling reassurance shit to myself, calling my youth pastor, my sister, anybody with great reassurance at like 3am- it was bad
I was really struggling and I felt like I was dragging my family down the drain with me- the worst part was none of us knowing what this was all about and judging myself for having these mental breakdowns- I could barely handle going to the bathroom alone with my thoughts … my family has tried their best and I’m so glad I’m finding better support so I can share these thing with them to help them understand what’s going on and how they can get help
I would say 2 big things for me are 1) I’ve stopped asking people for advice for the most part and comparing their answers and agonizing and 2) being able to do an exposure when I’m very anxious to target a specific insecurity
I also feel significantly less jealousy of exes and other people my partner could be interested in
It has given me hope and grace for myself. It has taught me how worthy I am of my life and the people I have in it
They improved a lot. I’m finally able to go out with friends and my boyfriend. I am less distant too.
Who has had challenges with this and how have you coped? I have found this extremely tough in my 6 year relationship.
I feel like OCD is ruining all of my relationships and I hate it. My symptoms have been significantly better since I started on medication but recently I’ve been struggling with just constant thoughts that my friends don’t actually like me. I also reassurance seek a lot and so much so that I had a friend say we needed to take a break from being friends because she couldn’t deal with my excessive reassurance seeking. I just have this anxiety surrounding every single one of my friendships and this fear that they don’t care about me and I hate it. I’m scared of loosing more people because of OCD. I’m still young and I’m worried that I won’t ever be in a meaningful relationship because everyone I try to get close to will push me away because of my anxiety. I just hate OCD and I wish it wasn’t affecting my relationships to the point where I don’t feel like I can even reach out and talk to them.
Has anyone’s OCD effect their sex life at all? I have SO OCD and it really have effected the intimacy with my bf because I get in my head to much. I think I need to work on that the most :(
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