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Tell them to stop giving in to you. I used to do this with my wife. Now she refuses and I feel stronger.
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When family or friends "help" by doing compulsions, it's called "accommodation". Accommodation let's OCD keep getting worse. For recovery to happen, accommodation needs to be gradually decreased until it is eliminated. I'm attaching two links. One is a list of different ways loved ones accommodate OCD. Scroll down to page 4 and 5.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dmertlich.com/assets/FAS.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiIjO7tt6LqAhWglnIEHRYvAhsQFjABegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1jedLB42Z6xtn5_jAlnHCl The other is an article about how to create a family contract to reduce accommodation.https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-family-guidelines/
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My daughter avoids lots of things due to contamination ocd and also asks us to wash hands wipe Face / hair if she thinks nose has touched anything as this is her trigger ?? Aski v is not to Itch nose or touch nose etc. Reassurance mostly from us , which I really need to stop giving as this is a compulsion carries out by someone else and for us not to go In her room or turn away when I Put food down. Really need to stop but her sisters Levels are so highly
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Mine got so bad, I have too always ask my bf if I can check his phone too make sure he deleted photos off us. And I know it hard too ignore the thoughts, they just make me feel so sick and stressed and I just cry all the time.
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I assume you live your daughter and want her to get better. In order to do the best thing for her the reassurance has to stop immediately. Yes it will be painful for all parties at first. Tolerate the pain to see the success.
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- 25w
I did some gross compulsions, i do them because i think that if i do them i get rid of thoughts ( cause i don’t want them) that’s why I do compulsions but people do them to check am I a p? I’m terrified I can’t do it. What if im different I don’t think I heard about someone that did compulsions to get rid of thoughts that’s why but to check omg im terrified
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I know the truth deep down but I am just doing compulsions to try and convince myself that I have OCD. I try to look up and find things exactly the same and me in experiences how I feel and everything else and it becomes worse when I can’t find the same person as me. I know people do compulsions to make sure they love there partner but I feel like I do compulsions to CONVINCE ME it is ocd
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- 19w
Usually my compulsions are always motivated by fear. I feel like a child when I have compulsions. Like for example, my brain convinces me that someone is in my house and I need to open every cabinet and all the shower curtains, and do tons of other crazy things like march instead of walking so that if someone where to shoot at my legs they'd have less of a chance of hitting me. How do I stop it? I am just going about my day and I can see in my head, myself getting attacked or something and so my only option to calm myself down is to do a bunch of random actions that will keep me "safe". Does anyone else experience this? Or convince themselves that they are under Milo Murphys law? That anything bad that can happen to them will, so they need to never do anything that could result in anything bad, and avoid everything? And how do you convince yourself you're not in danger?
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