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- KellyBelly
- Date posted
- 3y ago
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- hate_ocd.123hate_ocd.123
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I’m so sorry you’re going through that. A real man should never treat a woman that way:( Have you told anybody?
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- kabunkkabunk
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Sorry for what you’re experiencing. I also have contamination OCD. I had "friends", when my OCD was bad, who would poke fun at me because of my OCD. Very painful and embarrassing. My family didn’t understand, either. Fortunately, I found other friends in the ensuing years and an understanding wife. I hope you find the same, eventually. Take care.
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- KellyBellyKellyBelly
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I have it seems like all my family and friends turned their backs on me. I guess I wore everyone with my problems. I know it is not easy to deal with a family memeber with contamination ocd but he has no compassion and says the most hateful things. I am all alone. All those who said that they would stand by me seem to ignore me now. How do I go on? I want to get better for my son but have no family or friend emotional support.
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- hate_ocd.123hate_ocd.123
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Im so sorry, i know what that’s like. My family always brushes it under the rug. Have you tried therapy??
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- KellyBellyKellyBelly
- Date posted
- 3y ago
He says that no other man would put up with what he does. :( all I am guilty of is being overprotective of germs and fear for my familu
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- KellyBellyKellyBelly
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- 3y ago
Thank you.
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- KellyBellyKellyBelly
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I know I have been trying to start therapy but just moved and haven't been able to start until we get settled so I can start and focus on therapy. (Been through 4 therapist to no avail) My husband is emotionally abusive and does and says means things to trigger my contamination OCD. I just don't know where to turn in the meantime before therapy starts. It is not something suitable to call 911 over, but with someone who had severe contamination ocd it is very hard to deal with in the moment and I have nobody to turn to or talk towhen my husband does what he does to make me feel worse. On top of that he tells me things like "go to sleep and not wake up again" I am trying to heal myself of ocd, but can't into therapy as soon as a I want given our moving circumstance. I just needed to reach out to someone who is not telling me that he wishes I would die becauze he cant handle my ocd.
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- celticprincess
- Date posted
- 4y ago
My compulsion is seeking reassurance. I go to my husband about every single worry (usually about contamination). It’s ruining my marriage, but I’m struggling so much with this and as hard as I try, I keep running my worries by him. It’s so hard on him and I want to stop this. Can anyone relate / help? Thanks in advance
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- North21Star
- Date posted
- 3y ago
How do you explain your daily torment to your spouse in a way they'll understand? I have pure o and huge avoidance behaviors. My husband thinks I'm lazy or I feel too much or I overcomplicate everything. He tells me I'm negative and I always think the worst and I'm exhausting. :( I wish more than anything he understood that I procrastinate making dinner bc I picture poisoning my whole family and it scares me so much that I just order take out again. Or I ask him to clean my daughters ear piercings bc I pick at my own skin and if I touch her ears she'll get a horrible infection and get septic and die bc I touched her newly pierced ears (even with the alcohol stuff). Or I lay around playing games on my phone because I need distractions to numb out so I don't think about hurting anyone or cheating on him. How do you say that to the father of your kids without him trying to take them away from you? He doesn't even believe in mental illness. He sees it as weakness. :( Any help would be awesome bc I don't know what to do.
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- m2
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Does anyone have any advice for someone with contamination OCD that is living with a partner without OCD? (Especially given that that partner intentionally or unintentionally sometimes /often says things that make me feel worse/down). I could really use any advice anyone has right now. Things are starting to feel hopeless and I don’t know whether it makes sense to continue with the relationship or if that’s just a temporary feeling in light of what I’m going through. I just feel so alone and misunderstood.
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