Just had a big fight with our daughter tonight who has severe ocd. She spent the day home from school but spent most of it sleeping /ruminating with blinds down in her room. She hates herself and can’t focus on homework. She won’t go to therapy. It got so bad tonight that we gave her an ultimatum- hospital or a therapy session. Not sure if this is the right thing to do but it is affecting our whole family and we just want to see her better and I can’t understand why she won’t seek help!

Last night I was staying at my boyfriend’s house and couldn’t sleep. I felt like i desperately needed to go back to my parents and clean and organize my room. This has happened a few times before when I was staying at his place. Since then he’s been very upset with me. Does anyone else’s partner do this? Any advice? It’s been hard. He’s made me feel so shameful for having OCD. As if it’s not tough enough /:

Hey all, This is so strange to share this, and I have been judged by others and misdiagnosed many times. About a year ago I worked with an OCD therapist and it was really triggering. For me my thoughts are mainly about suicidal ocd and harm ocd centered around my children of all things. Fear that I could or would want to hurt them, then feeling so horrible that I believe I’m suicidal then I go back and forth on that. After reading a few of your posts, it makes me truly have a bit of hope that I can overcome this.

Overwhelmed