When OCD Bosses Your Family Around
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- OCD doesn’t just boss you around and tell you what to do or avoid. It loves to involve family members. Often we just want our family to give in to OCD’s demands. It can be easy to make our family the enemy, when really it is OCD.
In this week’s UA-cam video I talk about how OCD can hook your family in and how it can grow your OCD even bigger.
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Saved after two of your choking focused videos 😅 still experiencing anxiety around eating but just knowing I’m not alone with it & having the awareness around it information wise, I’m already improving!
Thank you for this. As as spouse of an OCD person, I wish it were as easy as simply telling my wife that I'm not going to feed her OCD and allow it to call the shots in our house and our/my life. When you're dealing with a person who is also fiercly stubborn and proud, they won't even recognize and admit the damage they are doing, let alone do anything about it. Divorce would solve the problem, but it brings about a whole different set of challenges.
Having a partner with OCD brings a whole different set of struggles. I’d recommend reading the book When a Family Member has OCD by Jon Hershfield.
Sounds like we're in the same boat, Mike! I agree with Natasha - that book by Jon Hershfield is excellent. Another book that has been really helpful for me is The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD by Jonathan Abramowitz. I've found helpful to prioritize my own self-care (sleep, exercise, work) and then slowly (weeks, months) detangle myself from the OCD compulsions. It sure ain't easy when it's your spouse who has OCD and there might by kids involved. I've locked myself to the bathroom more times than I can remember to get away from my wife's nightly OCD spikes where she berates me over our relationship issues or whatever, demands answers from me and simply won't stop 😂
@@liljemark1 @mikedavidson2059 another good book that just came out is when a loved one won’t seek mental health treatment by Alec Pollard.
@@Natashadanielsocdtherapist thanks! I'll add that to my reading list.
@@Natashadanielsocdtherapist bought the book online and have been reading for few hours 😄 It's another book that I wish I could hand over to all crappy therapists I've visited over the years 😂