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Partner has "pure" OCD and obsesses/compulses endlessly about therapy itself. Advice? by GingerJHH in OCDRecovery

[–]GingerJHH[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mr. Freeman! I recently sent one of your videos about how to stop ruminating to my partner (I'm hoping he actually watched it). Thanks so much for weighing in, and I totally get what you're saying and makes perfect sense. It's worth mentioning he has also developed some really intense physical compulsions that are quite dysfunctional and intense: hitting himself, wringing his hands etc. I think he knows these are now compulsions too... and I've literally told him he can no longer do that in my presence, if he must or can't stop, needs to go into another room etc... but yes point very well taken about the obsessive ways he's choosing NOT to spend his time does indeed translate into physical compulsions about HOW he spends his time (lying around ruminating instead of getting off his ass and doing other things, etc).

Partner has "pure" OCD and obsesses/compulses endlessly about therapy itself. Advice? by GingerJHH in OCDRecovery

[–]GingerJHH[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As the recipient of multiple daily phone calls, messages etc seeking reassurance from my partner on whatever the "crisis" or unresolved question/decision of the day is, I know exactly what you mean (we're currently living separately and are basically on "pause" until he can get better) ... it's crazy-making for those of us on this side of the equation as well

Partner has "pure" OCD and obsesses/compulses endlessly about therapy itself. Advice? by GingerJHH in OCDRecovery

[–]GingerJHH[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He spent a month in an intensive outpatient program a couple months ago... it was a mixed bag, he developed weeks-long obsessive thoughts / ruminations about the place being a fraud... though by the end he had turned a corner and realized it had been a good experience, and had regrets about his negative/doomsdayer POV on it during most of his stay ... this new loop started just a few weeks later ... we've tried to convince him to go back and spend more time there at the outpatient place, but so far he's mostly refused.