Anyone else out there with OCD?
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You don't mention if you have tried to get professional help for dealing with this. There are some therapies which help people with OCD better cope with this disorder. And professionals who understand OCD could also help your family better understand what you are dealing with and why you can't just stop doing what you are doing. You need to support from outside your family. Often, there is a genetic component to OCD, so you may not be the only person in your family who has ever had this problem. (There is a strain of this in my family, but it involves the hording impulse instead of the washing impulse.) One thing that could help with your family, if you get cable, is to watch the show "Monk" on the USA Network. He's a detective who suffers from OCD. Even though it's fiction, it might help your family get some perspective on what your life is like and may make it easier for you to talk to them. Also, they need to understand that you are not unique, that a lot of other people share your problem.
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if you have ocd you get benefit, i have it :P
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Oh my goodness!  Listen to all the stick your poor huband is getting from people who don't know him, after you've told us you have OCD.  Some of you people need to get with the picture.\n\nObsessional jealousy is a common manifestation of OCD, the compulsion being to constantly check on the object of the jealousy.  If have OCD then you should seek help as it is extremely unlikely to get better by itself.  I would add that you should try not to beat yourself up about it, it sounds like you have an illness that needs treating.  The good news is that a combination of drugs and counselling is an effective treatment for OCD for many people.\n\nAnother thing... I would say that whether your marriage is 'worth it' or not is beside the point.  Even if it weren't, and I'm sure it is, the jealousy will continue to be problem for you with whichever new partner you might find.
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do you have an obsession?
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he has OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)?
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Some people with OCD or impulse control disorders do it.  Its a compulsive behavior.  Kind of like trichotillomania.
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My brother has OCD and I don't think that there is anything that you can do on your own. Remember OCD cannot be cured just treated. Advise: go to your psychiatrist and discus your options.
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OCD is not just somebody who cleans, it may be that you have a form of it, have you spoken to your doctor?
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Go to web MD. www.webmd.com and search for OCD.\n\nBasically OCDs are your brains inability to process seritonin properly. \nDon't diagnose yourself though. There is nothing wrong with most OCDs. My advice (as someone who's been lliving with OCDs for a long time). Don't think about them, and don't talk to others with OCDs. As funny as it sounds, you can actually acquire their OCDs by just learning about them.
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it actually sounds like OCD, my family is full of it, my obsessions are about demonic posession and when I was having a lot of trouble with it I would be incapacitated to the point where I would whisper "jesus, jesus, jesus" for hours-- my brother constantly thinks about nuclear war and dying in a nuclear holocaust and my mother is that way with cholesterol (needless to say going home is lots of fun! There are 10 children in my family, 4 with OCD, 3 Bipolar and 1 autistic, 2 normal) It's not the wierd sort of "Monk" OCD, and not everyone washes obsesivly or anything but sometimes it's just that sort of constant automatic thought
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Yeah. Sometimes OCD is triggered by something, like a memory or occurance. It doesn't have to be constant, but it should be fairily regularily.
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If you worry... A LOT... if you can't get things out of your mind... \n\nThere are many books about OCD.  You'd be surprised.  Check one out at the library.  Do a search on OCD.
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Yes, this sounds like a case of OCD. It is characterized by unwanted thoughts that can interrupt your daily life. This site here...   \n\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/DS00189/DSECTION=2\n\nMight help you.
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I thought I was the only one!!!! I got my husband to start doing it...we're having the time of our lives!!!! LoL We're all sick!
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THANK GOD!! im not the only one!
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I have OCD so I guess it is real.
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Well if I had OCD, I think in order to help myself, I would gradually taper off on each thing I did that was compulsive...\nLike for an example, I would quit washing my hands so often or quit checking locks on doors or quit checking to see if I turned out lights or quit wiping down counters I already wiped, things like that...\nJust do your OCD things less each time you do them...