Hi muttley1956,

Welcome to our support group! We are glad to have you here. I think you will find this group to be understanding, compassionate, and extremely supportive. I know I certainly have.

If you wouldn't mind sharing, what sorts of OCD obsessions and compulsions do you struggle with in general? I know mine have changed over the years from mostly contamination to harm/scrupulosity obsessions. It seems very common for OCD to "morph" like this.

I hope you have a wonderful day, and once again, welcome!!!

Hi! I have moderate obsessional OCD and I have a few compulsions that I act out on mostly moderately. For example, one of my compulsions I act out on infrequently towards the moderately is checking in which I double check and more to make sure a software application is installed correctly. In addition, I compulsively check to make sure I get the correctly user name and password when installing software or signing up for a Website. Also, my worst compulsion is spending hours on the computer. Other than the computer I have only a couple of mild compulsions.
My obsession is from mild to moderate scrupulosity.

Hi Muttley,

Thank you for sharing more about your struggles with OCD. It sounds like your obsessions and compulsions cause you distress and take up a lot of your time. Have you found anything to help at all? What sorts of things have you tried?

Wildflower,
I also have scripulosity sometimes in the form of guily over obsessive bad or what I refer to off thoughts. I am a Christian and therefore, I feel guilty. However, I give those thoughts little cadence. With intrusive thoughts, I use a combination of therapies that work to calm my mind. I use parts the following Christian therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognative Behavior Therapy. So you could say I use a dab of this and a dab of that. However, most therapies I directly connect with Christianity. I have written a Christian article titled "Turn Off Times Into a Good Day." Another treatment I use is meditation and rest. Simply laying down on my bed, meditating, and resting my mind has overcame obsessive thoughts, urges towards compulsions, and a lot of anxiety. My compulsions come in the form of checking and using my computer for over searching subjects that are not realistic on the Internet, which cause me anxiety.

Hello to you all. How I find this site is just a miracle. I am at a state of shock right now. I just found out, or better yet my husband just told me that he is suffering from OCD...or OCPD...one of the two...but I for sure think it's the later. We were a couple for 7 years and we just got married 5 month ago. Saying he is a man of my dreams is an under statement. He treats me like a princess. I have never witnessed during those 7 years anything weird on him. We lived together two years and he never obsesses about anything like cleaning etc...but he is a workaholic...he said he is suffering from it himself and that he has thoughts like counting tiles etc...and he is not always but thinks negative on certain issues but nothing much. Now recently he has extreme pressure and I was mad at him as certain things were not going as we planned ( like I was supposed to join him to a country where he is now working) but he postpones it and that caused our spat) he has a problem with sharing his emotions and he takes his time but we always find a way but this time he stops texting me, or calling for days and weeks...he doesn't pick up or answer to my texts...he said in a nutshell that he is 'Trying to find himself' and that he is okay. And that I'm an amazing woman...I do to know what to do as this is very new of him...I text him everyday saying everything will be fine and that I love and miss him. I don't know what else to do...shall I book a flight and go to him? Or wait it out hoping it will pass? I don't know really. He was a man who tells me that he loves and misses me everyday and night. Now it seems he is really caving in and I think he might be hurting himself. It's all new for me and may be I should have been supportive asa he told me but I tried it was a shock as we were newlyweds...he has a work pressure and his thoughts combined with my complaining, I think it push him to the edge. Pls help me....what should I do????? Help. I miss him so much

Welcome to the group !