I have both ROCD and BPD, diagnosed with BPD first, and ROCD treatment strategies feel like the missing piece to my treatment. I’d plateaued with egodystonic beliefs about my relationships, got more anxious the more I sought reassurance (like I need to seek it more and more), and compulsively review interactions, research, and remove myself from friendships and social situations. Dbt helps me get regulated, but the ROCD treatment makes me optimistic that maybe I can have sustainable friendships that aren’t pure anxiety
Sheva is so intelligent and articulate, it was a pleasure to listen to her thoughts, even as someone who isn't totally sure what I'm dealing with is ROCD specifically, but definitely some sort of intense relationship anxiety on top of OCD symptoms. Therapy session tomorrow, hoping addressing my Real Event OCD will relate to whatever I'm feeling exactly in my relationship as well at the moment.
Sheva's ROCD diagnostic at 10:02 really hits home in my life situation as a partner of someone who has OCD. And yet it's unfortunate that e.g. generic couple's therapists, who don't specialize in OCD, don't seem to question this disproportionate response from the other person to whatever they think is not right in the relationship. I think we're in our seventh cycle of couple's therapy. I can laugh about it but at the same time of course we're in very unfortunate situation when after all these years my partner still hasn't found a proper OCD therapist.
There's a huge lack of emotional support for the partners of ROCD sufferers...as a partner of someone who suffers ROCD, it's been a nightmare during four years (all the entired relationship) till we have gotten an accurately diagnosis and the exposure and prevent response therapy. I've fet so alone, very scared of not knowing what was going on in my partner, very hurt deep inside for my partner behaviours, feeling guilty for beeing the once Who triggers my partner's anxiety anda suffering and we've been throught hundreds of breakups with the grief that It involves. It's a very traumatic experience for both, thee rocd sufferers and the partner. I've three years doing a deep research about commitment phobia and rocd, educating myself about how to deal with this situación, how to deal with anxiety (i also felt lots of anxiety and Other emotions as grief, Shame, rage and anger, confusion, disconnection, guilt, sadness, fears...). It's been the hugest fight of our Life, rocd has stolen almost all the valuable things un our relationship. If there's any research about how it affects the partners of the rocd sufferers, i'd love to collaborate in It.
I have both ROCD and BPD, diagnosed with BPD first, and ROCD treatment strategies feel like the missing piece to my treatment. I’d plateaued with egodystonic beliefs about my relationships, got more anxious the more I sought reassurance (like I need to seek it more and more), and compulsively review interactions, research, and remove myself from friendships and social situations. Dbt helps me get regulated, but the ROCD treatment makes me optimistic that maybe I can have sustainable friendships that aren’t pure anxiety
Sheva is so intelligent and articulate, it was a pleasure to listen to her thoughts, even as someone who isn't totally sure what I'm dealing with is ROCD specifically, but definitely some sort of intense relationship anxiety on top of OCD symptoms. Therapy session tomorrow, hoping addressing my Real Event OCD will relate to whatever I'm feeling exactly in my relationship as well at the moment.
Sheva's ROCD diagnostic at 10:02 really hits home in my life situation as a partner of someone who has OCD. And yet it's unfortunate that e.g. generic couple's therapists, who don't specialize in OCD, don't seem to question this disproportionate response from the other person to whatever they think is not right in the relationship. I think we're in our seventh cycle of couple's therapy. I can laugh about it but at the same time of course we're in very unfortunate situation when after all these years my partner still hasn't found a proper OCD therapist.
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There's a huge lack of emotional support for the partners of ROCD sufferers...as a partner of someone who suffers ROCD, it's been a nightmare during four years (all the entired relationship) till we have gotten an accurately diagnosis and the exposure and prevent response therapy. I've fet so alone, very scared of not knowing what was going on in my partner, very hurt deep inside for my partner behaviours, feeling guilty for beeing the once Who triggers my partner's anxiety anda suffering and we've been throught hundreds of breakups with the grief that It involves. It's a very traumatic experience for both, thee rocd sufferers and the partner. I've three years doing a deep research about commitment phobia and rocd, educating myself about how to deal with this situación, how to deal with anxiety (i also felt lots of anxiety and Other emotions as grief, Shame, rage and anger, confusion, disconnection, guilt, sadness, fears...). It's been the hugest fight of our Life, rocd has stolen almost all the valuable things un our relationship. If there's any research about how it affects the partners of the rocd sufferers, i'd love to collaborate in It.