OCD channel 4 NOW!!!!!!

[CuriousMama]

I know a few of you suffer so may be worth a watch? I love Jon too

I also agree CuriousMama its good that people with PND etc are not being locked away forever or electrowhasitdoodled etc but it's also bad with all the labelling espesially in kids, although sometimes I do know it's nice to know you're not just bad at the parenting lark or going mad or whatever but sometimes it does feel like medics are just making up conditions to explain what need not be explained. If that made any sense at all

Yes that makes sense Pocketsocks.

We just have the one DD. DP is on medication and has CBT in the past but doesn't think it would help now. He works full time in a job that requires a lot of attention to detail, which he is very good at . So he is a long way from being admitted but it does impact a lot on our lives. We have our coping strategies but I'm always looking for more...

But, re: having people round, we don't, outside of family. A couple of people who know about DP come round sometimes, but I avoid it as much as possible.

Can I ask how old your dd is? Am just thinking of how it could impact her as she ages?

My exdh is very untidy and unclean and my dss stay there. I'm on good terms with him so sometimes I go in and have a bit of a clean around especially the kitchen. Even laid back ds1 who's a teenager said he's going to have to start cleaning it. Mind you they still love to go there I think they've just go so used to it? I'm not saying your dh is unclean am just saying how dcs adapt to unusaly households. But I know they'd never invite their friends there. Only one very close friend has been in.

unusual households. I always go like this with pms.

She's only 6 months. Really hard to say how it will impact on her, it is a fluid condition anyway. DP and I have been together 6 years and when we met there were no recycling issues (OCD was all about HIV from dropped needles and blood stains and dog poo) so I don't know what will happen in a few years.

In some respects having DD has helped him a lot - when we met he hated hospitals and would avoid if at all possible because of the possible contact with blood. But I was a high risk pregnancy and so had loads of antenatal appointments, and he ended up staying in with me for 4 nights after DD was born, so I know progress can be made!

Yes sounds as if he can be helped it he overcome that? Must be hard to be him I imagine? My ds2 has 'issues' with certain things but he has ASD. He has a button phobia and thinks snakes are on him at night. I have to lie with him to settle him down and he's almost 12. I do worry for his future.

Yes, he does find life tough, but he deals with things amazingly well considering. (And don't tell anyone, but according to his mum he was scared of wolves climbing into his bed through the window when he was the same age as your DS!). It's part of what makes him who he is, and despite the issues I wouldn't change him for the world except possibly Johnny Depp now he's single!

I won't tell anyone

I have partner who suffers from OCD. I've been trying get the courage to post for a while now. His is fairly mild, mainly intrusive thoughts about cancer and contamination which leads to him rejecting about one in four meals. There are other things to. It's making me seriously depressed and resentful, I don't know how you all cope. Hats off to you rollersara.

Sorry to hear this gets you down so much grobagsforever. Have you told him how you feel?

I think he has some idea yes. He knows I struggle to cope with it. I know I couldn't cope with any of the more extreme examples, it would just kill me. Seriously, hats off to you all.

How long have you been with him grobags? Has he had any kind of treatment? I've learnt a lot about OCD through DP and I'd say if your DP hasn't had any treatment at all (medication or CBT) it does help. My DP gets paranoid about health issues too, it's like an extreme form of hyperchondria. It sounds cruel but I don't take him seriously unless he goes to the doctors - he's been for heart problems (palpitations due to stress), symptoms of advanced diabetes (doctor pointed out he couldn't get the advanced symptoms without all the early signs too!) and liver problems (doctor said this was unlikely as the pain he had was not where his liver is!). The problem is he reads about something and then obsesses about it and convinces himself he has it...

The way I see it though is that it is just a part of him, he's so much more than just the OCD. He's funny, kind, an amazing father, and my best friend. The OCD is hard, but it's an illness like any other and can be managed. It does get me down, but I would much rather have him and his OCD than not have him at all.

DP is very paranoid about CJD so everything we eat (and have in the house) is very strictly vegetarian. What is it that worries your DP specifically? Are there a list of ingredients you could ban, or ways of preparing food you could avoid or change?

Thunks. It sounds like i had similar to you. One year on medication and it is now so minimal that it hardly affects my life at all. (off medication after a year i mean) I now am fine but realise i could relapse if the circumstances were right.

I am glad I found this thread, I shall have to watch it on demand, I have suffered from OCD for over 20 years and am glad there is more awareness about it now, though mental health is a very taboo subject.

I used to not really talk about it, but now while I don't like it, it's part of me and if I didn't have it I wouldn't be me! I know I shall always have it, and it's under control at the moment.

I also get annoyed when people say I'm a bit OCD, I guess it's a bit like autism in that we all have traits but people are affected by it differently, if you suffer with actual OCD it affects every day and everything you do.

My sister also has it, and it's nice to have someone who totally understands!