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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

At times the world can instill fear in the strongest of us.

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Marc Friedman's avatar

Very interesting, Allan. My first wife had a very serious OCD that contributed to the disintegration of our marriage. I knew she had it but didn’t understand why she had it.

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

If you had known it might not have helped anyway. There is a hgh rate of divorce in marriages where one or both have adhd

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Adrian Neibauer's avatar

The pandemic flared some latent OCD tendencies in me. With the fear of getting Covid from strangers at the store or my students in the classroom, and possibly dying, my cleanliness idiosyncrasies turned into germ OCD. Unfortunately, my daughter has suffered the most.

5 years later, we are both working on managing our symptoms with exposure therapy. I still wash my hands quite a bit, but I feel like we are slowly making progress.

Thanks for this post. I love learning.

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

It’s hard but keep at it

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Thalia Toha's avatar

Allan- Oddly, I’ve just been hearing about cognitive behavioral therapy recently. This seems to be addressing many possible issues beyond OCD? Hope that Colorado weather’s been kind to you, Allan!

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

CBT is extremely helpful.

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

Colorado weather has been nice these days. I am not a believer in cognitive behavioral therapy. It is sometimes a useful tool that the therapist can use in the process of psychotherapy, but it is not in and of itself an effective type of treatment.

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Thalia Toha's avatar

Curious, Allan: how so? And what are those alternate treatments that you prefer? And yes, enjoy the kind weather!

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

Marc, my mistake. I'm working on an essay about ADHD. I meant to say that OCD is hard on marriages and you know why

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