Dr Steven Phillipson - When OCD Involves Others (#253)
The OCD Stories
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How to Manage Obsessive Questions
In my 30 year history it's been about maybe 3 to 5 percent of my case load so it is a very unusual subset of OCD. An answer to an obsessional question to try to reassure one's partner as I say it's like putting out fire with gasoline. The more that a person would try to defend or justify their history, their conduct or their character the deeper into the whole the person's obsessions will become. If the woman had some sexual history that existed before the partner and the partner is interrogating the person endlessly for the sufferers partners who are the focal point of their obsessional concerns can work out some signals.
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