Mental disorders have an effect on families, particularly relationships between couples. It is undeniable that the partner of an ROCD sufferer also suffers terribly. Having OCD is definitely not easy, but being a partner to someone with OCD is no vacation either....

When we struggle, it is natural for our loved ones to want to comfort us, reassure us and help us out. It is also natural for us to want to be comforted by them. For example, when a child is hurt, he may look to his mother for comfort and may want to be hugged....

OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder is a severely debilitating mental disorder that affects 2.5-3% of the population (Robbins, et al., 2019). Understanding the three words that make up obsessive-compulsive disorder can give us a better understanding of the disorder....

Strictly from a clinical perspective, OCD is not broken down into its various subtypes. When psychiatrists diagnose a person with OCD, OCD is OCD. Neither more, nor less. Since treatment is not different for different types of OCD, the distinctions are moot. Even the...

Compulsions such as washing, checking, rearranging, counting and repeating are visible to others. But there are presentations of OCD which have intrusive thoughts or obsessions but no apparent compulsions. This kind of OCD has been called Pure-O OCD. Pure-O is short...

ROCD can be of three types - Type 1- where you doubt your love for your partner, Type 2 - where you doubt your partner’s love for you, and Type 3 (Doron et al, 2012a) - where you doubt if the relationship is ‘right’ in general (with elements of the first two types...

Usually, ROCD is understood to impact only romantic relationships. However, since OCD can morph into just about any form, there are other forms of ROCD that are also observed, that may not be categorized as ROCD, but are in fact, types of ROCD.  ROCD can affect...

Relationships are not always healthy. An unhealthy relationship does not necessarily indicate the presence of ROCD. You need to have a correct assessment about your relationship rather than diagnose it as ROCD. If you are in an unhealthy relationship, neither this...

Let us look at thirteen tell-tale signs that may indicate that you have ROCD Type 1. Before that though, here’s a word of caution - unless you are clinically diagnosed by a professional, self-diagnosing and assuming that you have ROCD may not be the right thing to do....