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OCD and families

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a often a disorder that frustrates the sufferer as well as the family. People with OCD frequently ask for reassurance from those who care about them. Unfortunately, reassurance actually can make the obsession or compusion worse. Why? Because telling someone with OCD that everything is going to be okay gives that person a temporary sense of relief. It feels good. Whenever something feels good we all tend to do it again. So, the reassurance asking increases, becomes a repeated pattern, and can even turn into part of the OCD cycle. LS