Episode 392: Helping a Friend with OCD & Being Controlling After Moving In

The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hello friends!

In today’s thoughtful episode, we tackle two profound listener questions that may resonate with many of you:

Contemplating Harm OCD and Supporting a Friend: A listener shares their concerns about how to best support a friend struggling with harm OCD. They've noticed their attempts to help by offering reassurance or checking things for their friend might actually be counterproductive. We dive into the nature of OCD, the impact of well-meaning actions, and how to genuinely support someone without reinforcing their compulsive behavior.

Finding Balance Amidst Life's Transitions: Another listener talks about the challenges of transitioning to a full-time job and living with their partner after college. They've found themselves clinging to rigid routines that have begun to control their life, seeking advice on how to break free from these patterns without losing their sense of stability. We explore the importance of flexibility, communication, and self-awareness in navigating these significant life changes.

As always, you can send me questions to [email protected] and find the full show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode392

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0:00.0	Hello friends I have a really good episode for you this week. Two awesome listener questions. The first one is from somebody who has a friend with OCD and they are asking how they can actually help them instead of facilitating the O. C.
0:14.8	And actually making it worse in the long run. The second question is from somebody
0:18.8	who has gone through a bunch of life changes, including moving in with their
0:22.4	long-time partner and they're finding that they're getting
0:24.6	very, very specific about their routines to the point that they're a bit obsessive, and it's causing
0:29.4	problems in their life.
0:31.1	So two slightly different questions, but very awesome stuff. So two slightly different questions but very awesome stuff so
0:34.6	listen in and enjoy. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Robert Deaf. I'm a Clinical Psychologist and a self-help author from Southern California. My goal is to make
0:55.6	mental health content for real people, just like you. And in this show I answer your questions or dive
1:00.9	deep into topics related to life, psychology, mental health
1:04.2	relationships, and more. Please be aware that sometimes I use some spicy
1:08.7	language and I also don't shy away from sensitive topics, but I will try to give you a content
1:13.6	warning whenever it's relevant. So if all this sounds good to you let's get
1:17.2	started.
1:19.2	All right hello friends of all varieties this is episode 392 thank you very All Right. Hello, Friends of All Varieties.
1:23.0	This is episode 392.
1:24.6	Thank you very, very much for joining me today.
1:27.5	Before I get into the show, I wanted to point out something really cool, which is, this week marks 20 years since my wife and I started dating
1:35.6	which is bonkers so I started dating her when I was 15 years old and yeah I knew ever since then that you know we were going to be together and
1:45.6	it's been a pretty well I wouldn't say a straight line we've had a lot of
1:48.4	interesting not even ups and downs but lefts and rights and all all around and you know we have a unique relationship but it's great and yeah you know it's a it's a dating anniversary but 20 years
2:01.2	fucking crazy anyway I just wanted to shout that out. My wife doesn't listen to the show really ever so she probably won't hear this but if she does hi I love you and we get to go out tonight and you know get a nice dinner. Our friend is going to watch our kids for a little bit and I'm excited for it. But yeah, that's really all I want to say in terms of preamble to the show.
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