These are my personal opinions.

Always See good professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Someone asked me about obsession again.

Again.

Again, I've actually said on this show probably three times now

that I'll never talk about obsession again.

So I'm not going to. I'm just going to address this one message I received about someone going through their obsessive thinking, first this is my stock answer.

Go to the overwhelmed brain.com and type the word obsess in the search field.

And you will find several articles and episodes

that I've created that really get into depth

as far as how much I have addressed obsession and what I believe are some paths out of it.

It could be very helpful to you if you are dealing with any type of obsessive thought.

Now I'm going to address this person's question really quick

and very specifically because they have been in counseling

on and off for over 20 years.

And for the last three and a half years, they can't stop sabotaging their new healthy relationship

because of their obsessive thinking. Because they're past relationships.

They've experienced abuse and betrayal and I'm sure they have PTSD and they just can't get past it.

They can't get past it. They can't heal past it.

And so here we are. This person's obsessing about what their partner does and the

text messages and the phone calls that they get, thinking that, what if this partner,

what if this person that I'm supposed to be happy with also betrays me, also hurts me. So there's their obsessive thought and again go to the

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