by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 1
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 1
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 1
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 1
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...
by Sunil Punjabi | Jan 19, 2023 | Overcoming ROCD - Book, Section 1
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...
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