What to do ??

[enabler]

My wife suffers from OCD terribly. She has been seeing doctors and trying different meds for years. The meds help but it has gotten so bad she just lays in bed or the couch.

It is really starting to affect the whole family now as well as the marriage.

Im not trying to sound unsympathetic but none of us seem to have a life anymore because she cant have one.

We fight everytime I want to go out for some type of pleasure or activity.

I just dont know what to do anymore.........besides the laundry, shopping, cleaning and cooking.

 

[sabbath92003]

My wife suffers from OCD terribly. She has been seeing doctors and trying different meds for years. The meds help but it has gotten so bad she just lays in bed or the couch.

It is really starting to affect the whole family now as well as the marriage.

Im not trying to sound unsympathetic but none of us seems to have a left anymore because she cant have one.

We fight everytime I want to go out for some type of pleasure or activity.

I just dont know what to do anymore.........besides the laundry, shopping, cleaning and cooking.

Keep helping her as much as you can. But meds and doctors only made me worse. Instead what has really helped me is acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). You can buy her an ACT self-help workbook and go thru it together. Hopefully she'll see the light and start living again.

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