My partner and I both have OCD but completely different contamination fears and checking behaviors, and we've created this bizarre household system where my rituals trigger their intrusive thoughts and vice versa. We're both getting worse instead of better and I think our relationship is making our OCD feed off each other in ways neither of us knows how to stop.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people with OCD have created a shared environment where their individual compulsions and triggers amplify each other's symptoms rather than providing mutual understanding.
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