Hi everyone out there to everyone who’s living with a family member with OCD like I am. I’d really welcome your advice if you’ve experienced this: my mum’s doctor wants to refer her for CBT therapy,, and he’s even trying to get her on the wait list for people who really need help with their OCD as she’s not coping well at all and it’s tearing our family apart.
He even gave her a book to read to help her while she waits for therapy. I went to the doctor with her and thought, great, someone is finally taking this OCD seriously and wants to help her. But will she read the book? And is she looking forward to therapy? No. and no. She says she always has lots of other things to do that come up unexpectedly and she has no time to read the book and probably won’t have time for therapy either as she is so busy! That simply isn’t true!
But I’m hoping that what the doctor said was right, that it takes a while for some people to accept they have OCD. But once they do, it can be successfully treated. But, living her while hopefully she learns to accept her OCD diagnosis isn’t, easy at all. I’m following the doctors advice, as a family member and her carer and am trying to learn everything I can about OCD but, I truly wonder if she will ever get better, because I can’t force her to red the book or go to therapy, right?
