Dating a busy partner

Challenging your thoughts is one of the basic techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy, so I thought that would apply to your guys' anxieties as well, TIL!

I actually had the reassurance-seeking conversation with my therapist and their opinion was to talk it over with my SO to see what he is comfortable with. He agree that 1-2 times per month was an acceptable number of times he would be willing to give direct assurance. Since assurance-seeking isn't one of my problems, but it could be with OCD, I can see now how that could be a negative act for some suffers, even though I'm able to use it as a tool for myself.

Thanks for the info! I'll leave this up in case anyone else comes along with similar thoughts, that way they can see their possible negative consequences. I'm glad to have learned a little more about some people in the mental health community today; it's like the LGBT alphabet soup, we suffer similar problems with society, but the people that make up our groups are very different.

/r/ROCD Thread