OCD Help

Jessica

I believe I have slight OCD. It’s gotten to the point that when my husband is home (he travels for work and is gone 28 days and home for two weeks on repeat) I fight with him over things we shouldn’t fight about. Like when he doesn’t put the soaps on the sink in the right place and facing them the right side out. It’s very hard for me while my husband is home because my routine goes out the window. I recently had a baby four months ago, the doctors office where I work is very short staffed causing chaos in a once near to perfect system I worked on for months and I feel I have control over anything anymore. I feel like the only thing i have control over is how clean my house is. I also need reassurance on certain things. Like my husband and I were going to do the gastric sleeve surgery together. I opted out of it only because it would be to much for the both of us having our little one while trying to recover from a surgery. I feel like once my husband has the surgery and loses the weight that he wants to lose that he’ll change and won’t be interested into me anymore. I ask him repeatedly every day almost five to six times a day if he’ll still me as his wife when he loses his weight. My husband is very understanding and great at taking over baby duties all day when he is home but again I get upset because he doesn’t do things my way. I understand that his way is his way and it’s not hurting our baby and technically it’s not wrong but I don’t like when he doesn’t do it my way. I want to talk to a therapist about it but I feel like my issues aren’t important enough to talk to anyone with. I know people say they have certain mental health issues when really it’s not an illness. Like when people say they have depression when really it’s just a bad day and when people say they have OCD when really it’s just someone who likes hand sanitizer or the dollar bills facing all the same way. I hope y’all understand what I’m trying to say.