As the title states, any of you suffer from OCD and in the throws of divorce? I am about 6 weeks in from my stbxw telling me she wants out. On top of just the overall sadness and emotions I feel, I find myself spiraling down once a thought from our past jumps into my mind, when we were happy and things were good, and I just obsess and obsess over wanting to go back there and how much I miss her. She is not the same person she was then, but it’s the idea of her and us back then that I just crave. And once I start, it just perpetuates in this never ending loop that I can’t get out of. I just filled an SSRI script yesterday and took first one this morning so have some time before it hopefully kicks in. Also talking to a therapist, but he’s just ok. Looking to find another one.

So, if any of you are in the same boat, do you have any tools you use to stop you from falling into the vortex of thoughts that the OCD worsens?

I’ve suffered from OCD my entire life but it was manageable, more annoying than anything. But this divorce has exacerbated it ten fold.