Pure O OCD

@colely While OCD is a recognized disorder, there are schools of thought that feel Pure O OCD is mythical. Here is what GoodRx has to say about this: https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/what-is-pure-o-ocd

I am not sure where you got information on the profile you have already read. How does it compare or hold up against the link I referenced above?
Ginger

Thank you for your information. It is more detailed than what I found, but, I wasn't specific enough, in my request. I saw a segment on an evening news show on antenna TV that showed a Pure O OCD situation with a teenage girl where she couldn't be in the same room with her parents because she felt that they were dangerous to her. She had to be put on meds, and work with a therapist to gradually let her parents come and stand in the room, and then get closer to her. I think it took a year. The man I am dealing with has this attitude towards me and others. He and other members of his family have other types of OCD. He also comes from family trauma. I thought if I could show him specific scenarios of people having these feelings he could see that his feelings were not legitimate and could get help. He won't stand near me or others, and fingers a religious medal and rubs oils on himself. I have to deal with him on important issues for another year. His ignorant friends back him up on his feelings and even suggest even more potions and rituals for him to do. I need some examples to try to make him understand what is happening.

@colely I’ve never heard of « pure » O OCD. That diagnosis is not in the DSMV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) used for mental health diagnoses by psychiatrists and psychologists. Personally, I would be rather suspicious of something I saw on TV. A history of trauma is not necessarily related to an OCD diagnosis although I suppose these could occur together.

It sounds like you really care about your friend and one’s own feelings are legitimate even when you or someone else does not share those feelings. Are you asking about how your friend perceives reality? That’s a different question altogether. Your friend’s behavior of fingering a religious medal and rubbing oil on himself could be related to OCD but I don’t know. You are not going to be able to make him understand as relationships with others don’t work that way. You can give him information and some resources and hope that he begins to see these things as problematic for himself. Is your friend working with a mental health therapist?

Thank you for your comments. He has hoarding OCD, as well as members of his family. When he watched the TV program, Hoarders, it made a big difference in his understanding of what he was doing. He also, in the past, had several Very Specific contamination issues, which were not that much of a problem in his day- to- day life. They faded away after 3 years. I would think contamination OCD would be related to this issue where he believes certain people have dangerous energy. I am one of them. Some of us have done many good things for him, and others, are pleasant people he has just met, but he senses something wrong. I must add that he has been scammed out of money by some obvious, bad people, so he isn't judging well. Anyway I thought if I could, actually, show him information from some experts that he could try to help himself. If not, I am dealing with a very difficult person for another year. Still looking for the tv show. Actual Psychiatrist or Psychologist was on it.