Get Over Yourself! The Milt n Mia Show's podcast

Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (ROCD): serious illness, or bullsh#t psycho-babble?

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Synopsis

After Milt introduces the show, he and Mia speak about their 2 relationship booklets, The Get Over Yourself! Handbook on Cheating and Betrayal and The Get Over Yourself! Handbook on Creating Happiness in a Relationship, before introducing today's show, a look at what psychologists are calling ROCD, or Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which Milt feels is fraudulent. He reads a definition of the disorder, where sufferers are constantly on the alert for signs their partners are cheating, and that analysis makes the problem even worse rather than better. Mia suggests the real problem is labeling and being defined by that label and people searching for the corresponding symptoms. “Some people like to identify themselves to illnesses so they fit in,” Mia says. “In some ways, we are all abnormal nowadays, but you still need some basic principles.” Milt asks, “Are people getting those principles in therapy?” Mia replies, “Rarely. The little problems in therapy bec