Name: Nick and Erica's Story | OCD Recovery
Uploaded: 2026-03-02T08:34:46.000Z
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I am back again with my beautiful wife, Erica.

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Well, she's really going to talk about her experiences through my journey so.

So before we go into Erica explaining, I want to talk about real quick, because this is going to pertain to my lows and what it was like with Erica staying with me and my really bad, what, six to nine, month, maybe even longer period.

You know, this was at the end of my doctoral career in school.

For the worst, I really wasn't going to school, but

I could get away with it because I was in the back end of clinic.

I ended up in the mental hospital, which I've talked about before.

It was probably the best thing for me at the time, and so.

So the first couple things we're going to talk about was, you know, what was it like being with me at my absolute worst?

There were a couple of really low points.

The first being when we were still in school.

And I remember we were at a conference in Orlando, and

Nick couldn't even get through the first couple.

We were at the hotel and we had lunch there, but he just disappeared at one point, and

And he was standing outside crying, saying that he didn't want to live anymore.

We ended up having to leave the conference early.

I drove back because I had, in my mind, I'm like, I can't do this anymore.

I cannot be the only person handling this with him right now.

So as I was driving, I hate to admit, but I was texting and driving.

I was texting his sister and telling her what was going on and the fact that I needed to bring him to the hospital.

I eventually got closer to the hospital, and

he realized what I was trying to do, and he got really mad.

I don't know that you were actually going to, but

you opened the door to the car while it was moving, saying that you were gonna get out and jump into traffic.

I told Carly, his sister, everything that had happened.

And she said, you know, that you can call the police and have Them do a wellness checkup and bring him to the hospital.

And I said, yeah, I know, but I can't really bring myself to do that.

So she called, and then the cops ended up showing up to bring him in.

And that was probably the best thing to happen to me because, remember, when the cops got there, I was super, super angry.

So one thing I haven't really talked a lot about yet.

I had some severe anger issues, which I still struggle with, but not nothing like it was.

You did have anger issues prior to it, but I definitely think that it was accented when ocd.

We were about four months into our marriage when OCD actually took over your life.

This was almost a year ago now that this happened.

A year since I went to the mental hospital so that, you know, she saw me go there.

And of course, from my perspective, remember, I was blaming her at the time, calling me, screaming at me from the hospital, saying, I can't believe you did this to me.

Blah, blah, I'm gonna divorce you for doing this.

So obviously, it was a very tough time for Erica having.

Tell them, because some people, sometimes it's hard for them to believe.

How many hours a day was I playing video games?

I would say the second lowest point was we had just moved to Colorado.

We had just started some jobs, and it got a kidney stone.

And he was out of work, out of everything for a month because he needed two surgeries to get that removed.

And for that month that he was home and not in a regular routine, and, like, all he was doing was playing video games.

I was going to work, so I couldn't really do anything because somebody had to be making money.

I had to take them to work with me so that he would not be taking them while I was gone.

Came close a couple times to calling the police again.

they didn't feel like it was to the point where he needed to be hospitalized.

So three of them, you know, and at the time, you know, and

this is an important topic, you know, nobody is going to understand what you're going through, and

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