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15734260 tn?1442608016

Please Help. Long Hours in the Bathroom

Hello. Dear good people, I need your help. Please, give me your best advises on this problem.

I have an elder sister, she is 30+ years old.She is suffering from OCD. She has many disorders, such as saving small piece of paper, washing hands several times and so on.

But, the main problem that kills her and rules her life is staying up to 12 hours in the bathroom at one time.We are unable to help her, as she doesn't let anybody inside. And when I ask her, what a person can do so much time in the bath,unless she sleeps there. she answers she doesn't know exactly,but in there she is like in fairy tales and the time is running so fast.

Now, she wants to commit a suicide,says it rules her life and impossible to get rid of it.

Please, help me with your answers,if you have any experience on this.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks in advance!

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i was like that before, always going to the bathroom but now Im okay :)
My advice is just talK to her always, reminds her that theres no reason to stay long in the bathroom. if she do wash for that long hour,tell her to lessen the hour in bathrm each day. just sPend time with her, you go outside, to the malL or some place so that her thoughts focus on the other side instead of always at home, going again and again in the bathrm and sPending hours. :) If she lessen goin to the bathrm evry day, it will lessen slowly and she will not go for long anymore. :) im doing that, and it helps me ^_^
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9784446 tn?1421337046
Well it looks like ocd, one of the main symptoms of ocd is getting paranoid about cleanliness.
Have you consulted a psychiatrist?
If not then you must consult a psychiatrist.

If you had consulted a psychiatrist and medications are not helping much then you should consult a psychologist for cognitive behavior therapy ,specially exposure and response prevention therapy. Cbt is very effective in treatment of ocd.

It is believed that the combination of medicine and therapy works the best.
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