Living with an anxiety or mood disorder or OCD can feel like a lonely journey, but it often influences your relationships with your loved one too. The people you love, and the quality and quantity of those relationships, can be influenced by anxiety, mood, and OCD symptoms in a number of ways.

If your feelings often escalate, show yourself compassion first. Your suffering is real. Try to identify your first feeling. Oftentimes it’s easier to stop resisting a feeling than it is to accept it. Try to identify the interpretation that leads it to escalate and challenge that interpretation.

Helpful self-talk orients you towards acceptance. Unhelpful self-talk facilitates avoidance.

Loneliness is the feeling you experience when you believe that you are disconnected from others.

Anger is a feeling of annoyance or hostility towards someone or something that you believe has done you wrong in some way. People feel anger when there has been injustice. It is data that tells us that we or someone we love has been or could be harmed.