The "1, 2 Many" singer sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes Australia recently, offering a candid look at life with the "all-consuming" mental health diagnosis.
He explained that the form of OCD he suffers from is "more...obscure" than what people are likely to perceive the disease as.
It's "very tedious" to break the cycle, even as "an expert," as he says he's become.
"Giving any credence to what the thoughts are is irrelevant and only fuels you having more of them," he said, explaining that he just has "to accept that they’re happening."
To put it into perspective for viewers, he described, "Like, if there’s a bear in front of you…your fight or flight kicks on. And then, the bear is gone. Imagine if your brain stayed in fight or flight, and every time you thought about the bear, another bear showed up in front of you."
During the sit-down, Combs explained the thoughts are "all-consuming" during “a really bad flare-up,” which he says can last as much as “45 seconds of every minute for weeks.”The thoughts "range" from "intrusively violent" to something as simple as religion, focusing on topics that he can’t answer.
Having first started experiencing symptoms around the age of 12, Combs, now 35, wants to help other kids with his variant in the future.
"You don't even know what it is at that time, you're just crippled by it," he recalled, admitting that he thinks a lot about young people in the position he used to be in.
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