Country star Luke Combs opens up about living with 'wicked' OCD condition known as pure O
Country superstar Luke Combs opened up about his experience living with purely obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, informally known as pure O, in a recent interview with “60 Minutes Australia.”
Country superstar Luke Combs opened up about his experience living with purely obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, informally known as pure O, in a recent interview with “60 Minutes Australia.”
Combs, 35, has struggled with the condition since he was 12 years old. He experienced his “worst flare-up” of mental compulsions in years while in Australia on tour in January and described how this subset of OCD affects him.
“It’s thoughts, essentially, that you don’t want to have,” he explained last month. “And then they cause you stress, and then you’re stressed out, and then the stress causes you to have more of the thoughts, and then you don’t understand why you’re having them, and you’re trying to get rid of them, but trying to get rid of them makes you have more of them.”
The singer and songwriter described the condition as "particularly wicked," as his intrusive thoughts are sometimes violent.
“I just have to accept that they’re happening and then just go, ‘Whatever, dude. It’s happening. It’s whatever,’” he said. “It’s weird, sucks, hate it, drives me crazy, but … the less that you worry about why you’re having the thoughts, eventually they go away.”
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