{"id":162073,"date":"2025-08-20T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:18:23","slug":"luke-combs-opens-up-about-mental-health-and-his-years-long-wicked-battle-with-pure-o-ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162073\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Opens up About Mental Health and His Years-Long \u201cWicked\u201d Battle With Pure O OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Combs is discussing his mental health. While speaking on Dax Shepard\u2019s Armchair Expert<\/a> podcast, the country singer<\/a> revealed that he\u2019s been dealing with Pure O OCD for years.<\/p>\n

In Combs\u2019 specific form of obsessive compulsive disorder, people suffer from obsessive thoughts without \u201coutward compulsions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of themes that are very recurrent for people that have this. Religion is one,\u201d Combs explained. \u201cIt essentially preys on the antithesis of who you are at your core, but it focuses on questions that are unanswerable. Which is like, \u2018Do I really love God? Do I really believe in God?\u2019 And then you spend over 90 percent of your day thinking about that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Those kind of thoughts, Combs said, \u201ccan happen for months on end.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thoughts don\u2019t always have to do with unanswerable questions, though. Rather, they can also be prompted by everyday occurences. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a\u00a0bird\u00a0flying by. You just go, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s a bird,\u2019 and then you\u2019re like, \u2018What was that bird? Why did that bird fly by?\u2019\u201d Combs said. \u201cAnd then the more you wonder why the bird flew by, the more it starts flying by.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYour brain\u2019s like, \u2018I need to send that thought again, because you\u2019re worried about it and you being worried about it must mean something.\u2019 Really, it doesn\u2019t mean anything,\u201d he added. \u201cThen the more you think about it, the more it starts showing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luke Combs Discusses His Mental Health<\/p>\n

Combs, who was diagnosed with the disorder when he was 21, said the condition has \u201cdictated\u201d his life at certain times. It\u2019s a point he also made during a March interview with 60 Minutes Australia<\/a>, when he called the disorder \u201call consuming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a flare up of it, it could be you could think about it 45 seconds of every minute for weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cThe variant that I have is particularly wicked because there\u2019s no outward manifestation of it. So for someone like myself, you don\u2019t even know it\u2019s going on. It could be going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the challenges Pure O OCD presents to Combs, he\u2019s been able to have a successful life and career. That\u2019s something he wants to show to others struggling with the disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be an example for those kids who don\u2019t have any hope,\u201d Combs said. \u201cYou can you can still go on and do great things even though you\u2019re dealing with something that\u2019s really tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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