There is a famous saying about how you may not know what battles someone is fighting. We now know about a battle that country music star Luke Combs has been grappling with since childhood - a rare mental disorder. Per pagesix.com via 60 Minutes Australia, Combs said that since he was 12, he has had obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as Pure O. Combs had a severe flare-up of the condition recently that sounds like a terrible, emotionally painful vicious cycle.
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Per the outlet, he explained, "It's thoughts, essentially, that you don't want to have ... 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."
Luke Combs Said That He Has Handled Having Pure O For Such A Long Time That He Is An 'Expert'
Combs has managed his condition for a very long time. Still, it seems like it's very challenging for him. He shared the following insight with 60 Minutes Australia. "When it hits, man, it can be all-consuming...a really bad flare-up" might consume "45 seconds of every minute for weeks."
He continued, "The way to get out of it is, like, it doesn't matter what the thoughts even are. You giving any credence to what the thoughts are is, like, irrelevant and only fuels you having more of them."
Combs added, "It's learning to just go, 'It doesn't even matter what the thoughts are.' Like, I just have to accept that they're happening and then just go, 'Whatever, dude. It's happening.'...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."
He Courageously Broke His Silence And Shared His Experiences To Help Others
He said, per the outlet, "I definitely want to spend some time at some point in my life doing some outreach to kids that deal with this 'cause it held me back so many times in my life.... It's possible to continue to live your life and be really successful and have a great family and achieve your dreams while also dealing with things that you don't want to be dealing with."
