Luke Combs Opens Up About OCD Struggle on ’60 Minutes Australia’

Luke Combs has revealed the extreme nature of his battle with Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction (OCD), describing the situation as “significantly depraved” throughout a candid dialog on 60 Minutes Australia.

The nation star shared that not like frequent perceptions of OCD—comparable to compulsive behaviors like flicking gentle switches—his type, purely obsessional OCD, manifests internally with relentless anxiousness and intrusive ideas reasonably than outward rituals.

“Most likely the worst flare-up of it I’ve had in, I’d say three or 4 years, began about two days earlier than this journey,” Combs instructed this system previous to his present at Sydney’s Accor Stadium final month.

“It’s one thing that in a roundabout way I not less than take into consideration day by day. There’s some tinge of it to some extent day by day … The craziness of the actual dysfunction that I’ve, it’s the way in which to get out of it,” Combs instructed interviewer Adam Hegarty.

“There’s no outward manifestation of it, proper? Such as you’re speaking in regards to the flicking of a lightweight swap, however for me, it’s all happening in right here,” Combs defined, including. “When another person flicks a lightweight swap, you may see it taking place. However for somebody like myself, you wouldn’t even know what’s happening—it could possibly be taking place proper now and also you wouldn’t even realise it.”

“It’s ideas, basically, that you simply don’t need to have… after which they trigger you stress, and you then’re stressed, after which the stress causes you to have extra of the ideas, and you then don’t perceive why you’re having them, and also you’re making an attempt to eliminate them, however making an attempt to eliminate them makes you may have extra of them.”

He continued, “I’m fortunate to be an skilled in easy methods to get out of it now… I’m most likely 90 per cent out of my flare-up now … and within the midst of doing a world tour, proper?”

Combs, recognized for hits like “Perpetually After All,” described current anxiousness flare-ups as among the many most extreme he’s skilled in years, noting intervals the place obsessive ideas consumed him for “45 seconds of each minute for weeks.” The intrusive ideas ranged from unsettling violent pictures to existential issues about his identification.

The nation star admitted that his OCD considerably impacted his life, explaining, “It held me again so many occasions in my life the place you’re making an attempt to perform one thing, you’re doing actually nice, after which you may have a flare-up, and it similar to ruins your entire life for six months.”

But, Combs has steadily discovered to handle the dysfunction extra successfully by acknowledging these intrusive ideas with out worry.

“When it occurs now, I’m not afraid of it as a result of I’m not like, ‘What if I’m like this without end?’ I do know I’m not going to be like this without end now.”

Beforehand, Combs had opened up about first experiencing OCD-related anxiousness in center faculty throughout a 2021 interview on AXS TV’s The Massive Interview, likening his obsessive ideas to “fixing the blinds or straightening the carpet,” however occurring solely in his thoughts.

Luke Combs has landed 4 No. 1 albums on Billboard’s High Nation Albums chart: This One’s For You (2017), What You See Is What You Get (2019), Growin’ Up (2022), and The Prequel (EP) (2019). His albums Gettin’ Outdated (2023) and Fathers & Sons (2024) each peaked at No. 2.