Maintain your body the way you like it. If you like to be overweight, love yourself and are not bothered about your weight, don't reduce it only to get a good partner. You will go back to old ways after some days and then what? Better keep your body image as you love it. If you are short in height, no amount of worrying will increase your height. If you don't look like a celebrity, no amount of plastic surgery can make you one. Are you in this world only to worry about the smallest fault in your body so that you can please someone to go into a long term relationship? That will also be cheating the other person. Let them love you for what you are.

How do you know if you're ready to get off of them? A doctor is supposed to make that call, not you. You may think everything is ok, but once you are off, you will go back to the same thinking pattern and same behaviors. TALK TO A DOCTOR...if you take yourself off, you will probably be taking a big chance!!!

I also have random things that I always felt were OCD related... that might instead be related to tourette's. For example I'll be watching a DVD and feel compelled to randomly pause and unpause it four or five times in a row and then get back to watching it. I'll also pull my glasses off my face from time to time and this is hard to describe, but sorta rotate them in a circle four times clockwise counting each time and then do the same thing counterclock wise also counting each time and put them back on.

The only thing that's going to truly make a difference, is going to be his deciding that enough is enough and doing something about his depression himself.