To all the girls out there :) When your period is coming, does it increase your intrusive thoughts? If so, how do you cope with it? I mean, I clearly know it’s OCD and I know how not-to care about it after this time of the month but week before and during the cycle it’s like a nightmare… even tho I know it’s just this freaking ilness, I feel a huge anxiety and fear. How do you cope with that, girls? (Not looking for reassurance or anything, just being curious! :))

yes oh my god yes my ocd is so much worse when i’m on my period. i try to tell myself that it’s particularly worse because i’m on my period, and that in a few days it will get better. i also try to occupy myself with more things to do on those days as that’s the only thing that can give me momentary peace. so like everytime i have an intrusive thought i try to do a crossword or go on my phone and play a game. however sometimes the thoughts don’t pass and when i really start to obsess over them i honestly just try to sleep. it may not be the healthiest but i usually wake up feeling more refreshed and 6 times out of 10 i don’t remember what i was freaking out about (as i get pretty f’n tired when i’m on my period anyways) and when all else fails i try my best to just sit with the thoughts and uncertainty, as that’s usually how we face these thoughts anyways! it’s just so much harder to do on your period because the thoughts are amplified x1000.

Well I don’t have a way to cope really.. and it’s gets worse while on my period but I’ll try to sleep a lot specially the first 2 days since my stomach pain feels like anxiety stomach pain.. so yeah sleeping a lot or taking sleep pills helps(: oh yeah and ice cream with a lot of comedy shows!!

Yess same here ! Mines a week before the period, during, and after. It completely sucks! I try to keep myself busy bc if i dont i will get waaaay worse especially bc my emotions are everywhere! I relate. If you learn of ways to cope please do let me know!

Ugh! Yes. I get massive OCD spike during the premenstrual period. Then it continues during my period. Thank goodness, my period only lasts about 3 days now and is very light. I dealt with this pretty much all last week. Started spiking Monday. Period started on Wednesday. Thursday through Monday was awful. Finally started to get back to normal today, but it will probably be a couple more days until its back to normal. Go through this pretty much every month. It stinks!