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- 3y ago
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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.
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- 3y ago
Totally agree!! Thank you so much!
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- 3y ago
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!!
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- 3y ago
Is there something better than ice cream?! lol Thank you!
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- 3y ago
@xppx Well my sleeping meds help me quite a lot (:
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y ago
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!
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- 3y ago
Being a woman sometimes sucks doesn’t it? 😭
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- 3y ago
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!
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- 3y ago
Only three days… Lucky you! 😭 I always waited for my period to eat everything I wanted but now I literally hate this time of the month 🤣 But we can do it!!
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- 3y ago
@xppx I have an IUD. My periods used to be crazy heavy and last 10-12 days.
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- 19w ago
Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I’ve been struggling during moments of intimacy because intrusive thoughts, particularly ones related to POCD, feel so ‘sticky’—like they’re all I can picture. Even though I really want the thoughts to go away, they persist, and I’ve been trying not to avoid intimacy because of them. However, that makes me feel like I’m somehow ‘enjoying’ the thoughts or images, which I really dislike. It’s like my brain is playing this awful trick, and it’s leaving me feeling confused and gross. I guess I’m supposed to not let the thoughts bother me and continue as if nothing’s wrong, but I’m scared that by doing so, I’m almost training myself to get off to them or something. This fear makes it so hard to trust myself in those moments, and it’s been overwhelming. If anyone else has been through this, how do you handle it?
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- 18w ago
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- 16w ago
Dose anyone else experience that your OCD calms down and goes to the back of your mind during- feels almost safe and unaware of it but as soon as it's over and youve calmed down all the intrusive thoughts come rushing back 10x worse? I've had really awful panic attacks because of it the past two nights and it's exhausting I haven't been with another person in over a year because of how bad it was after and not being able to explain it properly to partners "no I'm not crying because of you" "no you didn't do anything wrong" I feel insane- like I'll never be able to have a normal functioning sexual time alone or with others do to it the compulsions that come with it are exhausting it's like the need to cleanse myself of filth like I'm disgusting and horrible until there's no traces I did anything in the first place I'm just so tired dose anyone have any tips of how to work through this- or at least be able to enjoy myself without crying afterwords? I have no idea what subtype this would even entail? I'm going to go with contamination I guess ?
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