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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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Totally agree!! Thank you so much!
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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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Is there something better than ice cream?! lol Thank you!
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@xppx Well my sleeping meds help me quite a lot (:
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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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Being a woman sometimes sucks doesn’t it? 😭
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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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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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@xppx I have an IUD. My periods used to be crazy heavy and last 10-12 days.
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I'm roughly 2 months pregnant and I'm struggling so bad with OCD (specifically surrounding psychosis/postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, etc). I'm so discouraged because I was sub-clinical for over a year and this pregnancy and the hormones are undoing all of my progress. And it actually seems so much harder than BEFORE when I was at a low point. It feels like the hormones are ruining my brain and making me lose my mind. I keep looking over my shoulder, getting intrusive images of scary hallucinations that I might start to get, i fear hurting myself or my baby, etc. Psychosis in pregnancy is 1 in 1000. That's not that rare. I feel like I just upped my chances of my biggest fear happening and I have so much regret and fear around that. I'm also a Christian and I'm relying on God so much more now than ever, but I'm afraid of that too because people in psychosis often have religious delusions and I can't tell if I'm slipping into that or if God is really just using this trial to pull me closer to him. I just feel so defeated. I feel like ERP just isn't going to work for me because the hormones are a whole different animal that "normal" people with OCD don't have. Like they're making me immune to ERP or that ERP isn't for people like me and I'm hopeless.
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- 13w
How are your experiences during an ocd spike while going through a menstruation? It doesn't matter if you are afab, your experience is valid too! I noticed my thoughts get worsened and the spike intensified, but now that I'm taking sertraline I don't feel an panic attack as before but the throughs and feelings are definitely there so is an unpleasant situation
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I was wondering why my ocd was so much worse and I think it’s the luteal phase. I got diagnosed with PMDD recently. For a couple cycles, the pre and during was brutal but I was put on supplements that I thought helped. Now, I think the luteal phase just started but my religious ocd is coming back at full force. It’s scary. It feels so urgent. Like I must figure out the answers to every problem because it is life and death. It’s hard to recognize it is OCD. I feel like if I don’t figure everything out, I’m sinning and disappointing God. Does anyone have advice for surviving the luteal phase?
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