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no i’m not and i can’t imagine how hard being a mom with pocd is:( having it has made me worried i’ll never be able to have kids but as time goes on and medication and therapy begin to work, i have more hope
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Yes don't let it stop you. Glad you are on the path to therapy now so you will be stronger when you do have kids
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there’s some awesome podcasts out there that really give me hope for getting better and give me the strength i need on hard days, yoh should check out the ocd and anxiety podcast it’s super good!
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I’m a mom with pocd and I haven’t had the same exact thing happen but similar things happen. Sometimes the most terrifying things pop in my head and I grit my teeth and feel so angry and disgusting that my brain does that. I can spend the entire day with my kids perfectly normal but then if my daughter rests her head on my chest I feel like she shouldn’t be there and I make her move so I can avoid the possibility of being aroused. I fear that some day It might happen and I would have to leave my children. So I’ve learned to just sit with being uncomfortable and uncertainty. It’s incredibly difficult because I love my children and I miss just being their mom without this scary feeling
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I can relate to this hardcore. My daughter always wants to sit on my lap or lay on me and when she does I feel this huge anxiety wash over me and I become super hyper focused on my body parts and what their feeling. If I even make the slightest move or twitch, I freak out. My daughter was laying her head on my chest the other day and I was so uncomfortable. I felt my arm/chest area twinge and now my ocd brain is telling me I acted on an urge because my chest felt a tingle. I don’t even know if It did or not or if it was just the immense anxiety washing over me. But I feel so guilty.
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@Freemeofocd I know what you mean, sometimes I think that I felt something but it’s really just because I’m so focused on that area at the time. I’m so sorry you’re going through this too.
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i’m so sorry you guys are going through that, you are so strong! you got this!
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Might be a compulsive checking to find out if you are or not. Happened to me a few times, forcing myself to imagine my kids instead of my husband to see if I am really not that.
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It wasn't a compulsion. It was a quick thought but yea u think use had that before too what you are saying. I'm afraid since my husband tried getting me in the mood and it wasn't working then when I got the thought I felt something ... then got even more in the mood moments later ... I feel what if I wasn't attracted to my husband. Has this ever happened to you like that?
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@Maeh24 Not really, my experience was different.
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@gdelacruzm Oh. Mine is worse I'm assuming? I was worried about that
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@Maeh24 I wouldn't know. I hoped I could help you, sorry
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i had such a hard time getting back into having sex and being intimate it just takes time and communication, take the maybe statements of maybe this will happen maybe it won’t, a thought is just a thought and those feelings are only there because i’m focusing on it,
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Are you a mom too?
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so I’ve been seeking therapy for my OCD for a few years. The theme that I’ve been dealing with most recently is the fear of becoming a pedophile, which then has led to intrusive images of me doing things to kids.Which now is just causing me so much distress and 24/7 constant thought cycle. I am starting to not be able to tell the difference between thoughts that are wanted/ unwanted- the line has become some blurry and these things are starting to feel like someothing i want to do. My brain keeps telling me to just test these thoughts and the “maybe”or”i don’t know” isn’t working. This has become such a barrier because the second layer is that I’m afraid that if I just let the thoughts be there it’ll make me be OK with doing those things and the fear is what’s keeping me from actually doing something inappropriate. It’s also transitioned into intrusive thoughts and images of me doing something very disgusting to my dog and that when I’m cuddling with him I get the thoughts to just do it or try it to see if i am actually a p*do. it’s almost like the compulsion would be to do the inappropriate thing, even though I know it’s wrong just to see how it would make me feel. I feel like i can’t control these urges even though i’ve never acted on it. At any point i could just do it. I’ve never had these thoughts before up until about a year and a half ago when my friend‘s boyfriend got arrested for soliciting a minor then all these thoughts came to life.Has anyone experienced something like this and have any advice?
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My mind is telling me I'm the only one who is dealing with something like this. Idk why I did my biggest BIGGEST fear. I was put on a new medication when this happened which caused me to spiral, my thoughts to be more often, and have insomnia. I have been diagnosed with POCD as well. I woke up in the middle of the night when my child was laying completely cross my chest. I was breathing and having groinal sensations. My mind told me that I assaulted her by this, and I was going to prison for it. My thoughts started going like this, "you're already bad might as well do something else", "no sense in stopping now" "you can finally do what you've always wanted", "what would you do if you could do anything to cause harm" So I had to think of what to do in the moment. The only thing I could think to do was move my elbow towards my child's groin. In the moment it felt like I really wanted to do this. I proceeded to do so, and my elbow touched her groin. I immediately told my child to move off me. I then went back to sleep. When I woke up, I began panicking, confessing to a family member what happened, and crying immensely. I feel like I failed as a mother. I'm in such distress since I started sleeping on the floor to avoid it from happening again, and I got off the medication. I'm so much better OCD wise since I got off the meds. I was the BEST mom months ago before this happened. The thoughts have always bothered me, and I was always scared I would give in and act on them. I'm living my worst nightmare. I feel alone. Felt so so wanted in the moment and SO real. Which I don't understand. Ugh. Could someone just give me some support?
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Hate those times where you can decipher if it’s false memories or real. My theme is Pocd and I Cosleep with my son and ocd really loves to mess with that. My brain is spinning and trying to spiral into me thinking I touch my little one inappropriately in my sleep. This little image that keeps replaying is me turned towards him but my hand was on his thigh and I do believe he was in his side. And I remember I grabbed the blanket but for some reason I feel as if I grabbed or felt the blanket where it was folded. (Not sure if I was trying to fully cover him back because the pass couple nights he was tangled up in the blanket) I don’t remember what happed after that because I went back to sleep. But that little part I want to be certain I was messing with the blanket and not inappropriately touching my son. I mean can you touch someone inappropriately while sleeping? I’m sure a “real” pedo would plan something like this right? Like they would go to sleep with that intention. (Which I didn’t) Someone please help
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