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I can relate…I have two young children and have been suffering with harm intrusive thoughts since the end of august. It’s been torture. The disconnect I feel from God is truly awful, I’m slowly trying to build the relationship back up. But it’s so hard when I have little to no self worth.
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It’s almost unbearable. I know there has to be a way forward. I know my brains fear center is on overdrive and so I am trying to do the things I can to help my body have the nutrition it needs to be able to build and form the neurotransmitters that my body needs to make in order for my brain to heal. I know there are major therapy lines of thought on how to change my thingking so that I can feel less like a horrible person and more like me again, I just haven’t found it yet.
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@Anescandon I need to do better at the physical stuff. I’ve been eating junk and “feel good” foods. I used to be a lot more health conscious and worked out 5 days a week. I don’t remember the last time I did intentional physical activity. I’m sure it would help my brain if I did. But then I go back to feeling unworthy of even doing that.
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@ashleyc95 I am by far not crushing it! My mother in law helps encourage me to eat better and today I choked down a super nasty but healthy salad even though I do not have an appetite these days. I have been watching feel good baking shows and trying to walk a lot. Some days are better than others for sure!
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@Anescandon That’s wonderful that your mother in law is looking after you, though! Just remember you’re not alone. Keep up the fight. I’ll pray for you! 🤍🤍
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@ashleyc95 Same to you!!! We have got this!!!!
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I am so sorry. That sounds terrifying and awful. I just absolutely hate that for you. Hormones and med changes and stuff like that can make you feel like an entirely different person and that is one of the scariest things I’ve ever personally experienced. I hope you can find some compassion for yourself and what you’re going through. You are suffering from a medical condition that is entirely out of you control. Of course you can do some things to try to help, but ultimately you are suffering because of changes on a chemical level. Give yourself some space to relax and heal from what is happening in your body. You aren’t bad or wrong for your recovery. If things get to be too much, your doctor should act immediately to help you get back to a stable level. Your kiddos are blessed to have a parent that thinks deeply about the world and their effect on it. They will benefit so much more from seeing their parent be a human being who gets sick but who reaches out for help because they know their worth and there is nothing that they can’t work on.
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Please go look at @obsessivelyeverafter on Instagram. It is very helpful!!! Give yourself grace. This is really really fucking hard and you are doing so so well. You ARE NOT your thoughts and your thoughts DO NOT define you!! Your thoughts are not within your control and that’s a large part of why OCD is so crippling. I’m so so so sorry you have to go through this but you will get though it and you are not alone 💕💕💕
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- 20w
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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I can remember the day I started having intrusive thoughts. I was so confused and scared. It’s been almost 3 months- does it get easier to manage? Currently taking medication and going to therapy, but this is all still very new, and very scary. Please tell me there’s relief in recovery..? I tend to isolate myself from my family, often. I’m tired, so so tired. :( Most days, I just stay on the couch or in bed. I don’t quite get as anxious, but like a “heart stopping” gut feeling when a thought pops up. I miss the me I was before the diagnosis. HOCD is scary and harder when it attacks the loved ones, spouse, in your home. :( My heart hurts.
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I’m just realizing I have OCD. I have been diagnosed with adhd, autism and CPTSD but OCD never occurred to me until recently. My OCD manifests internally (pure O) then I seek reassurance for whatever topic I’m fixating on so of course I chalked it up to anxiety but it’s so much more than that. And I’ve been like this for as long as I can remember. Now it’s really messing with my life. Lately, it’s been ROCD that’s been ruining me. I had a couple deep wounds created by my husband a few years ago and I’m constantly fixating on if he’s lying, really loves me, and or he wants to leave me. I’m constantly asking for reassurance and I think he’s getting tired of it. He’s an otherwise great partner but the OCD has really kicked in after I found out he was hiding a porn addiction, he hid it twice and it really ruined my self esteem and trust in him. Now I get triggered by every pretty girl I see, every social media post about relationships, I fixate on how unattractive he might find me or what’s wrong with me. I’m also aging in my thirties so I obsess over if he is getting less attracted as I age . I feel pathetic. Of course he always tells me I’m beautiful and he loves me but I’m always suspicious that he’s not being honest. I’ve always had OCD but this is the worst I’ve been with my relationship. I’m melting down and doubting us often and especially at night. It’s been a few years now and I feel like it’s gotten so hard. When I was younger it was health OCD, then it was existential, and I definitely fixate on if I’m “good” morally too. I’ll confess and overshare to people all my mistakes. And on top of the ROCD, I have pure OCD and get the worst images and intrusive thoughts at work/ random places and it’s horrible because I work with vulnerable people. My biggest nightmare and fear is pedophilia or assault, and I care deeply about my kids and vulnerable people so it’s like my mind hates me and these horrible images and thoughts fly at me l. I would never ever harm my kids or vulnerable people so this is especially disturbing and mortifying. I learned that OCD is ego dystonic and that’s helped but the images still make me feel awful. I also have been the scapegoat and black sheep in my narcissistic abusive family so I will my OCD will fixate on if I AM the narcissist! It’s exhausting. It got worse after I encountered my abuser in my family earlier this year and he brought up a lot of trauma. He is actually a narcissist but my brain will try to convince me that I am, and I will give in to the compulsion then do quizzes and tests and of course they tell me I’m not a narcissist, but then my OCD will make me think I am. I’m very empathetic and terrified of hurting people yet my brain tries to convince me I’m horrible, then the reassurance seeking and anxiety that manifests from my OCD and trauma makes me feel so self absorbed and sick of myself, convincing me I’m narcissistic for thinking of myself so much. I’m so exhausted by this. My brain tortures me. The overthinking is hard to combat. I really try hard to accept these thoughts as just thoughts but there’s always that voice creeping in that maybe the intrusive thoughts are right. Maybe I’m terrible and unlovable. I hate it.
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