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Well pure O really just means that you do mental compulsions. People with POCD often value children/ want to have children one day/ love the children in their family, or just really care for others and value being a âgoodâ person
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Or like me, have children. I developed POCD when I got pregnant with my daughter.
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I believe that in many cases what we are all struggling with is an intolerance of uncertainty. So perhaps you value control or the feeling of security?
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With POCD, you probably love kids
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I do, which is why these thoughts are so stressful to me.
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Unfortunately it does because we react. Slowly they become less frequent and intense when we allow the thoughts to be there and we treat them with less importance
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I have found most progress when treating the focus of my OCD as irrelevant - that the matter of the obsession could be anything, that it is currently what is troubling me but that the 'thing in itself' is just a temporary concern. Further, the focus may have long since actually changed or gone but that it is my memory or thought of it which I am reacting to - so I'm actually reacting against my own imagination. Does that make sense?
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Yeh, my themes are changing often. It's like my OCD is getting really hungry and wanting to latch onto anything. Its like the food for ocd is fear of it. I noticed a lot of progress (as difficult as it is) to say things like. I look forward to more of that thought. I love that thought.
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Thatâs the very definition of OCD.
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Yes. When I was a teenager, I had suicide OCD (I was terrified of dying at the time). When my husband and I were dating and engaged, my OCD focused solely on that relationship and whether it was right. When I got pregnant, I developed POCD. Anything that matters most to me - thatâs what my OCD targets. It wasnât until I developed POCD that I discovered I had OCD at all and sought help. I didnât know my prior experiences were OCD at the time so they were severe and I didnât get help.
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I'm new to a diagnosis of OCD, how does it differ from anxiety if the compulsions are just mental?
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@Uberjonnoise Because itâs still a compulsion. If youâre sitting in your mind going âIâd better check to see whether I get aroused by thisâ or âIâd better reassure myself this is the right person for meâ, thatâs a compulsion. It doesnât have to be a physical action to be a compulsion.
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Why is it that you beat one OCD think, but another OCD thing comes up related to it, but the same theme?
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Iâve had different themes of ocd throughout my life. Can they all differ such as how the thoughts may present? Currently my thoughts feel so true immediately (like they genuinely feel like what I think) but in the last theme I feel like it may have been more of a âwhat if I think thisâ type of situation
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Hi! Itâs pretty difficult for me to get the courage to post this but Iâm really struggling to figure out if what Iâm experiencing is OCD or Anxiety or neither. I think I have the âpure Oâ type of OCD where most of my compulsions take the form of ruminating and trying to figure out something all in my head. When I hear this talked about in forums or online the intrusive thoughts donât really match mine- I worry often about things that seem more âgroundedâ if that makes sense. A common one for me is my own identity- i will spend long amounts of time stuck in my head trying to figure out my feelings (often sadness or other real emotions I have and patterns I have) and why I feel that way and what in my life caused that and how itâs impacting other things in my life. I also think often about which parts of my personality are the real me and which arenât. Sometimes this takes the form of strictly ruminating and sometimes I have fake conversations with people I know. Itâs intense and I feel I have to figure it out but with no specific intrusive thought that says something like âyou have to figure this out or all of your loved ones will dieâ but itâs very intense. I think also often of all of the decisions I need to make in the future and how theyâre going to affect those I love and care about as well as how much Iâll regret them. I imagine all of the ways I think my actions will emotionally hurt others and how to make the least harmful decision, but to me this feels like a valid concern but go over and over and never come to a conclusion. I often just get scared and never make any move because I donât see an option that doesnât hurt someone somehow. But again Iâm having a hard time identifying the intrusive thought behind it. But I also donât choose to think about these things most of the time. This is almost all decisions but especially big life decisions. Itâs such a struggle because they are things I eventually do have to make decisions about. There is so much more to it that would take too long to explain but in general a lot of my fears revolve around pleasing others/ understanding others emotions to ensure theyâre okay, my own identity and personality, and work/school performance. Someone mentioned OCD to me because in my head it feels like I have to solve these things and will go over and over them but I seriously canât figure out if itâs anxiety, OCD, or none of the above. Itâs all very disruptive to my life. I am never not thinking or not trying to figure something out and I feel as if I have no control over it Anyone have any insight?
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