onedayđ¤
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Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
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- 3y
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
precious.lionsprecious.lions
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- 3y
Or like me, have children. I developed POCD when I got pregnant with my daughter.
UberjonnoiseUberjonnoise
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- 3y
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?
Lms526Lms526
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- 3y
With POCD, you probably love kids
onedayđ¤onedayđ¤
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- 3y
I do, which is why these thoughts are so stressful to me.
Todd James Todd James
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- 3y
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
UberjonnoiseUberjonnoise
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- 3y
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?
Todd James Todd James
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- 3y
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.
NicaNica
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- 3y
Thatâs the very definition of OCD.
precious.lionsprecious.lions
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- 3y
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.
UberjonnoiseUberjonnoise
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I'm new to a diagnosis of OCD, how does it differ from anxiety if the compulsions are just mental?
precious.lionsprecious.lions
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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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