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Yes definitely has happened to me before. I coupled it with writing pages of prayer asking god to forgive me and make me not pregnant. The worst thing about it is that you can induce certain symptoms of pregnancy by over stressing like this (for example, excessive stress can delay your period from coming on time)
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gotcha yea this is definetely a theme for me that comes and goes whenever i feel “symptoms” it makes me overthink
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I definitely had this one when I was younger and had irregular periods. Like, even if I knew for sure that it was an impossibility.
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yup. You can literally have any form of obsession, even about what color you like. The only requirements are to cause you a lot of anxiety that makes you want to do compulsions that only worsen it.
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i still struggle with taking a pregnancy tests as soon as i feel symptoms. like i have to do it to know for sure im not pregnant (literally ocd🙄)
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@Anonymous Well, ocd is illogical, you can never convince it of anything, main reason why "ignoring" is the only way that leads to recovery.
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So I’ve just found out I’m pregnant and I’m freaking out rn I’ve been getting thoughts like “I’ll be a bad mum” and overthinking everything & my OCD is convincing me that I’ll act on my thoughts because of my hormones and stuff. I’ve also got a fear of being sick & I’m stressing over that too. Anyone else who has harm OCD pregnant or a Mum can give me some advice pls😭
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idk why this is such a recurrent thing for me , I get so scared through the day when I’m not distracted when I think about psychosis. or being put in a mental hospital that it gives me bad anxiety, one time I had a panic attack at the thought of having it 💔 I can’t pin point if it’s intrusive thoughts because it’s a fear of mine .. or not. I think this is the worst thought / fear I have
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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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