Does your OCD get worse during your period? I usually hear that OCD can get worse shortly before the period (PMS/PMDD), but my mental health declines rapidly DURING my period. Does anyone else experience the same?
YES. I have really bad PMS, and it heightens all my mental issues tenfold. It’s a week straight of just depression and feeling like nothing. It sucks so much, luckily birth control has helped a lot
YES!!!! Last month my ocd was really bad before and during my period. I think it’s really interesting how that can affect ocd
Ladies be prepared, that in my case it’s flared up badly during and post menopause. Hormonal fluctuations seem to cause havoc with ocd.
Thanks for the heads up!
My OCD is awful before and the first few days of my cycle. I am seeing a doctor to check my hormones and see what I can do help this. I was wondering about menopause and how it would effect the OCD.
I’ve always feared menopause or just had like a really hard time the past year where I was just freaking out about menopause definitely not excited for that omg, and hormones definitely play a major role because even when not stressing about your ocd themes or intrusive thoughts mental health just always seems to fluctuate so much while on your period, i need to get my hormones tested too I suffer with cystic acne and am taking a hormonal medication to help but I never actually got tested so hopefully that helps
I’ve been feeling a lot more like myself and I’ve recently been off my period but I’m still suffering I think with some ocd but it was super bad while I was on my period I noticed but I’m not so sure yet since I’ve just recently come off
this is so helpful!!! i suffer with Tocd and I was just not feeling like myself at all while on my period and I’ve never felt like I was in the wrong body not even while on my period and struggling with these bad thoughts but it got super overwhelming and hard and just made me extremely depressed and out of it did you guys notice anything similar too?
Yes, I suffer from Harm OCD and I get so easily overwhelmed by all those thoughts, urges and feelings during my period, that I always begin to think that it's actually the end this time...
@rbecks I’m sorry about that!! That’s was one of my previous themes and I know how awful it is, i suffered from a lot of dissociation and just feeling so disattached but it did get better!! unfortunately I’ve attached to a new theme recently and being on my period was probably one of the hardest weeks I’ve ever gone through recently
@khm Sorry about that, but I also admire your perseverance! I just got my period yesterday and I feel really awful... I need to constantly remind myself, that it's going to be better next week. But I'm also glad that I'm not the only one who experiences a worsening of their OCD during their period.
me too it’s really comforting to know that it was just my period and I’m also taking an acne medication called spironolactone that’s supposed to balance my hormones and it could’ve caused some side effect?? not sure entirely but I may stop it soon and get tested to see if I do have an imbalance but I think that plays such a major part is the fact that we’re producing such different hormones while on our period and typically suffer more mentally even if we aren’t going through an ocd theme atm
Thank you for being inclusive❤️❤️❤️
My period plays a huge part in mine. I also find it harder to sleep around or right before my period. Then not sleeping makes it worse. Plus, my hormones go nuts and twirls my OCD right around with it. Moreover, my period kind of makes everything in my life worse, not just OCD. Emotions make a bit less sense, OCD gets flared up, and I just don't feel good. Anytime I'm unwell mentally or physically, that's an extra stressor. Then the stress feeds OCD
Does being on my period or having upcoming menstrual symptoms worsen my OCD symptoms? Is it because of the added pain, or the added chemicals in my body? Anyone else experience this?
I’ve recently been on my period and it’s like hell I’ve been having 3-4 panic attacks each day and I wonder if it’s my OCD getting worse or if it’s my period since I tend to get very sensitive during my week.. do you also go through heightened stress/anxiety when on your period? I’ve notice this happens a lot when it’s my time of the month. I’ve also been very paranoid.
For the girlies, does anyone’s OCD get SO excruciatingly bad during their luteal/menstrual phase, and I mean to the point you consider you might have PMDD? My periods have been getting so bad for me this past year that I DREAD it coming up, because I am hit with a major depression that lasts for two weeks at most, and it can get really, REALLY bad. Does anyone know how to somehow combat it? Like is there anything I can do to help increase the serotonin lol.
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