ocd and irregular periods

trigger warning is for those who may find menstruation talk distressing. i have irregular periods. last time i checked, no health issues linked. just due to probably stress. (i do want to get an update on it tho, not out of any fears but i just kinda wanna know what's going on). i know that periods cause spikes in ocd and anxiety. my current theme started on the first day of my last period. it'd been almost exactly one month since when my anxiety spiked recently. i have had no period, and no physical period symptoms that i usually get like pains. but i wonder if the anxiety spike is linked to the period that didn't happen, since period symptoms can appear without bleeding sometimes. does anybody else with irregular periods experience ocd spikes without physical period symptoms? just something i'm curious about, so i can be prepared for possible anxiety spikes when my period is ✨supposed✨ to happen, or as much as i can when irregular periods can really mess any sense of cycle up. i'd google it but google keeps trying to diagnose me with stuff 🥲

Username: blablablaeeeblablablaeee

Date posted: 2y ago

Wait, periods can cause spikes in ocd and anxiety? I did not know this. This changes some things for me.

Username: endlesshoursendlesshours

Date posted: 2y ago

@blablablaeee yeah!!

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 2y ago

@blablablaeee yes, ocd spikes and my menstrual cycle go hand in hand for me too

Username: Lauraantonella Lauraantonella

Date posted: 2y ago

Hi! So i had a baby like 9 months ago, for the past couples months I have felt such weird things with my menstrual cycle. Yes, our menstrual cycles can have so much to do with anxiety and mental health. It’s crazy. I feel like I’m experiencing pms symptoms all month. So crazy. I think it’s hormonal which I am on a quest to figure out. I would track your period and write down your symptoms. It’ll help identify, because you can have an underlying hormonal issue or something. Woman are much more complicated because our hormones have so much to do with our mental health

Username: JBird88JBird88

Date posted: 2y ago

@Lauraantonella Hi !! I hate to Message you directly on here but I would love to talk more about this with you! I have no children but my period ALWAYS ALWAYS affects my thoughts and OCD And my anxiety. Sometimes I start panicking out of no where and I have had weird unexplained feelings as well

Username: Lulu_20Lulu_20

Date posted: 2y ago

I experience a lot of irregular periods due to my anxiety and ocd too. Sometimes I’ll have extremely heavy ones and it will be painful and other times I’ll have really normal ones… stress does affect the body in so many ways, I don’t doubt that your stress is affecting your cycle too. I’m on birth control so mine is a little bit more regular, but I do find that stress affects the severity of mine. Same with the symptoms like headaches and cramps that go along with it.

Username: spireapologyspireapology

Date posted: 2y ago

I used to have horrible and irregular periods, and I always got so anxious around them, not to mention dysphoric. it made my sensory issues and troubles with food worse, as well as spiking my ocd. But id also get really anxious when I was a day late because I was worried about bleeding while I was out. Luckily im on a medication now to help and haven’t had a period at all for almost two months, which is very exciting

Username: I wish this was easierI wish this ...

Date posted: 2y ago

I thought I had PMDD because my symptoms and obsessions were so bad for a few months in 2019.

Username: EndangeredHobbitEndangeredHo...

Date posted: 2y ago

I have massive spikes, my periods are back on track for a time being however, I also have endometriosis and endometriomas which when those burst I’m 10x worse in anxiety spikes and moodiness idk if those cysts are full of hormones or what but it makes everything worse

Username: LalilolouLalilolou

Date posted: 2y ago

@EndangeredHobbit I also have endometriosis!! This is such good info to hear

Username: LalilolouLalilolou

Date posted: 2y ago

I noticed this too!!!! I went off of birth control a few months ago and then my OCD symptoms started and for the exact week the last two months I have felt better.. I’m going to the doctor today to get a hormone panel test and hopefully that will give me more clarity and maybe going back on birth control can help

Username: hannie

Date posted: 5y ago

Does anyone like get extra anxious about an intrusive thought because you think to yourself “nobody else has probably had this thought.” “I must be crazy.” Idk those thoughts always seem to make my anxiety worse. I also have a fear of losing touch of reality and believing in crazy thoughts, if that makes sense? TMI but I also notice that my OCD is worse when I’m on my period. Can anyone else relate?

Username: Kat25

Date posted: 1y ago

Ocd

So I know my ocd and intrusive thoughts are in a hiccup stage because of my pms and period coming but like I just can’t help but go well what if it’s not what if it’s back what if I’m out of recovery and then I get a thought and like it’s not causing as much anxiety it’s just like I’m like omg no I don’t want to think this is something wrong with me but Ik it’s all just ocd I just wanna feel as carefree as I did a week or so ago

Username: Jersey Jayne

Date posted: 39w ago

Anyone here also bipolar?

It'll be several months before I see a psychiatrist but lately i've been having what feels like mood swings that involve a lot of intense crying and dark, racing thoughts/disconnection from myself, but I keep snapping out of it for moments and suddenly everything feels okay. I was having this problem a couple weeks ago and it stopped after about a week and now it's starting to happen again. I'm just curious as to how you bipolar + OCD folks tend to feel or react to both disorders or how they might impact each other. I promise I won't read into it that much lol. I've been suspicious about being bipolar for over a year now. I've just never had these swings this consistently. (And no, I don't think it has to do with my period just yet. Last time this happened it didn't have anything to do with that either.)

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