Is anyone else a teacher with pocd? I taught High School for 5 years. I left, but now I need the consistent income again- tried real estate, but I just wasn’t making enough yet. I am now faced with an opportunity of returning to the classroom to teach, but my ocd is spiraling.
Fellow teacher here! I graduate in the spring with and early childhood degree and my ocd is trying to make me question if I should even be a teacher bc of one POCD thought I had this summer while working with kids. Ocd sucks. I’m sorry to hear it is making you also question your profession in teaching. My best advice is to do ERP and to not avoid the classroom. Find your passion again and don’t let ocd ruin that for you!
Also fellow teacher. Who graduated with ece degree! And am now a teacher. Before I finished my degree my OCD was so bad I thought I would never be a teacher! And I was the worst human on the planet. But then I went through erp and now I am a proud teacher! This type of OCD is so debilitating. But don’t let it destroy what God has planned for you!!
@E3 How did you get over the guilt and shame of the topic? That’s something that’s really holding me back as well as the feeling that God will not forgive me. Do you have any advice?
Another teacher on deck! Yes it is a struggle but you got this! WE got this. I was working with kids for 5 years before I started having these thoughts and was diagnosed with OCD and let me tell you, I felt like a monster and was spiraling. Some days are better than others but just remember who you were before OCD. Don't let this stop you from living your life and it's also a good way to practice ERP. I bet you are an amazing teacher.
The school year has just started and I am seriously considering quitting my job. It’s making my OCD worse. I’m constantly obsessing over my work performance, and the behavior of the students. This group of students this school year are so incredibly mean spirited towards each other and I can’t stop thinking negatively. There is absolutely no support and they keep giving us more to do. I feel like a failure and nothing will get better. I feel like I wasted my degree and I don’t know what else I could do for work. Any other teachers here with OCD? How do you cope? I’m on the verge of a breakdown.
Are there any new teachers out there struggling to manage supporting your students during these challenging times as well as being overwhelmed with intrusive thoughts and physical symptoms. My thoughts tend to be centered around my own performance: the OCD tells me that everything that doesn’t go exactly to plan is my fault and I deserve to feel ashamed. Comment if you’re a teacher struggling with OCD. It would be nice to know that we aren’t alone.
ppl who teach kids on here: any advice or tips? i feel like i’ve gained a certain amount of trust or acceptance for being there but there’s also this nagging sense of worry that i’m not taken seriously. or worse, they think i’m perverted. i try not to bring nervous energy around them but i’m a dance teacher so i notice a lot without trying. sometimes i can feel fine and comfortable, and other times i’m scared out of my mind to even go there. what can be done to relieve the anxiety other than “accepting uncertainty?” i want them to be safe and feel safe.
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