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.
POCD Trigger: I really hate this disorder and I don’t know how much longer I can do this for. I work at a daycare and I’m constantly bombarded with these thoughts that I have hurt a child or even molested them. It is the worst feeling and part of me knows I’d never do that but my OCD really does take over my life. Today, for instance, I was rocking on of the children and I rocked them for two seconds by accident and it told me I molested them. And when I when to pick them up to put them in the play area my hand accidente touched the front of their leg and it told me again I had hurt them, a similar thing happened with another child today where I was feeding them and I accidentally rocked them and I was now a molester. It really is the hardest disorder to deal with. And I hate how it attacked my occupation, I love working with kids and child psychology and everything, but my ocd is really affecting everything.
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.
My ocd has been flaring up and I’ve been doing many rituals to prove I’m not a pedophile. It is so mentally draining at the end of my shift and I really need help cope and control these intrusive thoughts because I love this job and I want to be the best for the kids. But I’m so tired
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