My ocd seems worse (6 weeks pregnant) I’ve developed a lot of health fears and fears of losing the pregnancy etc. Along with my other ocd themes seeming worse atm. Does anyone have advice or help?
I’m really scared of getting pregnant again but we are trying because I want a baby! There are so many unknowns but honestly with ocd you just have to say, well maybe I will miscarry or maybe I won’t. I don’t control that so I’m just gonna enjoy my life! Haha and really just let go of all worries. Sit with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what “might” or “could” happen. Enjoy your life and live your life! I promise that’s the best thing you can do for yours and the babies health anyways is to let go!
Also get on a good prenatal and exercise regularly. Trust me regular cardio exercise helps ocd soooo much!
It is extremely hard to have OCD while pregnant. Pregnancy actually kickstarted mine. I dont have any advice, but just know that you do have the strength to make it through. It has gotten better since having my baby. They put me on SSRI’s during the pregnancy and i was still taking them while nursing. It helped in the sense I didn’t want to unalive myself. But with the meds, there are other things to overcome. Once I was not nursing anymore I looked into CBD and now I smoke the flower which has worked wonders for me. I wouldn’t recommend that while pregnant or nursing though. But, remember that those are only bandaids and you must also try therapy like ERP or CBT to help with the root of the problem. It also depends how well you feel you’ll tolerate while pregnant, I waited until my baby was 8 months. Should I have done it sooner? Maybe, but it was all circumstancial.
I am 8 weeks and going through the same thing. Let me know if you want to talk!
I’m 21 weeks and struggling with my OCD more than ever. I got back on my meds 7 days ago. I thought I’d feel guilty, but I know it’s best for the baby. I started seeing an ERP therapist today as well. I’m anxious about upcoming sessions. I want to get better, but I wish there was a way without being exposed to my distressing thoughts :/
I recently was diagnosed with postpartum ocd/ depression/ anxiety it’s by far the hardest thing I ever had. As an adolescent I struggled with depression/anxiety/ & self harm I didn’t realize back then that self harm was a compulsion for me. Anyway recently ocd has been attacking my baby along with my loved ones or even strangers. I feel horrible about it & feel insane I have panic attacks very often. I do my best to remind myself it’s ocd not me. I am genuinely the kind of person that is disturbed by road kill & cry over new all the time. I didn’t have these intrusive thoughts until my baby was 4 months (he’s now 6 months) because of a stupid true crime case & then it spiraled. I believe the only reason it’s doing all this is to have me feel like I am a villain & evil. It causes me to wonder if I have psychosis (like my mind purposely thinks the worst to try to convince me of psychosis) I am aware that’s not how it works. I am doing everything possible to overcome this sadly my insurance is Medicaid & it doesn’t work on here to find a OCD specialist. I move in 10 days to a new state & my insurance will be cut off for some time. I recently started Zoloft so I’m hoping it helps me until then. I want hope from other moms that have gone through similar experiences… this feels so exhausting & endless I wasn’t like this a few months ago. All I do is pray for things to get better I read the Bible to ease my heart & try to trust God that this to shall pass.
I’m going through a really bad flare up. I developed ocd many years ago when I had my first child. Postpartum ocd. I suffer from harm and pocd. At first I had mostly mental and some physical compulsions but the physical faded away pretty early on and i’ve just done mental compulsions since. My ocd was in remission for alot of years and if the ocd would pop up now and again, I was easily able to shrug it off and not engage. A few years ago I went through a stressful time in my life and the ocd came back to stay. At first it was bad but then it got better and has been pretty mild until now. It’s been really bad this week and the physical compulsions are even back. I never thought it would ever get this bad again. My ocd is making me doubt who I am and how I feel. I know it’s all ocd and not real or true but the ocd makes it feel so real that I can’t easily dismiss or disprove it. The more I try to disprove it the more real the ocd makes it feel. I’m really struggling and don’t know how to get back on track. I don’t have access to a therapist because there are no ocd specialists near me and my insurance doesn’t cover online therapy. That’s why i’m reaching out here. Has anyone been through a rough relapse? How can I get through and past this??
Since I developed ocd as postpartum my ocd has mostly always targeted my kids. It started as harm and then switched to pocd. Both are equally very painful. For years I was mostly able to keep my ocd at bay but when it comes back it’s so bad. I have a son and a daughter and my ocd switches back and forth from kid to kid with horrible intrusive thoughts and now even intrusive ocd dreams. With each thought I get past and start to feel relief another one pops right up. The thoughts feel so real and true even though I know it’s just the ocd and not how I think or feel, the ocd always makes me doubt myself and question everything I think or do. I know other moms/dads go through this too. Please anyone who has or is going through this please tell me how you deal with this. 😪
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