- Date posted
- 2y
Not well
I hate this disease. It’s robbed me of every ounce of happiness. I am scared to go near my daughter. I want to cry all the time. Please make it stop. How am I gonna go on like this. My baby!
I hate this disease. It’s robbed me of every ounce of happiness. I am scared to go near my daughter. I want to cry all the time. Please make it stop. How am I gonna go on like this. My baby!
I’m in a relapse right now. I am having a really hard time being around my kids as well. Baby steps. Try to resist/stop compulsions. This is where I am at.
Post Partum OCD babe also I really am struggling with this eve 6 years after birth my baby is my life but OCD is this cruel ass bully that will absolutely latch on to the things you love the most I adore my child more than life itself but this OCD tries telling me my baby isn't okay when I know he is HELP!!!!
@Movies97x My baby is 4. One thought triggered this outrageous relapse. I cannot do this.
@Mae1214 Don’t let ocd keep you from your life! Take control! I’d talk to a therapist asap. Mine has helped me so much! I know how scary it can be but life does get way better with help!
@Jennica B. 🤗
Getting my kids ready for school I would shake fearing I wouldn’t be present and I’d lose control. I had so many ocd thoughts daily I couldn’t breath. When I talked to my therapist I saw hope again.
Yep same heresweeteart mixed in with spiritual OCD and existentional is torture, Trust that it's because your brain knows you love your baby more than anything OCD is a cruel bully starve the monster have you tried any ERP exercises? Vids kn YouTube with Dr Nathan Peterson and Patrick Mcgrsth with show you some really good techniques I'm in relapse too but really trying sending huge Hugs make YOU GOT THIS
@Movies97x How do you deal with being near your child? I woke up shaking this morning to get her ready for her last day of school.
Remember YOU are in control. It doesn’t feel like that but you are! Ocd can’t make you do anything. Be near your daughter! The thoughts you have just show how much you don’t want to do something bad to her so you won’t!
@Jennica B. No no I don’t want hurt her I just can’t stop obsessing about her or her gender identity. Everything she does makes me question if she’s who she is….and I will love her regardless but it’s like I need to know!! I can’t take it!
Torture!!! Debilitating torture!
@Mae1214 Ocd is a bitch. It will never let you he happy until you don’t fight it anymore. Sit with the uncomfortable of not knowing. It’s hard as fu$& but with a therapists help you can do it!
Thank you All For responding and not making me feel like an asshole because of this stupid obsession. It’s so stupid. It’s so irrational. It just feels really really real especially cause it’s attached itself to her. Does that make any sense?!
I’ve been struggling in life in general pretty much this whole year so far. But this week I started thinking about my POCD more and I always try to push through it and go about my day and not let my fears take over. Today my sister randomly told me she’s pregnant. She’s 25 and her boyfriend is 20 and they’ve only been together for a few months. I’m incredibly disappointed and angry with her because it comes off as being so selfish. She can’t take care of herself (neither can he) but they still decide to have a baby. I’m upset. But now I’m also incredibly scared. It’s putting me in a position of having to not only be around but help take care of a baby/kid. I’ve always thought about how one day I’m gonna have to deal with it, but I figured it was later in the future to when I feel more confident in handling my ocd. I also felt that if I were to have to be around a baby/kid all the time that I could mentally spiral and end up killing myself. I hate to make her pregnancy about me but I truly think that in the near future I could possibly get so bad that I come to that point of killing myself. I don’t know if I can handle this right now. I’m scared of how bad I could get. I barely survived the last time and I never had to constantly be around kids. But the times that I had to were the most dreadful times in my life. Of course I’ve gotten better but I still don’t want to be in these scary situations so often. And with her having a kid then I’ll have to be. I don’t think I’m strong enough to constantly push away my fears.
My OCD wants to kill me. I have been crying to the point of nausea and the idea of carrying this disorder for the rest of my life has put my body in a state of fight or flight for well over 5 years. I’m exhausted, I’m tired, no one messages me because all I talk about is my OCD because that IS my day, week, month etc. I’m a struggling alcoholic because of this fucking disorder and it’s too much, I want to drink so bad but I know I’ll mess with my medication in a pretty scary way. But at this point I’m starting to not care. I’m scared and it feels like a bad dream where no one understands what I’m going through. Sorry for the word dump, I need to vent here because at least you guys get it.
I have to be alone with my children tomorrow and I'm scared. Harm OCD has me panicking and ruminating. I don't want to hurt my babies they mean everything to me. I keep fighting for them, I got a better job for them and I want to create a better life for them. I'm so afraid that I might hurt them so I need to be away from them but I also don't want to be away from them. The thoughts and images are so much. I'd rather die before I hurt them. Accepting the uncertainty of possibly hurting them is not something I can accept or live with. And it doesn't help having existential ocd because that says none of it matters anyway. I just want to be the old me, I hate this disorder I hate this disease I hate me for having these thoughts. I'm sorry for ranting. I just need to get it out. I hate this worry disorder!
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