- 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’m struggling so much, I don’t know what’s changed. I was doing so well for a solid two months and now it’s been over a month of just my lowest point. My bf has gotten upset at how much I do compulsions and it’s taxing him too. I can’t imagine how hard it is to be my partner right now. I feel exhausted I’m tired of my OCD finding new things to obsess or worry over. I’m so TIRED of getting stuck on technicalities. I’m so exhausted with the constant intrusive thoughts and intrusive thinking. I’m so sick of how compulsive I get when I’m so riddled with anxiety. I don’t want to keep pushing. It feels pointless if my life is going to be a constant loop of ups and extreme lows. I feel like such a disgusting, embarrassing person. I don’t want love because I don’t feel like I deserve it. I don’t want patience or understanding because it makes me feel so guilty. Like no one is understanding how bad of person I could truly be. I’m so lost and tired of this
One mistake with my POCD thoughts and compulsions, and now I'm a terrible mom. I was amazing five months ago. Now I feel like I'm what I've always feared I'd be. I hate POCD. I just want to be a mom. I really do. I really need some support today
My mind is telling me I'm the only one who is dealing with something like this. Idk why I did my biggest BIGGEST fear. I was put on a new medication when this happened which caused me to spiral, my thoughts to be more often, and have insomnia. I have been diagnosed with POCD as well. I woke up in the middle of the night when my child was laying completely cross my chest. I was breathing and having groinal sensations. My mind told me that I assaulted her by this, and I was going to prison for it. My thoughts started going like this, "you're already bad might as well do something else", "no sense in stopping now" "you can finally do what you've always wanted", "what would you do if you could do anything to cause harm" So I had to think of what to do in the moment. The only thing I could think to do was move my elbow towards my child's groin. In the moment it felt like I really wanted to do this. I proceeded to do so, and my elbow touched her groin. I immediately told my child to move off me. I then went back to sleep. When I woke up, I began panicking, confessing to a family member what happened, and crying immensely. I feel like I failed as a mother. I'm in such distress since I started sleeping on the floor to avoid it from happening again, and I got off the medication. I'm so much better OCD wise since I got off the meds. I was the BEST mom months ago before this happened. The thoughts have always bothered me, and I was always scared I would give in and act on them. I'm living my worst nightmare. I feel alone. Felt so so wanted in the moment and SO real. Which I don't understand. Ugh. Could someone just give me some support?
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