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- 1y
Ocd is so cripplingš
Iām not seeking reassurance but ocd is one of the most difficult disorders and knowing others have or are experiencing something similar and knowing iām not alone helps give me confidence to keep working through it. I donāt see many parents with ocd posting much. I guess itās the fear of being judged or because itās so painful to go through and talk about. Iāve had a real event crippling me emotionally that happened years ago. To someone without ocd this may seem so silly but for me itās torturous. When my son was 2 or 3 I had a hard time getting him to sleep in his own bed so he slept in my bed often and one morning I woke up and he was still sleeping so I went about my day and when he woke up I said good morning and told him to come get some breakfast. He threw the blanket off and he didnāt have his underwear on. I yelled at him demanding to know where his underwear were and why didnāt he have them on and he pointed at me and yelled āyou!ā I knew I put him to bed with them on and I thought maybe he got up during the night to use the bathroom and took them off or maybe he took them off for some reason before I went in the room and saw that he was awake that morning. My ocd immediately started telling me I must have done something to him in my sleep and thatās why he pointed at me and yelled. I was so upset but was able to finally beat it by telling myself itās just ocd and I would never ever hurt my child and he probably pointed at and yelled āyou!ā at me because he didnāt want to be yelled at or in trouble. I was okay after a little while of telling myself that. But for some reason it popped back into my head again recently after years and now my ocd is saying maybe I was drinking that night and did something to him. I canāt live like this with the thoughts and uncertainty. Please if anyone else has been through this please tell me how can I get past this. I donāt want to live thinking I could have done something so horrible. š„