- Date posted
- 32w
please reply, im in need of some help!
I’be been struggling with intrusive thoughts for about a couple months now and it’s actually driving me insane. I’m afraid it isn’t POCD and it’s just the person that I am. I’ve started therapy and started seeing a psychiatrist to get some relief, but I feel like the medications are scaring me more because my reactions to these thoughts aren’t as intense as they used to be this past week. At all costs I try to avoid being around children and it causes me so much anxiety, but I feel like my life is over because I’ve always wanted to be a parent and actually work in a field that is specialized with children, now I don’t know if I can. When the thoughts first appear I’d go into a full blown panic attack to the point I thought I’d have to go in-patient because it was just too much to handle, and I would wake up and it was the first thing to pop into my head and it just never stopped throughout the day. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was so scared of myself. I’m just so scared that I’m actually a bad person and im gonna do something bad that I don’t want to do. I’m not questioning ever bad thing I’ve ever done to anyone and feel like some reason my life is either over or I belong in prison for the rest of my life. These thoughts make it so difficult to want to go out and do anything and it just makes me so scared. Is this actually POCD?? or am I a truly bad person????!