Lucy Van Pelt
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Parenting
How, if at all, does OCD affect your parenting?
Miquel Miquel
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I have to force myself to parent and be present. I have horrible guilt for some of the thoughts even though I love my kids
Lucy Van PeltLucy Van Pelt
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@Anonymous What theme/s do you have? If you don’t mind me asking?
Miquel Miquel
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@Lucy Van Pelt What about you?
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Lucy Van PeltLucy Van Pelt
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@pipparose Mine at least as far as I can tell started after my first child was born too
samiam3samiam3
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@Lucy Van Pelt Same here, mine started when I was pregnant with my first and def flares with hormonal changes
AnonymousAnonymous
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Mine started when I got pregnant and worsened after
ThornhillThornhill
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I was diagnosed way before children but it.flared up when my youngest turned 3 and I was so consumed in his mortality and his health. It's been a journey!
Miquel Miquel
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@Thornhill How do you feel about it now?
Lucy Van PeltLucy Van Pelt
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@Thornhill I can related to that
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel I feel way more in control, my therapist and ERP helped so much. I still go to therapy and still do the work, I know that I fall into moments still but I have better tools to deal and can see OCD for what it is. I hate that it's going to be a part of my forever but I also know that i can now handle it much better. Getting my life back, so we can live our best life took me sharing with my closest people so I had their support.
ThornhillThornhill
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@Lucy Van Pelt Ugh it was awful and now I'm.way more balanced but it still sometimes gets to me
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel It also turned out there was alot to unpack and 90% of it came down to moral scrupulously
Miquel Miquel
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@Thornhill I’m thinking that will be similar for me . Just odd to be 42 now and this just recently hits me .
Miquel Miquel
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@Thornhill Did you get hit with blasphemous thoughts at all ?
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel No, not really, very confessy and I'm an absolutely terrible mother thoughts.
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel Oh OCD will just go for it when ever 🤣 my first symptoms were as a child and I didn't get diagnosed until 2011 at 21 years old. Some people different things bring it on later in life and having children is something that can do that. It can make OCD flare up
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel At least it is an even number? Love a self joke 🤣
Miquel Miquel
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@Thornhill How long have you been doing NOCD ?
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel Maybe since about April I'm not sure. I don't have a NOCD therapist but I know they are there. Mine is in my local area and he is fantastic.
ThornhillThornhill
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@Miquel You?
Miquel Miquel
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I have 5 kids that vary in age from 16 to 5 years old. With my 5 year old im afraid that I’m not going to be able to stop myself from hurting em . I love em to bits but I sometimes have a hard time looking at their pictures let alone being in the same room alone . I force myself to be around em though . It’s only with the 5 year old though .
Lucy Van PeltLucy Van Pelt
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@Miquel That makes since I struggled more with harm OCD when why kids were younger, now I feel like my contamination OCD is hard because they have to deal with all the ways I do things
ThornhillThornhill
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Have you unpacked this in ERP at all?
Miquel Miquel
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@Thornhill I’ve just done the initial therapy session but I was completely transparent during.
Miquel Miquel
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Maybe a week . I’ve always been anti therapy and hate putting a label on my self so this has been pretty difficult. I’ve always been able to just plow through things but once it became thoughts about my baby boy I knew I had to eat some humble pie and ask for help.
ThornhillThornhill
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Nothing wrong with getting help, i.totally get it though and sometimes it's a pride thing. Getting a diagnosis can also be quite scary. I'm really glad that you found some help and realized that you needed that little extra help. You should be proud of yourself
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