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No problem! And if you ever feel down, remember we're always here!
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Thanks! It means a lot coming from you. Btw I consider what you said a reality check. You can leave my advice, I'm in no way a professional. I only want you to know that we're all in this together, and I sincerely hope we all overcome this.
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Glad you're better! You'd better stay away from overdrive triggers.
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If you ever want to talk, we're here!
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Good to hear you’ve calmed a bit
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Thanks <3
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Well, mood swings are common in pregnancy so there's a high chance it can affect ur OCD (btw congrats if you are!).
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Haha thanks but I dont know if I'm pregnant . I just have gigantic mood swings since 2 weeks . I always had mood swings but never soooooo often and so quick . So I'm just wondering
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Well, if you're not sure you can do a pregnancy test. But I think it happens to everyone who has OCD. I always have anxiety during the day but after 6 I start to relax a bit.
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I'll do test in the morning . But it's different than normally . I just feel so weird like my anxiety has no pattern this time . And usually my OCD had a pattern and I understood it . But now I feel unstable
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Maybe because you're worried from the notion of being truly pregnant(I am not judging you at all btw) and the burden of having a child. Please take this with a grain of salt!
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I've noticed that anytime I'm more anxious/stressed than normal, it sends my OCD into overdrive. I wonder if maybe the added anxiety of not knowing is causing yours to also go into overdrive. Congrats if you are!!!
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@hopefully to be honest I'd like these symptoms to be pregnancy cause it would be a relief. I'm more worried I'm going mad .
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@clckr but how your overdrive looks like ?
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Overdrive is pure hell. The compulsions are so bad that I hold my bladder til I can't, just so I don't have to wash my hands over and over and over. My OCD makes me do literally just about everything in repetition, so when it's bad, sometimes I can't do anything but sit on the couch and cry because getting up isn't an option. I get horrible headaches because my eyes twitch as a compulsion, and the more stressed I am the worse it is. The panic attacks are unreal and relentless. Anxiety meds help some at that point, but not much. At that point it's just best if I can get my meds to knock me out and restart the next day. It makes me feel crazy.
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Just relax for the time being and try to let those mood swings come and go as they please. They aren't doing you any good. When you wake up tomorrow do the test, and even if you aren't pregnant believe that you are going to be better. I think everyone here has been through a lot worse.
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Thanks for answering :) . It's probably overdrive. But pregnancy would be nice . However I'll try to relax . And I'll do what you reccomend with mood swings
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@Clckr omg I'm so sorry it sounds terrible. I hope you wont get overdrive ever again . Maybe I have my kind of overdrive now
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I hope your overdrive is short lived!!! This crap sucks lol. Idk if it'll help or is a possibility, but when my stuff is super bad, if I'm able to go outside for a bit, get some fresh air and sunshine (even just standing there) helps me SO much. My anxiety starts to ease up and it helps me stay in the now. Just a suggestion! I'm trying to think of coping mechanisms that may help!
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Thanks :) you're so nice
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Thank you!
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@Clckr have you ever thought that the compulsions won't help you? It's just your mind, try to distract yourself and please try to see a therapist if it gets worse.
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Yah I'm fully aware that my compulsions have literally nothing to do with some catastrophic thing happening. I'm also in therapy for it. I'm sorry, I don't mean to come off rude, but telling someone with OCD whom already knows their compulsions don't make sense to just ignore them is pretty crappy. Do you not think if it was as simple as just ignoring it, or willing it away I wouldn't have done that in the 5th grade? I really don't mean to be a jerk, but that triggered me. I heard that same crap along with pray it away and you're not praying hard enough. Believe me, if I could just ignore the compulsions and magically make myself better, I'd jump on that and never look back.
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@clckr Of course you would. Who here doesn't? And yeah you're right. That was hilariously stupid on my part. I'm pretty new here so I'm very sorry if I triggered you in any way.
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@HopefullyOptimistic I get you were trying to help and not trying to be a jerk, and I'm sorry for getting defensive. I used to hear that kind of stuff all day everyday from my mother, so anytime I hear or see that, my blood boils. Thank you for your advice, though! It really is much appreciated ?
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I'm not a professional, just been dealing with this since 5th grade lol. I've learned a lot, but I still have a buuuuunch to learn lol. You're 100% right, we're all in this together. People can empathize to an extent, but people with OCD are the only people who truly know what we're going through, how it makes us feel and the emotional and physical toll it takes on us. We all need to stick together ?
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Man, you've been through a lot. I've been in this for 2 months only and think I'm going crazy. Thank God I found this place. Anyhow sorry for the earlier misunderstanding and while i certainly don't have much to offer, I want you to know that you're amazing for enduring all that. I don't know what time it is where you're from, but where I am its 1 am, so Good Night, and I really hope tomorrow will be a better day for all of us.
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@HopefullyOptimistic 2 months is 2 too many! Doesn't matter how long you've had it, it's hell and it doesn't make your experiences any less valid or real! I'm sorry for the misunderstanding earlier, I'm glad we could move past it! It's only 3pm here lol, but you have a wonderful night!
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Hey . Little update. I'm not pregnant. :) like clckr sai it was overdrive I calmed down , did some mindfulness exercises and I'm feeling better. Thank you two for your answers I literally have noone who understands me , only people in this app :). @clckr my mother also says things like that , for example yesterday she told me that if I had a boss who would yell at me for not doing my job perfectly and would be checking what I do all the time I wouldn't be so depressed :)
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(Cause yesterday was a national depression day awareness in Poland ). I understand how you feel when your mother doesnt support your mental health
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Just to preface this, I’d like to say that I in no way whatsoever intend to judge parents of ocd children or people with ocd that have children. I honestly mean no disrespect with this post, I just really don’t know what to think or do. I wish the best for all of your families, and for all of you struggling with ocd as well. Please don’t let my post influence how you think, all I need is advice if anyone can give me it. Feel free to skip if this is an uncomfortable topic for you. Thank you! I’ve had ocd since I was young, but I hadn’t started thinking about this until recently. I heard that you have a 15-20% chance of passing ocd down to your child. I used to be really uncomfortable at the thought of being pregnant and often had intrusive thoughts trying to convince me I somehow was. I finally got past this and began to look forward to being a mother someday, but now I don’t know. I can’t imagine not having kids, but I’m scared that they’ll have ocd like me. It’s not a crazy high percentage but it still scares me. On one hand I’m like hey, who better to help their kid if they have ocd than a mom who has ocd? But on the other I worry that if they have it, it could worse than mine and that they’ll have a really hard time dealing with it. I hate to say this but it feels a little bit selfish to want to have kids when there’s a chance they’ll get the same disorder I hate so much. Both me and my sister have ocd as well, so I’m scared it’s something that runs in my family. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Every day my ocd makes sure there’s a new reason for me to stay trapped in my mind rather than being the mom I want to be that my kids need. Instead i’m stuck in my head depressed and pushing them away. The other day I was braiding my daughter’s hair like I always do and her hair is really long so when I get to the end of the braid I can see her butt in my peripheral vision and I looked down and I immediately got upset asking myself why did I look down?(the ocd has made me question everything I do now). I know it’s just because I was at the end of the braid and I just looked because I was already looking in that direction. A normal person wouldn’t even think twice about it. There was no inappropriate reason behind it at all but of course my ocd latched onto the situation and said I looked down because I wanted to look at her butt. I was so upset and said to myself “I don’t understand how the ocd started an intrusive thought because she was wearing baggy pants. I could understand if she had on tight pants and her butt was more noticeable” and the only reason I said that is because usually the only time my ocd starts intrusive thoughts telling me i’m looking at my daughter in a wrong way is when she has on leggings or a crop top or bathing suit ect. Now my ocd twisted what I said to mean that I like looking at her in tight pants. Nooo! That’s not what I meant but now the ocd won’t stop trying to make me believe that. I don’t ever look at my children in any inappropriate way. I hate this. I hate ocd and I can’t live like this anymore.
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This might be asking for reassurance but I’m at a point I’m not sure if this is ocd and who better to ask than you guys. Also want to mention I have been to a psychologist who diagnosed me with ocd and I’ve tried to seek therapy through NOCD but had a bad experience so I’m just looking for an opinion I’ll take with a grain of salt. I’ve been through bouts of pocd that I got through but now it’s morphed into something that feels so different. It’s like harm ocd and pocd together and it revolves around my daughter. Before this happened I was a loving mother who valued my kid more than anything. Now this is happening and it feels so sinister. I’m getting urges to do something bad and I get these feelings like I want to do that and it’s like my brain gets foggy and my values slip away and I feel like I could do it. But then I get a moment of clarity and I’m like wait a minute I’ve never hurt anyone in my life nor have I ever thought about it and this is my child what is happening. But then I get that foggy brain again and it’s like I can’t see her as my child. I try to sit with it and it’s like I get this adrenaline rush and feel like I have to do it. But I know I don’t want to do that, but then it’s like trying to make me want to want to. I’m not sure if I’m just lacking insight and clarity because I’m overwhelmed with the groinals, urges, thoughts and feelings but I just keep obsessing over the fact that death is my only way out. I don’t understand what happened to me. It feels like this demonic oppression and I don’t know how to get through this one or if this is still something I can get through because it might not be ocd. I try to go with the thoughts and feelings and say yeah maybe, maybe not, or yeah I’m going to do that but it seems to fuel the feelings. I feel like I’m teetering between the person I was and this evil awful person who has no regard for others. I don’t want to be around my daughter and I’m just angry all the time. The fear and anxiety used to be something I relied on and I feel none of that now. I used to be able to say “well no matter what I feel or think I can control my actions” and now it feels like I cannot control my actions but I’ve never hurt anyone before. Someone please give it to me straight and tell me if you think this might not be ocd.
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