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- 4y ago
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I dunno if I'm fueling your ocd, but that feels like a fair concern but I dont think we can help you here. Dont research it because if its ocd that will feed it. I think you need to talk to your doctor and pharmacist about this. Get answers from experts and not anecdotal google answers.
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- 4y ago
Thank you ??
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- 4y ago
Secondly (I wanted to put this as a second comment since the first got so long), while I don’t want to fuel OCD by offering reassurance, you are permitted to donate blood one month after finishing taking accutane. This is because after a month, you no longer have the drug in your system. If the American Red Cross says you can safely give blood because the accutane is out of your system after one month, you can trust that it is no longer in your system to harm a future child.
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I was on accutane for a while, years ago. I think I had the same fears while I was taking it, but until I saw your post, I had forgotten about it all. (Don’t worry; nothing triggered. ?.) My point is that now that having children is a recurring discussion every now and then, accutane is totally not a fear, and it hasn’t been a fear for years. If you’re planning on having children soon after this treatment, just make sure you discuss it with your doctor. If not, you can still just check with them to hear what the real info is on how long to wait. Good luck!
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- 4y ago
Thank you! I asked the doctor and he said there’s nothing to worry about!
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- 4y ago
First of all, I work as an in-home caregiver for disabled kids. While I know most people don’t choose to have a child with disabilities, I can say that the parents of these kids absolutely love their kids and wouldn’t change them for the world. One little girl I work with has autism, and at age 5 her favorite game is playing with scrabble tiles and spelling out full words and even sentences. She was able to read at four years old, and at 6 has taught herself to play her favorite Disney songs on the piano! Another girl who is paralyzed from the waist down loves to ride her adaptive bike, play with her little sister, and swing on her adaptive swing. She does pageants and works as a model for TV commercials and advertisements. A little boy with autism loves baseball, and can tell you his favorite team and players’ stats from just about every season he’s been alive for. A nonverbal little girl missing a chromosome is the most content, happy, giggly toddler I have ever met. Another girl with Down Syndrome is so kind and nurturing, she loves helping people and hates seeing people unhappy. I could go on all day, but in short, these kids bring so much joy to so many people every day. I understand how scary it might be to consider having a child with a disability, but I suggest you start to try to sit with this idea as an exposure- it’s possible you will have a disabled child someday, and that is an uncertainty you must accept when you choose to have a child. But if you do have a disabled kid, know that they will be able to lead a happy, fulfilling life, and will bring you a great deal of joy as well.
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- 4y ago
When I talk about disabilities I’m talking about missing body parts and deformed faces and missing brains... I should’ve made that a little more clearer. But either way I was able to speak with my doctor and he told me there’s nothing to worry about.
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- 15w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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- Date posted
- 15w ago
I was sitting down and my child wanted me tl hug her. She extended her arms. I leaned in and hugged her but my pocd freaks out says “dont brush up lr do anything inappropriate. Dont thrust my hips”. I leaned in and hugged her. I had these intrusive thoughts and worries. I hugged her still and i think i did compulsions to avoid these pocd and intrusive thoughts. I moved on and now im habing doubts and false memories on the details. I know as i hugged her i worried about brushing up or hips thrusting and i was anxious and uncomfortable. I known its ocd. I still hugged my child. Despite ocd discomfort. I thought i felt my body react like a hip thrust twitch or maybe its just in my head. I dont want to hip thrust. Thats why my mind was freaking out worrying about it when she asked for anhug. My therapist said my ocd and anxiety and these intrusive thiughts can cause my body to involuntarily react and do those things my ocd is obssessing over like hip thrusting or twitches or groinals down there.
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- 6w ago
Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
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