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You should get a therapist you specializes in OCD - they won’t take your kids away. OCD attaches to things we fear the most. You love your kids the most - so ocd will attach to this. If you don’t feel comfy talk to someone yet get the workbook Mindfulness workbook for ocd, which you can order on amazon. It has a lot of great tips to help start overcoming OCD - it covers all the themes including harm ocd. Your fear is just a theme.. a really shitty one but nonetheless it’s common and still just OCD doing its thing.
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not go through it, but that i’m not alone
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i am a babysitter and i used to fear that when i spotted a little bump or bruise on the baby i was watching that i had hurt her or grabbed her too tight when i know i never would or have every touched her. i felt like a monster but i am glad others go through this too.
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Hello Michelle. I am 25. I cant imagine what it is like to have have children, you must be a strong person for having already that responsability. I can only say one thing: you are not alone, look for therapy and think that you will never ever hurt your children. Look for therapy if you can. If not, you can ask for advice here. We are here to help
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Thank you guys. It is a really scary feeling when these fears pop up. I would rather deal with panic attacks than this. It makes me so sad and makes me feel like I am a horrible mother for having these intrusive thoughts. I feel like a malfunction in human nature.
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It says nothing about you as a mother. You are a wonderful mom who cares enough about her kids to worry about harm. All this says is that you have OCD and your theme right now is harm. I too have found this one to be the most debilitating. Post partum OCD is more common than ppl think - esp if you are already just regular old OCD before kids. You need to try to not identify with the thoughts as you - they are thoughts - everyone has them - ocd makes them stick in your head. Journal about how you feel. Let it out. When you feel food journal about all the things you like about yourself as a mom. Start with “my kids are so important to me I will not allow OCD to come in and take over my mind. The thoughts can be there but I am going to go on being an awesome mom with or without them”
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Feel good* not food lol
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Thank you so much ? I will check it out.
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Check her out - I find her technique easy to follow. But def consider a therapist and a naturopath ?
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I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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