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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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Hi there! I am 4 months postpartum and struggling with harm ocd, the fear of what if I harm my child. It has manifested to the fear of what if I harm my husband, sister, nieces, parents, etc. Anyone else have this experience and how did you get through it?
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I have to be alone with my children tomorrow and I'm scared. Harm OCD has me panicking and ruminating. I don't want to hurt my babies they mean everything to me. I keep fighting for them, I got a better job for them and I want to create a better life for them. I'm so afraid that I might hurt them so I need to be away from them but I also don't want to be away from them. The thoughts and images are so much. I'd rather die before I hurt them. Accepting the uncertainty of possibly hurting them is not something I can accept or live with. And it doesn't help having existential ocd because that says none of it matters anyway. I just want to be the old me, I hate this disorder I hate this disease I hate me for having these thoughts. I'm sorry for ranting. I just need to get it out. I hate this worry disorder!
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Please if someone can reply! I really just need someone to talk to. I don’t even know how to control my OCD. It honestly feels like it’s controlling me. Everyday my mind focuses on every bodily sensation I have and it’s like a broken record player, I have horrible health anxiety and my OCD just makes it worst just thinking about it everyday. It feels like everyone who I explain it to looks at me like I’m stupid/crazy. I use to be much more tame with my OCD, I use to eat things without worry, now I can’t even touch things I use to eat without worrying that I’ll get an allergic reaction (despite eating them BEFORE,,,but my mind tells me otherwise) and omg worrying about heart attacks, pulmonary issues..and I couldn’t even enjoy my own child’s birth because my mind was on high alert thinking I would hemorrhage any second or develop pre-E (complications of postpartum) I was miserable for the first couple of months of my baby’s life and I didn’t know what to do. And now, I’m pregnant with my second (4wks) and all the OCD thoughts and anxiety is coming back at me and I have no one to talk to, I feel lonely. And even if I considered taking a pill, I’d worry about being allergic to it and refusing to take it. I ruin everything for everyone. I remember I ate out one night and I started to think “you’re gonna pass out! You’re gonna pass out! (Without ever passing out before) and I had to leave! I feel like I ruin the mood for everyone when I don’t even try to, and I hate it.
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