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I’ve been scared of that too. I have one son and when I like to remind myself that if he does have ocd or any kind of anxiety, at least I am intimately familiar with the symptoms and can help guide him through it, get help early, and so on. He won’t have to suffer for years on end before somebody thinks to take him to a doctor. Any kid is going to have their struggles, but if he inherits mine, at least he’ll have a mum who gets it and is there for him no matter what.
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This is a great answer!
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I’m the same as well. I don’t want to get married and have kids due to my ocd.
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Our minds are storytelling machines. Sometimes, those stories it tells are about the future. It wonders how someone might react in a conversation we’re going to have. Maybe it visualizes that trip to the grocery store later on. And sometimes, like what you’re doing here, it tries to make projections about the future. In a strange way, if you can look at it as such, this projecting is an act of self-love. It’s your mind saying, hey, take it easy here because there might be danger! We have to be safe! The feeling of fear has something to teach us at times. Sometimes those lessons are useful and sometimes not. Truth is, you can’t possibly know how the future will play out. You just try and make choices with the best information you have at the time, but it’s no guarantee. If having a spouse and children is something you believe necessary to fulfill you, are you really going to let the possibility, however remote, that something painful might happen prevent you from doing that? Do you want to be in old age saying, wow, I’m glad I played it safe and never had that family I wanted?
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So I’ve just found out I’m pregnant and I’m freaking out rn I’ve been getting thoughts like “I’ll be a bad mum” and overthinking everything & my OCD is convincing me that I’ll act on my thoughts because of my hormones and stuff. I’ve also got a fear of being sick & I’m stressing over that too. Anyone else who has harm OCD pregnant or a Mum can give me some advice pls😭
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At this point of my life I barely have compulsions, barely let them control me, but recently I have realised my OCD is still keeping itself alive by holding me back and making me avoid stuff since I cut compulsions. So I don’t do compulsions but I avoid. And when it comes to SO OCD, I avoid dating. I am in the age where it’s the most common thing to do, I have friends who are getting married and I still haven’t seriously dated my entire life. If I date I date to marry. But it’s making it even harder. My brain tells me I can’t date to marry or date at all because no man will accept the possibility that I am bisexual or the fact I might have intrusive thoughts over sexuality. Worse than that, what’s actually holding me back is the fact that in one of our dates I know I’ll have to bring this up. And what if the man will start to get stressed over it? What if it’ll be too much for him and he’ll leave? And worse-tell the people that know both me and him all the personal things I told him about me having SO OCD? I can’t do this.. I don’t want to do this to myself I don’t want to let go of this secret to any man who can just leave me because of it at any point.. that’s what’s holding me back from dating.. and I want to be brave, I want to just go for it, I want to let it go but am too afraid I am just selling myself and my darkest secrets out there for men who can cancel me at any moment. I gave up on dating… it’s all too complicated for me and I have this voice in the back of my head telling me maybe I wasn’t born for it. Maybe I wasn’t born to get married or be in a relationship, maybe I am not good enough for all of this.. and then OCD adds its own stuff.. maybe I am gay and dating would be lying to myself and the men I date.. too much responsibility..
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I have been doing very well managing my OCD over the past few months amidst the most amount of life changes I've had in years. However, today I had something catch me off guard that I just want to get off my chest. I'm getting ready to serve a mission for my church, and I've been spending a lot of time praying and getting closer to God. I've had a thought pop in my head few times that, sometime in my life, I'm going to experience divorce. I've been trying to treat it like any other OCD thought, but today when I was visiting my parents, my stepmom told me a story about when she was younger. She lost her little girl in a fire, and she said when she was young and before that happened, she heard a woman speak at church with her same name that had just lost her little girl, and she had a premonition and a really strong feeling that it would happen to her. She forgot about it, but years later, it did happen. During the story, I thought about my divorce thought, and it felt like it was from God and that it is going to happen. I got instant cold sweats and chills, and it's like my heart just dropped. It was suffocating. I'm worried that it was from God, and that divorce will happen in my life. This terrifies me, because my parents got divorced when I was a child, and most of my extended family members have been through divorces with the minority staying with their spouses. More than anything, I want to build a loving, nurturing family, so this is just really scary right now. I prayed to God about it, and He told me to trust Him. I'm trying to keep it together but I'm just so scared I want to cry.
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