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- OCD Conqueror
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It can also come about with postpartum depression.
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It's said in the book with different mental illnesses that OCD must not be a result of medication or other conditions But they can contribute of course
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PANDAs. I just had a functional medicine consult where they ran a bunch of tests so I’ll be interested to see what types of things that reveals.
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Yup, my OCD started with a concussion.
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I can't answer your question, but just thought I'd comment because my issues really began affecting my life after birth too. While most people wouldn't call my birth traumatic, I was faced with choices that now keep me up all night a year and a half later...even though I know my babies are fine. (I opted for a C-section at 37 weeks for twins, even though my goal the whole time was a 38 week natural birth. I have myself convinced their brains and lungs are going to cause them issues and have read basically every study and article on long-term effects of early term births.) I think the trauma of childbirth (especially your story), along with the hormonal changes, can lead to PTSD.
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I would say it's more because of the Stress you've gone through and not the condition itself
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+ hormones of course
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@Daria Alexandrovna I agree with you Daria
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Possibly? 🤔 The earliest memory I have of having intrusive thoughts was when I was about 5y and I went to a funeral of a pregnant woman whose baby was still in the womb. There was ice under the casket to keep it from... well, you can imagine. I became interested in my breathing pattern to prevent myself from dying. It got much darker after becoming pregnant, and subsequently giving birth. I'd also like to point out that even though my mother never got a diagnosis, she likely suffers from it.
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Anyone else develop it in their 30s? I’m 33 and just started showing symptoms in October 2024. So far have only been diagnosed with GAD , PD and depression.I started having intrusive thoughts after a series of panic attacks . My compulsions would be googling. I have made an effort to stop though because it only makes me feel worse. My intrusive thoughts have been around fear of going crazy
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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