Any other parents on here that deal with POCD type intrusive thoughts and or Harm thoughts? Mine usually are about my own child and it gets really hard for me some times, I love my kid but im very overwhelmed lately and the thoughts are coming back. I'm also 32 weeks pregnant. Last year I was really bad, and on the point of taking my own life due to the thoughts. I've been in therapy for like 7 or 8 months and although I am not diagnosed with OCD, after learning about it over the past few months I think this is what I'm dealing with. I dealt/deal with mental compulsions like praying and asking for reassurance everytime I had a thought. I have gotten better at not doing those things but lately I have been finding myself starting to have thoughts I can't handle again. I've been very over lately and I feel like the thoughts are coming back again and I might be dealing with some depression. I have been diagnosed with depression, GAD, panic disorder and recurrent depression. Therapist said that they can't really diagnose me with OCD because mental compulsions are hard to diagnose or something. Any advice? Any other parents deal with this?

I’ve always had ocd. But never experienced pocd until after I got pregnant and was fixing to deliver. Anyone else? I’ve been struggling with this for almost 2 years 😩 and Prozac gives me heart palpitations I’m at my breaking point. Idk who I am anymore. And it’s so hard having to be a mother of two on top of not wanting to do anything bc my brain tells me everything I’m doing is inappropriate ☹️

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?

Hi NOCD community, I was hoping to get some advice from fellow sufferers. In December we welcomed the first baby into the family, my beautiful niece. Since then, my POCD has been awful, which I know is probably very normal. Last week, in the middle of a very high stress day in my family, I was changing my niece and as usually happens, I got intrusive thoughts about awful things people do to babies when changing them. The thoughts were so harrowing to have as I was also changing her at the exact same time, and I felt my hands just quickly want to finish patting her dry before putting her nappy on, and for some reason, my heart dropped with that hand movement, because I was afraid that I had acted out the awful thoughts in my head, in a moment of mania because my morals, values and heart do not align with abuse of any kind, especially to children. My niece is my everything, and I know I would never want harm to come to her in any way, shape or form. I love her endlessly. I am having therapy, but have only had a couple of sessions. But, I cannot shake the 'what if'. I am tortured over trying to remember what it was I did that made my heart drop, but I can't, and its getting fuzzier and fuzzier the more I try to remember. Could anyone offer any advice on this please? Thank you.