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You are not alone, my ocd is so much worse right before and during my period... trying to convince me of many anxious things... i mean hormones have a big impact on the brain so all of it together can be very intense! Try to maybe keep track of your cycle so you can know when it is going to hit every month, maybe it can help to manage the flare ups
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yes i will thank you!!
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My anxiety and ocd is much worse during ovulation and before period. Same for my mum and sisters
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during?? oh God does it mean i don't have ocd??? because these past 2 days i have been way better and actually listened to music
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That question you just asked ‘do I even have OCD?’ Is actually your OCD. Apparently it’s very very common. It’s another OCD lie. Everyone’s hormone patterns are different, the women in my family have hormonal and gynaecological issues. For example I have to take medication to try to regulate my hormones and one of my sisters has endometriosis. But no two women will be the same. It’s a medical fact that hormones effect anxiety and mental health in good and perhaps less good ways in some cases like eating too much chocolate!
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welp ocd has been down for ke for the past couple days and it's making me question if i even have ocd like why are the thoughts gone? and the anxiety???
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My therapist said it’s common for a lot of women for OCD to get worse before period. You can have OCD and PMDD lol 🤣
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yeah but i am worried about PMDD bebecausi once saw a post about a girl who thought she had hocd and then turns out she was bi in denial with PMDD
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Just stop
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I want to rip out my uterus. Only my hormones can make my OCD and ability to manage it go back to square one. I am spiraling *so* hard. I cannot breathe. My PMDD is going crazy. I’m having a panic attack again. I feel so scared. The POCD is going absolutely insane right now. It feels undeniably real, and my mind keeps drifting to those awful thoughts and what feels like exploring them?? but I can’t for the life of me stop some of these compulsions right now. I was trying to watch something to get my mind off of this but ended up getting triggered twice, so my anxiety is a 10 and I can’t seem to calm down. This panic attack is tuned all the way up.
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Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
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Hey everyone, I wanted to come on here today to just share this post because I’ve been struggling with this recently. I just wanna know if this is a common thing in relationship OCD. So last Friday me and my boyfriend had a conversation that was important, and my emotions were high and I got a little emotional about something he said and we had a long talk about it, the conversation went great and afterwards everything was okay. On Saturday I was so excited to see him after work and I was overflowing with feelings of happiness and excitement. Sunday was great and we stayed on FaceTime just enjoying the day together after he went home that morning, and then came Monday. I remember getting a thought like this, “What if I’m losing feelings for him and I’m just leading him on?” And even this thought, “I don’t really feel anything towards him right now, does that mean I fell out of love with him?” And then the anxiety came, I could literally feel myself breaking out in cold sweats and I could feel the pain in my chest after these thoughts crossed my mind. But what bothers me so much about this is on Saturday and Sunday I felt so content and happy with him and I was so happy and I didn’t have any anxiety whatsoever, and then Monday came, and I had those thoughts and I feel almost numb and I can’t feel anything else except the feelings of worry and fear and my anxiety has been at a all-time high and I keep feeling this pain of guilt and hurt in my chest and I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced the same. Because personally one thing I hate is that one day I can be so happy and energetic and then the next day I can feel numb and feel absolutely nothing towards my boyfriend. I’m not sure if this can correlate with my menstrual cycle as well, but I’ve heard that that can also make your relationship OCD worse and cause you to feel differently about your partner. Just wanting to see if anyone has dealt with the same!
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