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- hannie
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- 5y ago
It’s totally worse on my period I feel you on that. Like it’s there all the time but it’s harder to ignore my thoughts and be in a good mood on my period. Girls with ocd get it bad lmao
Yes we do! It is crazy how worse I feel when it’s that time. It’s like I’m already in hell for 5 days why not get really intense intrusive thoughts on top of it?. Thank you guys so much for responding. It’s nice to feel less alone in this journey! You guys are amazing and we can get through it together?.I will definitely try a bath and essential oils and maybe some tea! Thank you!!
I’m sorry you have to go through it too?.I know we can get through it! That actually makes a lot of sense! I really like that! It’s a really positive way of looking at it. I am gonna try and work on taking extra care of myself when I’m going through it. I think that’s been the hardest thing but I find like even right now when my OCD started again I got up and put a face mask on and grabbed my comfy sweats and even had some tea and I already feel just a little better. I know it will pass and I’ll soon feel better again. Thank you, girl❤️
There is evidence to suggest that magnesium citrate can help minimize the crazy period OCD rollercoaster. I’ve been taking some sporadically this last cycle to test, and I seem to be having a lot less symptoms/anxious overthinking responses. It could be any number of things but after my last few cycles or so, I’m down to keep trying it. Also, eating consistently and healthily helps SO MUCH. Cut out the added sugar!
I will definitely try magnesium! I will try just about anything lol. I am actually on a keto diet which has really helped me and I feel pretty good for the most part when I’m not on my period. My OCD is always there but I just feel like I have way better control over it when I’m off my period.The week before and during are the absolute worst for my OCD. It’s like my thoughts are just so strong and irrational.
Thank you?
I have had that happen several times in the last year. I’m right there with you friend. Somebody on YouTube somewhere explained the idea that women are cyclical creatures, and she actually described each week of our period as a season, which, while a little bit woo woo, is actually kind of brilliant. I believe the pre period week was like autumn, and the period week was winter, where you stay inside and free your time to relax and be cozy. I kind of liked it. Maybe if we can build positive rhythms where we know what we can handle into our monthly cycles, that can help us too.
Same. I’ve definitely had this before, still kinda do, but it gets easier as you go along with ERP
Indeed. I suggest using calming stuff, like essential oils, a bath, and someone soothing to talk to. That’s what helps me.
Or even someone soothing to listen to, like a podcast
Yes! You are amazing! Thank you for sharing. ♥️ I wish you all the best.
Oh yeah my hormones def affect everything!! Sucks!
Thank you! I wish you all the best too❤️
I need to know if someone else experience this because I think this may be the root of some of my ocd themes. So basically even when I don't really have a theme going on I get intrusive thoughts of different topics. For example if I'm reading an article about a person with ADHD my mind tells that maybe I have adhd and because if I had I'd be different, and it feels like I want to even though I don't do because I know how destressing it is to live with such disorders and who would ever want to develop a disorder like that. I get intrusive thoughts like about illnesses, identities and other things and my mind says that I have to have those things because they would make me different and my mind wanted me to be different in that way. And it felt like I wanted those things even tho I know how terrible they affect people and didn't really wanted to have them. Now it tells me the same thing about gender and sexuality that I have to be different in that way while I don't and it's causing me hocd right now. I guess this is my final answer but I wanted to know if somebody else experienced something like this. Like sometimes I get depressive episodes because of my anxiety and ocd but once I became obsessed with the idea of having chronic severe depression and I got so anxious but then felt relieved when I didn't but then my intrusive thoughts would pop up here and there
I’ll feel fine for a few weeks, then get a scary thought like “what if this isn’t real” or “what if this is a video game or made just for me” scary things that I stupidly read one time can indicate “psychosis” or things like that. Now I know it’s not truly psychosis as the thought scares me and isn’t a “belief” it is an anxious intrusive thought but my mind always is like “but what if you have other mental illness”. I’ve been told by countless psychologists that I have anxiety and occasional OCD thoughts. But my question is has anyone else experienced that before, and if so how did you get through it and not focus on it? The anxiety sucks because the body sensations that go with it, but it just makes me hypersensitive and overly aware of everything. Advice?
So I’ve been in a pretty rough spiral/ocd spike for about a month now. I used to have this theme of being severely mentally ill or schizophrenic or psychotic and it went away for like 6 months and now it’s back full force. I have never hallucinated but I have this intense fear of what if I do. So with this theme I have these delusional thoughts that are just bizarre and I know how delusional they are but they feel so real and scary like I believe them. My body reacts by my stomach feeling uneasy and I’ll get a chill and just feel like I’m gonna be sick. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a thought per say.. it can just be a weird sensation or feeling and then I’ll become extremely anxious and borderline feel like I could panic. I can usually talk myself down from a full blown panic attack and but it’s just so distressing and I’m wondering if anyone else goes through this? I think it stems from a core fear of losing my family, ending up institutionalized away from my family and my family being devastated and judging me bc I “went crazy” please if anyone else can relate I’d appreciate any advice.
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