My ocd seems worse (6 weeks pregnant) I’ve developed a lot of health fears and fears of losing the pregnancy etc. Along with my other ocd themes seeming worse atm. Does anyone have advice or help?
I’m really scared of getting pregnant again but we are trying because I want a baby! There are so many unknowns but honestly with ocd you just have to say, well maybe I will miscarry or maybe I won’t. I don’t control that so I’m just gonna enjoy my life! Haha and really just let go of all worries. Sit with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what “might” or “could” happen. Enjoy your life and live your life! I promise that’s the best thing you can do for yours and the babies health anyways is to let go!
Also get on a good prenatal and exercise regularly. Trust me regular cardio exercise helps ocd soooo much!
It is extremely hard to have OCD while pregnant. Pregnancy actually kickstarted mine. I dont have any advice, but just know that you do have the strength to make it through. It has gotten better since having my baby. They put me on SSRI’s during the pregnancy and i was still taking them while nursing. It helped in the sense I didn’t want to unalive myself. But with the meds, there are other things to overcome. Once I was not nursing anymore I looked into CBD and now I smoke the flower which has worked wonders for me. I wouldn’t recommend that while pregnant or nursing though. But, remember that those are only bandaids and you must also try therapy like ERP or CBT to help with the root of the problem. It also depends how well you feel you’ll tolerate while pregnant, I waited until my baby was 8 months. Should I have done it sooner? Maybe, but it was all circumstancial.
I am 8 weeks and going through the same thing. Let me know if you want to talk!
I’m 21 weeks and struggling with my OCD more than ever. I got back on my meds 7 days ago. I thought I’d feel guilty, but I know it’s best for the baby. I started seeing an ERP therapist today as well. I’m anxious about upcoming sessions. I want to get better, but I wish there was a way without being exposed to my distressing thoughts :/
Hey everyone, I just found out I'm pregnant and I'm very worried as I have harm ocd and pocd! I'm also worried because I get insomnia really bad and my mum had post natal psychosis. Has anyone here had post natal psychosis but got through it at home without help? I'm wondering what my options are I wouldn't cope in a clinic if I got that. I had a nightmare last night that I was sectioned. Also has anybody else got such bad insomnia yet you've had a kid? Has anyone had pocd yet getting through that with a kid? This pregnancy was planned and my partner is so happy, but I'm literally so terrified
Okay so im pretty much just putting this out there to see if anyone will comment and help me. This is my first and only baby I will be having. I have pretty severe ocd with multiple themes and have for years it fluctuates from better to worse you know like this disorder usually does but especially with this pregnancy it has been so bad. It got bad in the second trimester and then it got worse in this last trimester. Idk if it’s because I’m just anticipating his arrival so much so my minds just left to wonder and create scenarios regular and intrusive, of what it’ll be like to be a mom and have him here and also to be exposed everyday to a source of anxiety for me. My stress level is so so high almost everything triggers a thought for me everyday and i ruminate on all of them everyday. I try not to but right now it feels impossible eventhough I know it’s ocd. So what I’m asking is any mom, dad, parent whatever on here I need advice on managing this with a new child. He is about to come out and I’m so anxious about how this will affect me I want to be a good mom and of course ocd makes me worry what if I’m just constantly anxious around him and can’t function and don’t want to be around him? What if I hurt him or want to? All the terrible what ifs and worrying that I won’t be able to enjoy being a mom that this shit will take any enjoyable part of the experience away from me and just make me miserable so please anyone who’s been through it before just tell me how you managed or are still managing what you did to prepare/how you cope? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!
Hi everyone I’m new here. I’ve been to hell and back in the last 5 months with my OCD which has affected me with various themes in various ways for since childhood but I’ve only this year discovered I have OCD. I have been suicidal 3 times and very close to ending it all. I have a question for all the parents out there/mums to be suffering with OCD…… I already have a 9 yr old boy and 8 yr old girl and have just found out I’m pregnant again…… I really want to be happy about it but my OCD is determined to make me terrified of having another baby and I am living in fear and dread of changing nappies etc as I know it will start affecting me with POCD type thoughts. I didn’t have OCD anything like as bad as it has been this year when I had my two eldest so never had any issues when they were babies. But I don’t even know how to feel except I am terrified now and very seriously considering abortion just to not go through what the OCD may do to me mentally! Though it would devastate my partner. I have had minimal therapy so far since August but no ERP therapy, I’ve lost faith in therapists as I’m yet to meet one that actually knows what OCD is like for those of us living with it. Is anyone else currently facing this situation with being pregnant or been through/currently going through it? How are you coping? Please don’t give too many details as I am scared of being triggered
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