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Please comment. I feel like I'm the only one. POCD
I feel so alone. Has anyone done what I've done with POCD?
I feel so alone. Has anyone done what I've done with POCD?
Hey girl, I agree the top comment is confusing and misleading. Don’t pay it any heed. I haven’t seen your post, because I can’t find it but I’m sure this is just OCD being a pain again. I doubt you’re alone in this, your OCD seems severe. Mine is like that too. It was actually extremely severe a couple of months ago. I’ve gotten a bit better after understanding my compulsions with guidance. Are you in therapy? POCD is cruel and hard to deal with. It’s even harder if you have moral OCD tangled in with real event (it sound like your intentions are being distorted by your OCD).
@issphra 🫶🏻 It's the same elbow thing I can't get over it friend. And thank you for being here and being supportive.
@issphra 🫶🏻 If you have any support regarding that, I appreciate it too friend
I don’t interact with kids usually so I don’t think so.
@Anonymous You think I'm a monster? I'm a mother so I'm forced to be around children.
@Anonymous Sorry friend just confused and need clarification
@Anony1314 No, I don’t think you’re a monster. I think monsters aren’t worried about being monsters.
@Anonymous Thanks friend. I'm sorry your comment just confused me. Are you saying I'm alone as to what happened?
Hey girl 🫂 I'm so, so sorry this is still bothering you. I've seen other mothers and even fathers with posts similar to yours. You're definitely not alone.
@nae nae The elbow thing? People have done similar? I'm not alone?!
@Anony1314 Yes! I've seen posts in the past where parents have said they were near their child or curled up on the couch together and felt the need to shift, and then their OCD latching onto that.
@nae nae But mine wasn't feeling the need to. Mine was more like thoughts telling me I'm already bad and need to do something else. Only thing I could think was to move my elbow and do that and I did it. That's why I'm struggling.
@Anony1314 I phrased it wrong. Their thoughts were telling them they needed to move or make a movement, similar to yours. It's all a checking compulsion and a part of OCD.
@nae nae THANK YOU friend. People have done this kind of thing? It's not abuse?
@Anony1314 I don't want to offer you more reassurance. I think deep down you know the answer :( You're not a bad person. You're just someone struggling from OCD 🫂
@nae nae That's what I need to believe? I have OCD and I'm not a bad person?
@Anony1314 Yes. When you have these "what if" thoughts, you need to practice labeling them as OCD. You are not your thoughts, and this will help you differentiate. So, let's say you have a thought that's like... "What if I abused my child?" That "what if" is almost anything immediate indicator it's the OCD talking, not you... From here, you'd want to acknowledge the thought (ex: "I hear you, but I'm not going to find an answer for that right now" or "I don't know"), and then shift focus back to the present :)
@nae nae Thanks friend. It doesn't across as what if? It's like I have this guilt gut feeling like I'm really bad. Ugh
@Anony1314 I get that, too :( You're not alone. But if you really were bad, you wouldn't care. You wouldn't feel guilt, shame, or any other of those feelings.
@nae nae Thank you friend. It's a struggle. Sorry you deal with that too
@Anony1314 It really is 🫂 I'm wishing you all the best. No one deserves this
I have pocd and done horrible rituals, groinal response, intrusive thoughts etc. I feel horrible all the time
@Jesse1982 Have you seen my post friend? Thank you
@Anony1314 - Which one
@Jesse1982 The one with my elbow friend that keep posting about unfortunately
@Anony1314 - I haven't
@Jesse1982 Can I send it here?
@Anony1314 - Ok I read and I understand how hard it is. Like 10 years ago my daughter was like 20 ft from me playing and my ocd was telling me to point my pelvis towards her privates. So I did to shut it up and till this day I feel like crap for doing. I would never hurt my kids but that day I did a movement that still haunts me. I know it was my ocd but still hate it. My therapist makes me look at photos of my family and move my pelvis. I know it's weird but my ocd makes me do w weird rituals and exposures
@Jesse1982 So what's your thoughts on mine friend? I'm so sorry you deal with that struggle. That was definitely your OCD at play
@Jesse1982 Sorry friend
@Anony1314 - I bet you are a great mother and that's why it bothers you so much. The groinal happens to me too but you are ok. Your body is just anxious because you worry about it. I believe the elbow thing was like a ritual to shut your ocd up. I'm 100 percent you haven't done anything wrong. I hate that we go through these things but at least we are nit alone
@Jesse1982 Thank you friend. Even though it felt wanted and very real and everything, I'm still okay right? I appreciate you.
@Anony1314 - Remember people with pocd are less likely to do something than people without ocd. Still life is hard every single day
@Jesse1982 Thanks friend. What are you saying? Are you saying I don't have OCD because of this?
@Anony1314 - I believe you do have ocd and will be a great mother
@Jesse1982 Thanks friend. I'm already a mother and was honestly the best before it happened. I just want to go back to the old me
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@Anonymous 🤍 Sorry friend, I've heard of this happening to many people before. I don't do this, so I wouldn't know.
@Anonymous 🤍 No not at all!!
@Anonymous 🤍 Have you read my post?
Please please help me. I need support. I just need someone to be up front with me. Tell me the truth. I want to get past it all. I'm struggling STRUGGLING today. My mind is telling me I'm the only one who is dealing with something like this. Idk why I did my biggest fear. I was put on a new medication when this happened which caused me to spiral, my thoughts to be more often, and have insomnia. I have been diagnosed with POCD as well. I woke up in the middle of the night when my child was laying completely cross my chest. I was breathing and having groinal sensations. My mind told me that I assaulted her by this, and I was going to prison for it. My thoughts started going like this, "you're already bad might as well do something else", "no sense in stopping now" "you can finally do what you've always wanted", "what would you do if you could do anything to cause harm" So I had to think of what to do in the moment. The only thing I could think to do was move my elbow towards my child's groin. In the moment it felt like I really wanted to do this. I proceeded to do so, and my elbow touched her groin. I immediately told my child to move off me. I then went back to sleep. When I woke up, I began panicking, confessing to a family member what happened, and crying immensely. I feel like I failed as a mother. I'm in such distress since I started sleeping on the floor to avoid it from happening again, and I got off the medication. I'm so much better OCD wise since I got off the meds. I was the BEST mom months ago before this happened. The thoughts have always bothered me, and I was always scared I would give in and act on them. I'm living my worst nightmare. I feel alone. Felt so wanted in the moment and SO real. Ugh. Could someone just give me some support? (edited)
I've never shared anything on here before but I read a lot and I will say I am thankful for this community. I have had OCD my whole life. When I was a child I remember having thoughts in my head that made me uncomfortable, although I couldn't remember what they all were. I would neutralize them with a word. I would have nightly confessions to my mom. I do remember a very specific intrusive thought about God that made me panic and I remember exactly where I was. I would wash my hands until they bled to "prevent" something bad from happening. I developed sexual Instrusive thoughts of my brother being romantically interested in me and it scared me so much, I always fought with him for the imagined fear that played in my mind. I have a bit of harm OCD and my biggest nemesis is POCD. I am in ERP therapy but my mind WILL not let me do what I need to work on because I'm living in constant fear or what if this isn't just OCD. I cut out my compulsive prayer after a thought, but my big one is mental checking. I have to gauge the perfect reaction to a thought to figure out I don't feel any way about it. My mind puts myself or children in situations to check how I feel and it's constant. I can't even call that intrusive anymore, it's an automatic compulsion. One "compulsion" I find interesting and wanted some insights on is when I see an adult on tv talking, I imagine them as a child. Not even sexually. Just how they might have acted as a child that led them to their characters personality. I also have trained my mind to think sexual relationships with adults are "dangerous" because they used to be kids. My mind will not stop ruminating, will not stop trying to show me proof of my obsession. I have dreamed of finding life since I was 9, I identify as a straight female, always interested in adult men. I've struggled with this theme since my early 20s and it started out so little, with just random words and images that I dismissed away with my compulsions but now it has spread and over taken my mind with excessive doubt.
In the past 2-3 years ive been having extremely distressing thoughts that for a year(towards the beginning of when it started) made me have extreme panic attacks every day and I was extremely miserable 24/7. The thoughts relate to pure ocd and pocd. It happened literally out of no where one day and it hasnt stopped since(it has slowly tapered down or i just got used to it to an extent) I have a thought and i begin to feel overwhelmingly anxious and horrible in general. I begin to question myself as a person. Not sure if im something that I dont ever want to be in a trillion years but never able to truly answer myself. I spend every day an hour and a half minimum looking up ocd symptoms to alleviate the mental anguish and questioning im going through sometimes it can be as long as 4 hours. Im not sure if this is just extreme anxiety but it hasn't stopped for years. Strange thing though is sometimes the severity of my struggle gets extremely bad ranging from a day to a year at a time and then other times its less severe to where I dont feel like its taking over my life unless my trigger (if I really do have ocd) is reminded to me but no matter how severe it gets Its always lingering over the back of my shoulder and can show up at any time. One thing I can say is ive dealt with sever anxiety since I was thirteen to where I would have panic attacks every day (18 now, symptoms for ocd started at around 15) and the level of anxiety I have now related to what im experiencing now is on an unbelievably higher level than what I used to have. Is it possible I could have ocd? If it is possible, does it sound like mine is severe? Or on a lower more treatable level. Please help I dont want to live like this anymore
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