Reply To: Post partum OCD?
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I have had anxiety and some OCD tendancies before I got pregnant. So I’m assuming it’s just flared up quite badly afterwards. I have read there is a perinatal OCD which can be around the harm of the baby in different forms including the one I am struggling with.
Very true, I wouldn’t be posting about it if I really wanted to do anything of this kind. Like I was told once, it’s not like your enjoying it or getting off on the thoughts. They are disturbing you, which as you say, show how against you as a person they are. The fact that it’s distressing shows how much you care.
I just don’t know what I have to do to make my brain feel convinced. I have read tho that trying to prove your innocence mentally actually feeds the ocd. Perhaps it does. The really hard thing is the uncertainty and not having the certainty that OCD wants from you. The ironic thing is you already know you wouldn’t have done these things, yet there is a need to gain absolute certainty.