Reply To: Post partum OCD?

[Ocdocdocd9Participant]

I understand totally. I’m the same. I feel like I can’t go on with my life knowing I’ve done something so terrible. Even though I don’t know. If that makes sense. It just ruins everything in your life. I think the best way to try get around it is just to try let the thoughts pass, try your best not to interact with them. When you get a thought, think of something else. A pink elephant, or a blue monkey lol. Anything, just to change your thought pattern. Then eventually I think the thoughts might fade in time. I’m yet to try this myself but I’m going to give it a go. As I say, if you were such a terrible person like your horrid ocd is making out, you wouldn’t be posting about it on here. You’d be busy doing the horrible stuff it’s accusing you of. But you’re not, you’re in bits on an ocd forum. You’re suffering with a mental illness at a time in your life when you should be joyous. That’s how ocd works. It’s the most debilitating thing! But we’re all here for you and each other on this forum. All us ocd sufferers are here for each other xx