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Angelwings08
"postpartum ocd"
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Mood: Don\'t know
Date: Aug. 19, 2008
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I hate being labeled with a mental illness(ocd). I feel like i will never be able to fully feel like my old self since i know i have ocd.  I constantly think about it, it goes over and over in my head that i have ocd. I think i could actually feel 100 percent back to myself if i could just get over the fact that i have what i have, which is ocd. OCD has taken so much away from me in the short time that i have had it. I first realized i had ocd after giving birth to my son 1 year ago. I feel like ocd took the time that was suppose to be special between me and my newborn. I was such a nervous wreck in the hospital and when i got home that i barely even remember my son being a newborn. I feel like i lost that precious time because now he is one years old and walking. I look at him and i feel quilty. i also have a 6 year old and i look at him and feel very quilty because his whole life changed 1 year ago when i gave birth to his brother, he wasn't the only child anymore and his mother was a different women. I thank God that i am feeling more like myself now, but still feel like i was robbed of 1 year of my life. Sometimes the OCD makes me doubt who i am, my love for others, my religion and many other things in my daily life. OCD is a demon and i will never give up the fight to beat him.






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August 19, 2008, 11:48 am

You have to go through these steps as if it were a grieving process....anger...denial...acceptance.  You ARE no longer the woman you were and you will adapt to that and make the necessary adjustments and so will your family/children.  I am a sibling of four and I am the youngest, the prettiest, the smartest...just kidding , no it is actually true...THERE...let's try to focus on the positive shall we?  Like the fact that you have not one but two beautiful children.  Whereas I lost a baby last year, and would love to be in your posistion.  Stop looking at your OCD as the main part of you and your life instead of that it is a small part of you and your life and who you are.  There are many more good things.  If you need me I'm here.  Stop giving it more credit than it deserves...it likes that...lol.  Laura



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