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20 weeks and struggling ocd/housework

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PollyD123 · 26/04/2025 16:22

So as the title suggests I am 20 weeks pregnant.. I suffer with ocd and things never feeling clean. I live in an old house and no matter how much I clean it it never feels clean. I’m also trying to decorate and make things feel better before the baby arrives but it’s just all getting too much. I know the health of myself and the baby is more important than a few cracks in the walls but I just look at my house and think I just don’t want to bring a baby back here. My partner is currently deployed so he is unable to help although he did do what he could before he went away. I don’t really have another support system that is able to help me and I feel like I’m mentally ready to give up. I know I need to rest and I have set myself one task to do a day but I’m finding that even challenging. I know I probably need to talk to a health professional about this but even then I don’t think it’s going to stop my order of wanting everything clean and it not feeling like it. Has anyone else been through this?

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Rowen32 · 26/04/2025 20:54

Honestly OP, I would work on trying to heal the OCD so you're not struggling so much anymore. You're going to get more tired as pregnancy wears on and kids make sooo much mess. Try to free yourself of it if you can at all

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