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ADAA Personal Story: Harm OCD Made Me a Pushover Parent

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"My OCD tells me that I am a bad mom. Sometimes the self-doubt actually paralyzes me. Or, the self-doubt has me scrambling to do too much. I was hopelessly over my head when my first son was born and my OCD knew it. I will replay my children’s childhoods scanning for the unhealable mistakes that I potentially made with my four children," Natalia says. "Now the self-doubt noise has largely died down, and I have learned to ignore the intrusive thoughts that I am harming my children."

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