u/LowFisherman2912

Hellooo!

My surgery is in 7 days, I'm nervous and extremely excited. I've been bleeding for just about 4 weeks so I'm ready for my uterus to go.

That being said, I am a single lady and need help with meal ideas.

Due to the intense bleeding I've had this month I'm tapped out for energy and still have a lot of deep cleaning I'd like to get done before I become furniture for a few weeks. Alongside chasing a very active 6 yr old so easier the better.

I am needing some healthy, high protein, high fibre easy recipes or microwaveable purchasable meals I can cook for myself when I am healing(my son will be with his dad for the majority of healing). If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I don't think I'll be too excited to be cooking large meals.

I have purchased boost powder and protein powder that I will mix in with milk for easy meals. I have purchased some bone broth too. I'm just unsure what else I'll want. I've never had major surgery before and don't know what my hunger levels will be, however I'm sure it differs depending on the person.

If anyone has any suggestions I am so open to hearing them.

Thank you!

Hello!!

I have a fairly new OCD diagnosis. I always knew I had anxiety. I've been diagnosed with depression/anxiety since I was around 9 years old. I grew up in a fairly traumatic household. My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who was also a drug user.

There have always been some sort of comments from friends and family that I might have OCD and I always kind of shrugged it off. I've always put myself in therapy because I have been constantly afraid that I'm going to end up like my mother and so I get myself assessed often to ensure that I'm not slipping into psychosis. So I figured if I had OCD somebody would have caught it by now. Turns out you have to be 100% honest when you talk to a therapist 😅

That being said, my most recent therapist brought up that she can't diagnose because she's not a specialist, but I should go and speak with my doctor about the possibility of OCD. So I did. My doctor very quickly agreed with my therapist and I am now on fluoxetine.

Since my diagnosis I have been obsessing about OCD. I've been reading up on it. I have been searching Google. I have been using AI to find out information and I've been using this subreddit to learn about it. I've come to the conclusion that I've been suffering from OCD since I was probably around 6 years old. It wasn't until after I had a baby, left my husband, went back to school, and survived an abusive relationship separate from my now ex husband that I realized that stuff was going really bad really quick. I thought I was experiencing normal anxiety... Turns out holding your head telling your thoughts to shut up because you've been thinking the same sentence over and over and over again for the last hour isn't normal. Which has me thinking. Will I ever go back to my normal before all the extra added stress? Or will I constantly be battling this invisible illness? If I stay on my medication for the rest of my life, can I continue to manage it or will I have to switch medications because the medications will stop working?

All I want is to be the best mother that I can whether I'm single or in a relationship. If I have to deal with this intense rumination for the rest of my life I don't know how I'm going to do it. I'm not suicidal. I don't feel sad. I'm just wondering if anybody else has had success with it. I've been obsessing about the fact that I might just be up Shit Creek for the rest of my life and that it'll fuck up my kid.

If anyone has had any experiences with managing or healing or feeling better, I would love to hear the success stories as a little hope goes a long way.

Thank you.