Hi Helen,
I am so grateful that you posted this topic! I myself am suffering from the same dillema, I haven’t been diagnosed as such but my psychiatrist agrees I have complex mental health issues, Anxiety, OCD ruminations, depression. I also used to follow my gut and I always felt I had a higher sense and could suss out if someone was bad immediately. I got really sick after my child was born and i didn’t know what was real and what was in my head. I thought my gut was telling me my childs father was a danger and that he was abusing my child, I split up with him over it cause i was near certain of this fact and it was so hard to be rational. It calmed down a lot once we lived seperately and i got put on medication, until of course he wanted weekend stays. It was torture at first but as another member said I had to force myself to trust him as he was the father and there was no actual evidence. Anyway sorry to cut a long story short my psychiatrist told me to look out for signs in my child like nightmares bed wetting change in behaviour ect, and there was nothing until June this month, bang…my child screamed and cried didn’t want to go to dads, started having nightmares and now bed wetting, im in bits cause i don’t know if this is all just coincidental and because of other things like a new class my child is unhappy in. My ex knows what buttons to push and he is putting all the blame on to my parenting. I really don’t want to think i was right about him all along and pray im wrong, my child swears he is good to her.Any ideas how i can calm my head down and try and be rational, i have made an appointment for child to a doctor tomorrow.