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- 6y
Sorry man, I would definitely feel the same in that situation. We are all going to have slip ups in our recovery. Don’t let this get you down. Something I talk out to myself when ocd tells me I behaved wrong in my work environment: “maybe I did do that on purpose. Maybe I didn’t. But I’m choosing to accept the uncertainty and move on, because I know MY values and I’m going to continue to center my life around them” Ocd will do anything to derail your wonderful progress. Keep up the good work!
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- 6y
Sorry that you’re going through an episode like this. I actually haven’t been on here as much because I’ve also been doing better, so see! We can beat this shit! I totally understand a situation like this. I’ve had a lot of incidents working with kids where something like this could happen and I feel like omg I did something, or it was my inner self subconsciously making me do it. I touched a kids hand today and I remember thinking “you’re touching his hand how does this make you feel?” I don’t even think I would have thought anything of it until my OCD acted up! How’re you feeling now?
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- 6y
Hey! Thanks for checking up. I’m okay! Monday came and nothing happened. I still feel bad. But I’m better than I was on Friday. I’ve got to learn that accidents can happen, and when they do, use them as exposure. Thanks for the reply’s everyone.
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- 6y
Woah it does sound like a difficult episode. Keep calm, you'll see you'll get through this, we're here for you.
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You’ll get better just know this isn’t going to last
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Letsgo are you doing ok? Noticed you haven’t been back on here
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Glad you are good! Yes definitely use it as an exposure. You can do this!!! We are in this together.
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- 25w
I was giving my child a bath. I picked her up out the tub because shes small. But the momentum of picking her up she swang a little toward my body and ocd said did i hip thrust kr do anything wrong. I did a compulsion saying NO repeatedly. And i put her back down and beforehand i didnt have any ill intent just to help her get out because shes a toddler. I had other intrusive thoughts but tbats not my intent i was just trying to be a good dad
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- 23w
Let me start by prefacing that I developed ocd as postpartum ocd after having my first child. I had harm and pocd. I had it on and off for years and then it just eventually went away completely for many years until recently after a stressful life event. Now that it’s back it again targets my children but now my grandchildren also. It’s been horrible and makes me pull away from them. Last night my 6 year old granddaughter threw up in the car when my daughter was about to take her home so my daughter brought her back in the house and asked me to clean her up while she cleaned her car. I had some anxiety about it because of my ocd but I couldn’t say no to helping so I opened the bathroom door and my granddaughter was standing in her underwear waiting for me to clean and dress her. Everything was fine and normal but then for some reason, I have no idea why, I looked down at her chest area. I immediately got so upset and didn’t know why I looked there and now my ocd is saying it’s because i’m a monster. I tried to tell myself it’s just normal human behavior when someone is standing there naked that you look where you shouldn’t simply because it’s just there in front of you but I feel horrible. I don’t feel any inappropriate way about her or any child but my ocd is saying it was inappropriate. Has anyone else been through this?
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- 19w
TW! please someone comment When I was 12 or 13 I used to babysit a little girl, she had a habit of keeping her hand in her diaper and was always touching herself, there was one point I was changing her diaper and noticed she was really red. I had separated her private parts and checked the inner area for signs of infection. She was okay, just some really really bad diaper rash. I know this is what happened yet my brain is trying to convince me that I hurt her, and that I wanted to do it, I know I would never hurt a child but with all the anxiety I feel when I think about it I'm starting to wonder if I did do it because I wanted to hurt her, I don't wanna be a p, I don't wanna hurt innocent children, I used to never have these thoughts but now I do and I'm so scared to tell my therapist as she hasn't diagnosed me with ocd yet. I don't want her to think I'm a p nor do I wanna hurt kids, but my brain keeps telling me that I do and that I'm just lying to myself and everyone around me, ik I would never do something that could harm a child but I keep getting these thoughts and their inappropriate and I just want them to stop, does anyone have any tips on how to help myself? I keep turning to my boyfriend for reassurance but ik that that's just a quick fix and that ill be spiraling about it again.Please help
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