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Well pure O really just means that you do mental compulsions. People with POCD often value children/ want to have children one day/ love the children in their family, or just really care for others and value being a âgoodâ person
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Or like me, have children. I developed POCD when I got pregnant with my daughter.
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I believe that in many cases what we are all struggling with is an intolerance of uncertainty. So perhaps you value control or the feeling of security?
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With POCD, you probably love kids
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I do, which is why these thoughts are so stressful to me.
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Unfortunately it does because we react. Slowly they become less frequent and intense when we allow the thoughts to be there and we treat them with less importance
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I have found most progress when treating the focus of my OCD as irrelevant - that the matter of the obsession could be anything, that it is currently what is troubling me but that the 'thing in itself' is just a temporary concern. Further, the focus may have long since actually changed or gone but that it is my memory or thought of it which I am reacting to - so I'm actually reacting against my own imagination. Does that make sense?
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Yeh, my themes are changing often. It's like my OCD is getting really hungry and wanting to latch onto anything. Its like the food for ocd is fear of it. I noticed a lot of progress (as difficult as it is) to say things like. I look forward to more of that thought. I love that thought.
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Thatâs the very definition of OCD.
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Yes. When I was a teenager, I had suicide OCD (I was terrified of dying at the time). When my husband and I were dating and engaged, my OCD focused solely on that relationship and whether it was right. When I got pregnant, I developed POCD. Anything that matters most to me - thatâs what my OCD targets. It wasnât until I developed POCD that I discovered I had OCD at all and sought help. I didnât know my prior experiences were OCD at the time so they were severe and I didnât get help.
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I'm new to a diagnosis of OCD, how does it differ from anxiety if the compulsions are just mental?
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@Uberjonnoise Because itâs still a compulsion. If youâre sitting in your mind going âIâd better check to see whether I get aroused by thisâ or âIâd better reassure myself this is the right person for meâ, thatâs a compulsion. It doesnât have to be a physical action to be a compulsion.
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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Anyone else feel that when they arenât experiencing a theme that their ocd is almost non existent. It almost makes me feel like Iâve been faking it, and also makes me feel ridiculous for obsessing over things. I feel sorry for myself :/ I know that my themes are valid and felt very real in the moment, but after I âget overâ them I just canât believe that I was obsessing over something that either wasnât true or didnât apply to me. I would also like to know how to prevent themes from reoccurring. Health, religion and existential OCD themes tend to take turns throughout my life, I just didnât know that was it ocd. Trying to break the cycle.
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So with my theme of ocd, ( hocd ) I get persistent intrusive images, and thoughts. Itâs not like one or two a day. Like if Iâm out for the whole day theyâre constant. I feel I canât even look at a girl now without her intrusive thoughts about her or about me fancying her and even sexual intrusive thoughts.. Itâs awful. Itâs everywhere I look. Is this common with ocd with any themes? Like is it constant for you guys too?
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