- Username
- OneDayAtATime
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
- Username
- bakerahbakerah
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Have you tried to install a blocker? We use covenant eyes. It helps, but obviously isn’t the be al end all. Also, finding someone to talk to about it would be helpful. Someone you can trust and who wouldn’t shame you if you slipped.
- Username
- Junior96!Junior96!
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Yes it definitely a bad habit . For many years I’ve used it as a get away or a comfort for temporal pleasure . It’s especially bad because I’m a Christian man . When I’m struggling with fear , identity, answers and all , I rely on pleasure of the flesh . I constantly think about it because I know I’m suppose to not do it . It only makes it worse . Praying that I truly taste the goodness and freedom that God offers do that I run to Him and not my sinful pleasures . I’ll be praying for everyone who is struggling with this and ocd! God bless
- Username
- AshlongAshlong
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I'm like this too. I used to love it but now just thinking about it I'm like ehh.... Not something I care to do
- Username
- Insecure101Insecure101
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Cold turkey.
- Username
- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I quit last year in August. I’m so proud that I did. I just started focusing on how bad it was, and that led me to give it up. The more grossed out I was by it, the easier it was to stop it. I also stopped drinking alcohol.
- Username
- BipolarOCDsuffererBipolarOCDsu...
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Quit porn but don’t quit the joystick lol. Make time to enjoy yourself but make sure to do it without porn. This will train your mind to focus on the pleasure aspect of it and not the risqué aspect of it. Also, meditation and anything that releases oxytocin makes porn less appealing. It’s the sort of “love” drug that makes you feel emotional and connected, which makes the pure lust and debauchery of porn unappealing. Things that release oxytocin include hugging other people, pleasant scents, etc.
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- Username
- MJocd
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I feel a lot of shame for ever having watched porn in the past, I have moral scrupulosity OCD, and my thoughts are always like "what if you're a bad person because you watched porn in the past because good moral people dont watch porn?" I havent watched porn in a year and I avoid it like the plague. I know its normal for most people to have experienced porn at some point in their lives. Idk how to get over these thoughts, it feels like noone understands me or my type of intrusive thoughts :(
- Username
- MJocd
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Please reply. I am embarrassed to share this. I dont watch porn AT ALL anymore and never will again but I keep getting intrusive images of porn scenes I saw on pornsites from a long time ago. Especially weird things, like I remember I once stumbled across porn that had a old man in it. Porn has lots of weird categories. I keep feeling bad and guilty for ever watching porn in the first place but I'm trying to remember a lot of people have watched porn/do watch it without feeling the shame I feel now, over a year after stopping watching it. My OCD is fixating on this to the point where it's making me want to throw up. I have real event/moral ocd and my ocd really tries to make me feel bad about these memories from a long time ago.
- Username
- Aaron R.
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Every time I watch an explicit video, I obsessively worry about whether or not the person in the video was of legal age or if I unintentionally looked at a minor. This causes me to have intrusive OCD thoughts that I am some kind of horrible pedophile or that the FBI will arrest me. I'm currently experiencing an anxiety spike right now because of it. Can anyone else relate to this? I only want to watch videos of consenting adults, but the need for 100 percent certainty makes it difficult for me to stop questioning it. Because of my religious beliefs, things like pornography are outside of my ethical values anyways, so I really want to break the habit of watching it in any capacity (even if I knew for certain I couldn't accidentally stumble upon a video of a minor), but I struggle with doing that. Does anyone have any tips to stop engaging in lustful behaviors, and how to deal with catastrophic thinking about jail time and being a sick person because I'm paranoid about if the model could be underage?
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