- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
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.
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
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
Cold turkey.
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.
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.
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.
+18 only!! TW for sexual content!! (This might be TMI, but I need advice) So, this is kinda embarrassing, but I haven't been able to self-pleasure without feeling shame or guilt. It's so bad that I've just stopped altogether, but I don't want to avoid it. It was something I enjoyed and was comfortable with, and now, because of OCD, it just makes me feel... gross. It's a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do, but my mind just tries to convince me that it's wrong. Had anyone else dealt with this? It's not a huge issue, but I'm tired of unnecessary shame. :(
Being exposed to taboo p*rn as young as first grade ruined my life and now ocd is making me pay for it. I have so much guilt for being a child/teen and looking at taboo stuff, and it was all fictional or anime or whatever but it was still so so gross. and I didn't realize It because I had been used to it at so young 🫠 I think what haunts me most is when I was a kid/young teen (like 12-14ish) and didn't have access to p*rn I'd imagine stuff similar to what I'd seen in the art. I can't even believe I'd imagine scenarios involving kid characters or whatever because it had been so normalized to me and I assumed it was normal since it was fiction. I'm 23 now so it's been a decade since I've done anything like that and I've never had the urge to since but still. I've NEVER been attracted to kids or had any urges or anything ever, even when I was addicted. The thought makes me want to vomit, I'd rather die than associate anything sexual with kids/minors and I think people who groom or assault kids are vile. But I still feel like the fact that I imagined stuff similar to the things I read sometimes when I was young is proof I'm a p*do. I don't think people would believe me if I said I'm not. I just feel like I don't deserve to live or that if I do, I'm living a lie. I know 'I was a kid too' but even when I was 13/14 I read/imagined stuff with characters younger than me because I thought it was normal. I'm so disgusted. I've had this theme for so long I'm starting to wonder if ocd is right. I feel too ashamed to tell my therapist.
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