How do you tell if it’s real attraction or ocd ? I feel so confused about attraction and sexual attraction ever done I been getting incest ocd . Part of me knows it’s ocd and the other part is low key scared it’s not. I don’t want to have attraction toward my brother or any family members. I just want this to stop. I keep praying to god that I go back to the Naja I used to be and I don’t think he’s listening. Please help .

You don’t tell, you have to make peace with not knowing with 100% certainty...because NOTHING in life is 100% certain...just chalk it up to the “human experience” ya know? Like intrusive thoughts are just that, they’re random and weird and crazy, I still struggle with Pure O, but realizing this helped me a lot. Your brain is a random danger-sensing machine, Incest is a danger it senses so it’s trying to freak you out by imagining this danger and keeping you as far away from it as possible, but it’s going a bit far so just let the thoughts happen and don’t follow them, acknowledge that some deep part of you is just a scared uncivilized animal but a much MUCH shallower part is sure that it’s bullshit, try some meditation

And remember MOST IMPORTANTLY accept that there’s some deep weird animal part of you that’s capable of gross weird shit...but literally everyone has that same part, they just don’t obsess about it as much, and while I’d say they’re more “healthy” than we currently are...it doesn’t make them better, the fact that we let these things bother us show how much empathy we have, like were probably much less likely to commit atrocities than an average person because of how vigilant we watch ourselves.... But that being said, it’s time to let cooler heads prevail, and trust ourselves more

Don’t give up keep praying and I will pray for happiness and peace in your life

I hope you feel better! There’s this mountain meditation that helps me out...check out the Anxiety Coaches Podcast episode called like “the mountain meditation” or something similar...it’s all about letting your thoughts pass without resistance, it’s VERY helpfull

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Thanks for the clarification

Thank you

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