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- 6y ago
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
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- 6y ago
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
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- 6y ago
Don’t give up keep praying and I will pray for happiness and peace in your life
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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
* since
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- 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification
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- 6y ago
Thank you
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- 6y ago
i have this ocd
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- 20w ago
Pocd feels real again and I can’t tell if I’m actually attracted or not. can’t believe it got this bad again. I used to be able to go “no I don’t like that, go away” and now it feels like I do like it and want it, and it’s starting to linger longer so it feels more real. I’m avoiding checking but I’m so scared that what if it’s true. Is it because I have not been doing my exposures? I’m not sure, but every time a 14 year old person comes to my head, I keep hearing something go “they’re attractive” and it sounds like me so I panic, and it makes me even more scared because I’m not feeling bad about it??? I saw some kid at Walmart that had long black hair and my brain kept saying shit and no matter how much I say I don’t feel that way, it won’t shut up, i want to check 1000 times to make sure. But I know it’s not worth it. I’m trying so hard
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- 15w ago
Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 14w ago
I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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