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- 3y
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- Date posted
- 3y
That's the thing... do you ever... You feel like you have to do the opposite so then OCD tells you to do the opposite, so now you must do the original thing so OCD tells you to do the original thing, and so on and you can't do either
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- 3y
Yes, that’s completely normal. Truly accepting is realizing it’s okay to do and to not do X. For example I had to hand someone their larger drink before their smaller drink, then I had to do it vise versa, but when I realized it didn’t matter what order I handed them out in and just grab one and hand it, is when my anxiety dissolved. Sometimes it helps to just do whatever you’re scared of, anything can become a compulsion if you worry about things becoming a compulsion.
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- 3y
Thank you
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- 22w
Why is it that you beat one OCD think, but another OCD thing comes up related to it, but the same theme?
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- 18w
I can be way too hard on myself and beat myself up over the smallest slip up in regards to OCD. Sometimes it can feel like I'm gaslighting myself on what was "so blatantly and obviously a moral atrocity in thought and intent", when 95% of the time I'm not even sure what my own intent with dealing with these thoughts is or why I do what I do. It makes me feel like some shameless beast for "daring to even entertain the thought of something so VILE!!!" When I just get so confused and scared on moral issues, like my mind is pulled down a rabbit hole I can't escape until the tricks are done on me and it's too late, i've accepted such ideas I hate until that hate and trying to not give in convince me "it might not be that bad". It feels like anything, even the most mundane things can trigger this. This cycle happens mainly because I feel like there's "no way to escape committing more 'attrocities' in thought or compulsion anyway"...and these cycles become the basis for more of these incidents. there a way to stop this? There have been multiple times where I called myself the R word, and even knowing it's a slur I still called myself that because "I'm nothing if not deserving of such scorn". Any attempt to stop the madness makes it worse and it's like all this I talked about is so convincing I dare not question it until after the fact. Please help.
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- 17w
I already wrote about this and you really helped me, but now I wondered?! During the erp, I look at a picture of that person with some grimaces that the brain sexualizes, otherwise I have incest ocd! The person is of my gender, I'm not gay otherwise. And then, based on those facial expressions, the brain creates sexual images in my head, which I often feel as sexual and mental arousel. It is enough to see the picture or hear the voice of that person! Based on the pictures it gives me the idea of sexually touching myself on it and climaxing while watching. I feel an urge (I tried something like that a few times ago and now I'm afraid of it), and then the exercise is over, but I stay until I get the answer I want and the feelings that would calm me down, but that happens less and less... Have you had any experience, and is it a compulsion? how can I stay after exercise with that feeling of reality.. Thank you in advance❤️
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