Has anyone ever struggled with incest themed OCD? Recently, I’ve had thoughts about doing inappropriate things with my younger brother. Sometimes the thoughts come in the form of, “What if?” But at other times, it’s also “I want to” or, “You should do this right now!” 😭

I suffer from this. It is terrible, to be filled with images and thoughts about this theme. But ERP has helped me a lot.

Yes 👍🏻 ERP therapy will help you. And not taking the thoughts so seriously.

The initial exposure is actually reading about the content online - the disgusting content, you are trying to avoid. I also used writing down thoughts - saying i want this. Recording this on tape and hearing it again and again. This causes a lot of anxiety.

There are more exposures, but these are the inital ones. Telling yourself - don't take these thoughts seriously won't help. At least they didn't help. Once anxiety decreases, the thoughts will bother you less and less and you will feel better. I still have the thoughts though, and still suffer from anxiety, but not that extreme. And am still doing ERP

I deal with this too.

Yep, erp helps A LOT. One day i just stopped thinking of these thoughts as important.