Man I hate ocd

Care to share what your going through?

Please don’t give in to the OCD. Avoiding the fear will only make your OCD stronger. I know you can recover. We all can. Have you had any therapy yet?

I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that. I have HOCD so I understand the feeling of totally wanting to swear off sex. Like it would be easier somehow. You are not alone. The bests thing you could do is challenge the thoughts by having sex. It will for sure be anxiety inducing and scary in the beginning but it will help! OCD is a bully that you have to stand up to!

The symptoms of ocd are really tough.

Cognitive behavioural treatment and meds can alleviate our symptoms. I know this because I have tried both of them and they worked on me!!!

Nonstop ocd thoughts about sexual abuse. It's enough to make mr swear off sex forever and to seek out treatment to remove all sexual urges from my body.

I still think the best thing is to ensure that I become incapable of sex. I'm a virgin so I wish to remain one for the rest of my life. I just cant see myself enjoying sex so I should just get rid of those feelings. Besides, abstinence will keep people safe

I was recommended to an intensive outpatient program, I might go there in the summer. I might have to take a year off from college. But no sex has become important to me, how can I enjoy something that has hurt so many people and continue to hurt them. My recovery will include living a celibate life free from sexual desire through medication. Besides, I dont need sex to live

*Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse Hey, I’ve seen a couple of your posts on here. By wanting to swear off sex, ‘chemically castrate’ yourself, or live a life free from horniness and sexual urges (or whatever it was you mentioned- I can’t exactly remember) you are conceding to your ocd. You are handing over meaning to your once meaningless thoughts. Sexual abuse is a terrible terrible thing, you and I both know. But (to anyone whose reading this) when you just read that previous sentence and thought about the word- did that mean anything about who you are as a person? It is an IMPOSSIBLE task you are requiring your brain to do- for a meaningless goal. You are wanting your brain to never think of these scary things because you believe that it somehow harms survivors, or means you are in fact ‘flawed’ and capable of it. This could NOT be further from the truth. I think one of the saddest thing about ocd is the authority we hand over to something so... fruitless. A thought is intangible, so fleeting, and we have trillions of them of varying topics over a lifetime. But we decide to shackle ourselves to some of them. We bear the whip and lash of some, over others, because we have misinformation about what it means to think. Whenever you post something on here, I see so much self-punishment in your words. You want to punish yourself for the thoughts that you have that flutter across everyone else’s brain around you too. They are furiously reoccurring for you because the anxiety that has attached to them has completely conceded the deed to who you believe you are as a person and you are battling yourself to try and disprove that which was never true to begin with. You are fighting a loosing battle. We have lived a life of so many experiences of many terrible and many good things. We have seen so much in movies, books we’ve read, and the world in front of us. Our brains are the last frontier on the human body- it’s cognition is limitless. We cannot confine our brains to only think of holy things to be holy people. That is a fundamentally flawed equation. Thinking is one of the most ambiguous human actions that all of us with ocd (more specifically pure o) have utterly and completely misconstrued. Your brain tells you that you are the scum of the earth, that people are hurting cause of people like you, that thinking these thoughts and seeing these images over and over and over is the breeding ground on that brain for people who commit sexual assault. Once again, this could not be further from the truth. This displays the limitlessness of our minds. We can be completely and totally convinced of things that aren’t true. I think you know the way out, but you are fearful to begin to try because of this self-punishing rhetoric. It is only your life outlook that will be affected no matter what you do- not anyone’s who has dealt with sexual assault. Their well being is not in your hands. Only yours. Give yourself a break, friend.❤️ [note: this is not meant AT ALL to diminish anyone’s actual experience of sexual assault- simply to overcome a disorder we know all to well to be a chameleon. my heart goes out to you]

You should definitely go through the program if you were recommended. There’s no shame in taking time off to get the help you need. You can’t put the pain others have felt on yourself. That’s not your fault and you didn’t cause it. You’re right, you don’t need sex to live. You could indeed live a life of celibacy but I truly hope therapy shows you that you don’t have to.