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It’s okay, there’s such thing as looking ocd, which basically it’s like when I say “Don’t think about a pink elephant” you’re probably going to think of it, and if your brain is telling you to look and you look, it’s the same thing, it’s totally fine, the only thing you need to do is not give it any fuel, you glanced and that’s all, plus, I know OCD is makes it seem like a big deal, but it’s just a video game
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I know but I had a thought that was like a curious thought that if the characters are younger than would that part of the body be different or whatever because it’s an anime style and I don’t know if it was something I actually thought of or if it was intrusive but I feel so horrible and terrible like I actually thought that and what if it makes me a monster? I feel such a sense of doom and fear it’s unbearable
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@Just Breathe ❤️ I know exactly how you feel, it’s just curiosity, it’s attention to details that are put in the game, you’re totally fine, just don’t keep ruminating on what it means, if you give OCD an inch, it’ll take a mile
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@OCDHaver Yeah unfortunately it did and I was worrying so much all day about it. I’m home now but I was at work when it happened and I just wanted to cry and panic so badly and I couldn’t but I held it together until I got home. Unfortunately I told my mom about it and I shouldn’t have but for the time being I’m ok.
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@OCDHaver I just hope to God I’m not a monster. I don’t want to be because of that. I feel like that’s something a monster would of done but I don’t know if it’s ocd telling me that or if I should really be worried about it
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@Just Breathe ❤️ You’re not a monster, you’re human, trust me, there is real evil in this world and your OCD wants to make you believe that’s what you are, but what we’re going through is a mental disorder that inflates everything by 1000, whenever I feel panicked about something, I usually vent to my friend, and a lot of times he laughs, I don’t see it as rude, because he’s laughing because it really isn’t a big deal, and I can tell it’s not a big deal as well but my brain won’t let it go. You’re OCD will make you try to figure out something that needs no attention at all, if what you said makes you a monster, then everyone on the planet is completely vile and decrepit, you’re a human being and thoughts come in and go, a lot of times they don’t even make sense, your brain will think of the weirdest things, but they’re just thoughts, just don’t overthink, sadly you’re at a point where you’re a perfectionist and dealing with moral scrupulosity, if you’re not perfect and good all the time, then you’re a monster, if you have thoughts that you don’t want to have, you’re a disgusting and depraved human being, that’s not how it works, one of the greatest things my therapist told me when I was scared that I’ve offended someone or might do something bad unrelated to POCD, she told me that it’s impossible to go through life without doing something questionable, dumb or that could possibly hurt others, but it’s how you choose to learn and move forward from that that shows the person you are, and this about the video game, is really nothing at all
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@OCDHaver Thank you for your help I appreciate it. It just feels so wrong and scary. I typed out basically what I talked about in my post and more and had my mom read it she said I’m blowing it way out of proportion and making it into something it isn’t because that’s what OCD does. I wish I could believe that
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@OCDHaver Now I’m freaking out again because when I told my mom, what if she didn’t get it or didn’t realize what I meant by the characters being “younger”. Should I talk to her again?
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@Just Breathe ❤️ No, I had the exact same problem with my mom, I confessed and confessed to her and I was also terrified that she didn’t understand me correctly. By confessing and trying to reiterate, your just giving your OCD more attention and your thoughts more power
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@OCDHaver That’s true and she knows what I struggle with in ocd so I’m sure she gets it. She also gets very frustrated with me when I keep confessing too
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@Just Breathe ❤️ My mom gets frustrated as well, a lot of people do because if they told you once and they keep repeating or see you’re not getting better, it can be frustrating, but we have to learn to not give attention to our thoughts
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@OCDHaver Very true. I appreciate your help thank you so much
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@Just Breathe ❤️ Of course, don’t lose faith, I truly believe you’re a good person
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@OCDHaver Thank you and you too :)
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I’m not going to play the game anymore. I can’t do this. What if I’m a monster now? 💔
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- 21w
I’ve been dealing with a lot of anxiety and uncertainty I think I’m really struggling right now. I was in my alone time (self pleasure) and obviously like whenever you’re doing your thing you might have fantasies or whatever and that’s what came into my mind in the moment and then all of a sudden I get a flashback from a scene from pretty little liars came into my mind where Emily kisses Ali on the neck. In pilot actor who played Allison was 12 years old, which the pilot was the first episode I believe but in the rest of the season of season one she was 13 and that flashback was in season one as well after the pilot and I’m really worried that I might have self pleasure to myself to that scene even though I knew all this time that she was 13 in that scene and I don’t feel comfortable because I’m 16 and even though like it’s not too much of an age gap it’s still polished me and I’m scared to death right now, but I didn’t panic immediately because I think I somewhat kinda knew in the moment that I probably didn’t do anything bad but I am not 100% sure and then the more I thought about it, I started to panic even more and now I’m panicking even more now and I feel like a really big pedo, and I keep searching and googling and trying to check for her age to see how old she was in that scene and I’m pretty sure she was 13 but I promise I wasn’t intentionally thinking oh yeah I’m gonna self pressure myself to this scene regardlessof her age. No, I’m just afraid I probably did without even like realizing or registering the thought in my mind, but then at the same time I kind of feel like maybe I was just coexisting with a thought and now I’m scared I’m really scared guys.
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- 16w
I have this same situation replaying in my head. It has to do with porn so if your young just know this may be a little graphic. I tend to use Twitter for porn and the reason I do this is it’s a lot more direct I can type in what I want to see and it’s there I don’t have to go through unknown websites and hope not to get viruses, and to be a little more specific more amateur/ real sexual experiences come up on Twitter rather than porn pages with staged written scenes. So in my use of Twitter for this there’s been times when questionable material/ illegal material has come up and never did I save it knowing it was 100% illegal or even interact with it if I knew it was 100% illegal. I was 18 or 19 at the time of this and I started to fear that in these moments I would look at these illegal videos/ sketchy videos to long when they would pop up like for example I remember seeing a video that was 100% illegal content and I was so shocked and like confused that I looked at it for a moment and then left and then I went back to look at it again just to confirm that I was seeing what I thought I was seeing I also remember seeing videos that were in a 18+ section but sometimes the girls in the videos looked like they could be 15-17. As we all know 18 year olds can look anywhere from 15-17 or even younger these days so I would be cautious and use my context clues and what I knew when watching videos that I was suspicious about but had no proof of them being illegal aside from my thoughts and the person looking young. So with this and me worrying I got super scared and hyper aware of what I was watching and now I remember me going back on Twitter to look at content that I was intending to be 18+ but all I would think about is what if something illegal would come up what if I see it and I look for to long or what if I feel attracted and I like it. And I just remember going back to Twitter to look at legal porn but it felt like I was there so that something illegal could come up to see how I’d naturally react to it. Never did I go and type in key words or type in anything illegal in fact I remember times I would strictly put 18+ next to whatever I was searching so I could be sure everything was legal but sometimes it would feel like my hope and intention was that I would see something illegal so that I could feel that anxiety rush or just to see how I would react naturally to seeing it and I feel like this would count as me intentionally looking for it so now I feel disgusting and like I committed a crime. Sometimes I just feel like I was only looking at porn because I wanted to feel that anxiety of what if something bad comes up and how would I react. I know deep down I didn’t want to see illegal content and that I was probably just feeling that I wanted to check how id feel if it did come up but now I feel like I was intentionally looking and that my whole objective was for something questionable to come up so I can see how I react. Is this ocd or did I just make a horrible decision?
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My whole life I’ve kind of stared at people’s crotches whenever they’re wearing something revealing a bikini. I feel like I’ve always searched to see if I can see an outline or something or anything because it’s so revealing. It kind of feels like curiosity I don’t know how to describe it. I did this before my OCD got bad and I do this now. I feel scared that I’m doing something I shouldn’t be. I’m scared that I’m doing something perverted. What scares me the most is that about a year ago this happened with my boyfriend sister. She was 15 at the time. I didn’t think much about it. I stared, searched and moved on. But now I really question if I did something awful or if my intentions were perverted. I’m questioning whether it’s okay to even have curiosity about this. Maybe this is normal and people don’t analyze their behavior, I don’t know. I had a theory that this has been a compulsion all along but right now it feels fully out the window. I haven’t been able to stop crying. I really need someone’s input or perspective. Please.
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