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I just like to have everyone know there not alone. I've had so much subtypes of ocd I was a mess I didn't ever think I was gonna be able to get better. But I did and all you really gotta do is ask for help and be honest.
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This has been one of my biggest fears, but I’ve never started therapy in the first place. I can’t say much of help because of that but I imagine she’d at least not judge you for it. As a therapist, she’s probably seen/heard a lot, including actual pedophiles. Idk, just a thought! Sorry
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If you don't be honest with your therapist an tell her the true problem. She won't be able to help you. I was in the same situation as you I was scared embarrassed had guilt. But once you open up an tell her you'll get the weight off your shoulders an she will be able to help you with your true problem. Believe me I'm in a way better place ever since I was honest with my therapist and phyctrist.
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Stories like yours are genuinely a big help for people like me. Thank you!
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Sounds like me, I just continue telling my therapist I'm all fine even though I'm not. Scared what he's gonna think about me when I tell him about my POCD etc etc.
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I totally get where you are coming from. Is your therapist an OCD specialist?
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I used to have the sexual intrusive thoughts stuff, and let me just tell you that it isSOOO common in OCD that therapists know to look for it. Like, my therapist flat out asked me if that was one of my worries, so while I get the fear, please know that they are trained not to judge
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- 22w
(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I have therapy today and I’m nervous. I just started going to therapy and I really like my therapist. She talked to me about doing ERP and I’m really nervous about it. I’m scared to tell her the extent of my OCD, and my themes. I’m scared to tell her about my false memory OCD, because I’m scared that what I did was real and I’m just excusing it as false memory, although I have no memory of it. I’m scared that I am truly a monster and I’m using OCD as an excuse—and that she’ll find out and distance herself. I’m just scared that my whole world is gonna fall apart, all around me.
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so like i was like researching spirituality and i saw that when spiritual awakening happens you kind of question yourself and your values then i saw a shadow work video and they said if you judge someone its because somewhere deep down youre like them , so im scared what if im a pedo and someone did a tarot reading on me once and i dont really remember the exact words but they mentioned something about how im avoiding the truth or something like that and the first thing that came to my mind was being a pedo and incest and recently ive been ignoring all the thoughts cause i was exhausted from doing so many compulsions then i got scared that if i go to therapy they will just tell me what i want to hear. im so scared
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- 17w
Im 16 years old and female and up until very late last year and this year I’ve been having thought almost every day that I’m a pedophile or that I’m sexually attracted to or want a romantic relationship with child. I don’t know how to explain it and I don’t want judgment because I’m genuinely so scared and disgusted, but anytime I’m around children I feel my chest tighten, my body feels warm and it feels like I don’t know how to breathe. I sometimes get a groomer response but even then I don’t know if it’s a ground response or not. Also I tend to stare at children when I’m anywhere near them, I feel like if I don’t I’m a weirdo and if I don’t look at them it means I’m attracted to them which I guess could be POCD but I feel like I stare at them inappropriately. Not too long ago maybe three weeks ago I went to the park with my family and there were two girls in their swim suits and I was looking at their backsides and I felt really anxious and scared like I usually do but I felt so upset by looking at them that way and now I’m scared to go to pools or splash pads because every time I do I feel like I stare at them gross and I just feel so disgusted with myself. When I tell myself not to look I end up looking and then I stare. I feel better when I’m not around them but even then, I look back at what I saw earlier that day and I feel anxious again and then I look up what’s been happening and then I feel more worried it’s not OCD. My friends who have OCD say I might have it but I can’t get a therapist, I can’t talk to anyone I’m scared I’ll be put in jail and that I’m not a good person. I’ve never head thoughts like this until this year and near the end of last year and they come now? I don’t know what to do.
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