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OCD and sex
Does anyone else have trouble weeding out thoughts of taboo sexual situations?
Does anyone else have trouble weeding out thoughts of taboo sexual situations?
I have struggled with pedophilia ocd for the last 15 years. I suffered in silence for all that time, never telling a soul. I have been going through ERP therapy for almost a year now and things have gotten so much better. If you had told me a year ago that I would not only be posting on a forum, but actually typing "the P word" out for the world to see, I never would have believed you. I know how scary it is. I know what it feels like. I came so close to suicide so many times. You are not alone.
You’re not alone! I’ve been struggling with intrusive thoughts during sex that I have such a hard time accepting, which I know makes them even worse. I’m so embarrassed about them and even nervous to talk about it in therapy. I think taking the approach of self-compassion is what you need to begin with here, because feeling the judgements about yourself / your thoughts only brings more distress.
I get taboo intrusive thoughts while being intimate with my bf and it feels terrible, but usually I can understand what my mind is trying to do. I think if you have sexual obsessions you dislike of COURSE your mind is going to try to conjure them up and make you uncomfortable while doing something sexual! I usually realize the pattern of what my brain is trying to do and can say yeah I know what’s trying to happen here, not gonna let this bother me!
That used to be a huge struggle of mine, but it subsided, I used to work in the school system and OCD seems to attack what you value most and I valued the children and their safety and their wellbeing, but I felt I couldn't even touch them out of fear I'd be somehow molesting them...even just a pat on the shoulder or a high five...it made me feel like I'd never be able to have my own children
I get sexual intrusive thoughts with groinals daily. It doesn't that it's mostly reinforced by the pornography in the past. That's all that goes through my head. I would like one day where I'm not thinking of sex at all and just focused on what I need to be focused on.
I’ve been struggling with something like this— would you be comfortable being more specific?
Not same sex stuff, although, same sex attraction has been permeating my mind, just anything illegal or anything that would cause close relative and friends to be disgusted. I feel like a lot of my OCD is terribly embarrassing and would cause others to hate me out of misunderstanding
What is self comparison?
sorry— self compassion
@bagelwithbutter OH! yeah, I need to practice that way more
i struggle with this as well!
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
Being exposed to taboo p*rn as young as first grade ruined my life and now ocd is making me pay for it. I have so much guilt for being a child/teen and looking at taboo stuff, and it was all fictional or anime or whatever but it was still so so gross. and I didn't realize It because I had been used to it at so young 🫠 I think what haunts me most is when I was a kid/young teen (like 12-14ish) and didn't have access to p*rn I'd imagine stuff similar to what I'd seen in the art. I can't even believe I'd imagine scenarios involving kid characters or whatever because it had been so normalized to me and I assumed it was normal since it was fiction. I'm 23 now so it's been a decade since I've done anything like that and I've never had the urge to since but still. I've NEVER been attracted to kids or had any urges or anything ever, even when I was addicted. The thought makes me want to vomit, I'd rather die than associate anything sexual with kids/minors and I think people who groom or assault kids are vile. But I still feel like the fact that I imagined stuff similar to the things I read sometimes when I was young is proof I'm a p*do. I don't think people would believe me if I said I'm not. I just feel like I don't deserve to live or that if I do, I'm living a lie. I know 'I was a kid too' but even when I was 13/14 I read/imagined stuff with characters younger than me because I thought it was normal. I'm so disgusted. I've had this theme for so long I'm starting to wonder if ocd is right. I feel too ashamed to tell my therapist.
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