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Please read ❤️😔 Sexual Intrusive Thoughts/HOCD?
If you read this whole thing and comment, I appreciate you. I know I have been posting a lot on here, I am sort of in a panicky state. I have been struggling a lot lately. I know asking for reassurance isn't good and that is not what I am trying to do here but I just need help. I need some support. Little backstory while trying to keep this short and to the point. About 5 months postpartum (I am currently 10 months postpartum now while writing this) I began having sexual intrusive thoughts involving my baby. That quickly turned into POCD because I couldn't stop obsessing over these images and thoughts causing more and more to happen. I will say the POCD comes in waves, but lately it has snowballed into something else. I will now have sexual intrusive thoughts towards random people not always involving my baby. It doesn't matter if you're a female or a male. I also have compulsive staring which I always had but never new it was OCD related. All of this has caused me to feel extremely perverted and I don't like the feeling at all. I can literally be looking at someones butt and not even realize I'm doing it. Or I can look at someones private parts out in public and not realize I am doing it but now my brain is on high alert so I notice it a lot more. I often think back to my past a lot and question if I have ever done anything weird. I feel like my compulsive staring has shown up while watching TV, looking at photographs, scrolling on social media - to the point where I want to delete my social media entirely. I remember one time I saw a picture on social media of this guy in literally see-thru pants and I zoomed in (NOT ANYTHING SEXUAL!) it was more like does he not realize his pants are totally see-thru?! type of thing. I will often compare my own body to other women's bodies I mean I think that is normal? Now I'm like what if I looked at a photo of a woman for too long on social media or zoomed in on a photo to see something does that make me perverted? Now forget it, if I even look at a women in a bathing suit or think to myself "she has a nice body" I will feel completely disgusted. I do think it is completely normal to have those types of thoughts like "she is a good looking" or "she is pretty" or "she has a nice body" and not have it mean anything sexual. But being that I have been dealing with the sexual intrusive thoughts towards others, it is kind of hard for me not to relate the two and question if I am perverted. I would never ever want to make anyone feel un comfortable. Even on social media I mean I think we have all clicked on someone's profile, scrolled through their page or photos, but now I feel totally wrong for doing that? It's like my OCD is making me feel like everything I do is wrong and perverted and I mean something sexual by it. I hate this feeling. I have to say, I love my husband dearly. I am very happy in my marriage and I care deeply about being a good mom, and good wife & an overall good person.