Here to help you with your OCD! Please read! Long post! Possible TW. (Before we start, I have not beat my ocd... yet! But I’ve greatly decreased the impact of it) Also, what works for me, might not for you... but here we go. I suffer from POCD, and it’s been absolute hell, and even is to this day. I hate it. Much like you guys hate your OCD. When this all started one October evening, I thought my life was over, I thought I was a freak, a monster, and that I was destined for life in prison and sentenced to an afterlife in hell. Every child I would see, my mind would tell me to look them over, find attractive parts about them, even go as far as convincing me I have feelings for a particular child. I didn’t know what to do anymore, I cried to my family, didn’t understand how my mind could flip a switch and just change on me. I started getting rushes of memories (in which I hope are false memories) they would tell me of times I might of looked at a child in a sexual way, times I may of touched a child inappropriately and suppressed it until this spike happened. I’ve been through it all with this POCD. And while I’m not healed yet, not even close, I’m hopeful. Here’s how I’ve been starting to heal. In mid January I visited an OCD specialist, and she instantly told me I had OCD, she recommended an SSRI and to set up more meetings with her to help. I was unable to do that due to work, so I had to find another way to cope. I took the SSRI which happened to be Lexapro, and my god did it help me. While it may not help everyone, it made my thoughts less impactful. I started researching OCD on this app, on the OCD reddit and other websites. And I really started to get an understanding of this disorder. Here are some incredible recourses I can’t recommend enough: -OCDRecoveryuk Instagram. This page is full off posts on how to overcome OCD. Their are archived live-streams in which he goes in-depth with all types of OCD. A million times worth it. Please check it out. -Ally Graymond on both YouTube and Instagram. Ally has incredibly inspirational and informational short YouTube videos on how to start working on OCD Recovery. -Mark Freeman on YouTube. Honestly just a likable dude, he also goes in depth on OCD and ways to cope. Through these resources, many other resources and my SSRI, the OCD has started to lift. And I think, I hope, I strive to reach that light at the end of the tunnel. And theirs hope for you too. You’ve just got to fight. Please keep fighting. Not to reassure, but it will get better. For all of us. Can you prove that you and I aren’t that Pedophile, or that murderer, or that you aren’t going to get sick from touching that sink? Nope, and you probably won’t. And that’s okay, you can live making the choices YOU want too. And nothing else matters. You didn’t choose this. But you now currently have the choices laid out in front of you. Good luck brothers and sisters of OCD. May happiness be right around the corner.