I had a question for anyone willing to answer, what if your getting better at treating your ocd and once u get a disturbing thought you don’t feel guilty. That causes me to think that I’m a bad person because I don’t feel guilt. Then people will try to claim that if u do feel guilty about your intrusive thoughts that ur a good person I don’t get it .
I feel this is pretty common in the beginning of recovery. Getting treatment and finally starting to concur your anxiety, your OCD will start to want to trick you into thinking you haven’t gotten any better. This is a good example of an exposure you can use, because your OCD at this time wants you to continue to still do compulsions and find answers.
I feel the same exact way, the first two weeks I felt terrible when I had the thoughts and now I don’t get much guilt from them which makes me think I like them and it makes me think I’m a bad person
I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
What to do when we feel guilty about our ocd checking and compulsive behaviors?
I’m currently struggling with guilt from checking OCD. By this I mean, I feel guilty and shameful by my OCD checking because I feel as that was immoral and wrong and I really don’t know what to do. How can I fight this?
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