- Date posted
- 2y
Help
I feel scared writing this. Like many of you I am in the middle of "is this really OCD?" For a long time it wasn't really there beyond rOCD, but it started with some themes around being a monster in some way, and then pOCD. I think it has morphed into this fear about being attracted to teenagers and what it means about me. Like, if I find a 16 year old attractive, that means something horrible. Or what if I find an adult attractive that looks young? What if I am really more attracted to teenagers than people my own age? I don't have many intrusive thoughts but often get a surge of anxiety when seeing a high school or college aged person. When it first started out, I was concerned that it was children, but that has really stopped now. I would never do anything, but it's what it means about me (and honestly, being alone forever, which is my core fear around my relationship ocd- if it is ocd, really gets at that). I can't sit here and say that I don't feel attraction to teenagers on some level. It makes me so anxious and I can't stop thinking about it and I want it to go away. I even read an article a long time ago that finger ratios have something to do with prenatal hormones, and I have measured my hands a bunch because my hands are really weird. No matter what this is, it just feels hopeless. I don't want to be this way.