- Date posted
- 2y
I never see this talked about really
hi! My theme that I’ve had now for a while has been harm ocd but reversed. My ocd revolves around a fear or someone assaulting or raping me. I have had so many ocd themes before (I’ve had ocd since I can remember) but this current theme I’m dealing w I see no one ever talk about which gives me anxiety.. Basically this happened when I was having lots of checking ocd and contamination ocd and it was after a big change in my life. I was feeling lots of general anxiety and my ocd was flaring up and it was during the time of the me too movement (it had just started in 2017). Basically one day I was in bed on the computer on Facebook and I came across this article - girls boyfriend rapes her. At this moment (and I can remember the exact moment) my brain BROKE. I got a (what I now know) to be a false memory. It was of my boyfriend doing this to me (DID NOT HAPPEN AND I KNOW IT DIDNT HAPPEN!) basically it made me scan my memory- and then it told me that it didn’t happen like I knew it happened and added on memories of something that DIDNT happen! At this moment I started even saying out loud this didn’t happen why am I thinking this omg stop stop. Well it didn’t stop it just got worse. I then went into a rabbit hold- checking my memories, googling, reading stories online, looking at statistics. In my head all day my brain would be saying “rape rape rape”. At the time what I thought were weird “quirks” was OCD and i had no idea I had ocd! This is what led me to getting diagnosed (three time by three different ppl bc I wasn’t convinced) and with ocd and I realized and was told by my dr that the weird anxiety “quirks” (compulsions) I would do related to all my themes was ocd!!!! Well I didn’t start therapy until a while later bc I was so embarrassed and scared bc these thoughts were over taking my life. Anyways I never told my boyfriend I was having these crazy thoughts and then it made things bad bc during sex I would have intrusive thoughts and it would be distressing (even tho I wanted to have sex) bc my mind would be literally saying is this rape bla bla bla. Anyways the thing I now am obsessing about is a time when me and my boyfriend had sex and my ocd won’t let this go. Basically what happened is we were laying in bed he asked me if I wanted to have sex (I was fine w it but my ocd started saying shit) so I said maybe later! Then lil later he asked if we could just put it in and lay there (sometimes we would do this before going to sleep tmi) anyways we were laying there (he didn’t start having sex w me) I said to him are we gonna have sex yes or no? He didn’t answer me verbally he answered non verbally and was like mmm and started moving a little and imitating it bc I asked (just to clarify he was Not Bring pushy I was fine w us doing it all I didn’t care I could have said NO at any time point ! ) anyways bc he didn’t answer me my ocd was like “why didn’t he answer u u need an answer, ask him again, is this rape?! Are h allowed to be doing this bc u said maybe later earlier is this allowed?!” And bc of these Intrusive thoughts I listened to my ocd and turned and said are we having sex yes or no? And this stopped us and he replied oh yes it feels good? And I said okay ! And turned and we then continued. Well my ocd has been obsessing on this event now. And I didn’t remember it organically I remembered it bc ocd was scanning thru my memories and then started obsessing. It started adding false things into the memory (it would tell me that he started just randomly having sex w me before I asked if we were gonna) and then my ocd would tell me that what if it happened like this what if it happened like that what if u didn’t wanna have sex what if what if. Like non stop. I’m scared bc it won’t go away and it gives me anxiety bc I don’t want to think about this! I even talked to my boyfriend recently about this and he t confirmed the real memory (the only reason he initiated or started was bc I said are we gonna have sex ? Which was me initiating it….) but this doesn’t help bc my ocd says what if he lying. This literally never ends and I can’t take it anymore! Can someone please help