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I do too. And it feels awful, but if you go into looking for reassurance and ruminate around the compulsion, when you finally solve it or "forgive yourself", your brain will send you more situations you didn't even remember. Believe me - My bran started with one a year ago and I did so many compulsion s around it that it eventually accumulated to five real life events. It can be super overwhelming.
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It is not about forgiving yourself - it is about accepting your humanity . Read about moral scrupulosity by Dr. Philipson - it's been very enlightening. He says that those of us with these type of obsessions have extremely high moral standards (super-human) and a very black and white thinking. Believe me, whatever you did is in the past and does not change who you are. You could have committed the most atrocious acts and I still wouldn't judge you.
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I feel for you, my friend. And I completely understand. You could have killed somebody and I wouldn't judge you still. I am not saying you should be proud but you are a human and making mistakes is part of the human experience. People kill children in war and they come back home praised as heroes - good and bad, right and wrong ... The important thing is that you ARE a different person now.
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Hi my dear friend. I believe I remember you saying in a post a while ago that you were a Christian. Is that true?
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Catlady I do believe in God yes, and I have a hope that he will forgive me. My anxiety lies in the fact that I will never be able to tell people close to me what I did for a lot of reasons including but not limited to, if they forgive me I still wouldn’t want them to know and think of me differently which they would. And not being able to tell them makes me feel like a liar, like I’m not my real self. Especially in terms of my relationship. Like he would leave me. I wish this wasn’t true but it is, if my boyfriend told me he did what I did I would leave him.
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I've had this, but it was not my worst OCD. Honestly--my contamination OCD has been my worst. And if you feel you owe your boyfriend a confession for something that awful...is it possible you really do need to tell him what's up?
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FernandoV I did something pretty bad though. I didn’t kill anyone/anything. But if that’s a level 10 of “bad” (I think even this can be forgiven but I’m just using this as a lame example) And lets say making fun of someone and teasing the crap out of them to the point where they leave school or get depressed is a “6” on the scale then what I did is easily an 8 in terms of the “measurement” I just came up with.
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Um no
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Fernando you’re a kind soul
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Being exposed to taboo p*rn as young as first grade ruined my life and now ocd is making me pay for it. I have so much guilt for being a child/teen and looking at taboo stuff, and it was all fictional or anime or whatever but it was still so so gross. and I didn't realize It because I had been used to it at so young 🫠 I think what haunts me most is when I was a kid/young teen (like 12-14ish) and didn't have access to p*rn I'd imagine stuff similar to what I'd seen in the art. I can't even believe I'd imagine scenarios involving kid characters or whatever because it had been so normalized to me and I assumed it was normal since it was fiction. I'm 23 now so it's been a decade since I've done anything like that and I've never had the urge to since but still. I've NEVER been attracted to kids or had any urges or anything ever, even when I was addicted. The thought makes me want to vomit, I'd rather die than associate anything sexual with kids/minors and I think people who groom or assault kids are vile. But I still feel like the fact that I imagined stuff similar to the things I read sometimes when I was young is proof I'm a p*do. I don't think people would believe me if I said I'm not. I just feel like I don't deserve to live or that if I do, I'm living a lie. I know 'I was a kid too' but even when I was 13/14 I read/imagined stuff with characters younger than me because I thought it was normal. I'm so disgusted. I've had this theme for so long I'm starting to wonder if ocd is right. I feel too ashamed to tell my therapist.
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17f Just like the title says. I came to realization that I lost a whole year of life. I remembered my real event in the end of january of 2024. Since then my life has been a living hell. Also kinda made a couple new smaller events through this year. And I know I deserve it cause my event was actually bad. Even people without ocd on reddit agree it was bad. It's still ocd, but I deserve it probably. For this whole year I haven't had a day when I wouldn't think of it. It became my default state to constantly have it on my mind. I walked around, pretended to have fun, talked to people. Most of the time I wasn't really there, I was thinking about my event. My event haunts me when I'm awake, when I'm asleep. I spend this whole year either freaking out, being depressed, thinking on methods to off myself, ruminating, seeking reassurance or trying to distract myself with books, TV shows, social media or daydreaming. Literally barely engaged with reality. So it's so hard to believe a whole year passed... I can barely remember anything that happened during this year. I can't believe this is my life. Probably doesn't really matter cause I don't plan on staying there that long. There is no way I'm going to experience piece with myself. So I will be out in a year or so, since my plan requires some time. Finally will end it all. It just feels very weird. A whole year passed. I was so deep down in my head I didn't even notice. It's scary.
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17f I have a lot of events, but my main and my worst one which is absolutely fucking diabolical was done when I was 14 and repeated when I was 16. Everytime I post something about real event ocd here people are like you are probably didn't do anything that bad, and when they hear what I did they are like yeah that's bad. Someone even asked me if I'm autistic cause "it's crazy how you didn't realize that the thing ypu were doing was wrong at this age." And I kinda agree, like it's fucked up It's just that my event is bad. Doesn't mean I don't have real event ocd. You can have a reocd over the event that was bad, it doesn't mean the event wasn't that bad or you don't have recod. It's just people always expect it to be something innocent and it's not Even a healthy person would feel guilty over it, it's just that I had ocd my whole life and it's making the guilt absolutely destructive, like to the point when I sometimes have a hard time breathing when I think about it, I lost more than a year of life to it, almost checked myself out couple of times if I wasn't so scared of pain/failure, the event haunts me in my dreams, it's in my head 24/7 and I will never able to forgive myself. That ocd. But the event itself was bad. So maybe i deserve it.
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