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- OCD Conqueror
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- 1y ago
How to stop being afraid of
How to stop being afraid of Being Arrested.. And thrown in jail? And never being able to prove my Innocence?
How to stop being afraid of Being Arrested.. And thrown in jail? And never being able to prove my Innocence?
If the anticipatory dread of reading it is making you anxious- consider doing so sooner rather than later. If the erp sessions was really intense from writing it out, give yourself a break and permission to do something you enjoy as a reward and a calming tool. If you are too anxious to do that try breathing and mindfulness - I like this one: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/5-4-3-2-1-countdown-to-make-anxiety-blast-off š
Wonderful thank you so much.... Can I ask you one connected thing please? When doing the worse case scenario script... I have to read it 10 minutes a day repeating it What should I be doing when I get the fear and anxiety?
ERP therapy to help you manage the fears.
@Erin P Exactly this!
I started the ERP Today it was to write out the worse case scenario but I am so jacked up after the ERP session today What would you recommend ladies? I have to read it next few days Any tips?
Feel and accept it. For me just feeling it doesnāt work. But when I accept it could happen and feel the feelings they do go down and it gets easier each time. Itās hard but you can do it. Sending you strength.
Thank you Erin... I'm ready to do this :)
@donnocd You got this.
Your brain is trying to protect you. Thatās why the anxiety feels so real but itās a false sense of danger. Intrusive thoughts canāt hurt you and youāre in no physical danger and no one else is either. Itās a false alarm. Your brain is on lock good news you can get it off lock you have to learn how to put all this power you put into the ruminations and anxiety into other productive activities then you can accomplish amazing things.
Fear will kill you you canāt fear anymore you canāt be scared you need to show your brain irrelevance and show your brain Youāre not scared. Itās a false alarm youāre perceiving a false threat. ļæ¼ Once youāre able to change your relationship with your thoughts, thatās when your healing will begin and once youāre able to say youāre not scared, youāll begin to heal.
Jacked up in a bad way Feeling very anxious that's been hours now
I remembered something I did a couple of months ago that has changed me completely from trusting myself it was a conversation I had with my cousin and something they said unrelated made me remember this happening, I went into a full blown identity crisis i couldnāt walk out of my room or get out of my bed for months paranoid and scared of everything Iām still scared and feel like I donāt even deserve to shower Iām working on it slowly each day but I knew I had to get a therapist and I was diagnosed with ocd because of this event I remembered, and I just donāt know what to doā¦. I read online that it doesnāt matter how little or bad the event is itās still ocd regardless when diagnosed but I know I have a compulsion to see others real events and it is nothing compared to mine which I shouldnāt compare but itās difficult because no matter what I have to come to terms that itās undeniably bad legally and morally what I did and itās just so confusing how itās something I JUST learned about months ago Iām literally in my mid 20s, and I went years without even realizing how troubled my childhood was and yes my real event happened during that time but I was still a teen and old enough to know better but I didnāt understand the magnitude of what I did at the time still no excuse though, this is where I donāt know what To do because 1. I already know what I did was awful and thereās no excuse for it 2. I canāt apologize in my situation that I donāt feel comfortable sharing specifics yet3. Yes I know I changed so much obviously Iām a grown adult now I know whatās appropriate and whatās not thatās why Iām so troubled over this and I never did anything like that again, Iām literally in the happiest relationship and seeing a therapist to also help me understand all this trauma, this event involved my cousin but even they are cool with me and very close as well hasnāt said anything I donāt know if they remember or not but itās not something I can talk about with them at least not yet (again just donāt want to go in to specifics) but this is why is so confusing and has caused me to have intrusive thoughts about everything EVERYTHING the what ifs what if they remember what if I go to jail what if they hate me what if Iām denying who I have been and Iām this horrible person this whole time without even realizing and everything is a lie my relationship my joy for things what if Iām a ped, what if I canāt love or care what if Iām a person who just harms others manipulates I even spiraled thinking I was going to physically harm someoneā¦ itās very bizarre to me because before my OCD my biggest anxiety was just having to learn how to driveā¦Iām in my 20s just to mention that againš I have probably almost all intrusive ocd categories, These thoughts never existed in my head until I remembered my event it has completely traumatized me but do I even deserve to feel better do I deserve to get help if I did something unforgivable do I move on or donāt? Should I even be living life I just feel guilty even breathing stepping outside I know for a fact if people knew they would never trust me they would feel like I probably should go to jail but do I go on to what others feel or myself? I know I wouldnāt harm anyone regardless of what my ocd tells me I never did anything like that again and wouldnāt but if itās something that even legally I could be punished for does all of that not matter? Iām sorry Iām just trying to figure out what the right thing to do is , Iām continuing therapy and getting the help but obviously my therapist cannot say if I should be punished legally but even my boyfriend said that if I turned myself in they wouldnāt even take me seriously because I donāt even remember everything fully it was so long ago, but from what I do remember itās still bad enough mainly just of me being a teen, I donāt want to make that event my identity but I just am so freaked out I feel awful what if I caused trauma to another person and all these years I didnāt even know, this event only happened once that I remember, there were things that happened to me as a child that would explain why it happened but itās still not an excuse, I did a compulsion and googled what would it be called or the charges for it and the words that popped up triggered me to my core as anyone would feel if they were as stupid as me those words I googled are what monsters are so itās hard not to think of myself as that itās hard to not make that my identity if that IS what happened, is living with this guilt my punishment?I donāt want to give up on life I want to love and care and just love life I know this is complicated and a lot not much I can do but Iām just so lost.
My life has been hell, and I donāt know how to move on. I (15M) did awful things when I started high school, thinking being sexual was the way to connect. I crossed boundaries, overshared, and kept flirting with friends and making sexual jokes, even after they said no (all over text). One friend stopped talking to me and canāt even look at me now. I feel like a monster. Why shouldnāt I be locked up? If I got therapy, I feel like Iād be sent jail. How can I ever move on?Then there were these 2 guys who were older than me one was 16 one was 17. The 16 yr old was introduced to me by my online friend who is my best friend and I begged the 16 yr old for pics (idk how it started but after my friends ex randomly messaged me and sent me pictures and then blocked me right after I think I became addicted to chasing that high) the 16 yr old eventually sent me a pic but it was real and I stopped bugging him on it after that but i feel so bad I did that but my friend tells me not to feel bad cause the guy was weird but I still feel bad. Then the 17 yr old I did the same thing with him but went too far when I tried getting pics from him by using my best friends ass pics she sent me (she was 15) I donāt think I grasped how wrong this was but thatās not an excuse she eventually found it when I told her after she tried getting pics from the guy herself to try and help me and the guy got mad when she stopped talking to him cause we found it weird talking to him. I told her about how I sent the pics she said she felt sick but forgave me cause she thought I was gonna harm myself. Fast forward the guy told me after I had still been flirting with him that I s@d him (we never met in person ever) and I felt so guilty and apologized a lot and he got annoyed and told me that he had been kinda manipulative to me and kept me in a loop of mystery and I donāt talk to him anymore. But one of my other friends stopped talking to me after I was being by too emotionally taxing on him because I became very depressed and didnāt wanna life anymore and tried to stop lifing a few times. And now idk if I actually s@d someone if I did that to someone and now I think Iām a pdo and I think I s@d my baby cousins and my little brother and now Iām scared bf I canāt even get help because my parents donāt believe in therapy and even if I wanted to Iām scared because I donāt want to go to jail but I think I deserve it honestly why should a monster like me live.
Iām really struggling right now. My mind is racing and Iām panicking about the content that I watched in the past because I donāt have a way to āproveā that it was safe and consensual. I stupidly caved in and googled āwhat happens if an accidentally saw illegal pornā and I ended up making my anxiety so much worse. What if the images I saw in the past had underage people in them? Am I going to jail? Will my ip address be tracked? My brain is making all sorts of scenarios up and they feel so real. At this point I donāt know if Iām a bad person or not, I just feel like something terrible is about to happen. Although I know Iād never intentionally look for that kind of stuff thereās still a chance that I could have seen things without realising, and I actually donāt know what to do. Iām in total panic mode
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