- Username
- skullkat
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’m so sorry for your panic attack, I hope you’re feeling better ❤️❤️❤️ yeah I’m SUUUPER scared of STD’s and they are a major trigger for me as well. Is there anything you do that helps alleviate the fear and pain? My goal is to get rich so I can just go to the doctors any time I have a thought of ‘what if I have this’ just to get it out of the way
I’m not in the exact same position as you, but I can very much relate. I have an OCD trigger of STDs and I’ve only ever been with my boyfriend. But we both get cold sores on our mouths. So I have almost constant fear that one day one of us is going to give it to the other in the down town region. And then all these other awful thoughts like yours follow. We won’t be able to have normal sex. With if he’s mad at me. What if I can’t have a baby. What if I can’t ever kiss my baby because my cold sores could shed even when I don’t have one. It’s literally torture. In face, I had a little panic over it a bit earlier tonight.
That’s always a nice thought ? I feel like I would be at the doctor’s way too much. With OCD I notice that the more I ask for reassurance the worse and worse it actually gets. It’s difficult to do, but trying to live with that uncertainty is usually what I do whenever I have a random ass health related OCD trigger. It’s sucks still though.
If you’re active sexually, it’s good to get tested for STDs every couple of months. There’s nothing wrong with having sex, but it is good to do it responsibly. I’d suggest getting tested and facing your fear! Many people on here get tested over and over again but don’t trust the tests. In THAT case I would say to stop testing. But in your case, it seems like the test is what you’re avoiding. Avoidance only reinforces fear, so face the fear!
After being sexually assaulted I developed a fear of sex and as a protection my OCD became obsessed with STDs and I’ve been tested a million times for everything they will test me for (they strongly recommended against testing me for herpes because everyone has it in some form and if you’re not showing symptoms and using protection it is near impossible to pass on so it doesn’t matter until you want to settle down and there is a big stigma) I’ve always come back clean, even for the random shit I googled like mycoplasma that I begged to be to be tested for. I still freak out. And now since I am starting to believe I am ok I don’t want to have sex with someone else Incase they infect me (even though if we use condoms and they get the routine test for HIV, Hep, Syphillis, Gonnorhea , and Chlymidia) the odds are slim. What do I do!!! And I agonize over whether I should disclose I have HPV even though my gyno says no because everyone has it (literally the CDC says that) and it goes away on its own almost always and dude to the lack of education it would do more harm than good. I think I am just finding reasons to avoid intimacy at this point and my OCD is making me intensely fearful about my sexual health in a very painful way to distract me, and I can’t deal. I’d rather just confront my issues.
Fun new obsession! I worked under a TA who I thought was super hot. I was happily committed to my now husband, but at the time I still harbored a lot of attraction toward this man, to the point of occasionally fantasizing about him. I felt awful about it then and I feel bad about it now. I’m trying to rack my brain and make sure nothing inappropriate ever happened, I can remember hoping he thought I looked good and wanting him to think I was funny but I never did anything besides my work when I was with him. I’m convinced this makes me a bad person or even worse, that I’m destined to cheat on my husband. Other instances happened when I was drunk, never to the point of cheating thank god, but flirtations with other men. This hasn’t happened since I was a freshman in college as I stopped heavily drinking and realized how much I needed to work to be the best version of myself. I constantly feel guilty, like I need to atone for what happened. This is almost worse than the crippling HOCD I’ve been fighting. Please help❤️ and thanks if you made it this far lol
is someone threw the same thing as me ? i feel so bad about things i’ve done while i was a pre/early teen, as sexual experimentation. It was Gross things that i’ll never do it again, i’m disgusted by it now. But i have so much guilt on me, i feel like i don’t deserve happiness after that. I know i was young and discovering sexuality but it don’t gives me enough relief. Thank guys, tell me how you feel about this.
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