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- Walkingtalkingbreathing
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- 1y ago
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Does anybody here watch adult videos? (P0rn) Do you think it cause your brain to have intrusive thoughts about literally everything?
Does anybody here watch adult videos? (P0rn) Do you think it cause your brain to have intrusive thoughts about literally everything?
Porn influences OCD and doesn't have a good effect on it. It makes intrusive thoughts worse and can create obsessions. I know from personal experiences and the experiences of others. It's also common for intrusive thoughts to get worse during 'self intimacy' if you catch my drift, lol. I gave up porn for these reasons.
Thanks, I'm trying to quit too. 1 week strong
@Walkingtalkingbreathing So proud of you !!! š¤
YES this was one of the triggers for my recent flare up, had to get off of porn COMPLETELY (i have slip ups ofc but mostly w written smut) i used to look at nsfw twitter (stupidly bc i didnāt want pornhub in my search history incase my dad saw it although i used it occasionally) and i had come across a questionable video in someoneās likes (did not search for anything like it) that has sent me into multiple panic attacks and tbh i feel like iām experiencing low grade ptsd from things i have seen while browsing for porn porn and the ocd brain do not mix well. i feel itās also easier to get addicted. i for one would compulsively look at porn and not even get off to it
Heavy on the compulses šš
Dude I feel you so hard š OCD around porn is a nightmare
@Northern_Downpour im literally so happy someone can relate, tbh iāve been spending the majority of my days now on reddit researching this and itās a common problem on twitter itās worse w false memories too bc what i had seen was like borderline like they could have honestly been 20 i just canāt tell bc the image in my mind is blurry and it didnāt say their ages (although unfortunately burned into my brain)
My therapist had me watch porn as part of erp! Worst mistake ever! I completely lost sense of reality!!!! Porn is so bad for your brain! But Iām glad you donāt want to keep watching
I immediately switched my therapist after that session.
Yup. And it destroys my brain even more. I feel disgusting like a fucking monster šš
Same
Pornography and OCD are a very bad combination and I would recommend anyone who is going through OCD not watch porn at all. There are a variety of themes that can show up within these two things such as real event, hocd, and pocd. Checking compulsions are also very bad for OCD and porn. None of it is worth it and it's very debilitating. I'm someone that has struggled with porn for a long time and not watching it is a lot better than watching it for me personally. I saw that you are trying to quit in a reply above, and I'm proud of you for that!! :)
Thank you!!
@BigGip09 Yes but what do I do do I just use my imagination? Itās hard for me to do that because my intrusive thoughts , nothing is distracting me . I donāt know what to do
@Idktbh As hard as this sounds, I think a break from porn and masturbation is something that could help along with finding a hobby that can really keep you engaged. I know that's not easy and it seems easier to just escape with PMO. I have the same problem and it's very difficult to keep away from.
Every time I watch an explicit video, I obsessively worry about whether or not the person in the video was of legal age or if I unintentionally looked at a minor. This causes me to have intrusive OCD thoughts that I am some kind of horrible pedophile or that the FBI will arrest me. I'm currently experiencing an anxiety spike right now because of it. Can anyone else relate to this? I only want to watch videos of consenting adults, but the need for 100 percent certainty makes it difficult for me to stop questioning it. Because of my religious beliefs, things like pornography are outside of my ethical values anyways, so I really want to break the habit of watching it in any capacity (even if I knew for certain I couldn't accidentally stumble upon a video of a minor), but I struggle with doing that. Does anyone have any tips to stop engaging in lustful behaviors, and how to deal with catastrophic thinking about jail time and being a sick person because I'm paranoid about if the model could be underage?
Im terrified and highly triggered about what i think i saw. Trigger warning : p*rn I was using this p*rn site called sp*nkb*ng.com which I thought it was safe and that it only cointained adult videos, but now im not so sure. I had searched the category "japanese m*lf vr" because by typing the world m*lf I was more at ease thinking that I wouldn't have to worry about coming across anything triggering and strange. But while I was scrolling through the videos I came across this video which had as a thumbnail a highly disturbing image: there was this girl with a very small body and the arms looked very short (maybe they looked short because they were bent ?) I don't know if it just looked that way because the image in the thumbnail was distorted/on a weird angle or if the girl in the thumbnail happened to be a woman with an unusual small body. I didn't click on the video, I didn't dare to check in case my fear were to be revealed true, but I kept looking at the thumbnail in disbelief and in horror not believing what I was seeing, hoping that I had seen just wrong but nothing changed. I'm terrified that I might have saw something illegal. I feel extremely triggered and I'm currently in high distress. While I was searching about the legality and safety of these adult sites I saw this article and it triggered me a lot. The disturbing and disgusting words I had to read have tainted and stained my brain and now I have the worst and most disgusting words stuck in the chamber of my mind. I feel rotted and gross, I'm currently feeling the abomination and the evilness associated with these words. https://psychcentral.com/blog/sex-addiction/2013/04/legal-traps-for-internet-porn-users-5-ways-you-can-get-in-trouble?c=580741382859#1 I know the solution is to quit p*rn completely as it triggers those with ocd. But it's not easy. I was feeling excited and now I feel wrong and gross as if I commited a crime, like a complicit. I'm completely turned off. I feel horrible. Does anybody had something like this happen to them as well?
18+ Iām afraid that at some point I mightāve watched something illegal while I had a bad porn addiction as a teen- Iām not sure and thatās what haunts me. How could any of us know? How could we know the people in this porn are the age they say they are?! Why does this make me even more consumed with doom. I think rather dark stuff after that, concerning stuff for my well being cause I literally spiral so hard I feel as if Iām losing touch with reality. My panic attacks, my depression- all spurred on and taunted by a āwhat ifā Do normal people genuinely not think about this? Do normal people keep moving forward knowing thatās a possible risk? If so then what? What if your eyes saw that? How would you even keep living? Or wanting to.
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