- Username
- lilye
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Funny - Everyone has intrusive thoughts. The priest, the Pope and even the Buddhist monk. Everyone.
It’s just another way ocd trying to scare you keeping you in the loop my psychologist would flare up my ocd as well
I would get triggered but I have already gotten triggered by something similar many times to the point that this is usual stuff (unfortunately ?) but the actual best thing you can do is to NOT overthink do NOT explore the doubt. I'm still working on this but when I manage to, I notice how I usually just forget what BS thought came up. I do feel like I can remember if I linger too much but I just have to snap out of the pull to overthink and go over it over and over and try to focus on whatever video or something entertaining that I was watching.
I've had this shit going on 5 years (can't believe I've made it this long tbh) and have learned the hard way that once you pay attention to a new thought, it will keep getting worse. I know it is so difficult but train your awareness and know when you are starting to get triggered and zeeeep move on to something that requires some focus and whenever you feel shit coming up zeeeeep focus on what is actually going on not what is in your head. I'm new on here so hit me up any time ✌
Thank you for your answers!I know I’m supposed to ignore the thoughts, accept them and that everyone has them on a certain degree but they’re terrifying and graphic, it literally stands against everything I am as a person (or not? that’s the fear right there). I’m literally having a one on one fight with my brain lol. And welcome to our community MrSnake!
TW: I’m so desperate lately. I can’t sleep, eat or do anything else than feeling anxious and unworthy, full of guilt. A couple of days ago I had sex with my boyfriend and wasn’t turned on and suddenly I thought about something that would turn me on in that moment, thought of different things and suddenly I thought „Just think about children, just this one time“ and I feel like I didn’t do anything against it, I even think I enjoyed it and since then I’m full of fear because I always thought OCD means you do not have these thoughts because you want them but because you can’t control them and you do not act on them. But now I feel like I have and I can’t stop thinking I really am a pedophile now. I feel so anxious depressed and guilty and I do not know what to do, I went to my therapist today and she said it’s my POCD, but I feel like a liar, I’m feeling like maybe I don’t have POCD, I am just denying what I truly am it is horrible I don’t know what to do or think. I’m lost
I have pure O and I have terrible images and thoughts in my head.Its so scary and I hate it .It has brought my life to a complete stand still.I feel like a bad person...
For the last three years I’ve been dealing with OCD, I’ve definitely had it all my life but up until now I was completely fine. This deals with some sensitive topics so read at your own discretion. I knew I had POCD way before, as I would just glance at a kid and my mind would conjure up the worst, most evil things imaginable. I would brush these off because I had a vague idea of what an intrusive thought was, even now I’m not sure if it’s POCD or if it’s real. I’ve dug deep into things I did as a child and in my early teens, even stuff from about a year or two ago. I can’t tell what’s real and what’s not anymore, I think I’ve become completely delusional and am lost, unsure of who I am. I could deal with the HOCD, I’ve sought professional help and have been in and out of the psych ward. I haven’t gone back because they told me they couldn’t be of much help and to do outpatient treatment, which is therapy, but even that won’t begin until two weeks later. I’m F18, a girl should not be dealing with shit like this, that’s what I’ve told myself. I couldn’t believe that I myself am a monster, I can’t cope with this…I don’t know what to do, when you’ve dug deep in your past and found things that can serve as “proof” I feel sick, disgusted, and I feel like the only way to get rid of these thoughts and to take back the things I did as a child is to just die. The second thing I wanted to post about was that I would frequent Omegle and other anonymous sites. This lasted up until a month or two months ago, I remember that I would often seek out older people than me, but during the time I was 16 I found that it was difficult to do so and decided to just talk to people my own age, my preference was to talk to people two years older than me but I remember one time I spoke to someone two years younger than me. This has raised many questions in my mind, “what if you sought someone younger and don’t remember” I do remember I’d encounter kids on there but I’d skip them, sometimes I’d warn them to get off the site because it was dangerous. I’ve been dealing with this constant “what if what if” for weeks now. I would go as far as having my phone be checked just to gain some fucking certainty about my situation, I wanted a career in art, but there’s this sense of doom following me everywhere I go and I cannot have any peace whatsoever. I don’t care about whatever happened to me, I could care even less. But what if I’ve done something I don’t remember, I’m scared to face that monster I’ve thought myself to be for so long.
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