Sexual OCD
Hi I’m new, I just want to know if anyone else has experienced intrusive thoughts about being attracted to a family member such as you’re dad?
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@JenniesOCDBrain Thank you so much! Did you ever experience sensation down their when you looked or thought about this family member? I don’t want to have these feelings and because I am I’m worried I am attracted to my dad and I don’t want to be. All o want is to have a normal family relationship between everyone in my family but my OCD is making me feel hyper aware of how I am around not only my dad but everyone
@Caitlin2820281 I know that everyone has a normal relationship in my family I’m not saying we don’t but I meant like because I’m having these thoughts it’s making it hard for me to be normal around my family without feeling like I’m a horrible and disgusting human. I know I’m not and I wish I felt worse about myself for having these thoughts, feelings and sensations but I don’t and know I feel bad for that and then my thoughts tell me I’m lying and that I don’t feel bad so I just don’t know anymore
Not me but its very common among the ocd sufferers. Dont sweat it. Just keep living with the anxiety and dont do anything to try and eliminate the anxiety. Accept the idea you might be sexually attracted to your dad and you might not. Its when you keep trying to purge the possibility that you keep giving the obsession and compulsion cycle the fuel it needs to keep running.
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Yeah, this is where my OCD started, I have a sister who’s 18 and I got an awful thought one day and I spiralled out of control since then, it’s the most horrendous thing ever but your main exposure would be to sit with the anxiety and do not avoid your dad (I know this is hard) , please remember that OCD is so uncomfortable because the thoughts go against how you are as a person, you are not attracted to your father trust me, because if you were you wouldn’t get anxiety, you would be excited at the thought. Stay strong, I know how hard this feeling is 😢
@Brianm95 Hi thank you so much for the support! I just feel like an awful person because I feel like it’s not giving me as much anxiety as it used to because I’m used to these thoughts and sometimes I feel like maybe I am anxious but I’ve gotten used to the feeling too of being anxious idk
@Caitlin2820281 No honestly I relate to this so much, I used to take so many panic attacks due to it and now it’s been months and any time I get them I don’t get as much anxiety, but that’s not to mean they don’t trouble you, it just means you are used to them, be happy they don’t give you as much anxiety anymore because it sounds like they are fading away, mines are slowly going away but some days are harder than others, you have got this! ❤️
@Brianm95 Thank you! I also feel like I’m a bad person cause I have this intrusive thought that I like these thoughts and that sometimes o feel like I smile at them cause I feel my mouth twitch sometimes but I’m not sure and it’s making me feel like I need to ask reassurance and that I literally cannot think about anything else but the fact I had smiled at this thought
I know this is terrible. And I shouldn’t be having thoughts like this but I read someone else who had these thoughts and my brain remembered a time I had an intrusive thought about my brother and it made me think what if I’m attracted to my brother. Now when I’m around him I get worried I’m going to have some sort of physical feeling or attraction to the point I basically freak myself out and have intrusive thoughts that I do or am while talking to him. And now I’m just avoiding even being home. Ik it’s awful and I never felt anything like this before and I know I don’t have any but I keep thinking about the feeling aspect. And whether those feelings/thoughts were true.
Can someone please tell me I’m not alone? Can you share your experience with getting intrusive S3xual thoughts please Because I feel like it’s not talked about and it’s something I really struggle with and I’m scared I’m the only one getting these disturbing and fucked up thoughts and scared I want them and that it’s actually me and not my ocd For example : I feel like I’m constantly constantly getting S3xualised thoughts of people I’m related to especially when I’m trying to have S3xual time
Anyone deal with sexual thoughts regarding family members? Makes me sick. I know it’s OCD and I’m constantly trying to remind myself I’ve been here with other content before but it’s so disturbing. Also has anyone had past themes resurface again? Thank you in advance to whoever shares.
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