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I’m sorry to hear you are struggling. You’re going to hate the answer, but you have to lean into the anxiety. You can’t answer intrusive thoughts, you have to let them be. When the intrusive thought pops into your head, don’t fight it. Don’t ruminate on it. Just accept that it’s there. It will feel awful but that’s ok because us folk with OCD are used to that and we can handle it
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@bekind94 It’s ok. You’re rationalizing with it too much. The intrusive thought is just that, a thought. You can’t try to “figure out” ocd
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From my own experience the OCD intrusive sexual thought or with me the image scares me. Recognizing this is OCD’s method to now have me question, ruminate is now staring at me. The fear will give me a groinal response too. I work at recognizing this is its pattern both physically and mentally. I then practice to not engage or respond. Yep, there it is. I don’t need to respond. I had a therapist tell me if you obsess hard enough and buy in your OCD will convince you that’s really what you want.
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@bekind94 I honestly think that all intrusive thoughts are essentially questions. You can very easily turn that sentence into a "What if...?" I struggle with sexual intrusive thoughts too but the best thing to do is to let them be. They are anxiety thoughts, not true thinking thoughts.
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@mi.t In my opinion this is spot on. There is no answer needed. My OCD scares me first then wants me to engage. Let it be it’s playing “the what if” and going after your morals and the true/real you.
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I sympathize with you. I have different obsessions but I know how upsetting obsessions can be. I wish you lots of success.
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Same every question I ask myself I feel like my body is like YES!!! You would do that then I get confused, it all feels so real I don’t know what to believe anymore and it’s killing me.
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@bekind94 Yeah it’s so scary like I wish I could just get the answer
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@bekind94 Your very positive, I’m proud of you you’re doing something I can’t do.
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I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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