I have a really weird question. I don't know if I have OCD however I feel like I am having intrusive thoughts because of porn so I try and stop watching it but I can't even go 7 days without it. Forms of OCD are POCD and SO OCD, in the past back in high school I might have had harmful OCD, I was afraid of hurting girlfriends and friends I had and because of those thoughts, I pushed them away and made them hate me on purpose.
honestly for me when i was going through POCD i found that staying away from any sexual explicit material was best for me as it started becoming a compulsion for me and also very triggering.
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In my opinion (and experience), trying to subdue your sexual impulses is not going to help you. There's nothing wrong with watching porn, and I just don't think it's likely that it's "causing" your intrusive thoughts. The thing is, if you already have that association in your mind between the two - "when I watch porn I get intrusive thoughts" - of course you're going to have them when you watch porn! That kind of speculation just makes it stronger, because when you're on the watch for certain kinds of thoughts, that often makes them appear. Sort of self-fulfilled prophecy, right? Anyway, I understand you probably don't only have these thoughts when you watch porn, the fact that you worry so much about them and try to figure out the "cause" like this, is what's keeping them around and causing you so much distress. I struggled with sexual intrusive thoughts for years when I was pretty young, and at the time, I wanted so desperately to make them stop, I would try so hard to block them out, trying to like micromanage my own thoughts, and like keep myself from thinking anything when I was scared I'd have them. The thing is, it didn't work. What actually made a difference is when I got better at dismissing them, and understanding what little meaning they actually carry. After years now, I rarely have them, and even when they do pop up I kinda just go "gross, okay" and move on. Sorry to be so long winded, and if you feel like I've misunderstood. My point is just that porn is not the cause, and you shouldn't look for a cause in the first place - even if you were able to stop watching porn and block out any of those thoughts, you wouldn't really be solving the problem, just blocking it out.
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I’m dealing with pocd too and I stopped doing anything sexual for the last few weeks and I feel like my mind has also been telling me I like children and it accepted that.. its very hard being split like that :( I can’t even look at adults I find attractive without thinking children? I don’t know if that’s common or if it isn’t I really would like some help on figuring out why part of me accepted it but the other is repulsed by all of it ??
Hi guys! I believe I have an OCD since I was around 12. I remember then I had a lot of intrusive thoughts about religious things and I had a counting compulsion (I thought that If I don't count to 8 in specific moments, someone gets hurt) During later years it was really changing - I stopped being religious, so the OCD theme also stopped. Then I had I reckon SOCD, harm OCD and many others. But for know my main topic is ROCD. But because of the fact that this is my main intrusive thoughts topic I start to have this awful thoughts that this is not OCD, I'm just with the wrong person and I need to accept this fact. This is really struggling for me, because i really love my bf and Im in the healthy realtionship but Im so tired of having this kind of thoughts, sometimes I cannot sleep because of them. Also the fact that I've never been diagnosed (I cannot go on theraphy right now unfortunately) is another trigger because I have thoughts that I dont really have OCD, I just making this up, because I cannot accept the truth. Is there someone with similar experiance? Or maybe someone who can have advice for me?
hello all im a male 26 kinda new to dealing with this. for as long as i can remember i used to really stress out about my health and if i was ever sick i would assume the worst ang google symptoms of everything multiple times a day. i was extremely afraid of throwing up as a kid which i think plays a roll in ocd recently i watched a tv show that affected my overthinking and cause me to spiral out. thats when the SOOCD started to happen, growing up i always was with women and dated women and still dating women i never had these thoughts until 6 months ago i now feel uncomfortable around other men, i dont like to make eye contact and im always checking for a groinal response or sensation in my body when i watch tv or out in public. its affecting my daily life and i dont know where it all came from. i get intrusive thought daily could be a made up situation or a image of something i saw on the internet.
I have been addicted to porn for many years and as a consequence of this I have become increasingly desensitised and have looked into sites that are slightly off the beaten track (all of a google search just to clarify, I haven’t been searching the dark web or anything). I do however have two recurring fears; the first is that I may have watched or downloaded cp without realising it and the second is that I may end up doing that in the future. Does anyone else with POCD or a porn addiction experience this?
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