- Username
- mike999w
- Date posted
- 45w ago
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Why tho i get sexual images of my family members with my friends and random people , with ocd is this and why and how i recover
Why tho i get sexual images of my family members with my friends and random people , with ocd is this and why and how i recover
This is a very common Ocd thought! You are not alone in having these unwanted sexual thoughts and although they make you extremely uncomfortable, this is a completely “normal” form of Ocd. It does not make you a bad/wrong person to have these thoughts. Remind yourself that the thoughts are not connected to your wants and values (you do not actually desire sexual relationships with these people) and that you do not actually wish to act on these thoughts. Try acknowledging the thought (thinking “I hear this thought”) and dismissing it gently (thinking “no thank you, I don’t really want to have sex with this person”). Give yourself grace, remind yourself that you are not a bad person for having these thoughts and many people struggle with the same thing ❤️
@EmmaTopping Why did you give him good advice and told me to watch same sex pornography
I've gotten this nearly every day for 9 years. It's just an awful intrusive thought. A lot of the time it will make you feel uncomfortable but you just have to keep reminding yourself that it's not your thoughts, it's the OCD. It doesn't reflect you in any way.
My Ocd turns everything innocent and normal into something horrible. Sometimes when my daughter and I are watching tv she will want to play with and brush my hair. It feels so nice and relaxing or she will cuddle up and rub her feet on mine which is relaxing and makes me feel sleepy but ocd ruins it by telling me it’s inappropriate and that i’m enjoying something inappropriate. One day I saw a snapchat video my young grandson made of himself just out of the shower looking at himself shirtless in the mirror and I was thinking that he thinks he’s so cool and is probably going to flex like all boys do and laughed to myself but then the ocd kicked in and said that I was attracted to him and it made me so upset because I never have and don’t think of any child in that way. I don’t feel that way so how can ocd try to make me believe that I do?? How can ocd be more powerful than my own actual thoughts and feelings? This disorder is so debilitating and upsetting. I can’t live like this.
How do you guys cope when your obsessions target people you’re close to? I recently had a sexual thought about a friend of mine and it started snowballing. We’ve been texting more and my brain keeps saying that it’s flirty, and if I were in a situation to kiss her I would. She’s a close friend of mine and I didn’t have sexual thoughts about her until recently. They make me feel disgusting and guilty, and the onset made me feel like my body was on fire. It’s starting to latch on to other friends, and my brain is saying I’m “tempted” by them, and if they came on to me I would give in and like it. I had SO-OCD as a child, and did engage in some play kissing with friends before my SO-OCD happened. (My OCD latches on to that a lot too as proof that I’m gay). I remember the anxiety I had about what I had done with my friend, and this feeling I have now imagining kissing my friends feel similarly. I don’t usually write on here to avoid confessing and reassurance seeking, but I’m at a loss. I have a heavy feeling in my chest and I don’t want to have the thoughts, but part of me thinks I might be liking them and maybe it’s internalized homophobia. I could handle being bi, but the thoughts about my friends and losing control feels so wrong. I’m just confused and want to know how to process when OCD starts attaching to people I’m close to.
I'm so afraid of thinking something inappropriate around family and friends that I overthink everything I think. I've been dealing with this for months and I thought I had learned how to deal with it, but I feel so suffocated. Right now I really can't breathe. I don't know what to do, I talk to people in this community but I still feel so alone.
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